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Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia set in New England, after the American Civil War.

In this live drama series, over two hundred live plays, covering all aspects of society, were shown.

A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.

A pitcher on a major-league baseball team finds out that his catcher is desperately trying to hide something, he is dying of a terminal disease and he doesn't want the owner to find out and fire him.

Season 3, Episode 6 of The United States Steel Hour (1953).

Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy -- no one more than Sgt. King.

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family, while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

A girl falls in love with a sophisticated New Yorker. Afraid to tell him her father is a farmer, she gives him the idea that they have a country estate and that her piano-teaching mother is a concert performer.

Dorothy McGuire stars in the Henry James adaptation classic, "The Aspern Papers" in the U.S. Steel Hour production of "A Garden in the Sea." James' 1888 novella concerns the efforts of a biographer to obtain letters of Poet Algernon Charles Swinnburne from the woman who inspired much of his poetry. Directed by Alex Segal in New York.

A young English priest encounters the hostility of the anti-British residents when he settles on a remote and lonely island off the coast of Ireland.

A family is unable to afford a blue serge suit for their son's graduation. Instead he is given Grandpa's suit that he wore to his wedding. The boy is afraid of ridicule and does not want to go.

An honest bookkeeper is daydreaming about snatching the company payroll and setting himself up in Paris with a reasonable facsimile of Brigitte Bardot.

A youthful member of a revolutionary movement in a Latin American country is chosen to assassinate the brother of an important government official.

A veteran of the Irish rebellion, now living in London, is informed by Scotland Yard that two Irishmen are in London to kill him. They say he betrayed a great hero of the rebellion before he left the country.

Story of a 40-year-old pitcher who is facing his retirement from baseball.