The 20th Century Fox Hour: Season 2
Season 2 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 The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1.
- 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 2 Progress Shield
Child of the Regiment
Oct 3, 1956 · 60 min
After his wife suffers a miscarriage during an earthquake in Japan, he finds that a young Japanese girl is parentless and homeless and decides to take her in. Hoping of course that
Stranger in the Night
Oct 17, 1956 · 60 min
A sensitive widow of delicate constitution falls in love with a cottage by the sea previously owned by Captain Robert Wilton who commited suicide. Feeling a ghostly prescence she b
The Money Maker
Oct 31, 1956 · 60 min
Mrs. Miller is elderly with no money, she makes a living by counterfeiting one dollar bills. This leads to trouble with the US government who can't believe it.
Smoke Jumpers
Nov 14, 1956 · 60 min
Only the leader of a firefighter unit survives a forest fire and is accused of saving himself at his men's expense. After his recovery he goes out again this time to prove everyone
The Last Patriarch
Nov 28, 1956 · 60 min
Emil Markheim employs the same ruthless authority in running the bank he founded that he imposes on his own family. His sons hate him enough to want to destroy him. The son who lov
Men Against Speed
Dec 12, 1956 · 60 min
A family auto-racing team, father and two sons, intent upon proving that their American vehicle is the superior to any foreign job. The trio enters an important Italian road compet
Operation Cicero
Dec 26, 1956 · 60 min
Based on the true story of a World War II spy with access to top secret information in the British embassy in Turkey, this episode follows the brief but bright career of an English
End of a Gun
Jan 9, 1957 · 60 min
Jimmy Ringo an ex-gunfighter tries to settle down to a normal life but is constantly challenged to gun fights. As he tries to reconnect with his wife and son in Cayenne, his life i
False Witness
Jan 23, 1957 · 60 min
A mother places an ad in the newspaper claiming the innocence of her son. A reporter checks out the story.
Springfield Incident
Feb 6, 1957 · 60 min
A young Abe takes on a case where the only witness to the crime is the mother of two young men who are wrongfully accused in the stabbing death of the town deputy.
Man of the Law
Feb 20, 1957 · 60 min
In Vaquero County at the Wells Fargo Office, Anse Trumbull is shot and killed in a bank hold up. This endangers the only witness to the crime, the sheriff's stepson. The sheriff is
City in Flames
Mar 6, 1957 · 60 min
During the time of the great Chicago fire, the two O'Leary brothers become bitter political and romantic rivals for the beautiful stage actress, one brother is a notorious gambler
Deadline Decision
Mar 20, 1957 · 60 min
Ben Macready son of John Macready owner and editor of the ""Hollisfield Herald"" has been asked by Police Chief Swanson to keep a lid on a kidnapping of Jimmie Elgin son of the Ban
The Still Trumpet
Apr 3, 1957 · 60 min
During the Civil War, imprisoned Confederate soldiers are paroled to help protect pioneers from Indians.
Men in Her Life
Apr 17, 1957 · 60 min
Retired schoolteacher pays a visit to a former pupil she taught many years ago. He is a candidate running for governor. She tells him about how difficult he was as a boy and her at
Deep Water
May 1, 1957 · 60 min
The ruthless head of an underwater demolition team, aka the frogmen, is unpopular with his men when he comes head to head with his chief petty officer just as an enemy torpedo lodg
The Great American Hoax
May 15, 1957 · 60 min
John Hodges has been a printer devoted to his work. Now, at 65, he is automatically retired by his firm. But Hodges isn't ready for retirement -he feels he has many years of produc
Threat to a Happy Ending
May 29, 1957 · 60 min
Police captain's daughter is threatened when a gangster resolves to make sure that the Captain and his family are held responsible.
The Marriage Broker
Jun 12, 1957 · 60 min
A mischievous, well meaning, meddling busy body opens up an agency to bring couples together. After years of being a scorned woman Mae decides to turn the tables on her nemisis aft