The Elgin Hour Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Floodtide

Tue, Oct 5, 1954

Jeff Clark tries valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had a tendency to shoot upstate troopers.

Episode 2

Family Crisis

Tue, Oct 19, 1954

Teenager Nancy decides to host a party for her friends; meanwhile, her father Jim, an attorney, prepares for the most important case of his career. The pressures and anxieties of first-time experiences threaten to upset the household dynamic. It's up to sensible matriarch Blanche to avert a serious family crisis.

Episode 3

High Man

Tue, Nov 2, 1954

High Man explores the pressure cooker environment of industrial executives in the corporate world. Flourishing businessman Walter receives the offer of a promotion elevating him to the vice-presidency of the company, but he soon realizes that being a man on top carries with it another set of problems which affect not only his career, but his personal relationships, too.

Episode 4

Warm Clay

Tue, Nov 16, 195460 mins

Attractive suburban housewife Fran Tillman's life is suddenly changed by a chance encounter with seductive sculptor Ben Cory who encourages Fran to pursue her own facility for sculpting. Her devotion to a newfound art, as well as her closeness to attractive Ben, places her marriage and family in jeopardy.

Episode 5

Hearts and Hollywood

Tue, Nov 30, 1954

Episode 6

Yesterday's Magic

Tue, Dec 14, 1954

Episode 7

Falling Star

Tue, Dec 28, 1954

Episode 8

The Bridge

Tue, Jan 11, 1955

French girl and American Engineer struggle to find love in war-torn France.

Episode 9

Family Meeting

Tue, Jan 25, 1955

Episode 10

Days of Grace

Tue, Feb 8, 195560 mins

An advertising executive loses his job after 20 years with the same agency.

Episode 11

Sting of Death

Tue, Feb 22, 1955

Silchester is academic on summer vacation in a cottage in rural England with a taste for honey for breakfast and tea. He finds it increasingly difficult to obtain it as beekeepers in the area are going out of business with the exception of Mr. Hargrove, a sinister local apiarist. His neighbor, Mr. Mycroft, a retired public official, tries to warn Silchester that Hargrove has bred his bees to become deadly. Among the victims of these killer bees are other colonies in the neighborhood, Mycroft's dog, and Hargrove's own wife. When an attempt is made on his own life, the doubting Silchester joins forces with Mycroft to turn the tables on him.

Episode 12

Crime in the Streets

Tue, Mar 8, 1955

Frankie Dane is the leader of a teenage gang, the Hornets. The gang makes trouble for people in the neighborhood, but Frankie carries a darker nature, one so filled with anger that murder is not beyond him. Ben Wagner, a social worker, tries to help the boys see the possibilities of a better life, but the task seems futile. When a neighborhood man turns one of the gang into the police, Frankie decides to kill him. Ben learns of the plot from Frankie's kid brother and hopes to stop it before Frankie ruins his life forever.

Episode 13

The $1,000 Window

Tue, Mar 22, 195560 mins

The pompous and dapper gentleman behind a race-track window is himself taken in by his bank president manner.

Episode 14

Black Eagle Pass

Tue, Apr 5, 1955

The pretty young wife of an older rancher discovers that her husband had never bothered to divorce his first wife. Now, that lady is back in town as the companion of a notorious gambler.

Episode 15

Midsummer Melody

Tue, Apr 19, 1955

A whimsical musical about a young man who is searching for his place in life and he discovers that all he needs is right in his own backyard.

Episode 16

Driftwood

Tue, May 3, 1955

Episode 17

San Francisco Fracas

Tue, May 17, 1955

An unsuspecting accountant gets caught in a web of diamond theft and double crosses.

Episode 18

Mind Over Momma

Tue, May 31, 1955

Episode 19

Combat Medics

Tue, Jun 14, 1955