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Originally billed as "Playhouse of the Stars" this long running anthology series was originally presented live from New York City. Irene Dunne was briefly the hostess in 1952, and the show frequently used Broadway performers in classic stories.

The Troubleshooters is an American 26-segment half-hour adventure/drama television series starring Keenan Wynn as Kodiak and Bob Mathias as Frank Dugan. The show aired on NBC. The stories were based on events at international construction sites.

A publicity agent and his staff attempt to keep a client's reckless actions out of the newspapers.

While leading a safari, a professional hunter encounters the judge who sentenced his innocent brother to death for a crime he did not commit.

Faced with a dwindling supply of furs to send to Great Britain, the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company desperately needs to create a relationship with the Blackfeet Indians who land contains untapped resources, but each trading party sent to treat with them is massacred. Factor Oglivie is convinced that he can make a treaty with the tribe to allow trappers to work in their lands, so Jonathan Banner is sent to evaluate the feasibility of his plan.

A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.

An adventurer impersonates the lost Dauphin to elude Napoleon's men.

When Claggart is found murdered after making false accusations of mutiny against Billy Budd, it leads to Billy's court-martial and trial.

A destitute pilot takes the only flying job offered him, then begins to suspect that his employers are criminals.

In order to cut even more corners, the penny-pinching owner of a hotel also plays maid.

A cynic is caught in the trap of his effort to be on both sides of the French Revolution.

A man abandons his dream of Presidency to work at saving the Whig party.

Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.

A corporal in Napoleon's army faces death for his alleged romantic involvement with Josephine.

Napoleon sends one of his Brigadiers (Claude Dauphin) on a special mission to the King of Spain.

A long-ago crime is exposed in a letter disrupts the comfortable life of a married couple

Gambler Steve Dexter returns to marry Laura Warren only to find she is to marry homesteader, Johnny Scovile. Laura's father disapproves of both men and with hired gun Lee Dineen, aims to eliminate both.

Embezzler Mark Andrews trains a dog as a killer to exact revenge from his ex-boss.

An honest man learns that he can save his daughter from being swindled only by resorting to fraud himself.

Grandpa has a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hanging in his home and is overwhelmed when the real Mr. Roosevelt comes to visit.

A small town postmaster, storekeeper and justice of the peace has his hands full when a young eloping couple attempts to "borrow" gasoline from his locked pump.

A driver tries to find out why his trucks are being stolen

A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.

Members of Steamer were attacked by Hamadan, a crazy musician, and blown away by magic wind.

A man wishes to write the great American novel, but a fatal illness changes his life's direction.