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An anthology series based on the activities of clergymen from different denominations.
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- E1 The Shadow of GodNext upOct 7, 1955 · 25 min
Synopsis
A priest attempts to prove a man's innocence.
Guest stars: Paul Kelly (Father Bill Rigge), John Archer (Ramsey Carr), Strother Martin (Landry Kersh), Dayton Lummis (Prosecutor), Robert Warwick (Chief Justice), Raymond Greenleaf (Gibson Coller), Paul Birch (Chief Crane), Charles Halton (Judge)
- E2 CleanupOct 14, 1955 · 25 min
Synopsis
A pastor exhorts his parishioners to take back their city from the gangsters and corrupt politicians who have taken it over.
Guest stars: Vincent Price (Reverend Robert Russell), Sally Blane (Mrs. Russell), Lloyd Corrigan (David Selden), Howard Petrie (Matt Ridge), Wheaton Chambers (R.W. Bergen), James Kirkwood (Justice Deal), Jonathan Hale (Governor), Peter J. Votrian (George Gilgo)
- E3 Unholy TrioOct 21, 1955 · 30 min
Synopsis
A rabbi discovers that he is the only one who can save an innocent man from the electric chair for a murder he didn't commit.
Guest stars: Luther Adler (Rabbi Rosenblum), Christopher Dark (Irving Green), Eve McVeagh (Myrtle Greenspan), Russell Johnson (Jack Fromer), Wally Cassell (Louis Greenspan), Lisa Golm (Mama Greenspan), Joe Turkel (Frank Perroni), William Pullen (Ben Tumin)
- E4 With All My LoveOct 28, 1955 · 30 min
Synopsis
A chaplain and two soldiers journey into the Philippine jungle to rescue two American civilians from advancing Japanese forces. However, Hulda Lind refuses to return until native Jose is converted to Christianity.
Guest stars: Hugh Beaumont (Reverend Clifton R. Pond), Ann Harding (Hulda Lind), Frank Fenton (Andrew Porterfield), Leo Gordon (Sergeant Leroy), Jerry Paris (Corporal Reynolds), Byron Keith (Army Captain), Robert Cabal (Jose), George Huerta (Pedro)
- E5 The HostageNov 4, 1955 · 30 min
Synopsis
Catholic priest Father Felix is summoned to the state penitentiary to hear the Confession of an inmate in solitary. Trouble ensues.
Guest stars: Don Taylor (Father Felix), Robert Armstrong (Gatch), Barry Kelley (Warden), Lawrence Dobkin (Stoner), Denver Pyle (Ockschmitt), Betty Lou Gerson (Mrs. Whaley), Terry Frost (Eddie Whaley), G. Pat Collins (Wisotski)
- E6 Broadway TrustNov 11, 1955 · 30 min
Synopsis
A man embezzles $5,000 from his employer to pay for a land deal. When the deal falls through, he has until 3:00 the next day to pay it back before the bank examiners discover the loss.
Guest stars: Gene Lockhart (Reverend Allan E. Claxton), Lloyd Bridges (Fred Tronnell), Tina Carver (Betty Tronnell), Taylor Holmes (Bill Graham), Hugh Sanders (Sig Sorelson), Russell Hicks (Selden), Paul Maxey (George Harvey), Mary Treen (Nurse)
- E7 Mr. Liberty BellNov 18, 1955 · 30 min
Synopsis
American missionary Dr. Roy Bell leads a resistance force on the Philippine island of Negros during the Japanese occupation.
Guest stars: Brian Donlevy (Dr. Roy Bell), Adrienne Marden (Edna Bell), Eugene Iglesias (Rafael), Joseph V. Perry (Vail), Rankin Mansfield (Dr. Smith), Malcolm Cassell (Kenneth Bell), Ricky Marshall (Donald Bell), Kam Tong (Japanese Officer)
- E8 The Good ThiefNov 25, 1955 · 30 min
Synopsis
A Red prison is a priest's parish. Father Joseph Kapaun, a US Army chaplain, must strive to bring meaning and inspiration to the lives of a small group of POWs.
Guest stars: James Whitmore (Father Emil Joseph Kapaun), Philip Ahn (Sun Yal), Phillip Pine (Antonelli), Terry Frost (Merrill), Joseph V. Perry (Martinez), Jimmy Murphy (Murphy), Jack N. Kramer (Samuels), Davis Roberts (Williams)
- E9 Mightier Than the SwordDec 2, 1955 · 30 min
Synopsis
A Baptist minister prints copies of the Bible in order to smuggle them behind the Iron Curtain.
Guest stars: Gregory Gaye, Carl Benton Reid (Reverend Oswald A. Blumit), Anthony George (Sergei), Paul Sorensen (Michael), Kristine Miller (Miss Smith), Otto Reichow, Otto Waldis, Henry Rowland
- E10 The GamblerDec 9, 1955 · 30 min
Synopsis
An unemployed man with a gambling problem becomes suicidal.
Guest stars: Dennis Morgan (Reverend Mark Runyon), Robert Hutton (Ned Langley), Roy Roberts (Harvey Wiley), Angela Greene (Madge Wiley), Jean Willes (Blanche Runyon), Billy Chapin (Tommy Langley), Jean Howell (Helen Langley), Richard Karlan (Sam Hiler)
- E11 Chinese CheckersDec 16, 1955 · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Richard Denning (Dr. Ira Langston), Joyce Jameson (Darlene Harris), Harry Shannon (Detective Sergeant Dave Washburn), Denver Pyle (Lou 'Dial' Harrington), Donald Randolph (Joe Walls), Philip Ahn (Lung Chan), William Haade (Fisher), James Parnell (Policeman)
- E12 Vivi Shining BrightDec 23, 1955 · 30 min
Synopsis
A young bride meets with an accident which leaves her paralyzed.
Guest stars: Adam Kennedy, Pauline Moore, Hillary Brooke, Kent Smith, Greta Granstedt, Gregg Palmer, Hope Landin, Vivi Janiss
- E13 A Bell for O'DonnellDec 30, 1955 · 30 min
Synopsis
A pastor struggles with his trust in a con artist.
Guest stars: Glenn Langan (Reverend Maurice WItherspoon), Edmund Lowe (Bill O'Donnell), Eve Miller (Mrs. Witherspoon), Joseph Crehan (Warden James), G. Pat Collins (Detective Cady), Lyle Talbot (Mr. Hodge), Irving Mitchell (Reverend Carter), Frank J. Scannell (Magruder)
- E14 Through the WindowJan 6, 1956 · 30 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Hugh Reilly (Self), Arthur Shields (Reverend Zaccara), Douglass Dumbrille, Carlyle Mitchell, Fay Baker, Max Showalter, Marcia Henderson, Steve Brodie
- E15 Cavalry in ChinaJan 13, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
An American missionary in China endures persecution from the brutal Communists.
Guest stars: Arthur Franz (Father Robert W. Greene), Richard Loo (Colonel), Philip Ahn (Ah Hiu), Keye Luke (Leang Fan), Marya Marco (Sister Teresa), Leonard Strong (Chin-Y-Chai), Richard Reeves (Mastermind), Joy Lee (Chen Ma)
- E16 The Mountain AngelJan 20, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
A minister struggles to convince the people of the Tennessee hills the value of modern medicine.
Guest stars: Noah Beery Jr., Howard Duff, Edward Earle, Donald MacDonald, Eve Miller, Anne O'Neal, Ray Teal, Lizanne Truex
- E17 St. George and the DragonJan 27, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
Father Slee works with the young hoodlums in the neighborhood to straighten out their lives.
Guest stars: Richard Arlen (Father John Fletcher Slee), Gloria Blondell (Mickey), Tommy Cook (Pete Collins), John Wilder (Smiley), Sue Wagoner (Jackie Collins), Jimmy Ogg (Frisco), Frankie Carpenter (Caps), Hugh Sanders (Mr. Collins)
- E18 The Inner LightFeb 3, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
Father Raymond, a missionary in China, helps villager Po Ling deal with his blindness after a fireworks manufacturing accident.
Guest stars: George Brent (Father Raymond), Benson Fong (Po Ling), Marya Marco (Sister Ming Yu), Keye Luke (Wang), Joseph Kim (Red Captain), Frank Tang (Kung), Judy Dan (Chi Su), George Chan (Old Chinese Man)
- E19 The Little HeraldFeb 10, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
Reverend Perkins, a Presbyterian missionary, establishes an air link to a remote Brazilian village.
- E20 The Strange BequestFeb 17, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
A death row inmate makes a strange bequest.
- E21 The Pavement PastorFeb 24, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
A pastor born and raised in the tenements develops a dim view of the draft laws, resulting in his imprisonment.
- E22 The RebelMar 2, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
Rabbi Seixas is on the run from the Redcoats and their Hessian mercenaries after New York falls to the British. The British want to see the Rabbi hang for his support for the American Revolutionaries.
- E23 Mother O'BrienMar 9, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
A detective is torn between his duties to his family and his job when he learns that his drug addict brother is committing crimes to support his habit.
- E24 The Sacred TrustMar 16, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
A courtroom drama depicting the historic legal decision in 1813, upholding the inviolability of religious confession.
Guest stars: Brian Aherne
- E25 Bowery BishopMar 23, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
The minister of a Bowery mission has his donations stolen. A transient working in the kitchen knows who did it, and threatens revenge, but the minister persuades him otherwise, and give himself up to serve an old charge he's still wanted on. In Sing Sing, both men meet, and when the first is stabbed, it looks like a revenge murder.
- E26 Dig or Die, Brother HydeMar 30, 1956 · 30 min
Synopsis
An itinerant pastor traveling the prairie tries to restore a woman's faith, and save her child's life, by using a little amateur psychology.
- E27 Two-Fisted SaintApr 6, 1956
- E28 Deadly FearApr 13, 1956
- E29 Anatole Of The BayousApr 20, 1956
- E30 The White CarnationApr 27, 1956
- E31 Home is the SailorMay 4, 1956
- E32 The LifelineMay 11, 1956
- E33 The JudgeMay 18, 1956
- E34 Soldiers Of SalvationMay 25, 1956
- E35 The Man On The Totem PoleJun 1, 1956
- E36 The Rabbi Davis StoryJun 8, 1956
- E37 The Singing PreacherJun 15, 1956
- E38 A Holiday For Father JimJun 22, 1956
- E39 False ProphetJun 29, 1956
Cast & crew
Created by Harry Joe Brown
