Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town of Dusty Flats. After outdrawing wanted outlaw Buckstorm Corley in the saloon, Smith finds himself up against the entire corrupt Corley clan -- who've been running roughshod over the fearful townsfolk for years.

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

Left to die in the desert by his wife and her lover, a businessman fights to survive and get his revenge.

In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.

Having served a prison sentence for robbery, Pete Carver decides to go back for the hidden loot. But someone is on his trail.

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

An impending hurricane threatens to destroy the Silver Sands Condominium in Fiddler Key, Florida.

A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real McCoy. The production is followed by a preview of scenes from the Fox feature film The Rains of Ranchipur, starring Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, and Michael Rennie. This behind-the-scenes portion was produced and directed by Joe Parker.

The divorce between the Halsworths becomes final at midnight. Before that happens, a series of odd events contrive to change the plans of the couple, including a long-lost flame who tempts Miriam.