The United States Steel Hour (1953)
The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio program that preceded it were both sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation.
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Episode 1 - POW
Release Date: 1953-10-27The story of the psychological torment of American soldiers after they return home from Commmunist prison camps.
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Episode 2 - Hope for a Harvest
Release Date: 1953-11-10A story examining the seeming loss of the American work ethic, as well as the issues of racism and prejudice.
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Episode 3 - The Wedding
Release Date: 1953-11-24 -
Episode 4 - The Man in Possession
Release Date: 1953-12-08A penniless society girl falls in love with the handsome sheriff's man sent to keep an eye on her belongings.
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Episode 5 - The Vanishing Point
Release Date: 1953-12-22In Paris, the Head of the Missing Persons Bureau disappears and his assistant, hoping for a promotion, searches for him.
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Episode 6 - Hedda Gabler
Release Date: 1954-01-05In a small backward Norwegian town in the 1860s, a woman who is married to a scholar whom she does not love subtly asserts her power over the people in her life.
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Episode 7 - The Rise of Carthage
Release Date: 1954-01-19A power-mad businessman finds true values in a desert utopia called Carthage.
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Episode 8 - Papa Is All
Release Date: 1954-02-02A story about a Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite family in the 1940s, in which the parents adhere to their faith while their two children desire to be more ""worldly"" until they feel the personal call to the Mennonite faith.
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Episode 9 - Highway
Release Date: 1954-02-16 -
Episode 10 - Morning Star
Release Date: 1954-03-02A story revolving around a widow and her extended family on New York's Lower East Side, spanning the years 1910-1931, including such historic events as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, World War I, and the Great Depression, events that shaped the lives and destinies of the family.
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Episode 11 - Welcome Home
Release Date: 1954-03-16The story of a beloved housekeeper and nanny who doesn't want to retire.
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Episode 12 - The Last Notch
Release Date: 1954-03-30A story about a gunfighter who didn't particularly care for gunfighting.
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Episode 13 - Late Date
Release Date: 1954-04-13 -
Episode 14 - The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham
Release Date: 1954-04-27Though rough around the edges, a self-made man tries to get his daughter admitted to Boston's high society 400.
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Episode 15 - The End of Paul Dane
Release Date: 1954-05-11A story about a psychiatrist and two of his patients
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Episode 16 - The Great Chair
Release Date: 1954-05-25 -
Episode 17 - Good for You
Release Date: 1954-06-08 -
Episode 18 - Fearful Decision
Release Date: 1954-06-22David Durfee's young son is kidnapped by desperate criminals, yet he refuses to pay the ransom that the town feels would ensure the boy's safety.
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Episode 19 - Haven's End
Release Date: 1954-07-06 -
Episode 20 - A Garden in the Sea
Release Date: 1954-07-20 -
Episode 21 - Oberstrasse Forty-Nine
Release Date: 1954-08-03 -
Episode 22 - The Grand Tour
Release Date: 1954-08-17 -
Episode 23 - Two
Release Date: 1954-08-31