1957
Host Fred Davis speaks to Canadian author Richard S. Lambert about a non-fiction story in one of his books, an 1889 series of events in Shawville, Québec of a purported haunted farmhouse. Lambert could only base his writing on existing materials of the account of the main players, the Dagg family who owned the property, and Percy Woodcock, an inquisitive artist interested in the story. From those stories, Lambert can only come to his own suppositions about if the Dagg farmhouse was truly haunted or if the Daggs were perpetrating a hoax for some end purpose.
1957
Doing what he believed was a good deed, happy-go-lucky and somewhat absentminded Joe Sands, who lives for the moment, is instead picked up by the Toronto police for what ended up being a minor infraction. What he expects to be a small fine or minor jail time since he would probably be unable to pay any fine turns into a eight year sentence at Kingston Penitentiary on a twenty-eight year old parole violation, he simply not having not checked in with his parole officer when he received his ticket of leave in year seven of his fifteen year sentence for robbery, hence this current eight year sentence the remaining time. His current classification officer refers his case to the non-profit John Howard Society, Fred Dawson assigned to the file to see if Joe would once again be immediately eligible for a new ticket of leave, Fred's eventual report which is solely to provide the facts without embellishment to the classification board who will make the ultimate decision. Fred's task may not be an easy one in Joe being unable to provide much information in his forgetfulness.
1957
A young businessman begins drinking to cope with the stresses in his life. His wife struggles to get him to stop as he begins to embarrass himself in public and to lose effectiveness at work. He is not helped by his friend Pete, who continually eggs him on to drink more. But with the help of a doctor and his wife's encouragement, the young man begins to see hope for an end to his addiction.