The Barbara Stanwyck Show

S1 · E1 · 19. Sep 1960

The Mink Coat Folge 1

While her husband was still alive, Syd Charing enjoyed her life as a well-to-do socialite. Since his death, she has fallen on hard times. Now all she has left to remind of her of her halcyon days is a mink coat.

S1 · E2 · 3. Okt 1960

Good Citizen Folge 2

Celebrated pianist Margot LaChelle is asked to perform in a charitable concert which will benefit a struggling youth center. She declines the invitation, telling her manager that she has no desire to be involved with the children.

S1 · E3 · 10. Okt 1960

Discreet Deception Folge 3

Amelia Lambert, a theatrical producer, finds herself growing increasingly attracted to Simon, her dead husband's brother. Just one thing stands in Amelia's way: Simon's wife Vivian.

S1 · E4 · 17. Okt 1960

The Seventh Miracle Folge 4

Mary McShane is about to give birth to her seventh child, but her husband George has a broken leg and can't drive. It's up to their teenage son Joe to get his mother to the hospital safely.

S1 · E5 · 31. Okt 1960

The Key to the Killer Folge 5

Stella King, wife of a deputy sheriff, finds herself handcuffed to a murderer with a gun. Alone in the mountains of California, she has no recourse but to find the key to his twisted personality.

S1 · E6 · 7. Nov 1960

House in Order Folge 6

Faced with heart surgery, Elizabeth Mowry is advised by her physician to put her house in order, but correcting the loss of understanding between herself and her family seems insurmountable.

S1 · E7 · 14. Nov 1960

The Miraculous Journey of Tadpole Chan Folge 7

Already involved in a fight with the U.S. Consulate over a shipment of silk dresses, importer-exporter Josephine meets shabby refugee Tadpole Chan, who is having an equally hard time getting a visa to go to America.

S1 · E8 · 21. Nov 1960

The Secret of Mrs. Randall Folge 8

Liz Randall, president of an Oklahoma oil company, hires an ex-convict as her assistant and then falls in love with him. Their relationship is fiercely opposed by her mother-in-law who threatens to take custody of Liz's only son.

S1 · E9 · 28. Nov 1960

Ironbark's Bride Folge 9

Crusty old farmer and wealthiest man in town, Ironbark, sends for a bride and draws a middle-aged woman and teenaged son. The boy gives him cool reception and repeatedly displeases him. Soon his real father, a gunman, whom was assumed dead all along, shows up looking to blackmail his wife.

S1 · E10 · 5. Dez 1960

We Are the Women who Wait Folge 10

Three wives of Strategic Air Command pilots, all of different temperaments, come together to wait for their men to return from a dangerous flight. We see how one (Barbara) has had a difficult time arguing with her husband, trying to get him to quit and take a higher paying, far safer civilian job.

S1 · E11 · 19. Dez 1960

Out of the Shadows Folge 11

Dr. Susan Bryce is a psychiatrist who once suffered a nervous breakdown. Now one of her patients, a beatnik trumpet player, is seeking vengeance against her, using an eerie melody to drive her towards a mental collapse.

S1 · E12 · 26. Dez 1960

No One Folge 12

Summer stock producer Cara Lester is seeking financial backing to move a new play to Broadway. She finds a willing patron in Jack Harrison. There's just one hitch: Harrison wants an established star to take over the lead.

S1 · E13 · 2. Jan 1961

The Cornerstone Folge 13

Sister Thomas Aquinas has finally acquired the funds to build a new high school. But just as the cornerstone is about to be laid, a detective shows up, investigating a recent jewel robbery.

S1 · E14 · 9. Jan 1961

Night Visitor Folge 14

Marian Andres is preparing for a trip to Europe when a visitor arrives, posing as her husband's close friend. Failing in her blackmail attempt, the stranger produces a gun and demands money.

S1 · E15 · 16. Jan 1961

Size 10 Folge 15

A stolen sketch leads successful dress designer Maggie Wenley to point suspicion at members of her staff, destroying the loyalty of all those around her.

S1 · E16 · 23. Jan 1961

Dear Charlie Folge 16

Two old maids advertise in a newspaper for a male boarder so they will have a man in the house. Charlie Zane answers their ad and plots to have the two women pass their wealth to him.

S1 · E17 · 30. Jan 1961

Dragon by the Tail Folge 17

In return for a possible favor from the U.S. government, import-exporter Josephine Little finds herself enlisted by the CIA to retrieve a nuclear physicist from Indochina and return him to the United States.

S1 · E18 · 6. Feb 1961

The Sisters Folge 18

Janet Jones poses as a shoplifter to confront her sister's divorced husband with news that his son needs money for an operation. When they meet, he looks at Janet more as a potential wife than as a sister-in-law.

S1 · E19 · 13. Feb 1961

Big Career Folge 19

Attractive business executive Harriet Melvane closes her eyes to the shortcomings of her husband, Roy, and to the desires of her business partner, Phil.

S1 · E20 · 20. Feb 1961

Confession Folge 20

Attorney Jud Hollister talks unhappily married Paula Manning into staging a murder to get rid of her husband.

S1 · E21 · 27. Feb 1961

Along the Barbary Coast Folge 21

San Francisco detective Pete Bishop and waterfront racketeer Sam Verner declare a personal war over Verner's criminal operation and their mutual girlfriend, Trixie Callahan.

S1 · E22 · 6. Mär 1961

Shock Folge 22

On the verge of announcing a new formula, atomic physicist Rachel Harrison is shocked into silence by her daughter's accidental death. Dr. Paul Aldrich looks for the key to her locked mind in Rachel's own childhood.

S1 · E23 · 13. Mär 1961

The Golden Acres Folge 23

Ambitious and domineering, Avis Fleming decides to cheat an old family friend to impress Dexter Willis, an attorney she had once hoped to marry. When her two brothers, Ben and Collins, object, Avis sidesteps them with a threat of blackmail.

S1 · E24 · 20. Mär 1961

Adventure on Happiness Street Folge 24

Import-exporter Josephine Little uses her Hong Kong contacts to help American doctor Paul Harris obtain medicine for his charity clinic. Her efforts unfortunately backfire and Dr. Harris is forced to turn away the Chinese refugees who look to him as a symbol of hope.

S1 · E25 · 27. Mär 1961

High Tension Folge 25

A live, high-tension wire, broken in a storm and dangling from its pole, transforms a bus into a death trap in which the passengers are surrounded by metal walls carrying lethal electricity and saved only by the insulation of the rubber floor matting.

S1 · E26 · 3. Apr 1961

Sign of the Zodiac Folge 26

Madge Terry accompanies her sister-in-law, Helene, on a visit to a mysterious fortuneteller named Pierre. Haunted by guilt about the death of her husband, Madge becomes alarmed when the medium claims to have contacted him through a seance.

S1 · E27 · 10. Apr 1961

Call Me Annie Folge 27

When a well off family hires a nurse to care for a new baby, she discovers that the mother has no interest in it, and is in fact scared of being a mother. Her husband is a childish, hard to handle dolt, and the mother-in-law is mean and overbearing.

S1 · E28 · 17. Apr 1961

The Choice Folge 28

Trapped alone with two men, restaurateur Amanda Prescott is forced to decide which of the two - Horace or Joe - is an escaped psychopathic killer.

S1 · E29 · 24. Apr 1961

Frightened Doll Folge 29

Disillusioned and afraid of growing older, Hazel Wexley finds $100,000 and a new set of values. A chance meeting with gangster Jake Lytell and some hard-hitting advice from a bartender finally give Hazel the opportunity to realize a longstanding dream.

S1 · E30 · 1. Mai 1961

Yanqui Go Home Folge 30

Mining engineer Clint Evans and his wife, Fanny, wait until the last minute to leave their post in a revolution-torn Latin American country. Their car is commandeered by a group of rebels who are fleeing bandidos -- leaving Clint and Fanny trapped in peril.

S1 · E31 · 8. Mai 1961

Little Big Mouth Folge 31

Based on actual events. Famed newspaperwoman Nellie Bly travels to Oklahoma Territory to write an expose on the Indian Reservation scandals. There she meets a heroic young doctor and his nine-year-old daughter, whom the Indians call Little Big Mouth.

S1 · E32 · 15. Mai 1961

Assassin Folge 32

Gentle Louise Forest is willing to accept her punishment when her employer, Mr. Carlisle, discovers she has embezzled $22,711. She doesn't, however, expect to be the intended victim of a killer hired by Carlisle to cover his tracks.

S1 · E33 · 22. Mai 1961

Triple C Folge 33

S1 · E34 · 29. Mai 1961

The Hitch-Hiker Folge 34

Attorney Maggie McClay risks her career and marriage to Mac McClay to help an immigrant mother retain custody of her infant against the wishes of the girl's wealthy mother-in-law, Tess Freeland.

S1 · E35 · 5. Jun 1961

Big Jake Folge 35

City detective Jake Sloan is a tough, dedicated policeman with two major problems -- his waistline and his heart -- both of which are so big that they get him into more trouble than the criminals he brings to justice.

S1 · E36 · 3. Jul 1961

A Man's Game Folge 36

Chris Mathews is a female saloon-keeper in a lawless Oklahoma Territory town so dangerous that no man dares to be sheriff. Uninhibited, Chris volunteers for the job in order to prevent gunmen from killing any more of her steady customers.