Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.
An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
The cavalry defend a small town from indians.
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.
A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny has joined Barstow's gang. Things get worse after a bloody shootout, in which Mike apparently guns down his own brother.
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.
Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.
Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.
