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A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.

In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government.

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

McGinty is tired of being in the Navy and wants out, a passing seagull shows him a vision of what his life would be like as a civilian, McGinty then wonders if civilian life is all it's cracked up to be.

Highlights include a nurse who is even more accident-prone than her patient, and performing a dance number, "Some Cats Know".

It's the first Christmas presentation of The Alan Brady Show where he turns the spotlight upon his talented staff to entertain the TV public.

The Kramdens get a telegram from Alice's mother, telling them she was coming for a visit. Ralph is less then pleased and asks to stay with the Nortons. When Trixie pushes Ed to get Ralph to go back to his wife Ed says some things that makes her mad and she goes and stays with Alice. Later Ralph and Alice find out they made a mistake when the read the telegram, and Ralph finds he's put his foot in his mouth.

Ralph's birthday is coming up, and he finds out that Alice is planning a surprise party for him. On that day, however, no party materializes and Ralph is, to say the least, disappointed. He's even more disappointed when he finds a man's glove that's not his hidden in a dresser drawer and gets suspicious when Alice seems in a hurry to get him out of the house that night.

The Raccoons are planning for an annual Raccoon Fishing Trip, and this time, the Raccoons vote not to take their wives. But Alice and Trixie will not stand for being left behind.

When Alice has a telephone installed, Ralph feels threatened both by her newfound freedom and the prospect of another bill to pay.

There is a Raccoon election going on for convention manager, and it's up to Norton to be the deciding vote.

A few days before the ceremony announcing the selection of Raccoon of the Year, the Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler of the Raccoons tells Ralph that he will be sitting on the dais that night and to be prepared to say a few words. Ralph, of course, takes this to mean that he is to be named Raccoon of the Year and begins to write his "most humble" acceptance speech.

Beany Meets the Monstrous Monster Captain Huffenpuff (actually Admiral Huffenpuff this time) of the Leakin' Lena charges his crew with the task of locating the Monstrous Monster, a giant octopus-like sea creature whose fey, Ed Wynn-like voice and mannerisms make him no less a villain, as he gobbles ships as if they were chips. Top secret telescopic photographs from J. Edgar Hoo-Hoo-Hoo-Heh-Heh-Heh of the F.I.B. show the beast eating "whole ships as if they were anchovies," drinking tankers of oil and finally enjoying an after-dinner smokestack. Cecil disguises himself with a moustache and a deerstalker cap and goes under the sea to see if he scare up any information about the monster. He meets an Irish-accented police officer who is also a starfish, his very shape providing him with his necessary badge. Then he meets this segment's main cast of characters: Snappsy Maxie, the lobster, Staring Herring, the Peter Lorre-like fish with hypnotic eyes, Louie the Loan Shark, an actual cigar-smoking shark, and Jack the Knife, a French-accented swordfish who sings all his dialogue with hipster-like cool. Just when Cecil begins to doubt the existence of the Monstrous Monster, he hears Beany's cries for help and sees that the creature is about to eat the Leakin' Lena. Cecil tries to stop the monster, but the beast hammers him into the sea floor with one of his enormous tentacles and holds him there as he opens his mouth wide for Beany and the ship. Luckily, Cecil's friends are there to help. Snappsy snaps the tentacle with his claw, and Jack stabs the creature's rear end with his sword. The Monstrous Monster, in his pain, abandons his meal. Finally, Staring Herring hypnotizes the monster into transforming himself into a Mississippi steamboat. The monster sails harmlessly away, as Cecil gives credit to the "sea people who made tonight's save possible."

Orignally the gorget was part of a suit of armor to protect the throat. As armor fell out of use modified gorgets were useful as a prominent badge of rank or authority until replaced by epaulets and insignia. But they continue in use in some ceremonial uniforms.