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- Dennis starts collecting rocks to build a collection. He finds some rocks that he thinks are real gold.
- In a European kingdom, Princess Orsolini is to have a state wedding, arranged by her mother the Queen, but she is in love with Captain Kovacs of the horse guards. She is forced to break off their affair, but the Captain, outraged by this treatment, plots his revenge by convincing them he is actually a well known swindler and will expose his affair with the Princess, ruining her. To avoid scandal, the Queen agrees to his price; to let him spend a night alone with the Princess in his apartment.
- Joey reluctantly gets his brother-in-law a job with him at the public relations firm.
- After Howie and Barbara move into the cellar Paul looks for a way to evict them. A visit by by Howie's parent lead to an invite to live with them but they expect Paul to help out financially.
- After every number two man at CONTROL is killed Hymie becomes number two.
- Frazzled lawyer Paul Simms comes home to his wife and martinis to find his college girl daughter Barbara has come home- with a husband in tow. The husband is Howie Dickerson, a sort of idiot-savant who unerringly picks high yielding stocks but never invests a penny and only can find work as a caddie. Simms is asked to see an X-rated film to break the lease of the tenant, who never mentioned what kind of movies he was going to show. The lease looks like it can easily be voided, bringing Simms a bonus from his boss, who is the landlord. That is, until Howie runs into the tenant and assures him he has the right to run porn if he wants to.
- A gambling syndicate is preying on small-time school basketball players, getting them to shave points on key games. This breach of honor wears on one boy enough to drive him to suicide, but the gamblers continue. With the help of a trainer, local star Cornelius Linsky is a great player, but poor and needs money, so he too reluctantly goes on the take.
- Maurice, a humble Parisian junk dealer who sells some of his wares at the Flea market, saves a boy from drowning. The boy's aunt Louise is grateful and wins Maurice's affections, but the lad's grandfather despises him. The jaunty junk man gets a great offer to sing in an important show and launch a theatrical career, but Louise is against it and at length, he must choose between the two.
- Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
- Young heiress Ann Jordan and her fiancè Frank Oakes would be happy except for the constant appearance of Robert Metcalf, who follows her or them everywhere. This continues into their time at the country club, even interfering with tennis games. The two boys are constantly arguing, and Ann grows weary of them both, and after a knock down, drag out fight that destroys the Jordan garden, they realize she has fallen for an older man, Jack Gardner, an engineering friend of her father.
- A vaudeville magician and his lady assistant break up their team, when he becomes infatuated with a socialite, only to get back together when she is almost killed in her new act gone wrong.
- A broad, slapsticky farce using characters from "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It's not a satire on that venerable work, rather a "further adventures of" story, provided Eva didn't die after all. In this version, Legree manages to swindle the colonel and take control of his property-including Topsy-if a certain document isn't rescued in time. But Topsy does so and saves the day.
- A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.
- 1961– 28mTV-G7.3 (16)TV EpisodeAiring monthly from April 1961 to January 1962, with a break in the summer, these shows are Kovacs' essence and contain many of his iconic masterpieces of comedy, visuals and love of music.
- Red appears as Willie Lump-Lump and Sheriff Deadeye .
- A light-hearted comedy when a bit player in a musical tries to convince her friends that she is a countess.
- In the near future of 1965, a drone seeks escape from his dull job, and his wife's constant demands. Charles Brailing longs to chuck it all and fly down to Rio a la Fred Astaire. Sharing his dilemma with another middle-age crazy hubby, Brailing purchases an answer which should satisfy all parties, even the lovely Lydia - an android duplicate.
- An ex-convict butler helps a bankrupt horse-owner prove that he did not deliberately lose a race.
- Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump, and San Fernando Red.
- Mike meets Sally's father for the first time. The result? Total disaster.
- "Grumpy" Anderson is an old railroad engineer that is obsessed with keeping his train on schedule, no matter the cost. His two sons are also rail men, but don't share his single mindedness, which leads to one son's death and a fight with the other on the first son's funeral car leads to a crash, and demotion of Grumpy to mechanic in the yards. His redemption comes during the Mississippi flood, when he is again pressed into service to pilot a relief train along with his surviving son.
- Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.
- College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout old woman who deals in hymnals. She turns out to be devoutly drunk and a saloon brawler, leading to Billy's imprisonment. He tells his fiancée he's doing missionary work on a pacific island. He escapes and persuades her to marry him, all the while dodging the police who pursue him.
- A woman yearning for a child takes a baby from a wealthy family.Her husband sees this as a financial opportunity.
- A newly married woman becomes very friendly with her male neighbors, causing the neighborhood busybodies' tongues to wag.
- 1952–196630mTV-G6.9 (21)TV EpisodeRick and Kris buy a horse they can't afford.
- Professional acrobats Bert and Johnny are the best of friends. Thay are also confirmed women-hating bachelors. When an injury suddenly sidelines the act, they move to a boarding house that caters to theater folk until they are ready to return to work. There they meet one of the residents, Jackie, a girl who wants to also become an acrobat. Both Bert and Johnny fall for her, and become rivals for her, eventually splitting up their act.
- Joey tries to get a trained chimp on Jack Parr's show.
- An infamous and dangerous train robber escapes from prison, and the judge sets out to bring capture him and send him back.
- In a fictional parallel to Lucky Luciano, once-powerful gangland figure Dimitris Hagias has been deported to the country of his birth by U.S. authorities, though the country here is Greece, not Italy. Though still running an international crime network, he craves a return to America so much he's trying to buy off congressmen so they'll pass a law allowing him to come back. Marino and Flood investigate with tacit help from local police and piece Hagias' story together with informants, including his mistress.
- In the first act, Red enacts several incidents in a hotel lobby, including one where he and Lucille Knoch register as newlyweds with the name Smith. In the Tide segment, Red's a photographer with a new model (Lucille) to pose in a bathing suit with a box of Tide. He accidentally blows up his studio by foolishly using "Atomic Flash Powder" from Nevada. (Where A-Bomb testing takes place). The last part has Red and friend (Mike Ross) as a pair of bums trying to get hired as kitchen help at a diner, where they steal a pie in the process.
- A cloakroom girl falls for a rich boy who might not actually be rich.
- Jimmy is an expert safe cracker that intends to knock over a small town's leading bank, but he stays there and gets a job instead. As a cashier, he falls in love with the president's daughter. Things go along well in his new life, until the arrival of a detective who's been on his trail, who tries to expose Jimmy as a crook, but can't get anyone to believe him.
- As a wagon train treks west, two men, Lt. Singleton and a Stanton, a scout, are rivals for the attentions of the Colonels's daughter, Virginia. Stanton is held for murder after a fight with a bad guy named Davolo. He escapes jail and joins the train disguised as a minister. Virginia runs off with him and they start a saloon in San Fransisco. Guilt overcomes him and he leaves her, he rejoins the Army, afterward finding she forgives him.
- A musical comedy star named Fifi D'Auray is famed for her Gallic charm, though she is really one Betty Murphy. She won't marry her fiance, Jimmy, until he stops gambling and gets honest work. As Fifi, she has rich playboy Gregory obsessed with her, and he goes to lengths to please her, even getting Jimmy a position as treasurer of his theatre. A robbery there is pinned on Jimmy, and Fifi believes that Gregory had set a trap for him.
- Gangster Joe Daley marries a chorus girl named Sadie and decides to give up the rackets and surrender $100,000 to the DA . For this she turns on him and goes in with Blackie Culver, a rival gang lord, and they set Joe up to take the rap for stealing it. Joe is sent to prison, still unaware of Sadie's betrayal. She makes Joe believe the DA wants her and that he must save her by escaping. He does so and injures his face in the breakout. Farm girl Elsa Langdon has her surgeon father remake his face. Now unrecognizable, Joe learns of Sadie's plot and returns to the city.
- Escaped gangster "Nick the Shiek" (Lloyd Hamilton) is a dead ringer for Vernon Snodgrass, (Lloyd Hamilton). Vernon realizes it from seeing a newspaper the same time the police do, and chase him down a street where he ducks into a window that happens to be where Nick's gang is holed up. He tries to fool them that he's their leader, until the real thing shows up. At first he proposes they "Take Him For a Ride", but after seeing a threatening message from rival crime boss "Smokey O'Brien", they turn him loose. Before O'Brien or the cops grab him, Vernon is whisked off by Nick's moll to her apartment, she believing he's Nick. Soon, Nick and his men also show up, and Smokey and his just after that. They have a full scale battle in the apartment, though they seem to be armed exclusively with blackjacks. Vernon finds a box of tear gas bombs and sets them off. The police arrive to break up the fight, and all are reduced to blubbering their lines.
- Molly is seen in two shot sketches; first she's a glamourous star being interviewed in her dressing room. She unusually made up to be sexy in nearly see through pyjamas. She tells, alternating between a french accent and her normal, clear accent free American voice, about how she shot her husband. ( a popular subject of gags in the late 1920s.) The second part shows her as her in her well known persona of the haggard, put upon inner city woman, speaking in Yiddish dialect, relating to her Irish neighbor how her good for nothing husband mistreats her, yet she can't stop loving him.
- Miss Santley, a young, thin brunette in an elaborate evening gown, walks onto a stage with a man playing a closed grand piano. She proceeds to tell us what a good mimic she can be, and tries to prove it by doing several singing impressions, including Fanny Brice and Mae West.
- John Mitchell is a powerful and ruthless newspaper publisher, who doesn't care who gets hurt if a good story can run in his paper. Caught speeding, by honest cop Terry Condon, his first impulse is to have him broken, but he's talked into having him commended instead by his daughter, Joan Mitchell. Another man, Dan Oliver, is found by a reporter to have embezzled money, though is quietly paying it back, but Mitchell cares not, and spills all in his newsrag, so Oliver is ruined, and jailed. At his sentencing, Oliver produces a gun, and gets away. Later Joan tries to help Oliver's girl Mary by moving her to a new apartment, but the now crazed Oliver misunderstands, shoots Joan's Boyfriend dead and stages it to look like she'd done it. With her on trial for murder, John Mitchell is finally faced with just what his lack of compassion has wrought.
- Well to do laundryman Franklin Pinney finds himself uninvited to a party his yacht club is throwing for a visiting Prince. However he does meet him , hiding from a band of anarchists who have mistakenly bagged another man in his place. To help his sweetheart's secret service father, Pinney and the Prince help capture the bad guys.
- George Sidney and Charles Murray are both bus drivers who hate each other but then are assigned to the same bus for a wild ride with crazy passengers.
- Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.
- Scarred across his face after a burning home rescue of his girlfriend Beth Alden, Jack Fenton is rewarded by her father with a teller job in his bank. As the years go on, Jack and Beth fall in love and marriage is contemplated. However, Mr. Alden prefers the bank Vice president, Wilkens, and tries to discourage Jack. Another Teller, Harris, secretly embezzles money and frames Jack, who is put on trial. Though he's found innocent, he's still discharged. Wrongly convinced that Beth has lost interest in him, he leaves town, only to get into another fiery accident. At the hospital, a doctor experimenting in plastic surgery fixes Jack up perfectly. Jack sees his opportunity for revenge on the town that treated him so badly by returning, unrecognizable in his new face.
- Ernie interviews the inventor of an incredibly small motorcycle, which runs wild through the show, a look at westerns includes how gunfights can be seen from different camera angles, how Rod Serling might do a scene, bizarre sci-fi versions, a psychiatry themed one, and lastly, a Teutonic take on "The Lone Ranger" with Ernie in his "Wolfgang Von Saurbraten" guise. For his musical segment, the life cycle of a raindrop, from it's fall from the clouds to household cups of tea.
- A small, long-eared pup comes across Butch, the Bulldog being captured by the dog catcher, but rescues him. Butch was being hauled off for being without a license, but he notices his new friend has one, and proceeds to trick him out of it, and laughs as the dog catcher now takes him to the pound. His conscience, embodied by a devil and angel Butch, have it out and he decides to turn himself in. But he finds the pound in flames, and now does the rescuing, of all the dogs as well as the Dog catcher.
- Five strangers band together to exact revenge on a man who ruined them financially.
- In a run down New York Tenament, a chorine named Orchid lives with her overprotective brother Buddy, who sees to it that no uptown Casanovas get a chance at seducing his sister. At a New Year's Eve party the two are separated in the festivities, and millionaire playboy Brian Alden meets her, and they start seeing each other. Against her brother's wishes, Orchid, at Alden's behest, takes charm school-type instructions on how to be a society lady, and she seems to be turning into a snob. Alden regrets it, and after promising to allow her to be herself, gets Buddy's okay to marry her.
- Oswald goes to the theatre, and gets into a fight.
- A city girl revenuer spies on illegal whiskey making in the hills.