Robert Montgomery Presents: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Robert Montgomery Presents Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
First Vice-President
Aug 31, 1953 · 60 min
A hard-driving, domineering business executive is determined to become the company's next president. He invites the retiring chairman and his wife to his Long Island home to wine a
Private Purkey's Private Place
Sep 7, 1953 · 60 min
A soldier and his buddies find themselves in Europe at the end of the war. Believing their opinions are as important as those of Army brass and politicians, they formulate their ow
Lost and Found
Sep 14, 1953 · 60 min
Dr. Robert Collis works to rehabilitate children, both physically and spiritually, who were held at Belsen, the notorious Nazi prison camp. He invests special efforts to win over E
September Time
Sep 21, 1953 · 60 min
Marion Shaw, a premiere concert vocalist, takes a forced summer rest in Cape Cod to give her strained voice a chance to recover. The truth slowly becomes obvious to both Marion and
The Big Money
Sep 28, 1953 · 60 min
A World War I hero operates on the belief that money, and lots of it, buys happiness. He jumps into the airplane business, believing it will offer big bucks, but soon fails. He plu
Breakdown
Oct 5, 1953 · 60 min
Scientist Philip Armstrong returns to England to conduct tests on a top secret government weapon. Dr. Allen, whom he doesn't know, is assigned to work with him. The doctor confides
A Criminal Assignment
Oct 12, 1953 · 60 min
Wanting to catch other criminals, the British secret service gains the release of a counterfeiter who's dropped into France. He is to produce bills that contain a tiny flaw to be u
The Sunday Punch
Oct 19, 1953 · 60 min
A one-time big name fighter, Tony Marino, is on his way down the boxing ladder, but he still can throw his powerful "Sunday punch." Tony's manager tries to bribe him to take a dive
Cakes and Ale
Oct 26, 1953 · 60 min
Upon the death of a famed writer, two colleagues competing to write his biography visit his country estate. While there, they meet a charming local barmaid, Rosie, with quite a sto
No Picnic at Mount Kenya
Nov 2, 1953 · 60 min
Based on a true story from World War II, Felice Benuzzi was one of 10,000 prisoners of war held at the Kenya camp. Benuzzi and two others manage to escape by successfully scaling d
Weekend Pass
Nov 9, 1953 · 60 min
A soldier on a three-day weekend pass is determined to paint the town. With $200 and his fiancé, he hits the nightspots in New York City. His girlfriend, though, soon tires of the
The Deep Six
Nov 16, 1953 · 60 min
After far too many months at sea, tensions build among the men and officers of the cruiser U.S.S. Atlantis during World War II. Lt. Alec Austen is already irritated by the constant
Harvest
Nov 23, 1953 · 60 min
A young man in love with a sophisticated woman from the city is torn between his desires and those of his family. His parents wish him and his brother to stay and work on their sma
The Soprano and the Piccolo Player
Nov 30, 1953 · 60 min
An overweight piccolo player's accompaniment to a soprano's aria is so well-received that the two are suddenly in demand as a duo. As their fame and popularity grow, so does the pi
Really the Blues
Dec 7, 1953 · 60 min
Jackie Cooper stars in this biography of jazz great Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow. An unruly youth, his parents put him in a reform school where he first encountered jazz. He eventually be
No Visible Means
Dec 14, 1953 · 60 min
Tom, a smooth talking gigolo, makes the rounds through the speakeasies of 1920s New York. He's loved by Veronia, a woman with a lot of money, but he loses interest when he meets Ir
What About Christmas?
Dec 21, 1953 · 60 min
Individuals throughout an American city end up touching one another in unexpected ways during the holiday season. Among the unrelated people are a lonely old man and his cat, a mov
The Greatest Man in the World
Dec 28, 1953 · 60 min
A publicity-loving mechanic causes a sensation when he flies solo around the world. A newspaper reporter is assigned the job of uncovering this unknown person's secretive past.
The Steady Man
Jan 4, 1954 · 60 min
A couple whose child died at birth face a problem adopting a child. The husband, proud of the fact that he can account for every penny they spend, is horrified by the expense and t
A Case of Identity
Jan 11, 1954 · 60 min
While taking the subway home from the Stork Club, a musician is detained by police for a robbing a loan office. One of the clerks identifies him as the criminal and he's eventually
Machinal
Jan 18, 1954 · 60 min
Giving in to the advice of her calculating mother, Helen marries her highly successful and thoroughly revolting boss. Since his very touch repulses her, she ends up in an affair wi
Richard Said No
Jan 25, 1954 · 60 min
A ad-man for a perfume company meets his female counterpart at a party when his jealous wife is away.
The 17th of June
Feb 1, 1954 · 60 min
Based on a true story, a man performs heroic acts against Communists in East Berlin during an uprising on June 17th of the previous summer.
Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star
Feb 8, 1954 · 60 min
After much study, a history professor has decided that the end of the world is upon us.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Feb 15, 1954 · 60 min
The adventures of the young Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough are dramatized from the bestseller of the same title. The girls board a luxury ship bound for Europe and are f
Land of Happiness
Feb 22, 1954 · 60 min
In 1895, a sophisticated woman of Copenhagen accompanies her husband, a pastor to his new parish. It's located on the rustic and isolated Faero Islands of the North Atlantic.
Such a Busy Day Tomorrow
Mar 1, 1954 · 60 min
A senior citizen who's successfully raised a family feels he has nothing remaining to contribute to their lives. He meets a group of people at an senior center and fears he'll neve
The Paradise Cafe
Mar 8, 1954 · 60 min
A honky-tonk piano player with big plans is surrounded by a diverse group of dreamers in this character study set in a bistro.
The Quality of Mercy
Mar 15, 1954 · 60 min
A couple innocently leave their baby home alone for a night out in the Big Apple. Authorities learn of this, take the child and place it in a children's home. Confused and frighten
Pink Hippopotamus
Mar 22, 1954 · 60 min
A blockade runner, himself an escapee from behind the Iron Curtain, deals in the transport of human cargo in and out of that region. His current mission is to reunite a young boy a
My Little Girl
Mar 29, 1954 · 60 min
A reporter father thinks he's done a good job of raising his child. Unfortunately, he starts to have doubts about her integrity.
For These Services
Apr 5, 1954 · 60 min
Father and son physicians are at odds over how to practice medicine.
The Pale Blonde of Sand Street
Apr 12, 1954 · 60 min
A young sailor meets a blonde and give her his lucky coin. With it, she makes a wish for him to disappear from her life. When the wish comes true, she begins to haunt ships looking
Big Boy
Apr 19, 1954 · 60 min
The conflict between generations is played out between an old railroad man and his son over steam powered trains versus the new diesel engine.
No Need of Favor
Apr 26, 1954 · 60 min
A young artist who has lost his vision falls for and marries his secretary, a woman of great inner beauty but "plain Jane" looks. When an operation restores the artists' sight, his
The Wages of Fear
May 3, 1954 · 60 min
Four men face danger at every turn driving truckloads of nitroglycerin through jungle country to Guatemala's to oil fields.
Pilgrim's Pride
May 10, 1954 · 60 min
A businessman takes his number one client to the country for meetings, but finds his daughter already there with a house full of party guests.
Sky Block
May 17, 1954 · 60 min
Farmland across the Midwest is turned into desert by someone wielding a destructive "drought machine".
The Power and the Prize
May 24, 1954 · 60 min
When in Europe, an American businessman falls for a refugee from behind the Iron Curtain. He brings the girl back with him and must deal with the prejudices of the people he works
Once Upon a Time
May 31, 1954 · 60 min
A bride and groom greeting guests at their wedding encounter loves from their pasts. Each remembers their dating days and thinks about the one they might have married.
The Patriot from Antibes
Jun 7, 1954 · 60 min
A baron and baroness are swindled out of a small fortune by group of impressive con men in a true story from the Paris police files.
Great Expectations: the Promise (Part 1)
Jun 14, 1954 · 60 min
In the first of this two-part adaptation, Pip, a young man with an inheritance, suffers through problems that arise due to his friendship with an escaped criminal.
Great Expectations: the Reality (Part 2)
Jun 21, 1954 · 60 min
In part two, Pip gets his own apartment, falls in love, and has another encounter with the criminal Magwitch.
In His Hands
Jun 28, 1954 · 60 min
A young doctor's true love suffers an incurable, deadly disease.
The Expert
Jul 5, 1954 · 60 min
A noted author and lecturer on the subject of marital bliss can not speak from personal experience. He has a hard time explaining why a strange woman in her pajamas is feeding him
Story on 11th Street
Jul 12, 1954 · 60 min
A lonely widower with a seven-year-old son wants to rebuild a happy home for the child.
It Happened in Paris
Jul 19, 1954 · 60 min
An American couple broadcast a weekly radio show from Paris, enthralling their listeners back home with stories of their extended honeymoon in France. In reality, the man and woman
Patricia
Jul 26, 1954 · 60 min
A young society woman follows her own path and enrolls in a bohemian art school. She immediately falls for an older instructor, but he does not return her affections.
Home Town
Aug 2, 1954 · 60 min
A gullible man leaves his home town for the big city. He falls prey to a flashy public relations man who plots a big build-up for his debut.
About Sara Caine
Aug 9, 1954 · 60 min
An overbearing young female reporter is determined to better her father, competing against him in the coverage of a news story.
Invitation to Murder
Aug 16, 1954 · 60 min
A publisher gets a manuscript full of damning statements about a number of important people. He invites its author and those mentioned in the book to the same party, suggesting to
Personal Story
Aug 23, 1954 · 60 min
At the peak of his career, an architect suffers an heart attack. He takes the doctor's advice to slow down to such an extreme, he's barely living his life.
A Matter of Luck
Aug 30, 1954 · 60 min
A singer is given a lucky charm by a girl in his neighborhood and his career suddenly takes off. When he accidentally breaks the trinket, his good luck ends just as abruptly.