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A January blizzard strands Dr. Christian, Judy and a cross-section of strangers on an interurban bus. Among them are a wounded veteran disgusted by civilian complaining, a prisoner being returned…
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A January blizzard strands Dr. Christian, Judy and a cross-section of strangers on an interurban bus. Among them are a wounded veteran disgusted by civilian complaining, a prisoner being returned…
Former star aerialists Benning and Brown come to Dr. Christian with progressive weakness, dizziness and failing grip that have reduced them from the big time to a small circus. He…
Professor John Boswell refuses to approve his daughter Betty's marriage to young Alec Dale because Alec intends to become an inventor after leaving the Army. Rather than argue directly, Dr.…
Children's author and illustrator Elliott Kenyon returns from wartime service physically recovering from a bomber crash but emotionally shut down, hiding under another name and insisting that he can never…
After Dr. Christian persuades merchant J.D. Carter to give the formerly sheltered Minnie Marvin a job, Carter becomes convinced Minnie is trying to marry him. He secretly reads her diary,…
Father John Mulligan visits a condemned murderer who uses the same name and is wearing a unique family ring. The priest realizes the prisoner may be the infant son he…
Successful dancer Evangeline Moore returns to Rivers End exhausted and refuses ever to dance again. Years earlier she and her partner and fiancé Johnny 'Skeeter' Briggs were on the verge…
Dr. Christian remembers Paris before the war, when his wealthy, aimless friend Steve became infatuated with the celebrated beauty Ariella, famous for never removing long golden gloves. Suspicious of her…
Fourteen years after seven schoolchildren died from poison placed in a well at Cedar Hill, Margaret Anderson returns to River’s End with her brother Roderick, the man who was blamed…
Eighty-five-year-old Harriet Petticord summons her three young heirs and recruits Dr. Christian and Judy for a test of character. Although still wealthy, Harriet has Christian tell them that bad investments…
Dr. Christian tells Judy about elderly neurologist Dr. Tuxbury, who has become convinced that his noisy upstairs tenant James Burton hates him and proudly describes what he believes is a…
Young Nicky Marshall, grieving the recent death of his father, asks Dr. Christian to marry his widowed mother because he longs for a little brother or sister and believes a…
Larry, a discharged fighter pilot, collapses in a Rivers End cafe convinced that recurring panic, suffocation and depression mean he is going insane. Dr. Christian recognizes a severe combat-nerves reaction…
Young widow Margie is living in the old Blackwood house with her baby, little Jeffrey, and the domineering Lucinda when she begins hearing the voice of her dead husband Jeff…
Marian Douglas comes to Rivers End trying to find the soldier she remembers as David Rodell, a tall dark man she met at a New York servicemen's canteen and quickly…
Grandma Benson has spent years raising her daughter's children and keeping the Forbes household running, but realizes that the family now notices her mainly when a blouse needs mending or…
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