The United States Steel Hour - Season 1

1. POW

Aired: 10/27/1953

The story of the psychological torment of American soldiers after they return home from Commmunist prison camps.

2. Hope for a Harvest

Aired: 11/10/1953

A story examining the seeming loss of the American work ethic, as well as the issues of racism and prejudice.

3. The Wedding

Aired: 11/24/1953

4. The Man in Possession

Aired: 12/8/1953

A penniless society girl falls in love with the handsome sheriff's man sent to keep an eye on her belongings.

5. The Vanishing Point

Aired: 12/22/1953

In Paris, the Head of the Missing Persons Bureau disappears and his assistant, hoping for a promotion, searches for him.

6. Hedda Gabler

Aired: 1/5/1954

In 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.

7. The Rise of Carthage

Aired: 1/19/1954

A power-mad businessman finds true values in a desert utopia called Carthage.

8. Papa Is All

Aired: 2/2/1954

A 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.

9. Highway

Aired: 2/16/1954

10. Morning Star

Aired: 3/2/1954

A 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.

11. Welcome Home

Aired: 3/16/1954

The story of a beloved housekeeper and nanny who doesn't want to retire.

12. The Last Notch

Aired: 3/30/1954

A story about a gunfighter who didn't particularly care for gunfighting.

13. Late Date

Aired: 4/13/1954

14. The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham

Aired: 4/27/1954

Though rough around the edges, a self-made man tries to get his daughter admitted to Boston's high society 400.

15. The End of Paul Dane

Aired: 5/11/1954

A story about a psychiatrist and two of his patients

16. The Great Chair

Aired: 5/25/1954

17. Good for You

Aired: 6/8/1954

18. Fearful Decision

Aired: 6/22/1954

David 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.

19. Haven's End

Aired: 7/6/1954

20. A Garden in the Sea

Aired: 7/20/1954

21. Oberstrasse Forty-Nine

Aired: 8/3/1954

22. The Grand Tour

Aired: 8/17/1954

23. Two

Aired: 8/31/1954