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The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Season 1 Episode 28: The Choice

Past closing time at an out of the way nightclub, the woman that runs it waits for the last customer to leave, then hears on the radio of an escaped killer mental patient is in the area. When another man shows up,she enlists his help-but...

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