West Point
West Point
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First Aired: October 5th, 1956
Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
Network: CBS
Summary: Dramatic series of actual people and events at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. The show did not have a consistent cast across all episodes, but instead featured new characters with the various stories presented.
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Season 1
Episode 1: The Mystery of Cadet Layton
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Summary: When one cadet is fed up with Army discipline and seeks to resign, he gets into a fight with a more dedicated upper class man. He in turn surprises everyone by also tendering a resignation, but he refuses to disclose why.
Episode 2: The Operator and the Martinet
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Summary: While one cadet tries earnestly to keep a spotless record, his scheming roommate breaks rules left and right. A Major starts to take notice and compels the two to co-operate.
Episode 3: Officer's Wife
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Summary: Marriage is planned by a cadet and his fiancée after graduation; but as the girl observes difficulties experienced by an older married couple at the point, she decides to call it off instead.
Episode 4: The Honor Code
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Summary: A Cadet suspects his roommate of cheating on an important exam, but is conflicted whether or not he should tell his superiors.
Episode 5: Thicker Than Water
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Summary: A cadet is being considered for a cadet command next year. When his parents come in a surprise visit to West Point, he is embarrassed by their "commonplace" demeanor. His tactical officer is worried about the way he treats his parents and how that reflects on his leadership. On the DVD set, this episode is entitled - Duty, Honor, and Trouble.
Episode 6: The Right to Choose
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Summary: The daughter of a family visiting the Point for the week-end falls in love with a Cadet below her on the social scale, and is pressured to end their relationship.
Episode 7: His Brother's Fist
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Summary: Cadet Kennedy was a Golden Gloves champion before West Point but he refuses to join the Academy boxing team. His older brother, a champion boxer in his own right, wants him to leave the Academy and return to boxing.
Episode 8: Decision
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Summary: A cadet who shows great talent is put in a position of choosing if he'll stay in the academy or pursue an art career. He stays too long at his socialite girl friend's house and must race back to West Point to make curfew.
Episode 9: His Highness and the Halfback
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Summary: A star Army football player will be sidelined during the big game against Navy for breaking regulations. The only way to get him back in rests in the hands of a visiting prince.
Episode 10: Men of Action
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Summary: After several highly disruptive stunts, a cadet must prove himself academically or be dismissed. He works out a scientific demonstration showing the strength of the academy's aged water system-with destructive results.
Episode 11: Heat of Anger
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Summary: An uncontrolled temper outburst causes a cadet is confined to quarters for the weekend his girlfriend comes to the Point unannounced. Enlisting his roommate to show her around exposes his jealousy and damages the cadets' friendship.
Episode 12: Christmas Present
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Summary: Plebe staying at West Point during Christmas encounters difficulties with an upperclassman about a woman.
Episode 13: A Double Reverse
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Summary: A group of socialite girls visit the Point to attend a formal dance, but one views the prospect of a blind date with a cadet with snooty disdain.
Episode 14: The Hard Task
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Summary: One cadet resents the overbearing treatment of a freshman by an upperclassman, yet he sees it as just training in military discipline.
Episode 15: The Army-Navy Game
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Summary: The football team's star halfback is on restriction for alleged rule breaking. Problem - getting him into the annual Army-Navy game.
Episode 16: Start Running
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Summary: A snobbish cadet resents a new roommate, a southerner who competes with him in track meets, but he becomes truly infuriated when the roommate starts dating his sister.
Episode 17: The Wrong Fight
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Summary: Being a great basketball player goes to one cadet's head so much he thinks he's a one man squad, and he can break rules. Before he jeopardizes his chance at playing in the important match against the navy team, his team mates intervene.
Episode 18: Operation Survival
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Summary: Cadets returning from a debate are assigned to rescue young girls from a school threatened by a major flood. The lead cadet's family and the headmistress of the school have historical difficulties that need to be resolved.
Episode 19: Jet Flight
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Summary: A program to expose West Pointers to flying takes a reluctant cadet on a jet flight with an older pilot. Later, he decides he wasn't cut out for flying, but must take one more mission. He does, but this time, the pilot blacks out in flight.
Episode 20: Combat Proof
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Summary: After arguing that the bayonet was an obsolete weapon, a cadet finds that during the Korean War the bayonet is a versatile tool, much more than a weapon.
Episode 21: The Command
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Summary: When a cadet's officer-father takes interest in another boy's career, he resents it and tries to best him in schoolwork and athletics.
Episode 22: White Fury
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Summary: On a winter holiday at a ski lodge, two cadets go for a day of cross-country skiing. The father of one of the boys crashes his small plane within a few miles of them and they reach him some time later. He's wounded next to the wreck, and a snow storm is whipping up. Their only hope of rescue lies with the radio skills of the boy's fellow cadet.
Episode 23: Ambush
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Summary: A story of two tough city boys, one joins the cadets at West Point, the other a gang of juvenile delinquents. The cadet offers to help the other lad into the point to escape the streets.
Episode 24: The Only Witness
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Summary: During a rainstorm, a cadet's brother is involved in a car accident. The only witness is another cadet, who must testify as to what he saw. A play in a football game provides parallels into what happens as opposed to what one thinks happen.
Episode 25: Dangerous Area
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Summary: An easy going cadet who can be seemingly talked into or out of anything is placed in charge of a platoon during commando maneuvers, where he learns to become more decisive.
Episode 26: The Manhunt
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Summary: One of two cadets on a camping trip is bitten by a rattlesnake. After going for help, the other cadet returns and finds his friend has wandered off. During the manhunt, the wounded cadet discovers he can apply skills from the classroom.
Episode 27: McKinlety's Challenge
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Summary: McKinley is a go by the book cadet who never does anything outside the rules. He meets a diplomat's daughter and does things outside the rules to meet her.
Episode 28: Cold Peril
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Summary: To see his girl across the Hudson river, a cadet crosses on foot when it freezes over. To get him back in time, two fellow class-men follow, but the ice is broken up by a cutter, and they desperately try returning in a rickety row boat.
Episode 29: The Contact
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Summary: Applicants for West Point must demonstrate physical abilities as well as mental qualities for admission. One candidate must overcome an injury, indecisiveness, and the fear of failure.
Episode 30: Backfire
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Summary: A cadet thought to have no leadership ability must take charge during a forest fire.
Episode 31: Flare-Up
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Summary: A star West Point hockey player struggles with his temper, not the desirable trait of a future disciplined officer.
Episode 32: M-24
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Summary: For unauthorized use of a training tank, a cadet leaves the Point, but what he learned proves invaluable when he's under fire during combat in Korea.
Episode 33: The Harder Right
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Summary: Friendship vies with duty when a cadet sees his roommate cheating on a test.
Episode 34: The Drowning of the Gun
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Summary: A traditional yearling class prank is the drowning of the reveille gun in Lake Popolopen. Cadet Charles Davis leads a group determined to carry out the tradition. [
Episode 35: Courageous Decision
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Summary: A spoiled, arrogant youth is crushed when his big-shot father is charged with income-tax evasion.
Episode 36: Fight Back
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Summary: Cadets learn valuable lessons of leadership, competition, and cooperation in the struggle for the Intramural Athletic Award. One cadet in particular has to confront his attempts that seem always to go wrong.
Episode 37: The Dragon Patrol
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Summary: Artifacts from an 1871 cavalry event remind current cadets of their past. A cadet learns about leadership from veterans in the field.
Episode 38: The Deep End
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Summary: Cadet wrestles with non-academic pursuits as he worries about maintaining high grade marks.
Episode 39: Pressure
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Summary: Just as a cadet receives a major promotion, he learns of health problems of his father. He debates leaving the Academy to take over the family business for his father, but tries to orchestrate a transition for the business and the family.
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