Frank Carlson Library

Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding. Discomfort and vexation lie on the horizon, triggered by her penchant for matchmaking. Emma's latest scheme involves finding a suitable husband for ingenue Harriet Smith, and to that end she persuades the latter to reject good-natured farmer Robert Martin, despite a mutual attraction. Harriet must set her sights higher, she exhorts, fixing on...

A wealthy young Jew and his family experiencing changing fortunes under Roman tyranny are affected by the life and teachings of a Nazarene named Jesus Christ.

Young scientist Victor Frankenstein, grief-stricken over the death of his mother, sets out in a series of laboratory experiments testing the ability to create life from non-living matter. Soon, his experiments progress further until he creates a humanoid creature eight feet tall. But as Frankenstein soon discovers, a successful experiment does not always equal a positive outcome.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

From Season 1, Episode 38. Episode first aired Jul 1, 1953. A couple of rich law school pals who've gotten rich in business makes Brad feel he's cheated Joan out of the high life. He decides to become a business executive with a chicken soup company, despite Joan's warnings that he's cut out for that work. In Joan's nightmare, the job has changed Brad into a cantankerous, bald man who cares only about money. Wanting happiness over money, Joan refuses...

From Season 1, Episode 26. Episode first aired Apr 8, 1953. Brad is infuriated by Joan's tardiness when she arrives at the theater just in time for the final curtain. The late Joan Stevens fears oversleeping for a dinner date, so she buys extra time by turning back the clocks.

From Season 2, Episode 2. Episode first aired Oct 21, 1953. Joan tries to pull a fast one over on Brad by passing off her new dress as one she's had for years. She hadn't planned on a visit from a friend with a lie detector machine.

From Season 3, Episode 20. Episode first aired Feb 9, 1955. Joan tries to pass her neighbor Wally off as an army general married to her sister in order to impress a friend.

From Season 1, Episode 21. Episode first aired Mar 4, 1953. Joan has a closet full of clothes, but Brad only has 2 suits to his name. Joan decides to make this right, and the two go shopping, and soon Brad has a new plaid suit. All is well, until outrageously crazy circumstances lead Joan to try and return the suit, and hilarity ensues!

Joan finishes up her match-making activities of last week (in "Joan Plays Cupid") by staging Sally and Wally's wedding in her home.