
Season 8 (1958)
Episodes: 36
Star Cast:
Episodes List

Ep.1 A Thing to Fight For
Air Date: 1958-09-26
A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.

Ep.2 The Best House in the Valley
Air Date: 1958-10-03

Ep.3 The Hasty Hanging
Air Date: 1958-10-10
A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.

Ep.4 The Four
Air Date: 1958-10-17

Ep.5 The Trouble With Ruth
Air Date: 1958-10-24
Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.

Ep.6 The Connoisseur
Air Date: 1958-10-31

Ep.7 False Impression
Air Date: 1958-11-07
A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.

Ep.8 A Game of Hate
Air Date: 1958-11-14

Ep.9 Last Edition
Air Date: 1958-11-21
Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.

Ep.10 Coney Island Winter
Air Date: 1958-11-28

Ep.11 Third Son
Air Date: 1958-12-05
The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.

Ep.12 Drive a Desert Road
Air Date: 1958-12-12

Ep.13 No Answer
Air Date: 1958-12-19
A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.

Ep.14 Small Wonder
Air Date: 1958-12-26

Ep.15 A Fistful of Love
Air Date: 1959-01-02
Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

Ep.16 The Deadly Guest
Air Date: 1959-01-09

Ep.17 You Can't Win 'Em All
Air Date: 1959-01-16
A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

Ep.18 And Practically Strangers
Air Date: 1959-01-30
From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.

Ep.19 Death Trap
Air Date: 1959-02-06

Ep.20 The Man Who Had No Friends
Air Date: 1959-02-13
Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.

Ep.21 Various Temptations
Air Date: 1959-02-20

Ep.22 On the Brink
Air Date: 1959-02-27
Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

Ep.23 Stand-In for Murder
Air Date: 1959-03-06

Ep.24 Ivy League
Air Date: 1959-03-13
After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.

Ep.25 Frederick
Air Date: 1959-03-20

Ep.26 The Salted Mine
Air Date: 1959-03-27
In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.

Ep.27 The Dreamer
Air Date: 1959-04-03

Ep.28 This Will Do Nicely
Air Date: 1959-04-17

Ep.29 The Case of the Two Sisters
Air Date: 1959-05-01

Ep.30 Boy on a Fence
Air Date: 1959-05-15

Ep.31 Mirror, Mirror
Air Date: 1959-05-29

Ep.32 The Rumor
Air Date: 1959-06-05
The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.

Ep.33 The Miss and the Missiles
Air Date: 1959-06-12

Ep.34 Hostage
Air Date: 1959-06-19
A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.

Ep.35 Cowboy Five Seven
Air Date: 1959-07-17
This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.

Ep.36 A Ballad to Die By
Air Date: 1959-07-31
Rancher Anna Carrick hires singing cowboy Johnny Guitar to play at her wedding. Johnny soon learns that Anna is to marry a killer against her will.