The Barbara Stanwyck Show - Season 1
Season 1
Network
DatesSep 19, 1960 - Jul 3, 1961
Episodes
Season 1Episode 130 min
The Mink Coat
While her husband was still alive, Syd Charing enjoyed her life as a well-to-do socialite. Since his death, she has fallen on hard times. Now all she has left to remind of her of her halcyon days is a mink coat.
Sep 19, 1960
Season 1Episode 230 min
Good Citizen
Celebrated pianist Margot LaChelle is asked to perform in a charitable concert which will benefit a struggling youth center. She declines the invitation, telling her manager that she has no desire to be involved with the children.
Oct 3, 1960
Season 1Episode 330 min
Discreet Deception
Amelia Lambert, a theatrical producer, finds herself growing increasingly attracted to Simon, her dead husband's brother. Just one thing stands in Amelia's way: Simon's wife Vivian.
Oct 10, 1960
Season 1Episode 430 min
The Seventh Miracle
Mary McShane is about to give birth to her seventh child, but her husband George has a broken leg and can't drive. It's up to their teenage son Joe to get his mother to the hospital safely.
Oct 17, 1960
Season 1Episode 530 min
The Key to a Killer
Stella King, wife of a deputy sheriff, finds herself handcuffed to a murderer with a gun. Alone in the mountains of California, she has no recourse but to find the key to his twisted personality.
Oct 31, 1960
Season 1Episode 630 min
House In Order
Faced with heart surgery, Elizabeth Mowry is advised by her physician to put her house in order, but correcting the loss of understanding between herself and her family seems insurmountable.
Nov 7, 1960
Season 1Episode 730 min
The Miraculous Journey of Tadpole Chan
Already involved in a fight with the U.S. Consulate over a shipment of silk dresses, importer-exporter Josephine meets shabby refugee Tadpole Chan, who is having an equally hard time getting a visa to go to America.
Nov 14, 1960
Season 1Episode 830 min
The Secret of Mrs. Randall
Liz Randall, president of an Oklahoma oil company, hires an ex-convict as her assistant and then falls in love with him. Their relationship is fiercely opposed by her mother-in-law who threatens to take custody of Liz's only son.
Nov 21, 1960
Season 1Episode 930 min
Ironbark's Bride
Crusty old farmer and wealthiest man in town, Ironbark, sends for a bride and draws a middle-aged woman and teenaged son. The boy gives him cool reception and repeatedly displeases him. Soon his real father, a gunman, whom was assumed dead all along, shows up looking to blackmail his wife.
Nov 28, 1960
Season 1Episode 1030 min
We Are the Women Who Wait
Three wives of Strategic Air Command pilots, all of different temperaments, come together to wait for their men to return from a dangerous flight. We see how one (Barbara) has had a difficult time arguing with her husband, trying to get him to quit and take a higher paying, far safer civilian job.
Dec 5, 1960
Season 1Episode 1130 min
Out of the Shadows
Dr. Susan Bryce is a psychiatrist who once suffered a nervous breakdown. Now one of her patients, a beatnik trumpet player, is seeking vengeance against her, using an eerie melody to drive her towards a mental collapse.
Dec 19, 1960
Season 1Episode 1230 min
No One
Summer stock producer Cara Lester is seeking financial backing to move a new play to Broadway. She finds a willing patron in Jack Harrison. There's just one hitch: Harrison wants an established star to take over the lead.
Dec 26, 1960
Season 1Episode 1330 min
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.
Jan 2, 1961
Season 1Episode 1430 min
Night Visitor
Marian Andres is preparing for a trip to Europe when a visitor arrives, posing as her husband's close friend. Failing in her blackmail attempt, the stranger produces a gun and demands money.
Jan 9, 1961
Season 1Episode 1530 min
Size 10
A stolen sketch leads successful dress designer Maggie Wenley to point suspicion at members of her staff, destroying the loyalty of all those around her.
Jan 16, 1961
Season 1Episode 1630 min
Dear Charlie
Two old maids advertise in a newspaper for a male boarder so they will have a man in the house. Charlie Zane answers their ad and plots to have the two women pass their wealth to him.
Jan 23, 1961
Season 1Episode 1730 min
Dragon By the Tail
In return for a possible favor from the U.S. government, import-exporter Josephine Little finds herself enlisted by the CIA to retrieve a nuclear physicist from Indochina and return him to the United States.
Jan 30, 1961
Season 1Episode 1830 min
The Sisters
Janet Jones poses as a shoplifter to confront her sister's divorced husband with news that his son needs money for an operation. When they meet, he looks at Janet more as a potential wife than as a sister-in-law.
Feb 6, 1961
Season 1Episode 1930 min
Big Career
Attractive business executive Harriet Melvane closes her eyes to the shortcomings of her husband, Roy, and to the desires of her business partner, Phil.
Feb 13, 1961
Season 1Episode 2030 min
Confession
Attorney Jud Hollister talks unhappily married Paula Manning into staging a murder to get rid of her husband.
Feb 20, 1961
Season 1Episode 2130 min
Along the Barbary Coast
San Francisco detective Pete Bishop and waterfront racketeer Sam Verner declare a personal war over Verner's criminal operation and their mutual girlfriend, Trixie Callahan.
Feb 27, 1961
Season 1Episode 2230 min
Shock
On the verge of announcing a new formula, atomic physicist Rachel Harrison is shocked into silence by her daughter's accidental death. Dr. Paul Aldrich looks for the key to her locked mind in Rachel's own childhood.
Mar 6, 1961
Season 1Episode 2330 min
The Golden Acres
Ambitious and domineering, Avis Fleming decides to cheat an old family friend to impress Dexter Willis, an attorney she had once hoped to marry. When her two brothers, Ben and Collins, object, Avis sidesteps them with a threat of blackmail.
Mar 13, 1961
Season 1Episode 2430 min
Adventure on Happiness Street
Import-exporter Josephine Little uses her Hong Kong contacts to help American doctor Paul Harris obtain medicine for his charity clinic. Her efforts unfortunately backfire and Dr. Harris is forced to turn away the Chinese refugees who look to him as a symbol of hope.
Mar 20, 1961
Season 1Episode 2530 min
High Tension
A live, high-tension wire, broken in a storm and dangling from its pole, transforms a bus into a death trap in which the passengers are surrounded by metal walls carrying lethal electricity and saved only by the insulation of the rubber floor matting.
Mar 28, 1961
Season 1Episode 2630 min
Sign of the Zodiac
Madge Terry accompanies her sister-in-law, Helene, on a visit to a mysterious fortuneteller named Pierre. Haunted by guilt about the death of her husband, Madge becomes alarmed when the medium claims to have contacted him through a seance.
Apr 3, 1961
Season 1Episode 2730 min
Call Me Annie
When a well off family hires a nurse to care for a new baby, she discovers that the mother has no interest in it, and is in fact scared of being a mother. Her husband is a childish, hard to handle dolt, and the mother-in-law is mean and overbearing.
Apr 10, 1961
Season 1Episode 2830 min
The Choice
Trapped alone with two men, restaurateur Amanda Prescott is forced to decide which of the two - Horace or Joe - is an escaped psychopathic killer.
Apr 17, 1961
Season 1Episode 2930 min
Frightened Doll
Disillusioned and afraid of growing older, Hazel Wexley finds $100,000 and a new set of values. A chance meeting with gangster Jake Lytell and some hard-hitting advice from a bartender finally give Hazel the opportunity to realize a longstanding dream.
Apr 24, 1961
Season 1Episode 3030 min
Yanqui Go Home
Mining engineer Clint Evans and his wife, Fanny, wait until the last minute to leave their post in a revolution-torn Latin American country. Their car is commandeered by a group of rebels who are fleeing bandidos -- leaving Clint and Fanny trapped in peril.
May 1, 1961
Season 1Episode 3130 min
Little Big Mouth
Based on actual events. Famed newspaperwoman Nellie Bly travels to Oklahoma Territory to write an expose on the Indian Reservation scandals. There she meets a heroic young doctor and his nine-year-old daughter, whom the Indians call Little Big Mouth.
May 8, 1961
Season 1Episode 3230 min
Assassin
Gentle Louise Forest is willing to accept her punishment when her employer, Mr. Carlisle, discovers she has embezzled $22,711. She doesn't, however, expect to be the intended victim of a killer hired by Carlisle to cover his tracks.
May 15, 1961
Season 1Episode 3330 min
The Triple C
May 22, 1961
Season 1Episode 3430 min
The Hitch-Hiker
Attorney Maggie McClay risks her career and marriage to Mac McClay to help an immigrant mother retain custody of her infant against the wishes of the girl's wealthy mother-in-law, Tess Freeland.
May 29, 1961
Season 1Episode 3530 min
Big Jake
City detective Jake Sloan is a tough, dedicated policeman with two major problems -- his waistline and his heart -- both of which are so big that they get him into more trouble than the criminals he brings to justice.
Jun 5, 1961
Season 1Episode 3630 min
A Man's Game
Chris Mathews is a female saloon-keeper in a lawless Oklahoma Territory town so dangerous that no man dares to be sheriff. Uninhibited, Chris volunteers for the job in order to prevent gunmen from killing any more of her steady customers.
Jul 3, 1961
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