December 1: In Indonesia, Sukarno announces the nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses.
December 4: The Lewisham train disaster in the UK leaves 92 dead.
December 5: All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from Indonesia.
December 6: First U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails, the rocket blowing up on the launch pad.
December 10: Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his peackeeping efforts in the United Nations.
December 18: The Bridge on the River Kwai is released in the U.S. It goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Additional Oscars go to Alec Guinness (Best Actor) and David Lean (Best Director), among others. This is Lean's first Oscar for directing.
December 19: Meredith Willson's classic musical The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, debuts on Broadway.
December 20: The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.
December 22: The CBS afternoon anthology series Seven Lively Arts presents Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker on U.S. television for the first time, although heavily abridged. (source: Wikipedia)
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| Description: | Jennie Barton asks Marshal Dillon to hide her from her abusive, jealous husband. Matt tries to help her get away. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about an Air National Guard pilot who murders his miserable wife in Los Angeles and flies back to New York for an alibi. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | There's been foul play at a home for the aged. The old folks are "accidentally" falling down stairs. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 296 - Long as I Live | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Doc has been shot and Marshal Dillon is forced to operate on him! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a break-neck ride down a killer mountain with two cops who are after a drunken blonde. The story was previously produced on "Suspense" on April 19, 1955. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A hunting guide runs amok and shoots everything in sight, including himself. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A scientist who resents the 'protection' of the military in his secret work to transfer minds from one body to another, hatches a private plan to outwit his benefactors. Story by: Frederik Pohl | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bruno Thayer is ugly, so very ugly that the townsfolk of Dodge form a mob to end his "menace." | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The shocking story about the spy who was caught during the Civil War. The story was previously produced on "Suspense" on December 9, 1956. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A complicated story about a dying man and his three none-too-appreciative heirs. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two human engineers get caught in a deadly game of one-upmanship on an alien planet. Story by: Robert Silverberg | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | All that a little girl wants for Christmas is a little puppy. She finally gets one ... from outer space! Little Chipka falls to Earth from a Russian satellite. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A touching Christmas show about an old prospector, dying in the desert, and his faithful mule "Carmen." | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | In a desperate attempt to avert nuclear Armageddon, a man travels back in time to kill the one man responsible for bringing the world to the brink - Albert Einstein. Story by: Frederik Pohl | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Eban Hakes has walked all the way from the Ozarks just to kill Joff Monger. A family feud going on for years is about to break out in Dodge ... but never on Sunday! The script was used previously on the program December 25, 1955 and on the Gunsmoke television ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A Christmas story. Clint Dody has been accused of armed robbery. When Dillon and Chester ride out to arrest him, a few chores need to be taken care of first. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A clerk in a supermarket plays around with the wife of a big strong butcher. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | An exotic dancer does some strange things with her retirement policy. | ||||||||||||

