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The Polish-American father of three daughters takes great pride in entering the annual polka contest each year with one of the girls. Last year, when his oldest daughter married, the second daughter Theckla danced and won the contest with Papa. However, this year, Theckla is in love, and she refuses to put on the old-country costume and dance.

A well-liked policeman dreams that he will have a shoot-out with a criminal on a specific day. While walking his beat on that night, he encounters the thug of his dreams.

After confessing to the police his role in a narcotics gang, Joe flees from the wrath of the mob. He finally comes to a small town where he is convinced the gang will never find him. But after checking into the town's one hotel, he receives a phone call from the gang and realizes there is no hiding place. Joe goes to an all-night diner in an attempt to keep watch for the killers.

A beautiful woman, staying at an inn, plots the murder of the wife of the man she is in love with. A young girl, also a guest, learns of her plan, but is so fascinated with the older woman that she keeps the deadly secret.

An average citizen witnesses a murder. His family then faces intimidation from the killer.

This episode presented the following three plays by Tennessee Williams: ""This Property Is Condemned"" (with Zina Bethune as Willie and Martin Huston as Tom); ""The Last of My Solid Gold Watches"" (with Alonzo Bozan, Thomas Chalmers, and Gene Saks); and ""Moony's Kid Don't Cry"" (with Ben Gazzara and Lee Grant).

A group of shady characters from a mining town wind up stuck in a blizzard with a naive young couple. The situation brings out the best, and worst, in everyone.

The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.

Governor Stark decides to run for the U.S. Senate. His secretary Sadie Burke and Jack Burden advise him against the move, but Stark refuses to listen.

Tracing the killer of Annie Boone, two detectives question her family and acquaintances in an attempt to learn what kind of person the victim was. They are given drastically conflicting descriptions of Annie. Her mother calls her dumb, her husband says she was brilliant. One man describes her as wild and tempestuous, another as shy and retiring.

A widow who repeatedly phones the police to complain is later found murdered.

Two college students hitching their way back to school. A fierce storm arises, and they take shelter in a local farmer's barn. The next day on the radio they hear that the daughter of the farmer who gave them shelter has been murdered, and the boys are shocked to hear that a description of the killers matches them perfectly.

A tough veteran cop, expecting to be promoted to a supervisor position, is passed over, and finds himself assigned to a homicide by the man who took what he considered to be his job. His new boss warns him against using the brutal tactics he is infamous for, but the cop soon ditches his partner and pays a visit to the suspect in the case, in order to "interrogate" him--alone.

Elderly Aunt Violet lets it be known that she's particularly afraid of one of her heirs, who she thinks is greedy enough to do away with her to get her money. Not long after hiring a new gardener, Violet disappears. Her friends and neighbors suspect that she has been killed by the greedy heir, but her niece Helen decides to search the entire countryside to find out what happened to her aunt.

An ambitious politician who wants to run for Governor, is determined that nothing shall stand in the way of his nomination. When his wife says she's going to leave him, he warns her that she had better stay at his side until after the political campaign. Arriving home for dinner one evening, he finds his wife struggling with an intruder and he himself is struck on the head. When he regains consciousness, his wife has been murdered.

A sophisticated, upper-crust British lawyer turns to a much shadier colleague to clear him when he's charged with murdering a somewhat disreputable woman.

A lawyer defends a man who admits to writing ransom notes but denies charges of kidnapping and murder.