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Armstrong Circle Theatre

Season 5 (38 Episodes)

1953NR1h 00m7.7

Documentary dramas, plays that were based on true stories, were the forte of Armstrong Circle Theater. Many movie actors and actresses got their start here.

Running for almost thirteen years, this dramatic anthology series featured many well-know actors and actresses, as well as a number who would later go on to become stars. Originally, the program presented dramas written by contemporary writers on a number of subjects, but later in its run it changed to documentary-style dramas on subjects ranging from espionage and the history of Russian communism to the dangers of medical and insurance fraud.

Season 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Beautiful Wife

1. The Beautiful Wife

Aired: Sep 1, 1953

A housewife upsets her husband when she enters the Mrs. Universe beauty pageant.

Episode 2 The First Born

2. The First Born

Aired: Sep 8, 1953

A family learns of the mistake it has made in obtaining a baby through an ill...

Episode 3 Judy and Me

3. Judy and Me

Aired: Sep 15, 1953

A widowed father is doing his best to raise his nine-year-old daughter Judy. ...

Episode 4 Explosion

4. Explosion

Aired: Sep 22, 1953

A mining disaster leads two brothers to react differently towards the respons...

Episode 5 The Judged

5. The Judged

Aired: Sep 28, 1953

A boy's military school comes under fire when the school's commandant decides...

Episode 6 The Runaway

6. The Runaway

Aired: Oct 5, 1953

Tired of the pressures of being a lawyer, a man returns to his boyhood home a...

Episode 7 Half a Hero

7. Half a Hero

Aired: Oct 12, 1953

A cab driver wants to prove that he's not a coward to a girl he's smitten wit...

Episode 8 Lie Detector

8. Lie Detector

Aired: Oct 19, 1953

A young jewelry store employee is accused of stealing from his firm.

Episode 11 Flare-Up

11. Flare-Up

Aired: Nov 9, 1953

A man who has lost interest in life finds new hope when he makes a strange pu...

Episode 12 Brink of Disaster

12. Brink of Disaster

Aired: Nov 16, 1953

Tired of dealing with is immature wife and her family, a man reaches his brea...

Episode 13 The Contender

13. The Contender

Aired: Nov 23, 1953

Paul Newman plays a boxer who begins to question his career path.

Episode 14 H Is for Hurricane

14. H Is for Hurricane

Aired: Nov 30, 1953

A woman is trapped in her apartment during a hurricane. Without power or phon...

Episode 15 Hit a Blue Note

15. Hit a Blue Note

Aired: Dec 7, 1953

A jazz artist returns to the scene to make a name for himself.

Episode 17 Runaway Fast!

17. Runaway Fast!

Aired: Dec 21, 1953

A young man must make a choice between his immature romantic ideas and the re...

Episode 18 Save Me from Treason

18. Save Me from Treason

Aired: Dec 28, 1953

An embittered prisoner of war in Korea decides to turn traitor as a means of ...

Episode 19 The Fatal Trap

19. The Fatal Trap

Aired: Jan 4, 1954

A scheming mother's plans to marry her daughter off to wealth go awry.

Episode 22 Ladders of Lies

22. Ladders of Lies

Aired: Jan 25, 1954

A luckless young suitor finds himself caught in a nightmare of lies perpetrat...

Episode 23 No Room to Breathe

23. No Room to Breathe

Aired: Jan 25, 1954

A shy librarian befriends a hobo who comes to the library one wintry day. Tho...

Episode 25 Sudden Disaster

25. Sudden Disaster

Aired: Feb 15, 1954

When 14 man are feared lost on a fishing boat, two women appear at the dock t...

Episode 26 Stay Away Stranger

26. Stay Away Stranger

Aired: Feb 22, 1954

Old World tradition and New World non-conformity are dashed when the eldest d...

Episode 27 Crack-Up

27. Crack-Up

Aired: Mar 1, 1954

A fire in a theater gives a down-and-out entertainer a big break and a chance...

Episode 28 Trapped

28. Trapped

Aired: Mar 8, 1954

A bitter 'old maid' sister lives in fear that her brother will fall in love a...

Episode 29 TV or Not TV

29. TV or Not TV

Aired: Mar 22, 1954

The husbands are feeling neglected when coming home from work as their famili...

Episode 30 Buckskin

30. Buckskin

Aired: Mar 29, 1954

Clay Cochran's reputation as a gunslinger has preceded him to his new post as...

Episode 31 Leap for Freedom

31. Leap for Freedom

Aired: Apr 5, 1954

One of the members of a ski team from behind the Iron Curtain injures himself...

Episode 33 Fight for Tomorrow

33. Fight for Tomorrow

Aired: Apr 19, 1954

A woman has believed that it was her husband's memories of his first wife tha...

Episode 36 East of Nowhere

36. East of Nowhere

Aired: May 11, 1954

The taciturn captain of a Finnish tanker has brought his lovely young wife al...

Episode 37 The Narrow Man

37. The Narrow Man

Aired: May 18, 1954

A young college president must decide whether or not to accept a donation tha...

Episode 38 Perilous Night

38. Perilous Night

Aired: May 25, 1954

A former DP, now living in the United States, spends an anxious night in the ...

Info about Armstrong Circle Theatre

Seasons: 14

Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Production Country: United States

Genres:Drama