1955 - Matinee Theater
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity. themoviedb
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Matinee Theater subtitles for all seasons and episodes
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S01E01 Beginning Now
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S01E02 Make Believe Mother
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S01E03 The Persistent Image
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S01E04 I'm Straight with the World
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S01E05 Progress and Minnie Sweeney
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S01E06 The House on Wildwood Lane
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S01E07 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
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S01E08 One for the Road
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S01E09 An Apple for Miss Myrtle
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S01E10 The Man Without a Country
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S01E11 Jigsaw
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S01E12 She's the One with the Funny Face
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S01E13 All the Hoffmeyers in the World
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S01E14 The Aspern Papers
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S01E15 Roman Fever
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S01E16 Midsummer
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S01E17 The Lady Chooses
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S01E18 The Courtship of Miles Standish
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S01E19 Dispossessed
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S01E20 One for the Road
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S01E21 The Touchstone
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S01E22 Wuthering Heights
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S01E23 The Brass Ring
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S01E24 Jason
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S01E25 Arrowsmith
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S01E26 Passing Strange
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S01E27 For These Services
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S01E28 Cordially - With Bombs
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S01E29 The White Oaks
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S01E30 O'Toole from Moscow
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S01E31 The Milwaukee Rocket
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S01E32 This One is Different
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S01E33 Sins of the Fathers
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S01E34 See You on Sunday
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S01E35 Coming of Age
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S01E36 Technique
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S01E37 Gallin: All-American
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S01E38 Santa is No Saint
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S01E39 The Unwelcomed
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S01E40 The Red Sanders Story
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S01E41 Class of '58
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S01E42 Horns of the Dilemma
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S01E43 Little Girls Grow Up
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S01E44 The Shot
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S01E45 Mr. Krane
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S01E46 Yesterday is Gone
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S01E47 Double Door
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S01E48 The Happy Rest
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S01E49 The Gate
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S01E50 One Left Over
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S01E51 All the Trees in the Field
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S01E52 The Century Plant
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S01E54 The Old Maid
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S01E56 The Bottom of the River
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S01E56 The Bottom of the River
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S01E57 The Carefree Tree
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S01E58 Interlude
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S01E58 Interlude
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S01E59 The Big Box
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S01E60 Sincerely Yours, Charlie Fisher
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S01E61 Doc
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S01E62 The Amateur
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S01E63 Light and Shadow
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S01E64 Romney
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S01E65 O Promise Me
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S01E66 Hold My Hand and Run
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S01E68 The Diamond
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S01E69 Susan and God
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S01E70 As Young As You Feel
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S01E71 The White Knight
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S01E72 The Anxious Years
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S01E73 The Heart of Mary Lincoln
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S01E74 The Middle Son
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S01E75 Valentine's Day
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S01E76 Summer Cannot Last
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S01E77 The Last Battlefield
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S01E78 The Catbird Seat
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S01E79 Dream House
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S01E80 The Runaways
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S01E81 The Ledger
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S01E82 When the Bough Breaks
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S01E83 I Want to March
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S01E84 Skylark
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S01E85 Tall, Dark Stranger
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S01E86 Anything But Love
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S01E87 Robin Daw
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S01E88 Letter to a Stranger
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S01E89 Dinner at Antoine's
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S01E90 The Mating of Watkins Tottle
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S01E91 Her Son's Wife
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S01E92 The Shining Palace
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S01E93 The Odd Ones
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S01E94 A Cowboy for Chris
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S01E95 The Rocking Chair
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S01E96 The Big Guy
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S01E97 Statute of Limitations
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S01E98 The Baron and the Banshees
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S01E99 Notebook Warrior
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S01E100 Temptation for a King
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S01E101 The White Knight
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S01E102 The Anxious Years
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S01E103 M is for the Many
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S01E104 Silent Partner
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S01E105 Winter in April
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S01E106 Bread Upon the Waters
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S01E107 The Giant Killer
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S01E108 The Book of Ruth
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S01E109 Singer in the Valley
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S01E110 The Heart of a Husband
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S01E111 From the Desk of Margaret Tydings
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S01E112 But You Look Like Sisters
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S01E113 The House of Seven Gables
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S01E114 Fiddlin' Man
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S01E115 The Hollow Woman
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S01E116 People in Glass
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S01E117 One of the Family
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S01E118 Young Hands, Young Feet
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S01E119 The Lark Shall Sing
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S01E120 In Dread of Winter
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S01E121 The Babylonian Heart
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S01E122 Ask Me No Questions
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S01E123 Whom Death Has Joined Together
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S01E124 The Wedding
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S01E125 The Reckoning
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S01E126 A Woman Named Ruby
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S01E127 The Bright Boy
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S01E128 The Carefree Tree
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S01E130 The Legend of Jenny Lind
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S01E131 Daughter of the Seventh Day
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S01E132 Night Must Fall
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S01E133 The 25th Hour
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S01E134 A Man and His Maid
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S01E135 Perspective
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S01E136 The Catamaran
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S01E137 Johnny Came Marching Home
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S01E138 A Family Affair
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S01E139 Blind Date
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S01E140 To Have and to Hold
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S01E141 Edwina Black
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S01E142 The Spare Room
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S01E143 The Bottle Imp
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S01E144 Brief Music
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S01E145 The Girl from Boro Park
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S01E146 To Whom It May Concern
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S01E147 Bachelor Buttons
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S01E148 The Children of Papa Juan
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S01E149 Herself Alone
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S01E150 Three for the Money
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S01E151 Taxi to the Moon
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S01E152 The Goodtime Boys
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S01E153 The American
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S01E154 Cause for Suspicion
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S01E155 Fight the Whole World
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S01E156 Autumn Crocus
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S01E157 George Has a Birthday
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S01E158 The Serpent's Tooth
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S01E159 Crime at Blossom's
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S01E160 The Luck of Amos Currie
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S01E161 Alison's House
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S01E162 Safe Place
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S01E163 The Guest Cottage
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S01E164 Forsaking All Others
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S01E165 Love, Honor and O'Day
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S01E166 The Damask Cheek
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S01E167 Moon Over
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S01E168 But Fear Itself
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S01E169 The Birthday Present
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S01E170 The Ghost of Greenwich Village
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S01E171 The Young and the Damned
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S01E172 There's Always Juliet
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S01E173 Seasoned Timber
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S01E174 The Declaration
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S01E175 High Places
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S01E176 Black Chiffon
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S01E177 Class of '58
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S01E178 Marriage by the Millions
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S01E179 Backfire
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S01E180 The Bishop Misbehaves
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S01E181 Remittance
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S01E182 Beg, Borrow or Steal
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S01E183 Summer Pavilion
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S01E184 The Feast
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S01E185 A Full, Rich Life
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S01E186 The Reverberator
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S01E187 Woman at the Window
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S01E188 Another Sky
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S01E189 Letter of Introduction
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S01E190 Home at Seven
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S01E191 The Cypress Tree
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S01E192 Belong to Me
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S01E193 Pygmalion Jones
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S01E194 Gretel
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S01E195 Some Man Will Want You
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S01E196 The Fall of the House of Usher
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S01E197 Cupid Rode a Horse
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S01E198 The Old Payola
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S01E199 The Perfect Alibi
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S02E01 The House Off Fifth Avenue
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S02E02 Yankee Doodler
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S02E03 The Pink Hippopotamus
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S02E04 September Tide
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S02E05 Are You Listening?
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S02E06 Ladies' Maid Bell
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S02E07 100 Red Convertibles
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S02E08 The Ivy Curtain
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S02E09 The Gramercy Ghost
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S02E10 Lovers
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S02E11 Reach for the Stars
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S02E12 I Like It Here
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S02E13 A Question of Balance
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S02E14 The Marriage Royal
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S02E15 Mad Money
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S02E16 A Letter from Johnny Brock
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S02E17 Uncle Harry
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S02E18 At Mrs. Leland's
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S02E19 The House Next Door
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S02E20 Alumni Reunion
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S02E21 Sound of Fear
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S02E22 Late Date
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S02E23 Pride and Prejudice
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S02E24 Pearls of Sheba
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S02E25 The Stamp Caddy
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S02E26 The Egotist
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S02E27 The Family Man
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S02E28 Sight Unseen
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S02E29 The Eye of the Storm
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S02E30 The Man in the Seven League Boots
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S02E31 The Woman Across the Hall
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S02E32 And Then There Were Three
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S02E33 Shake the Stars Down
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S02E34 Horse Power
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S02E35 Without Sanction
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S02E36 The Outing
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S02E37 Thank You, Edmondo
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S02E38 The Tell-Tale Heart
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S02E39 Strangers on a Honeymoon
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S02E40 A Dram of Poison
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S02E43 Step Into Darkness
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S02E44 Candle in the Dark
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S02E45 Savrola
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S02E46 Table Set at Night
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S02E47 Madame de Treymes
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S02E48 The People vs. John Tarr
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S02E49 The Location of Roycemore College
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S02E50 Dracula
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S02E51 Julie
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S02E52 The Empty Nest
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S02E53 Spare Your Pity
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S02E54 The Last Leaf
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S02E55 Therese
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S02E56 Julie
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S02E57 Refugee
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S02E58 Jenny Kissed Me
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S02E59 Miracle at Carville
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S02E60 The Upper Hand
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S02E61 Love is a Locksmith
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S02E62 Captain Brassbound's Conversion
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S02E63 The Wisp End
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S02E64 Prominent Citizens
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S02E65 Head of the Family
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S02E66 Password
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S02E67 Late Love
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S02E68 Eugenie Grandet
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S02E69 Cold Christmas
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S02E70 Little Women
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S02E71 For Sweetheart, Wife or Mother
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S02E72 Smilin' Through
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S02E73 Strong Medicine
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S02E74 Everything's Relative
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S02E75 Miss Morissa
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S02E76 The Scandalous Priest
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S02E77 Dark Victory
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S02E78 The Lonely Look
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S02E79 The Sudden Truth
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S02E80 The Man in the Half-Moon
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S02E81 The Hex
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S02E82 If This Be Error
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S02E83 On the Trail of the Kingsfield
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S02E84 Here We Are
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S02E85 Arms and the Man
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S02E86 Home is the Hunted
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S02E87 Madam Ada
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S02E88 Night Train
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S02E89 This Language
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S02E90 The 13th Crypt
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S02E91 Mr. Pirn Passes By
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S02E92 Anything for a Laugh
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S02E93 Realms of Gold
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S02E94 Deacon of Oak Ridge
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S02E95 Accent on Youth
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S02E96 Three Kids
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S02E97 Frankenstein
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S02E98 The Most Dangerous Man
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S02E99 One
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S02E100 The Importance of Being Earnest
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S02E101 The Brat's House
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S02E102 Mr. Todd
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S02E103 A Case of Pure Fiction
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S02E104 The Master Builder
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S02E105 The Others
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S02E106 The Remarkable Mr. Jerome
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S02E107 Bobbie
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S02E108 The Hickory Limb
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S02E109 The Bridge
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S02E110 The Serpent's Tooth
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S02E111 Voyage to Mandok
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S02E113 Queen of Spades
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S02E115 You Touched Me
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S02E116 The Hemlock Cup
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S02E117 Papa's Wife
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S02E118 The Prizewinner
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S02E120 Yesterday's Magic
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S02E122 Peaceable Kingdom
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S02E124 Wedding in the Family
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S02E126 Journey Into Darkness
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S02E127 Barricade at the Big Black
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S02E129 The First Year
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S02E131 We Won't Be Any Trouble
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S02E133 Talk You of Killing
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S02E134 The Pursuit of Happiness
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S02E136 Long Distance
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S02E137 The Point of Cleaning
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S02E139 The Flashing Stream
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S02E141 Jamie Picks a Wife
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S02E142 Blind Man's Bluff
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S02E144 Pushover
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S02E146 A Hat, a Coat, a Glove
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S02E148 Guardians of the Temple
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S02E149 The Short Safari of B'wana Ben
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S02E151 The Gioconda Smile
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S02E153 Make Believe Affair
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S02E155 Thursday's Child
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S02E157 The Embattled Maiden
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S02E158 The Middle-Aged Freshman
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S02E160 Jane Eyre
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S02E163 Guest at the Embassy
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S02E165 The Avenging of Anne Leete
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S02E166 The Lonesome Husband
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S02E168 The Gwendolyn Harleth Story
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S02E169 The Girls Named Almaya
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S02E171 A Growing Wonder
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S02E173 The Golden Door
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S02E174 Rain in the Morning
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S02E176 Rich Man, Poor Man
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S02E178 White-Headed Boy
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S02E179 Liza
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S02E180 Pigeons and People
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S02E184 A Light in the Sky
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S02E185 The Charmer
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S02E186 The Brief Candle
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S02E187 Too Much Johnson
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S02E191 The Price of Scandal
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S02E192 But When She Was Bad
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S02E193 The Fable of Harry
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S02E195 The Cask of Amontillado
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S02E197 The Last Hour
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S02E199 Shuttered Hearts
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S02E201 Call It a Day
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S02E203 Boys Will Be Men
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S02E205 The Fawn with Crooked Teeth
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S02E207 The Rose Bush
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S02E209 Laugh a Little Tear
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S02E211 Where Angels Fear
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S02E212 First Love
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S02E213 The Last Survivors
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S02E214 Time for Action
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S02E215 Haven's End
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S02E219 Awakening
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S02E223 Jewel Boy
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S02E263 "Matinee Theatre" In the Fog
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S03E01 Father Come Home
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S03E02 Villa of the Angels
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S03E03 A Tone of Time
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S03E04 Almost Any Man Will Do
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S03E05 Sing for Me
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S03E06 Run for the Money
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S03E07 Lest We Forget
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S03E09 Out of the Frying Pan
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S03E10 The Last Stop
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S03E11 The Weak and the Strong
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S03E12 Nine-Finger Jack
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S03E12 Nine-Finger Jack
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S03E13 Elementals
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S03E14 Plummer in Paradise
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S03E15 Something About a Dollar
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S03E16 Return in Winter
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S03E17 Grandmama and Grandfather
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S03E18 Aesop and Rhodope
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S03E19 All Over the World
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S03E20 The Ransom of Sigmund Freud
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S03E21 Iris
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S03E22 Remember Me Kindly
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S03E22 Remember Me Kindly
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S03E23 The Embassy House
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S03E24 Witness to Murder
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S03E24 Witness to Murder
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S03E25 The Johnson House
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S03E26 Cadenza
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S03E27 Green Shores
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S03E28 A Question of Balance
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S03E29 Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent
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S03E30 The Conversation Tables
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S03E31 Out of My Darkness
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S03E33 The Broom and the Groom
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S03E34 A Cloud for Jeni
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S03E36 The Old Friend
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S03E37 Give Me a Wand
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S03E38 The Sure Thing
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S03E39 Dark of the Moon
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S03E41 No Time for Comedy
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S03E42 Gentleman of Fortune
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S03E43 The Gentleman Caller
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S03E44 Tender Leaves
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S03E45 In 25 Words or Less
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S03E46 Sara Crewe
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S03E47 Amahl and the Night Visitors
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S03E48 The Little Minister
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S03E49 Daughter of Kings
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S03E52 The Europeans
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S03E54 Two-Picture Deal
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S03E56 A Chance to Die
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S03E57 Home on the Range
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S03E58 The Makropoulos Secret
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S03E60 Something Stolen, Something New
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S03E62 Daisy Mayne
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S03E63 The Man Who Wanted to Hate
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S03E65 Forever and Ever
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S03E67 Solider's Boy
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S03E68 The Man with Pointed Toes
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S03E70 Cave-In
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S03E72 The Long, Long Laugh
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S03E73 Man Without a Country
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S03E74 The Odd Ones
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S03E76 Life Upon the Wicked Stage
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S03E77 Without Fear or Favor
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S03E80 The 10th Muse
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S03E82 Heart's Desire
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S03E84 The Suicide Club
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S03E87 The Devil's Violin
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S03E88 Wednesday's Child
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S03E90 The Prophet Hosea
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S03E91 Mrs. Moonlight
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S03E92 With Love We Live
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S03E93 You and I
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S03E95 Contingent Fire
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S03E97 On Approval
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S03E99 Hush, Mahala, Hush
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S03E101 The Alleyway
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S03E103 The Silver Spider
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S03E105 The Inspector General
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S03E106 The Two Mrs. Carrolls
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S03E107 The Velvet Glove
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S03E108 Death Takes a Holiday
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S03E109 Man of the House
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S03E110 A Case of Fear
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S03E111 Walk in the Sky
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S03E112 The Canterville Ghost
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S03E113 Found Money
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S03E114 Washington Whispers Money
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S03E115 A Boy Grows Up
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S03E116 Phony Venus
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S03E117 Some Blessed People
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S03E118 The Quiet Street
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S03E119 The Quest of Quesnay
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S03E120 Angel Street
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S03E121 The Cause
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S03E122 Much Ado About Nothing, Part 1
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S03E123 Much Ado About Nothing, Part 2
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S03E124 Day of Discoveries
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S03E126 The Riddle of Mary Murray
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S03E128 The End of the Season
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S03E130 The Road to Recovery
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S03E132 The Story of Marcia Gordon
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S03E133 Town in Turmoil
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S03E135 Course for Collision
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S03E150 "Matinee Theatre" The Riddle of Mary Murray
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S03E152 "Matinee Theatre" Button, Button
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S03E154 "Matinee Theatre" Look Out for John Tucker
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S03E181 "Matinee Theatre" End of the Rope
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