December 2: Fidel Castro and his followers land in Cuba in the boat Granma. - A pipe bomb planted by George Metesky explodes at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, injuring 6 people.
December 4: The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studios for the first and last time in history.
December 5: Rose Heilbron becomes Britain's first female judge.
December 9: Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 crashes into a mountain in British Columbia. All 62 people on board are killed.
December 12: Japan becomes a member of the United Nations.
December 18: To Tell the Truth debuts on CBS-TV.
December 19: John Bodkin Adams is arrested for the murder of 2 patients in Eastbourne, Great Britain.
December 23: British and French troops leave the Suez Canal region.
December 31: Bob Barker makes his TV debut as host of the game show Truth or Consequences. (source: Wikipedia)
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Hancock's Half Hour s4 8 - Cyrano De Hancock | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Chaos looms when Sid confesses he is in love with the Lad's secretary. |
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Description: | A man, trying to escape his endlessly nagging wife, lets his imagination run wild and ends up living in a fantasy world of his own making for three full days. Story by Michael Fessier (1937) A man, down on his luck, passes a used car lot and notices ... |
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Description: | An automated house faithfully continues its daily routines after its occupants—and the rest of humanity—have long gone. Story by: Ray Bradbury |
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Description: | Sid sees the return of petrol rationing as a money spinner, with some help from the Lad. |
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Description: | Arson is plaguing lumber yards in Sarasota Florida. |
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Description: | A husband, convinced of his wife's infidelity, decides to murder her by planting a bomb in their basement, but an unexpected home burglary turns the tables and now it looks like the husband will be the one to die ... Story by Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish) ... |
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Description: | A housewife offers lodging to an alien psychologist who finds humans both strange and fascinating, and wishes to observe life in an average home. Her husband, however, is convinced the alien has a more sinister purpose in mind—one which may affect the future ... |
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Description: | Making no money in showbusiness, the Lad sees his future in selling coffee. |
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Description: | A millionaire's son has been killed in Asia, his wife has disappeared, and with good reason. |
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Description: | A storm rages. A woman unexpectedly returns home a week early from a visit to her sister's and finds her house cold and dark. Her husband is not home from work even though it is late, but when she tries to call him she discovers the phone lines are down. The storm ... |
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Description: | Team members of a remote base on the Moon serve long tours of duty, and come into conflict over who is next in line to return to Earth. Story by: Frank M. Robinson |
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Description: | Hancock hates Christmas and decides that there will be no decorations in 23 Railway Cuttings. However, Miss Pugh has arranged for two children from the local orphanage to spend Christmas with Hancock with disastrous consequences. |
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Description: | A $50,000 singing mouse named Gulliver has been kidnapped. Keep your eye on the cat! A delightful Christmas show! |
Sleep No More 8 - Death of Olivie Bécaille - Fishhead | |||||||||||||
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Description: | At six o'clock one Saturday morning, Olivier Bécaille suffers a form of temporary paralysis so severe he is pronounced dead and, to his horror, subsequently buried. He effects an escape, however, and after several weeks is able to witness his wife's ... |
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Description: | Under the dual threat of a nuclear war and a serious drop in male birth, civilization seems doomed. Until a supercomputer concocts a plan to send a man from our side and a woman from theirs on a mission to the Moon to hopefully conceive a son. Story by: Fredric ... |
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Description: | The Lad looks back and ponders what could have been. Featuring the famous ‘test pilot’ scene. |
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Description: | A prize fighter is about to get murdered in the ring ... literally! |