Episode list

A father persuades his younger son to go to jail for the older worthless son. From files of the Legal Aid Society.

A war veteran is reported dead and then suddenly reappears to find his wife remarried.

The story of a school bus driver who is to be honored by the community with a safe driving award. The driver Ed Simmons, however, views the imminent ceremonies with dread, fearful the consequent personal publicity will throw the limelight on his guilty past. His wife and son are confused, then alarmed by his strange behavior, as he apparently seeks to run from the honor. When the son learns the truth, he turns to a local Legal Aid lawyer in an attempt to untangle his father's web of guilt.

A paroled orphan is floundering in a struggle to find himself and go straight.

An immigrant laborer keeps silent about sub-standard cement being used on a new building because his crooked boss knows the laborer's guilty past.

Harry Larner (E.G. Marshall) is driving home late at night in a blinding rainstorm. He lowers his head for a moment to light a cigarette and then looks up. Ahead of him looms a newsboy on a bicycle. He desperately swings the wheel in a vain attempt to avoid crashing into him. After a brief agonizing moment of indecision, Harry stops his car to look at the prostrate boy with the crumpled bike and the newspapers scattered all over the street. Panic stricken, Harry jumps back into his car and drives off. He does not tell his wife (Betty Field) or anyone else about the accident. From this point on Harry feels mounting tension as he tries in vain to run from his hit-and-run crime, only to find it waiting for him at each turn.

An Army sergeant is being court-martialed on charges of betraying his comrades to the enemy while they were prisoners of war in Korea.

A woman stands trial accused of stabbing her husband. Two witnesses to the crime are brought in and one is found to be withholding information that would incriminate the real killer.

An aging man reveres the memory of his seven ancestors who were killed in the battle of 1776. The plaque he erected on the hallowed ground is endangered by a proposed road construction and he launches a battle to prevent its destruction.

A poor man asks the Legal Aid Society to help him get money from a wealthy, but incompetent relative.

A boy is a pawn in the divorce of his bitter parents.

An old maid inherits $50,000 and finds herself irresistibly drawn to a handsome suitor.

A lonely old eccentric earns his livelihood by carving toys. Plagued by an unquenchable desire to be noticed, he is constantly showing up at the police station to confess to unsolved crimes which he has not committed.

A basketball player worries that gamblers are causing his turn of bad luck on the court.

A man is accused of murder due to his past record and circumstantial evidence.

A paroled convict is on his way home from prison, hitch-hikes a ride and gets caught up with a murderer on the lam.

A salesman is desperate to receive a certain account. The buyer is stricken with a heart attack and the salesman succumbs to temptation and robs an open safe.

An illegal immigrant from Czechoslovakia is being blackmailed.

A Coney Island barker wants to take his girl out of the tinsel atmosphere but is suspected of murder before he himself can get away.

A man is faced with the temptation of easy money but armed robbery is not what he wants.

A boy is provided an alibi for a market robbery by his mother but finds the bottom falling out when his girlfriend refuses to be a party to the lie.

A man innocent of a crime decides to keep it to himself in fear for his family.

A teenage boy steals a car and a conflict develops between the owners of the car when the man wants to press charges and his wife doesn't.

An eyewitness to a crime is afraid to give any information to the police. Because of her reticence, an innocent man faces conviction for a crime he did not commit.

A lawyer risks his life and reputation for his client.