The Queen Loved Herring
Nurse Nina Jones falls in love with wealthy Army Air Forces lieutenant Jimmy Bradley but is ashamed to let him meet the immigrant grandparents who raised her in their small…
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Nurse Nina Jones falls in love with wealthy Army Air Forces lieutenant Jimmy Bradley but is ashamed to let him meet the immigrant grandparents who raised her in their small…
Judy worries about a mysterious elderly man living quietly outside Rivers End with the devoted companion who has cared for him for years. The old man, once successful and well…
Marina leaves her brilliant surgeon husband Tony Bartlett after success and money turn him cold, arrogant and unwilling to treat patients who cannot pay. Military service changes Tony: working beside…
After two years apart during the war, Gail Sloan breaks her engagement to serviceman Larry Warnock and becomes involved with older hospital doctor Graham, believing the distance has changed her…
Civil War veteran Arthur Colby dies after spending most of his long life trying to remember a single wondrous event that occurred after he was wounded at Gettysburg. In one…
Exhausted after a night with a sick child, Dr. Christian dozes in his office while worrying that he has promised a fresh story for a children's Valentine party. In his…
Twelve-year-old George Washington Jenks is mocked by classmates for his name, glasses and refusal to fight, but the boys do not know that rheumatic fever left him with a serious…
Seven-year-old Mimi Peters has returned from wartime Europe after losing both parents and has passed through several foster homes without ever recovering the ability to laugh. Dr. Christian believes the…
Returning serviceman Perry Tate is preparing to marry Mary Mason when actress Vivian Hall produces an old letter in Perry's handwriting that reads like a proposal to her. Perry explains…
On a stormy night Dr. Christian tells Judy and Dick Foster a deliberately spooky story from a trip to Britain. He and two companions investigate a lake where local legend…
River’s End is preparing to dedicate a monument to wartime hero John Blake, who is believed to have died after going down during the war and is credited locally with…
Famous author Gerald Halsey returns to Rivers End after years abroad intending to sell the family toolworks, whose new industrial process is important to the war effort. Bitter, detached from…
The elderly General Benjamin Gerard lives on wartime memories and meddles in the military letters received by his family, wanting to remain important while younger generations are away at war.…
While Dr. Alexander Webb is temporarily covering Dr. Christian's practice, state senator Fredericks is found dead in the street after appearing to stagger like a drunk. The senator's widow Margaret…
With Dr. Christian away, Dr. Alexander Webb is drawn into the disappearance of visiting journalist Osgood, who had been seen anxiously studying an encyclopedia before vanishing to an abandoned quarry…
While Dr. Alexander Webb is temporarily filling in at Rivers End, Judy Price keeps receiving bold telephone calls from Marine Lieutenant Jerry Mitchell, a stranger who has been told about…
This special broadcast steps away from the usual River’s End drama to announce the winners of the 1945 Dr. Christian script competition. Jean Hersholt first reports on his just-completed trip…
Mike Taylor has waited for his fiancee to come home on leave from the Women's Army Corps, but when she arrives as a confident lieutenant he feels diminished by comparison…
Margaret Powers leaves the hospital convinced that her serviceman husband Hal has finally come home, only for Dr. Christian to discover that the bouquet she thought he brought was actually…
Lydia Parker returns to Rivers End after years away and asks Dr. Christian for help with her twin sister Lucy. Lydia says Lucy has become a compulsive liar, inventing pointless…
While resting between calls, Dr. Christian is startled by a mysterious woman who brings an urgently ill companion, Moses, into his office. An emergency operation saves the man and removes…
Six-year-old Ted Ward was gravely ill and unconscious through the previous Christmas, and his mother Ruth has never told him that the holiday passed while he slept. Ruth has also…
Young Teddy Douglas is devoted to Laddie, the family's discharged K-9 Corps dog whose wartime training makes him far more than an ordinary pet. Exploring an abandoned house that neighborhood…
Randy Foster returns to Rivers End after losing both feet in combat. Army rehabilitation has taught him to use artificial feet confidently, he is preparing to return to work, and…
Young Ted was blinded during a bombing in France that killed his family, and he insists that his beloved white poodle Puff still visits and guides him even though no…
Laurie Gary separates from her bandleader husband Marty after years of having their private life turned into material for his jokes, while Marty resents Laurie's increasingly determined effort to make…
When Charlie Stutz, the room clerk on the three-to-eleven shift at Rivers End's United States Hotel, suffers a heart attack, Dr. Christian is summoned and sends him to the hospital.…
Laura Marshall is deeply devoted to her husband Steve and to Barbara, Steve's daughter from his first marriage, but a man from Laura's past threatens the family. Before coming to…
Navy sailors Joe and Pip miss their train after Joe jumps off in Rivers End chasing a woman he mistakes for an old sweetheart. Dr. Christian and Judy invite the…
Madeleine Renaldi's elderly mother lives for letters from her absent son Johnny, the troubled child she has always loved most. Mama believes Johnny escaped his criminal past, found honest work…
Dr. Christian and Judy argue over why people perpetuate chain letters, with Christian blaming fear and Judy believing money is the stronger motive. To test the question they send one…
When wealthy Mrs. Parker is found dead at the bottom of her attic stairs, suspicion falls on her disabled housekeeper and former friend Mary Bignall, especially after Mrs. Parkers rings…
Pat Blair has always been Rivers End's charming, irresponsible playboy, and a damaged heart has kept him out of military service while his old schoolmate Bob Sims fights overseas. Gossip…
As Rivers End's old opera house is about to be demolished, Dr. Christian remembers Sterling Silver, the melodrama actor who was his boyhood hero. The past suddenly becomes a real…
After a flood, scores of Rivers End residents suddenly fall into a deep, unnatural sleep, filling the hospital and provoking an airtight quarantine around the town. Dr. Christian notices that…
Gladys Brooks has built a new life with her young son Jackie and plans to marry Jerry Connor after years of separation from her husband Jeffrey. A War Department telegram…
Recently discharged veteran John Talbot reopens his family's supposedly haunted old house, where the legend of his vanished great-uncle Mortimer soon becomes very lively. A flirtatious 'ghost' begins kissing frightened…
Former Rivers End troublemaker Jim Bradley returns as a successful, hard-edged reporter determined to write a sensational feature on psychiatrist Dr. Bob Patterson. Bradley plans to expose the violence and…
A cold December night brings Dr. Christian into what first looks like an attempted kidnapping. Wealthy schoolboy Johnny is found bound, gagged and nearly frozen on the Ramseys’ porch, and…
River’s End welcomes home Army nurse Susan Anderson, who has survived wartime service and years in a Japanese prison camp. Susan has only thirty days of leave before returning to…
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