Twice a month, Mrs. Bixby travels to Baltimore to visit an elderly aunt, her only living relative. Or so she tells her dentist-husband. In fact, she visits the Colonel, her rich lover. Before returning home, he gives her a gift of a fur coat - along with a letter saying that they won't be seeing each other anymore. Mrs. Bixby decides to pawn the coat but her elaborate scheme to explain the coat to her husband doesn't quite go as planned.

A doctor examines a man who suffers from blackouts in which he reverts to his life two years prior to the current year.

Helen's brother John informs her that he is soon to be married and they'll have to decide what to do about the house they share. Helen is quite attracted to Harry Wade, the owner of a lumber yard who has fallen on hard times after one of his customers goes bankrupt. Helen decides to help Harry out with an $8,000 "loan" after he assures her that he can repay her within 48 hours. When things don't work out as planned, Harry has a decision to make.

Bernie Samuelson is a ceramic arts teacher at a children's summer camp. From the very first day, he notices that young Aaron Gold has a real talent for sculpture. Aaron much prefers ceramics to swimming classes but when the camp Director criticizes Bernie for Aaron's lateness at swimming, Bernie promises not to hold him back. After a few weeks though, Bernie lets Aaron skip swimming and then learns that Aaron is has yet to complete any of the camp activities. As parents' day approaches, the Director flies into a rage when he realizes Aaron has yet to complete his sculpture. When Aaron's Dad shows up, things become a little clearer.

A mentally unstable secretary finally catches up to her cruel former boss and makes him listen to what she has to say, at gunpoint.

An imprisoned lifer breaks out of prison to meet the pen pal he has fallen in love with, but finds only her middle-aged aunt at home.

Tony Lorca arrives in a small town in the middle of a blizzard to a less-than-pleasant reception in the local saloon. One of the locals says he's seen him before but leaves the saloon before trouble starts. Lorca loses his gun in a poker game at which point the same local returns with a sheriff's poster: Lorca is a wanted man with a $5,000 reward on his head. Seeing no way out, Lorca auctions himself to the highest bidder, offering to turn himself in without a fuss. His plan is to spend the money and have a good time before he meets the hangman. Turns out he killed the saloon girl's husband some time ago and she has something else in mind. But is Lorca really who he says he is?

Cash Bentley is having a hard time coping with middle age. A one-time champion hurdler, he now drinks a bit too much and doesn't quite earn enough money to pay for the lifestyle he would like to provide for his family, such as a membership at the local country club. Despondent, he decides to try one last "race," with tragic results.

Larry Chetnick and his girlfriend are always bickering about money. She wants more of it and he assures her that he has plans to get a job with a better future. Larry visits his father's former friend, Mr. Bregornick hoping to land a job. Bregornick offers him a job. But after several months of doing this, Larry decides the best way to get money will be to steal it from Bregornick.

Newlywed Sybilla is extremely attentive to her husband's every need, but he's suspicious. Eventually, her acquiescence despite his coldness makes him paranoid and desperate. When he realizes just how wrong he's been, will it be too late?

A woman looking at pictures in a police mug book is shocked to see a picture of her son-in-law, who's living at her home with her daughter.

A beautiful, simple-minded blonde changes her mind after conspiring with her boyfriend to kill her rich, loving husband.

A teacher reports to the police that he found 92,000 dollars in a clip, amid claims that 10,000 dollars of the money is missing.

Looking to have an old pocket watch repaired, Dane Ross stops in at Ulrich Klemm's shop. He's amazed by the old man's tales of the special clocks he has built over the years with moving parts such as marching soldiers and flying birds. They strike up a friendship and Dane is asked to stay for dinner which he gladly accepts, especially after he meets Ulrich's pretty granddaughter, Lisa. Over time, Dane and Lisa fall in love but theirs is a secret romance as Lisa says she can never leave as long as her grandfather is alive. Dane has to relocate to another city and after a three month absence, visits the old man's shop only to find him dead. Only then does he realize the extent of the secret the Klemms shared.

Parents living in modern Salem, think their lonely 9-year-old daughter might need an evil spirit driven from her, when she seems to have made up a girlfriend with a witchcraft ancestry.

Jane and Ralph Birdwell get an unexpected and unwelcome visit from Mrs. Meade, their foster daughter's biological mother. It's been seven years since they took responsibility for the girl, but an adoption was never formalized as Mrs. Meade had simply disappeared. Meade now wants money from the Birdwells and threatens to sue to get her daughter back. A private detective suggests that Mrs. Meade just take her daughter and demand $25,000 from the Birdwells to give her back. She agrees but things don't quite go as the planned.

Joe Ferlini is a Houdini-like escape artist who performs in nightclubs. He claims to be the fastest at getting out of a straight jacket but wants to make a bigger splash. He proposes to have himself handcuffed, tied with a rope, locked into a trunk and dumped into a nearby river. His promoter agrees but his wife Wanda and her lover Tommy arrange for the inevitable. When a coroner demands to examine Ferlini's body, it seems Ferlini may have made the greatest escape of all.

Hal is a producer of cheap horror films. He decides to cast has-been actor Ernst von Croft in his next movie, a cheap vampire film for the teenage market. Ernst was once billed as the 'Greatest Monster of Them All' and sees this as his great comeback, but when he sees the final product, he's the one who's horrified.

Billy Weaver's just moved to a small English village, and sees an advert for a room. The landlady's quite pleasant. He's perplexed when she later mentions two others are also staying; he's never seen nor heard of them before, so, who are these tenants?

When Enid's boyfriend Eliot presses her, she finally admits that she has been seeing another man, Cyril Hardeen. She agrees to break it off with Cyril whom she describes as an older, gentler man who wouldn't harm a flea. When they finally meet, Eliot finds Cyril much as Enid described him. In fact, Cyril describes himself as a throwback - someone who values honor and civility above all else. Cyril also has no intention of giving Enid up and so puts into action a plan to ensure that she will remain his.

After spending six years in prison unjustly, wrongfully accused Ernie Walters wants to get even with the detective and district attorney who convicted him. But he also wants some quick cash and to get married. Can he have it all?

Father Amion discovers that the large amounts of money turning up in the collection plate come from a grateful horse player who has been on a winning streak.

A suspected serial killer is put in a jail house with a salesman, while a lynch mob waits outside.

When Elizabeth Burton catches her nurse pulling double duty with her husband, she fires the nurse and demands that husband Arnold find new candidates. She gladly hires an elderly applicant, but still might get a surprise.

A man with great knowledge in multiple fields runs a museum containing a human skeleton. He finds something in common with a curious visitor and reveals the skeleton's identity. But just who is the visitor, and does he believe the story?

Lucy Baldwin and her mother are increasingly at odds over the man Lucy wants to marry. Lucy's mother believes he just wants her money and aging Lucy is desperate to wed, but just how desperate?

A handsome gigolo is seduced by a beautiful rich young woman to kill her older boring husband.

Meyer Fine's fear of death is a debilitating obsession. It becomes paranoia when his job as a casino manager creates conflict and deaths occur around him. After getting wounded in a drive-by shooting, he takes a drastic measure.

A rich old man proposes to his secretary. Claiming poor health, he says she will inherit $11 million. She says no but her fiancé convinces her, figuring to marry a rich wife. On each anniversary for 25 years, the old man gives her a pearl.

Singer Crystal Coe is being harassed by her ex-husband, a volatile man who carries a grudge because she remarried without divorcing him. He tracks her down despite her name change and pursues her relentlessly.

Desperate for attention, particularly from the prom king, Susan Harper fabricates a crime. As the requests from the police and press feed her craving, she adds details-never suspecting those details could become a problem.

Mr. Clarke is incredibly terrified of guns being pointed at him, and feels he must destroy anyone who would do that to him, like he does to one young robber.

A man is bored with marriage and leaves his wife, but when he hires a private investigator to watch her in order to gather evidence for a divorce, he discovers that she is living a secret life.

An obnoxious wife finds her husband, who walked out on her 22 years ago, and tries to force him to come back to her by the use of threats.

A man just released from prison becomes desperate when his earned money, put away during his prison term, vanishes one night in town.

A man who's fed up with his invalid wife's incessant nagging plans her funeral and prepays for a stylish coffin.

When a woman has a sexual affair with a handsome married singer, her jealous husband has murder in mind, and so does the wife of the singer.

A DA's ambition for higher office may interfere with the plans of a crime boss, who saved his life during the war, to go straight.