Target
(1958)
Episode Guide compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
Xavier <LinkinHeights@aol.com>, John King,
Rina Fox [Updated October 2016]
references:
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Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive
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TARGET
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Ziv Television Programs, Inc.
for First-Run Syndication
Produced by Sutton Roley, Eddie Davis
US Anthology series 1958 39 episodes x 30 min bw
Hosted by and Occasionally Starring:
Adolphe Menjou
Premise:
Anthology program featuring shows about horror and suspense.
Background:
Adolphe Menjou had previously hosted another ZIV anthology series
Your Favorite
Story (ZIV)(1953-54)
Tales of terror and suspense.
Released in Syndication March 1958.
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Syndicated Program
1.01 [--] Target: (anthology): BREAKING POINT
ZIV release no. 1001
31Mar1958 Mon 9:00pm
07Apr1958 Mon 8:30pm KTTV [Long Beach Press Telegram]
Written by Lee Goldberg / Directed by William Castle
Host Adolphe Menjou
starring
Howard Duff ........... Ray Benson
Maria Riva ............... Edie
Sidney Blackmer
Synopsis:
Ray Benson taunts his wife Edie about her relationship with a mysterious
stranger. Gripped by fears for her marriage,
and her own sanity. Edie fights
back at a cruel fate with her only weapon, violence! [X]
Synopsis 2:
The taunts and torments of a mysterious stranger and her own suspicious husband
drive a woman to the breaking point
when she's caught between the pair and their "Target".
1.02 [--] Target: (anthology): POLICE DOCTOR
ZIV release no. 1002
*Presented by the Olympia Brewing Co.
31-Mar-1958 Mon 8:30pm KTTV [Star News][Pasadena Independent][Premiere episode]
Written by Leonard Freeman / Directed by Henry S. Kesler
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Gene Barry ............ Dr. Robert Marriat
Leo Gordon ........... Joe Burns
Brett Halsey ........... Officer Bill White
Robert Osterloh .... Lt. Clint Nolan
Peter Leeds ............ Harry Krumsky
Jean R. Maxey ....... Mrs. Burns
Charles Davis ........ Officer Williamson
Craig Duncan ........ Officer Warner
Brad Trumbull ....... Detective Mack
Jack Harris ............. Officer
Peter Dane ............. Officer
Abigail Shelton ..... Nurse
Synopsis:
Police officer White hurriedly takes accident-victim Joe Burns to the hospital.
burns, his mind injured, grabs for white's gun,
wounding the officer and terrifying the hospital staff. Young Doctor Martin
fights down fears for his own safety to soothe the
wild patient and rescue the wounded officer. [X]
1.03 [--] Target: (anthology): TURN OF THE TIDE
ZIV release no. 1003
14-Apr-1958 Mon 8:30pm KTTV [San Mateo Times, Press Telegram]
28-May-1958
Teleplay by Jack Harvey / Story by Peter Packer / Directed by Otto Lange
Director of photography Robert Hoffman / Editor W. Duncan Mansfield
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
John Berardino
John Wengraf ....... Scientist
Morris Ankrum
Troy Melton
Gene Roth
Kent Taylor
Joey Faye
Hal Hoover
James Nolan
Tommy Vize
Synopsis:
Aboard a westbound Atlantic freighter are two strange shipmates: One's a
stowaway, a humanitarian escaping from tyranny
in his native land....the other is being returned to the United States in irons
- to pay a murderer's debt to society.
The killer endangers the life of the stowaway on a wild scheme to jump ship. [X]
1.04 [--] Target: (anthology): EDGE OF TERROR
1958 ZIV release no. 1004
06-Jun-1958
Written by John Kneubuhl & Douglas Morrow / Directed by Eddie Davis
Director of photography Monroe Askins / Editor John B. Woelz
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest casts:
Bonita Granville ... Alice Ward
Skip Homeier
William Boyett
Cheerio Meredith
Willis Bouchey
Ottola Nesmith
Raymond Guth
Clark Howat
Jim O'Neill
Synopsis:
When famous authoress Alice Ward - a lifetime paralytic - suddenly finds herself
alone with a friendly stranger, she realizes he fits
the description of a murderous madman wanted by the police. Alice's panic drives
the stranger to an unexpected "act of mercy." [X]
1.05 [--] Target: (anthology): PAYMENT IN FULL
ZIV release no. 1005
04-Apr-1958 [IMDB]
21-Apr-1958 Mon 8:30pm KTTV [San Mateo Times, Press Telegram]
02-Jun-1958 WLW-C Columbus, Ohio Sunday 10:30pm
Written by Stuart Jerome / Directed by Henry S. Kesler
Director of photography Edward Cronjager / Film Editing John B. Woelz
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
John Ireland ........... Tom Durfee
Mary Anderson ...... Ellie
Skip Homeier
Ruth Clifford
Frank Wilcox
Barbara Stuart
Charles Maxwell
John Baxter
Virginia Eiler
Billy Nelson
Synopsis:
Tom Durfee is an impoverished clerk who lends his meager savings to a friend.
The friend dies before the loan's repaid.
Desperation drives Durfee toward an act of crime. [X]
Synopsis 2:
A poor clerk is driven to crime.
1.06 [--] Target: (anthology): STORM OF VIOLENCE
ZIV release no. 1006
28-Apr-1958 Mon 8:30pm KTTV [San Mateo Times, Press Telegram]
Teleplay by Irving H. Cooper and Helen Cooper / Directed by Sutton Roley
Director of photography Monroe P. Askins / Film Editing Lee C. Hall
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Lucy Marlow ........... Chris
Edward Binns ........ Cozden
Adolph Menjou ...... Alderson
Audrey Saunders
Frank Warren
Synopsis:
Alone at night in a darkened cafe, a girl faces two men. One's a killer - the
other's a friend...
There's a breathtaking suspense as she tries to discover: which is the killer...
which is the friend? [X]
Synopsis 2:
Finding herself alone with two men, a girl tries to discover which is a killer
and which is a friend.
1.07 [--] Target: (anthology): FIVE HOURS TO LIVE
ZIV release no. 1007
05-May-1958 Mon 8:30pm KTTV [San Rafael Daily, Press Telegram]
Written by Arnold Belgard / Directed by Jack Herzberg
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Stephen McNally .... Benedict
Keith McConnell
Paulene Myers
Charles Herbert
Eleanor Dale
Paul Cavanagh
Rayford Barnes
Helen Mowery
Carl Downs
Anthony Ghazlo
Synopsis 1:
The Benedicts and their ten-year-old son Larry are aboard an airliner landing in
British East Africa. Larry, down with a virulent disease,
must receive injections of a special serum every five hours. upon landing, his
parents discover that one of their traveling bags, the one
containing the serum, hasbeen replaced by a similar bag, packed with "hot"
American money. [X]
Synopsis 2:
A young lad and his parents race against time when they discover that their
luggage,
containing a medicine to keep the boy alive, has been replaced by a suitcase
full of money. [RF]
Synopsis 3:
A man desperately tries to retrieve a suitcase---containing serum needed to keep
his son alive.
1.08 [--] Target: (anthology): THE LAST STOP
ZIV release no. 1008
25-Apr-1958
Teleplay by Stuart Jerome / Story by Henry S. Kesler / Directed by Eddie Davis
Director of photography Curt Fetters / Film Editing John B. Woelz
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Neville Brand
Martin Garralaga
Jack Hogan
Tom McKee
Bill Catching
Morgan Windbeil
Marx Hartman
Synopsis:
Yager and Stark, two sadistic kidnappers, flee from police agent Vic Conway. The
manhunt continues until the fugitives near the Mexican border.
There's only one way to freedom, across the searing sands of the desert, almost
certain death in midsummer. The hunter and the hunted struggle
for life under the unbearable glare of the sun. [X]
1.09 [--] Target: (anthology): MAN ON A BIKE
ZIV release no. 1009
Written by William Driskill / Directed by Eddie Davis
Director of photography Edward Cronjager / Film Editing Lee C. Hall
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Paul Burke ......... Martin
William Phipps
Dennis Moore
Jon Locke
Michael Harris
Leonard Nimoy
James Stacy
Don C. Harvey
John Baxter
Chuck Couch
Marx Hartman
Synopsis:
A veteran motorcycle cop sees his rookie buddy shot down by two thugs. He leads
a motorized search of the city
in an ingenious plan to capture the killers. [X]
Synopsis 2:
A motorcycle cop sets out to nab the men who killed his partner.
1.10 [--] Target: (anthology): THE TATTOO ARTIST
ZIV release no. 1010
09-May-1958
Written by Hendrik Vollaerts / Directed by Paul Landres
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
David Brian ..... Foster
Hans Conried .... Corwin
Lester Dorr
Paul Maxwell
Robert Clarke
Jack Harris
Tom McDonough
Synopsis:
Harbor officers find the body of a dead man, dead but very much "alive" with
intriguing clues pointing to his murderer.
The police decipher the clues and come to grips with the killer. [X]
Synopsis 2:
There are many clues---in fact, too many---as harbor police press their search
for a murderer.
1.11 [--] Target: (anthology): BANDIT'S CAVE
ZIV release no. 1011
16-May-1958
Teleplay by Henry Sharp / Story by Raymond L. Bartos & Jim Byrnes / Directed by
Eddie Davis
Director of photography Edward Cronjager / Editor James Dyer
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Cesar Romero .......... Swasey
Lynn Cartwright ......... Dolly
Dan White
James Anderson
Lee Roberts
Troy Melton
Mickey Simpson
Edmund Cobb
Zon Murray
Synopsis:
In the 1860's, a ruthless bandit holds up a confederate train, escapes with a
fortune in cash, and is forced into hiding.
This man of action risks his freedom, and his very life, to keep a date with a
tantalizing woman. [X]
Synopsis 2:
In the 1860s, a hunted bandit risks his freedom---and his life---to keep a date
with a beautiful woman.
1.12 [--] Target: (anthology): BACKFIRE
1958 ZIV release no. 1012
23-May-1958
Written by George Callahan / Directed by Jack Herzberg
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Pat O'Brien ........ Daniels
Dabbs Greer
Joan Marshall
Regina Gleason
Brett King
Robert Roark
Jack Haddock
Synopsis:
Three bandits, one of them a woman, uses tear gas to overcome and rob several
pawn shops. The woman is wounded in one of the forays
and her pals kidnap a nurse, force her to treat the wound. The nurse realizes
she must save the woman's life, or lose her own. [X]
Synopsis 2:
A nurse, held hostage by fleeing robbers, is forced to help a wounded bandit.
1.13 [--] Target: (anthology): ASSASSIN
1958 ZIV release no. 1013
30-May-1958
Written by Morton S. Fine & David Friedkin / Directed by David Friedkin
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
James Best ......... Smith
Jack Kruschen
Jacqueline Beer
Gordon Mills
Meade Martin
Jack Reitzen
Joseph Waring
Michael Fine
David Hughes
Raymond Sanchez
Robert Santon
Synopsis:
A cold blooded political assassin takes a "business" trip to a small town in the
south of France. This calculating manhunter suddenly becomes the quarry. [X]
Synopsis 2:
A professional killer goes to a French town on business---and the hunter
suddenly becomes the hunted.
1.14 [--] Target: (anthology): DEADLY DECEPTION
1958 ZIV release no. 1014
13-Jun-1958
Written by Leonard Heideman / Directed by Eddie Davis
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Marie Windsor ...... Jean
John Gallaudet
Patrick Waltz
Guy Prescott
Troy Melton
Maureen Jantzen
Synopsis:
When a detective encounters and kills a murderous thief, his girl induces him to
assume the thief's identity,
commit further crimes, and place the blame on the dead man. Fate deals an
unexpected double cross to this evil pair. [X]
1.15 [--] Target: (anthology): TAPS FOR THE GENERAL
1958 ZIV release no. 1015
20-Jun-1958
Written by David Victor & Herbert Little Jr.
Directed by Otto Lang
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast
Adolphe Menjou ..... General Brandon
Maggie Hayes
William Boyett
Richard Emory
John Bleifer
Troy Melton
Joel Ashley
Joe Green
Leon Alton
Joe Haworth
Synopsis:
An unsuspecting mining syndicate exploits the name of General Brandon to bilk
innocent families in a stock swindle.
A cold blooded murder exposes the "con" game, and the general's terrifying
secret. [X]
1.16 [--] Target: (anthology): RETRIBUTION
1958 ZIV release no. 1016
27-Jun-1958
Teleplay by Don Brinkley / Story by Vernon E. Clark / Directed by Eddie Davis
Director of photography Curt Fetters / Editor Lee C. Hall
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Hugh Marlowe ....... Leo Holiday
Diane Brewster
Larry Thor
William Hudson
Brett King
Larry Bracken
William Henry
Brandy Bryan
Synopsis
Leo Holiday masterminds a pay-roll stick up in which two men die. Leo gets the
money and a sharp new girlfriend. Fate turns the tables on this "lucky" hoodlum.
[X]
Synopsis 2:
A smart gangster pulls off a big payroll stickup. Then his luck begins to
change.
1.17 [--] Target: (anthology): MURDER IS A BOTTOMLESS WELL
1958 ZIV release no. 1017
04-Jul-1958
Written by George & Gertrude Fass / Directed by Henry S. Kesler
Director of photography Monroe P. Askins / Editor John B. Woelz
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Stuart Whitman ..... Danny Patch
Joyce Meadows
Lee Van Cleef
Peter Dane
Norman Bartold
Douglas Henderson
Synopsis 1:
Held by the police on the suspicion of murder, young Danny Patch is offered a
strange bargain.
Danny's decision earns him a fortune and the love of another man's wife, only to
lose it all. [X]
Synopsis 2:
A young vagabond held on suspicion of murder, is offered an unusual deal by the
police.
Synopsis 3:
A homeless drifter stumbles into a pretty girl a fortune and murder.
1.18 [--] Target: (anthology): SO DEATHLY QUIET
1958 ZIV release no. 1018
11-Jul-1958
Teleplay by Frederick Louis Fox / Directed by Otto Lang
Host Adolphe Menjou
starring
John Anderson
William Henry
Craig Duncan
Synopsis:
Dr. Clinton Vickers tricks a wounded fugitive into capture. later, released from
prison, the ex-con returns to "settle accounts"
with the doctor. The "Doc" plunges into a grim cat and mouse game with the man
who's sworn to kill him. [X]
1.19 [--] Target: (anthology): WINNER LOSES ALL
1958 ZIV release no. 1019
18-Jul-1958
Written by Stuart Jerome & Joel Rapp / Directed by Henry S. Kesler
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Dane Clark ......... Fred Herman
Lisa Gaye
Peter Leeds
Tyler McVey
Mike Ragan
Jack Lester
Keith Richards
Frank J. Scannell
Synopsis:
Fred Herman, unemployed and broke, joins a professional thief in a warehouse
burglary, he's shot by the watchman
and needs help, fast! Fred saves his life by trying to kill the one man who can
save him. [X]
Synopsis 2:
A petty thief, seriously wounded during a burglary, murderously lashes out at
the one man who can help him.
1.20 [--] Target: (anthology): ONCE TOO OFTEN
1958 ZIV release no. 1020
25-Jul-1958
Written by Hendrik Vollaerts / Directed by Jack Herzberg
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Arthur Franz ....... Carson
Paul Langton
Jan Shepard
Robert Dix
Jean R. Maxey
Frank Roberts
Dayle Rodney
Frances O'Farrell
Ray Boyle
Fran Andrade
Synopsis:
When bigamist Edward Field starts using murder instead of divorce to get rid of
a succession of wives, police chief Robert Carson
leads a state-wide hunt for field's potential victims. The quick witted police
officer rounds up the murderous "Lothario's" targets. [X]
Synopsis:
A polygamist hits upon a way to shed his unwanted wives: murder.
1.21 [--] Target: (anthology): GRUDGE FIGHT
1958 ZIV release no. 1021
01-Aug-1958
Teleplay by Raphael Hayes / Directed by Henry S. Kesler
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Adolphe Menjou ..... Harry Owens
Douglas Henderson
Nancy Rennick
Bill Baldwin
Larry Pennell
John Indrisano
Ted Lehmann
Tom McKee
Steve Mitchell
Fred Shaw
Tom Fillon
Mushy Callahan
Synopsis:
Harry Owens is refused a match between his fighter and a tough bully managed by
hoodlums. Owens tries to force
the racketeer's "boy" into a grudge fight, with terrifying consequences for
himself and his fighter. [X]
Synopsis 2:
A fight manager tries to arrange a grudge bout between his fighter and a boxer
managed by hoodlums.
1.22 [--] Target: (anthology): FATEFUL DECISION
1958 ZIV release no. 1022
08-Aug-1958
Written by Charles B. Smith / Directed by Eddie Davis
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Marshall Thompson .. Jess Bardo
Ed Nelson
Cathy O'Donnell
Don Haggerty
Thomas B. Brown
Troy Melton
Ken Christy
Bill Catching
Gregg McCabe
Synopsis:
Believing his wife is having a romance with another man, Jess Bardo gets a
rifle, plans to kill his rival on sight.
but at the showdown, Jess faces not only his rival but an escaped killer as well
and chooses between them. [X]
1.23 [--] Target: (anthology): NIGHT WITHOUT MORNING
1958 ZIV release no. 1023
15-Aug-1958
Teleplay by Francis Rosenwald and Marianne Mosner / Directed by Eddie Davis
Host Adolphe Menjou
starring
Macdonald Carey
Jacqueline Lee
George Eldredge
Gary Vinson
Alan Reynolds
Billy Snyder
Ken Christy
Les Hellman
Bennie Bartlett
Monty Ash
Max Palmer
Synopsis:
Preparing an expose of the racketeers who threaten his union, Ben Sloane locks
himself in
his office for the night. But his enemies get into the building, intent on
killing him. [X]
1.24 [--] Target: (anthology): UNREASONABLE DOUBT
1958 ZIV release no. 1024
22-Aug-1958
Written by Robert J. Shaw / Directed by Christian Nyby
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Macdonald Carey .... Herb L. Maris
Angie Dickinson ...... Betty Nelson
Donald Freed ........... Joey Nelson
John Doucette ......... Lt. John Weston
Jean Willes ............... Agnes Walker
William Bryant ......... Ralph
Peggy Maley ............ Verna
Fred Sherman ......... Lou Walker
Frank Walker ........... Detective
James Winslow ...... Detective
Trudy Marshall ....... Secretary
Troy Melton ............. Policeman
Mark Dunhill ............ Policeman
Elaine DuPont ......... Young Girl
Jack Lester .............. Cook
Muriel Rickabaugh .... Old Lady
Synopsis:
When Joey Nelson is arrested and framed for murdering his ex-boss, attorney herb
Maris investigates. Maris quickly becomes aware of the
"frame" and realizes joeys innocent of the crime. Almost at once, Maris finds
himself facing the gun of the man who did the killing. [X]
1.25 [--] Target: (anthology): DEATH HAS MANY FACES
1958 ZIV release no. 1025
29-Aug-1958
Producer Lou Breslow / Teleplay by David Evans / Directed by Dane Clark
Director of photography Robert Hoffman / Editor John B. Woelz
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Adolphe Menjou ..... Gauchemain
Richard Benedict
Gene Roth
Edward Colmans
Harold Dyrenforth
Kort Falkenberg
Maris Wrixon
Larry Gelbman
Barry McGuire
Paul Busch
Michael Mark
Frank Oberschall
Synopsis 1:
After watching Nazis execute his beloved son, Guachemain discovers a young
English airman in hiding and determines to save him.
The fearless Frenchman uses the corpse of his own son to trick the Nazis and
smuggle the flyer to safety. [X]
Synopsis 2:
The mayor of a small village in Nazi-occupied France risks his life to help an
English airman.
1.26 [--] Target: (anthology): TURMOIL
1958 ZIV release no. 1026
05-Sep-1958
Teleplay by Laszlo Gorog / Directed by George More O'Ferrall
Director of photography Eric Cross / Editor Inman Hunter
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Joan Greenwood ..... Dorothy
Noel Willman ............. Evans
Emrys Jones
John Salew
A.J. Brown
Synopsis:
Dorothy Evans convinces her husband he has an incurable disease. with the evil
cunning, she plays in his fears, hoping he will
commit suicide and leave her free to re-marry. Dorothy's clever plan backfires,
placing her own life in danger. [X]
Synopsis 2:
A woman tries to drive her husband to suicide by telling him he has a fatal
disease.
1.27 [--] Target: (anthology): DEATH BY THE CLOCK
1958 ZIV release no. 1027
12-Sep-1958
Teleplay by Vincent Forte / Original story by Sutton Roley / Directed by Sutton
Roley
Director of photography Curt Fetters / Editor John B. Woelz
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest Cast:
Lon Chaney ......... George
Adolphe Menjou ..... Barton
Georgine Darcy
Lance Fuller
Raymond Hatton
Doris Fesette
Barney Elmore
Vance Skarstedt
Jimmy Carter
Synopsis:
Taking his weekly steam bath, Oliver Barton sees George, the masseur, kill
another man. discovered, Barton finds himself trapped in the intensely
heated steam room, while the murderer waits outside. Barton plagued by heat and
exhaustion, fights down mounting terror to summon help. [X]
Synopsis 2:
In a Turkish bath, a killer stalks the man who witnessed his crime.
1.28 [--] Target: (anthology): THE CLEAN KILL
[Filmed in London with mainly English Cast]
1958 ZIV release no. 1028
19-Sep-1958
Written by Peggy Chantler Dick & Frederick Louis Fox / Directed by George More
O'Ferrall
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest Cast:
Michael Wilding
Adrienne Corri
Griffith Jones
David Graham
Phil Brown
Keith Pyott
Wensley Pithey
Synopsis:
Bored with ordinary pleasures, Peter Danbury plans the murder of a well known
gossip columnist.
Danbury plans and commits his "perfect crime" with unforseen consequences. [X]
1.29 [--] Target: (anthology): THE UNKNOWN
1958 ZIV release no. 1029
Teleplay by Charles B. Smith / Original Story by Sutton Roley / Directed by
William Conrad
Director of photography Robert Hoffman / Editor John B. Woelz
26Sep1958
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Adolphe Menjou ..... Dr. Morgan Spears
Frances Bavier
Viriginia Christine
Stacy Harris
Frank Warren
Synopsis 1:
Dr. Spears and his wife arrive at an isolated island for a school reunion, find
it deserted. forced to stay the night in the lone hotel, the guests quickly
realize
there is someone else one the island who, for some reason, refuses to be seen.
the doctor and his wife risk their lives to expose the sinister mystery of the
island. [X]
Synopsis 2:
An accomplished physician attends a school reunion and finds murder as his host.
1.30 [--] Target: (anthology): PIANO TO THUNDER SPRINGS
1958 ZIV release no. 1030
Written by Morton S. Fine & David Friedkin / Directed by Lloyd Bridges
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Bruce Gordon .... Matt Dover
Jan Harrison
Tom Morton
Leonard Nimoy
Synopsis:
Matt Dover and will Hudson rescue Rachel and Cass Evans from Comanches and agree
to escort them to thunder springs, but Cass is a coward and his
fears plunges the little caravan into crisis after crisis! When a rattler bites
Rachel because of Cass's cowardice, he determines to redeem himself.
The "coward" risks his life to penetrate the Comanche camp and steal the water
his wife so desperately needs. [X]
Synopsis 2:
In the Old West, a cowardly man redeems himself by entering a Comanche camp to
steal water.
1.31 [--] Target: (anthology): DEATH MAKES A PHONE CALL
1958 ZIV release no. 1031
Written by Lee E. Wells / Directed by Tom Gries
Host Adolphe Menjou
starring
Mike Connors
Nita Talbot
Don Kennedy
Charles Wagenheim
Helen Wallace
Synopsis:
Mason Carey gets a phone call from his boss instructing him to turn over all
responsibility to a younger man. jealous of the
younger man and fearful of his position in the company, Carey plans an
"accident" for his successor. Carey's plan boomerangs. [X]
1.32 [--] Target: (anthology): TEMPORARY ESCAPE [Filmed
in London with mainly English Cast]
1958 ZIV release no. 1032
Teleplay by Bill Barrett / Original story by Alice Lent Covert / Directed by
Terence Fisher
Director of photography Eric Cross / Editor John Dunsford
Host Adolphe Menjou
starring
Lyndon Brook
Jacqueline Ellis
Alan Gifford
Kay Callard
George Howell
Chuck Keyser
Ryck Rydon
Synopsis:
When a young lad tried to escape his brutal environment and takes a girl and her
brother with him, hoodlum follows,
determined to wreck their new lives. A local constable helps the hunted trio
find peace and a good life. [X]
1.33 [--] Target: (anthology): ON CUE
1958 ZIV release no. 1033
Teleplay by Lee E. Wells / Story by Rose Simon Kohn / Directed by Sutton Roley
Director of photography Roger Shearman / Editor John B. Woelz
Host Adolphe Menjou
starring
Ted Knight
Dyan Cannon
Ken Drake
Peggy Knudsen
John Shay
Ron Foster
John Bentley
Synopsis:
Boyd Harris, insanely jealous of his much younger wife, plans to murder her and
point suspicion at her leading men. Harris becomes the target of his own hate.
[X]
1.34 [--] Target: (anthology): FOUR AGAINST THREE MILLION
[Filmed in London with mainly English Cast]
1958 ZIV release no. 1034
Teleplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. / Directed by Bernard Knowles
Director of photography Eric Cross / Editor John Dunsford
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
Nigel Patrick ...... Ffolkes
John Warwick
Peter Lamsley
Lionel Murton
Alexis Chesnakov
Richard Bebb
John G. Heller
Synopsis:
A foreign diplomat employs four men, each an expert in the "art" of robbery, to
commit a multi-million dollar theft. Scotland Yard, learning
of the plan, secretly arrests one of the thieves and substitutes a police agent
instead to outsmart the gang and bring them all to justice. [X]
Synopsis 2:
Four master criminals from different parts of the world unite in London to steal
a fortune in gold.
1.35 [--] Target: (anthology): THE THIRTEENTH JUROR
1958 ZIV release no. 1035
Written by Vincent Fotre & Lee E. Wells / Directed by John Florea
Host Adolphe Menjou
starring
William Boyett
Edward Kemmer
Hugo Stanger
Sally Fraser
William Flaherty
Charles Reade
Synopsis:
Brian Watkins murders his business partner, pleads self defense at the trial and
is acquitted. But Watkins gets a note from a "thirteenth juror",
an unknown enemy who has declared him guilty and sentenced him to death. Watkins
is plagued by his mysterious accuser to the point of a confession. [X]
1.36 [--] Target: (anthology): LOST IDENTITY [Filmed
in London with mainly English Cast]
1958 ZIV release no.1036
Written by Lee Berg / Directed by Robert Lynn
Director of photography Michael Brandt / Editor Inman Hunter
Host Adolphe Menjou
Guest cast:
John Conte ...... Cliff Tucker
Brenda Bennett
Russell Napier
Peter Madden
Guy Deghy
Sam Kydd
John Le Mesurier
Synopsis:
Cliff Tucker's passport is stolen by a member of an international espionage ring
who needs it to get out of England.
Cliff takes risks to regain his passport without the help of the police. [X]
Synopsis 2:
An American tries to retrieve his passport from an international spy who needs
it to get out of England.
1.37 [--] Target: (anthology): MONEY-GO-ROUND
1958 ZIV release no. 1037
Writers Lorenzo Semple Jr., Charles B. Smith and Lee E. Wells / Directed by
Sutton Roley
Host Adolphe Menjou
starring
Adolphe Menjou ..... Henry Baile
Chet Stratton
Synopsis:
Henry Baile, a mild mannered architect, is blackmailed by his personal valet.
When the valet is murdered,
Henry seems destined to pay for the crime. The innocent uses a slick trick to
clear himself of suspicion. [X]
1.38 [--] Target: (anthology): COUNTERFEIT COIN
1958 ZIV release no. 1038
Teleplay by Roscoe C. Thomas / Directed by Victor Stoloff
Host Adolphe Menjou
starring
Victor Jory
Ray Bennett
Norma Eberhardt
George Wallace
Kenneth MacDonald
Walter McGrail
Hal Smith
Paul Keast
Brad Johnson
Jack Daly
Tony Dante
Mickey Little
Synopsis:
A Wells Fargo agent transports a shipment of gold from the U.S. mint. enroute,
he witnesses a murder. Fearing for his own life,
he begs passerby King Jones to ride with him. the unsuspecting Jones is sucked
into a whirlpool of deceit and crime. [X]
1.39 [--] Target: (anthology): THE JEWEL THIEF
1958 ZIV release no. 1039
05Dec1958
Teleplay by Stanley Niss / Story by Jerry Adelman / Directed by Eddie Davis
Director of photography Robert Hoffman / Editor Harvey Manger
Host Adolphe Menjou
starring
Gerald Mohr
George Cahill
Ella Summers (could this be Elke Sommer?)
Lola Albright
S. John Launer
Charles Davis
Mark Scott
Robert Tetrick
Synopsis:
A pretty clerk in a florist's shop loses her heart to a stranger. she thinks
he's the answer to all her dreams.
Then puzzling things begin to happen, and she finds she has given her heart to a
notorious jewel thief. [X]
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Target; ZIV release no. 1001. ODAT: 14Mar58; OREG: LP50423.
Target; ZIV release no. 1002. ODAT: 21Mar58; OREG: LP50424.
Target; ZIV release no. 1003. ODAT: 28Mar58; OREG: LP50425.
Target; ZIV release no. 1004. ODAT: 06Jun58; OREG: LP50426.
Target; ZIV release no. 1005. ODAT: 04Apr58; OREG: LP50427.
Target; ZIV release no. 1006. ODAT: 11Apr58; OREG: LP50428.
Target; ZIV release no. 1007. ODAT: 18Apr58; OREG: LP50429.
Target; ZIV release no. 1008. ODAT: 25Apr58; OREG: LP50430.
Target; ZIV release no. 1009. ODAT: 02May58; OREG: LP50431.
Target; ZIV release no. 1010. ODAT: 09May58; OREG: LP50432.
Target; ZIV release no. 1011. ODAT: 16May58; OREG: LP50433.
Target; ZIV release no. 1012. ODAT: 23May58; OREG: LP50434.
Target; ZIV release no. 1013. ODAT: 30May58; OREG: LP50435.
Target; ZIV release no. 1014. ODAT: 13Jun58; OREG: LP50436.
Target; ZIV release no. 1015. ODAT: 20Jun58; OREG: LP50437.
Target; ZIV release no. 1016. ODAT: 27Jun58; OREG: LP50438.
Target; ZIV release no. 1017. ODAT: 04Jul58; OREG: LP50439.
Target; ZIV release no. 1018. ODAT: 11Jul58; OREG: LP50440.
Target; ZIV release no. 1019. ODAT: 18Jul58; OREG: LP50441.
Target; ZIV release no. 1020. ODAT: 25Jul58; OREG: LP50442.
Target; ZIV release no. 1021. ODAT: 01Aug58; OREG: LP50443.
Target; ZIV release no. 1022. ODAT: 08Aug58; OREG: LP50444.
Target; ZIV release no. 1023. ODAT: 15Aug58; OREG: LP50445.
Target; ZIV release no. 1024. ODAT: 22Aug58; OREG: LP50446.
Target; ZIV release no. 1025. ODAT: 29Aug58; OREG: LP50447.
Target; ZIV release no. 1026. ODAT: 05Sep58; OREG: LP50448.
Target; ZIV release no. 1027. ODAT: 12Sep58; OREG: LP50449.
Target; ZIV release no. 1028. ODAT: 19Sep58; OREG: LP50450.
Target; ZIV release no. 1029. ODAT: 26Sep58; OREG: LP50451.
Target; ZIV release no. 1030. ODAT: 03Oct58; OREG: LP50452.
Target; ZIV release no. 1031. ODAT: 10Oct58; OREG: LP50453.
Target; ZIV release no. 1032. ODAT: 17Oct58; OREG: LP50454.
Target; ZIV release no. 1033. ODAT: 24Oct58; OREG: LP50455.
Target; ZIV release no. 1034. ODAT: 31Oct58; OREG: LP50456.
Target; ZIV release no. 1035. ODAT: 07Nov58; OREG: LP50457.
Target; ZIV release no. 1036. ODAT: 14Nov58; OREG: LP50458.
Target; ZIV release no. 1037. ODAT: 21Nov58; OREG: LP50459.
Target; ZIV release no. 1039. ODAT: 05Dec58; OREG: LP50460.
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