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The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Season 1 Episode 13: The Cornerstone

Sister Thomas Aquinas has finally acquired the funds to build a new high school. But just as the cornerstone is about to be laid, a detective shows up, investigating a recent jewel robbery.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Mink Coat

1. The Mink Coat

Aired: Sep 19, 1960

While her husband was still alive, Syd Charing enjoyed her life as a well-to-...

Episode 2 Good Citizen

2. Good Citizen

Aired: Oct 3, 1960

Celebrated pianist Margot LaChelle is asked to perform in a charitable concer...

Episode 3 Discreet Deception

3. Discreet Deception

Aired: Oct 10, 1960

Amelia Lambert, a theatrical producer, finds herself growing increasingly att...

Episode 4 The Seventh Miracle

4. The Seventh Miracle

Aired: Oct 17, 1960

Mary McShane is about to give birth to her seventh child, but her husband Geo...

Episode 5 The Key to the Killer

5. The Key to the Killer

Aired: Oct 31, 1960

Stella fills in for her sheriff husband with herself and deputy Homer transpo...

Episode 6 House in Order

6. House in Order

Aired: Nov 7, 1960

Elizabeth Mowry is told by her doctor to prepare her family and arrange her a...

Episode 9 Ironbark's Bride

9. Ironbark's Bride

Aired: Nov 28, 1960

Crusty old farmer and wealthiest man in town, Ironbank, sends for a bride and...

Episode 11 Out of the Shadows

11. Out of the Shadows

Aired: Dec 19, 1960

A lady psychiatrist is assigned to evaluate a scruffy horn player with a viol...

Episode 12 No One

12. No One

Aired: Dec 26, 1960

Summer stock producer Cara Lester is seeking financial backing to move a new ...

Episode 13 The Cornerstone

13. The Cornerstone

Aired: Jan 2, 1961

Sister Thomas Aquinas has finally acquired the funds to build a new high scho...

Episode 14 Night Visitor

14. Night Visitor

Aired: Jan 9, 1961

Through with her marriage to a doctor, a self-centered woman prepares to clos...

Episode 15 Size 10

15. Size 10

Aired: Jan 16, 1961

In the high-pressure world of the garment industry, one woman runs a successf...

Episode 16 Dear Charlie

16. Dear Charlie

Aired: Jan 23, 1961

Two wealthy old spinster sisters put an ad in the paper for a man to board wi...

Episode 17 Dragon by the Tail

17. Dragon by the Tail

Aired: Jan 30, 1961

Josephine Little, an expatriate American importer-exporter of sometimes unscr...

Episode 18 The Sisters

18. The Sisters

Aired: Feb 6, 1961

when her sister's little boy becomes serious ill and must go into hospital fo...

Episode 19 Big Career

19. Big Career

Aired: Feb 13, 1961

Harriet Melvane is a successful business woman, choosing work over time with ...

Episode 20 Confession

20. Confession

Aired: Feb 20, 1961

Her overbearing and jealous husband drives a woman to leave him and seek a di...

Episode 22 Shock

22. Shock

Aired: Mar 6, 1961

After the sudden death of her little girl, a nervous woman goes into a trance...

Episode 23 The Golden Acres

23. The Golden Acres

Aired: Mar 13, 1961

In a small Midwestern town in 1905, a scheming woman dominates her two weak- ...

Episode 25 High Tension

25. High Tension

Aired: Mar 27, 1961

Escaping a cruel husband, socialite Fran Elick and her deaf son take a bus in...

Episode 26 Sign of the Zodiac

26. Sign of the Zodiac

Aired: Apr 3, 1961

After the death of her husband, Madge Terry goes to a psychic accompanied by ...

Episode 27 Call Me Annie

27. Call Me Annie

Aired: Apr 10, 1961

When a well off family hires a nurse to care for a new baby, she discovers th...

Episode 28 The Choice

28. The Choice

Aired: Apr 17, 1961

Past closing time at an out of the way nightclub, the woman that runs it wait...

Episode 29 Frightened Doll

29. Frightened Doll

Aired: Apr 24, 1961

Hazel Wexley, a downcast woman, is befriended by a mobster who makes her happ...

Episode 30 Yanqui Go Home

30. Yanqui Go Home

Aired: May 1, 1961

Just ahead of vicious revolutionaries, an American engineer and his wife esca...

Episode 31 Little Big Mouth

31. Little Big Mouth

Aired: May 8, 1961

Famous newspaper woman Nelly Bly goes to a far western Indian reservation loo...

Episode 32 Assassin

32. Assassin

Aired: May 15, 1961

After her boss dies, Louise Forest is accused of embezzlement by Mr. Carlisle...

Episode 33 Triple C

33. Triple C

Aired: May 22, 1961

Jim Costain has built a fine ranch in New Mexico. His happy life is shattered...

Episode 34 The Hitch-Hiker

34. The Hitch-Hiker

Aired: May 29, 1961

A lady lawyer and her author husband encounter a starving young woman and her...

Episode 35 Big Jake

35. Big Jake

Aired: Jun 5, 1961

A craggy old police detective and a young reporter investigate a safe crackin...

Episode 36 A Man's Game

36. A Man's Game

Aired: Jul 3, 1961

In a semi-comedic tale of frontier times, a woman named "Chris Mathews" is sw...

Info about The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Network: NBC

Production Country: United States

Genres:Drama