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Season guide

The 20th Century Fox Hour: Season 1

18 episodes Premiered Oct 5, 1955 Updated Jul 21, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (13): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (1): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

Cavalcade

Oct 5, 1955 · 60 min

The story opens with the family patriarch marching off to the Boer war at the turn of the century, and ends thirty years later, with the now-aged principal characters coping with t

S1·E2 Mytharc

Laura

Oct 19, 1955 · 60 min

Detective Mark McPherson is assigned to the case of a murdered fashion model only to find that the murder victim is someone else. During the investigation he finds himself taking a

S1·E3 Core

The Ox-Bow Incident

Nov 2, 1955 · 60 min

A cattle rustling and the murder of the rancher leads the town on a mob lynching. While the sheriff is away the Major takes over and assumes control of the Posse.

S1·E4 Core

The Late George Apley

Nov 16, 1955 · 60 min

The daughter of a socially prominent family rebels against her father's snobbery. He opposes the marriage of his daughter to a young man from the wrong side of the tracks.

S1·E5 Core

Christopher Bean

Nov 30, 1955 · 60 min

A country doctor learns his housekeeper is in possession of valuable painting given to her from an artist she befriended. Art collectors and swindlers attempt to get hold of these

S1·E6 Core

The Miracle on 34th Street

Dec 14, 1955 · 60 min

One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he cause

S1·E7 Core

Man on the Ledge

Dec 28, 1955 · 60 min

Sure and it's a fine St. Paddy's dawn in New York City, and beat cop Bragan is finishing up his all-night midtown shift and heading back to his family. Mrs. Bragan is making waffle

S1·E8 Filler

Yacht on the High Sea

Jan 11, 1956 · 60 min

After years of neglect from her abrasive husband, Joan has decided to leave him. He asks that she come to his last business meeting in Nassau, and tells her what she needs is a chi

S1·E9 Core

One Life

Jan 25, 1956 · 60 min

A bored housewife unhappy with her professor husband who is too busy with work to pay attention to her, ends up with her best friends husband, before realizing the consequences an

S1·E10 Core

Crack-Up

Feb 8, 1956 · 60 min

Bed ridden invalid Marie is visited by Trask, the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her husband.

S1·E11 Core

In Times Like These

Feb 22, 1956 · 60 min

The death of his only son makes it difficult for him to go on living.

S1·E12 Core

Deception

Mar 7, 1956 · 60 min

A British Intelligence officer is captured and forced to divulge information, after which he moves to the West Indies in shame.

S1·E13 Core

Gun in His Hand

Apr 4, 1956 · 60 min

An outlaw's son is torn between affection for his father and his own belief in law and order. While riding with the outlaw band, he is captured and imprisoned, and then learns the

S1·E14 Core

Mr. Belvedere

Apr 18, 1956 · 60 min

All is not well on Hummingbird Hill, the King's are at their wits end. Their three children are full of mischief and trouble that desperate measures are needed. When an ad is place

S1·E15 Core

Broken Arrow

May 2, 1956 · 60 min

Jeffords talks to Cochise about letting the mail carriers thru the pass without being attacked. During which time he falls in love with the ""White Painted Lady"". After an attack

S1·E16 Core

Overnight Haul

May 16, 1956 · 60 min

When his young stepson is accidentally pinned under a truck, the driver frantically tries to rouse help in a nearby town. But he is caught taking equipment from a closed service st

S1·E17 Mytharc

The Empty Room

May 30, 1956 · 60 min

A young Englishwoman and her American husband become entangled when Audrey's divorced mother comes to visit, the girl's natural warning system begins buzzing. Audrey endeavors to k

S1·E18 Mytharc

The Hefferan Family

Jun 13, 1956 · 60 min

A well-meaning do-gooder spends so much time doing favors for others that he falls behind in his personal obligations. Meanwhile his long suffering wife has had enough of his money

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