Armstrong Circle Theatre

A dramatization of the actual life and death struggle of an independent newspaper against the tyranny of the dictator, Juan Perón. The press of the world brought to light the fight of Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, owner and publisher of the newspaper La prensa, who was forced to close down. He seeks refuge abroad where he continues his endeavors until Perón's downfall. On his return to Argentina, he reopens La prensa and reestablishes freedom of the press.

This is the story of an unloved and misunderstood child, Danny, and the homes in which he lives and tries to find himself. He begins to be difficult at home and in class, but his nagging parents never think they might be partly responsible. He is sent to the New England Home for Little Wanderers, where friendly teachers and psychiatrists study but do not change youngsters' behavior. A temporary foster home is arranged for Danny. With the help of case workers, his parents change their feelings about their responsibilities to Danny and when he returns, he feels he will stay.

Dramatization of how three strangers, Anna Percelz, Sandor Fisvek and Ferenc Lukacs, become part of a force fighting a common enemy. The drama traces the heroic and tragic paths each follows until they meet to stand against the overwhelming power of the invading Soviet forces.

Dramatization of seven men marooned by a plane crash in Antarctica. The plane, the Otter, is part of the largest Antarctic expedition in history, Operation Deep Freeze. The crash occurs during a blizzard and Lt. Comm. Glen H. Lathrop, Jr. of the U.S. Naval Reserve and his men must face the ice and cold to come out of the unchartered area alive. Their food and strength are ebbing, but they are finally rescued.

Docudrama of a small group of Hungarians escaping to West Germany. Polyak gathers people who wish to flee and, after great difficulty, arranges for a gun. They board a flight to a city near the border and plan to commandeer the plane. The man with their gun does not show up and they are not sure if they should proceed. They decide to go ahead and have to subdue a security officer. They fly on an almost empty tank and arrive safely in West Germany.

This drama about the tragedy of the Andrea Doria is a combination of narration by John Cameron Swayze, film clips and a re-enactment of the story of Thure Peterson and his wife, who loses her life after heroic attempts to free her from beneath a steel beam. It also includes a re-enactment of the story of Lilly Doona who jumps overboard to rescue her daughter. The U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue Center plays a major role in the rescue efforts.

The sacrifices and problems of teachers in an average public high school as exemplified in an actual happening in Eastchester High School, Eastchester, N.Y., are examined in this drama. The school's most skilled teacher, Gordon Lacklin, is offered a better paying job and is torn between his loyalty to the school and his family obligations. The principal, Douglas MacDonald, must decide whether to dismiss a teacher, Alice Polcheck, who is dedicated to teaching but who cannot keep order in her classroom. In accordance with his guiding belief that the students come first, he lets her go, but she tells Lacklin that she regards him as a great teacher. After realizing that the students need good teachers, he decides that he is meant to be teacher and stays.

The setting for this ""actual"" is the Spence-Chapin Adoption Service in New York City. Three couples, the Muirs, the Nelsons, and the Arnquists, are seeking a baby for adoption. A woman arrives to arrange for the adoption of her baby when it is born. The case worker checks up on each of the couples to determine their fitness for parenting. The Muirs do not want to adopt after all and the Muirs are found to be unfit. The Arnquists are offered Baby X. They fall in love with her and take her into their family.

Docudrama of a mentally ill man and the effort to help him recover. Paul Foster had to give up an engineering career to take over his father's insurance business because it was expected of him. He was ill-suited to the work and when the drama opens, the business is failing. Outwardly at the age of 31, he is a normal young man with a wife, Ruth, and a child.... Suddenly, he hits his secretary and accuses her of spying. Diagnosis by a psychiatrist finds he has suffered a mental breakdown, a schizophrenic reaction with marked paranoid tendencies. His mother refuses to believe it. His wife faces the facts and has him committed to a state hospital for treatment, which does not go well at first. But with the support of his family and with new drugs, Paul can communicate his problems and fears and return to his place in society.

A documentary-style drama based on activities in a big city hospital, St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. The setting is Ward Three, the Women's Ward. Presiding over this little world is night head nurse Sally Lacey. The patients include Miss Mickler, a lonely embittered woman who makes life difficult for the nurses; Elena Ampuero, a young Puerto Rican woman suffering from malnutrition; and Mrs. Kafka, a young mother who is more concerned about the welfare of her two small children at home than she is about the hepatitis from which she suffers. As the drama closes, a new patient is wheeled in and thus life in a big city hospital moves on.

Factual story of Hurricane Diane, showing how the United States Weather Bureau operates in all its phases, from the storm's inception through a 24-hour vigil until danger is past. It shows the effects of the storm on two people, Josephina, a young girl, and Sebastiano, her brother in Winsted, Connecticut. The action switches from the Weather Bureau where Reinhardt Schmidt, chief forecaster, is charting the hurricane and the home of Josephina and Sebastiano. The storm gains in intensity as she, recently arrived from Italy, plans her first American picnic. Josephina is drowned.

A mother and son are reunited.

A philosophy professor who has been passed over as head of the department learns to see his life in relation to the entire college and to his students.