Genres
The Clock
Overview
The Clock is a 30-minute American anthology television series based upon the American Broadcasting Company radio series which ran from 1946–48. The half-hour series mostly consisted of original dramas concerning murder, mayhem or insanity. Series narrator Larry Semon was the only regular; each week a new set of guest stars were featured. The title of the series was derived from a clock which was a major plot element in each story. The show's musical theme was "The Sands of Time". Ninety-one episodes aired from 1949 to 1952, most of them on NBC, except for the final season which aired on ABC. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Seasons
Season 2 (1949)
No overview available.
7 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Web
1949-11-16Episode 2: Reverse
1949-11-23Episode 3: Cousin Maria
1949-11-30Episode 4: Maniac at Large
1949-12-07Episode 5: Lease of Death
1949-12-14Episode 6: Romance
1949-12-21Episode 7: Mark Wade, D.A.
1949-12-28Season 3 (1950)
No overview available.
2 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Prescription for Death
1950-09-08A taut drama of a man's race against time to avert the tragic death of a young girl. Leslie Nielsen stars as David Kyle, a clerk on the night shift in a Grand Central Terminal drug store. He prescribes a car sickness cure for a pretty young bride-to-be, stopping overnight in New York between trains. Another customer orders mercuric nitrate for a skin ailment, then takes the girl's medicine by mistake. The girl leaves with the mercuric nitrate, which is poison if taken internally. When Kyle discovers the error, he enlists the aid of the police and the stationmaster in trying to find the girl, whose name he doesn't even know, before she takes the deadly potion.
Runtime: 30 min
