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"You've probably heard the saying that anything can happen in Hollywood. Well that's just nonsense! Hollywood is a very normal place, and except for a minority of people - like my partner, Rodney O'Mara - the entertainment business attracts very few screwballs, creeps or featherheads. To get ahead in movies, radio or television, you've got to have talent, industry, and a level head. So that saying about anything can happen in Hollywood simply doesn't apply... Except for my partner Rodney O'Mara..." As it turns out, the two of them just lost a Hollywood deal to 'Frisco Frank. So they decide that they'll use a different tactic - to find a big name, and build a series around him instead. Or a horse. A horse wouldn't ever turn its back on the agents who made him or her famous... 

Jim Mathews cannot forgive himself for his selfish pride and flees from his home and family though his wife had long forgiven him and always loved him. Cast:James Stewart, Don Ameche, Loretta Young

God in his providence obscures the gold beyond the veil of sorrow, and smiles at men in pity when they seek to penetrate the morrow. With faith that all is for the best let’s bear what burdens are presented, that we shall say, let come what may we die as we have lived, contented…

A beautiful story of the love and understanding between a father and son who reach the depths of despair and are rescued by the power of prayer and forgiveness.

If you're married, it's likely you don't have as much trouble getting your husband out of bed in morning, as Jean does with her husband, Don. It's a little bit different for them, as he works nights. Not because he has to, but because he says it's easier to think at night - easier to let the imagination run free - and when you're a cartoonist, that can be pretty important. Jean believes his imagination is wonderful any time of the day though, at least, they would never have gotten married, or even had that first date if it weren't for Don's imagination!

Jane Carson isn't her real name, and her job as a stenographer in the state department isn't her real job. She works for an entirely different branch of the government... 

An unmarried woman inherits a fortune from her deceased Uncle Jim. However, the will contains some strange provisions, calculated to get her married...

At war in Japan when news commentator Dan Coleman raises his head above the sandbags he encounters gunfire which renders him blind. The doctors don't know if they can save his vision and he has to learn to get along with only minimal use of his eyes.

Hosted by Shirley Temple. Little Steve’s daddy didn’t come back from the war so when he went his mother took him to Webber’s department store to see Santa Claus he asked for a daddy for Christmas. His mother had no idea how extra special that Christmas was going to be.

Years before their appearance, Jules Verne foretold the submarine, the balloon, the aeroplane, the telephone, the long range projecto, and many other inventions, but perhaps his best writing achievement was the complex, but very human character, Captain Nemo. In this man we glimpse Homer's Ulysses, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and ourselves, our dreams, our disillusionments, above all our instinctive yearning for good. These are the things that make Captain Nemo and his great adventure timeless...  The story begins in the late 1800s. The seas are no longer safe, with many ships lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious giant whale with a long horn, which sinks their ships. A US expedition begins, sent to investigate these mysterious sinkings, where they encounter something entirely different...

Avery Macklemore tells his story which is mighty strange. It's the story of the Big Calm when the winds stopped blowing but it actually started long ago when Miss Keating was a little girl. Mr Macklemore has known her for twelve years since he was at he boarding house and she would tell him the story of how the wind had plagued her all her life.

In this episode, Jack Benny who plays Malcolm. Malcolm is a "teapot" - or that's what he considers himself - very teapotic by nature - even looking a little like one! His wife, is a "coffee pot", a huge, ever simmering, never-empty coffee pot - complete with spout!