Episode 1 - Revenge

A school teacher from Massachusetts comes to a small western town to marry a young homesteader, but finds that he's been murdered. The jury frees the murderer on a phony plea of self-defense. Determined to see justice done, she decides to stay in town as a constant irritant to the murderer's conscience. She makes him so crazy, he picks a fight with one of his friends and is killed. Dismayed by her own vengefulness, the teacher decides that justice would be better served by true social reform. She campaigns successfully for women to be selected as jurors, which results in the second murderer being convicted and sent to prison.

Episode 2 - Here Lies Francois Gold

Episode 3 - Campaign For Marriage

Episode 4 - The Gadfly

Episode 5 - Hole in the Wall

Episode 6 - The Man the Navy Couldn't Sink

Episode 7 - Under Seventeen

Episode 8 - The Other Van Gogh

Episode 9 - Arithmetic Sailor

Episode 10 - I Get Along Without You Very Well

Composer Hoagy Carmichael relates the story of a song inspired by an anonymous poem, I get along without you very well. The year is 1938. Hoagy is asked to write a song to be introduced on Dick Powell's radio show. While going through his files, Hoagy discovers a nearly forgotten poem and promises a melody for it. He remembers little about the source of the poem except that a girl gave it to him at a college sorority party several years before. But the lyricist must grant permission before the music can be cleared for use on the radio. There ensues a desperate nation-wide search, aided by the broadcasts of Walter Winchell to find the author before air time.

Episode 11 - Alice's Wedding Gown

Episode 12 - The Rescue

Episode 13 - Novel Appeal

An author frees an innocent man from prison.

Episode 14 - Sam Houston's Decision

Episode 15 - The Frying Pan

Episode 16 - A Picture of the Magi

Episode 17 - Death of a Nobody

Episode 18 - Abby, Julia and the Seven Pet Cows

Episode 19 - Cavalry Surgeon

The story of a military surgeon who in a moment of crisis has to perform an action repugnant to his very nature. The story of a cavalry skirmish in the Mexican War and of two men who fought with different philosophies and methods toward the same end. One lived heroically and one died a hero.

Episode 20 - A Stubborn Fool

Episode 21 - Flight for Life

Episode 22 - The Immortal Eye

Episode 23 - Recipe for Success

Episode 24 - The Checkered Flag

Story of an unsung racing mechanic who because of a club foot, has never dared to race himself. All he needed was the confidence in himself to succeed. Based on the true story of Bud and Gina Hand.

Episode 25 - The Vestris

In the spring of 1828, the bark Vestris, is 16 days out enroute from England to Boston. The weather is fair, but the captain's ailing wife suddenly has a vision telling her (in a message written on a blackboard) to have the ship change course. At first the captain refuses, but when the weather changes and his wife becomes sicker, he reluctantly agrees. As a result, they find and rescue three survivors of a shipwreck. One of the three is a doctor, and appears to be the ""spirit"" seen by the wife. He saves her life. As it turns out, the message on the blackboard is in his handwriting. Curiously, the doctor is as puzzled as everyone else by the wife's vision.

Episode 26 - War Against War

Episode 27 - The Quality of Mercy

Episode 28 - Man of Principle

Hiero II, king of ancient Syracuse, orders a gold crown to be made as an offering to the gods. The gold is delivered to a goldsmith and the man's wife persuades him to substitute silver for some of the gold.

Episode 29 - Trail Blazer