Charles O'Neal

Timmy and Lassie are swept away in a carnival hot air balloon which eventually comes to rest far from home in the Canadian wilderness. Unsure of their surroundings, the boy and dog hunt for food, battle a wild boar, and brave whitewater rapids on a handmade raft. After being rescued by a mysterious Indian, the two adventurers are finally reunited with their family through the assistance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Wikipedia)

A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that's the last his wife sees of him. Years later after a long search she finally tracks him down on his family's southern estate where she discovers that a failed medical treatment has turned him into an alligator mutant. (imdb)

Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular. (imdb)

A farmer falls for the female leader of a band of notorious outlaws. (TCM.com)

A crashed plane that had a shrunken head aboard is the only clue to a mystery involving a secret code. (imdb)

Opening with a car crash and a decapitation, the story is told in flashback as Joe and Doc become involved with a man who tells them that he will die in just such a manner in three days' time. Of course there is a large amount of money involved, and also an Oriental cult, mysterious women, a peg-legged man, and many deaths. (imdb)

Jim Bannon, fresh from his radio success on I Love a Mystery, stars in this taut suspenser. The jurors of a celebrated murder case are being bumped off one by one. Now only six jurors are left, and one of them has disappeared, whereabouts unknown. Bannon must find the missing juror before the killer does. The cast includes Janis Carter (menaced) and George MacReady (menacing). The Missing Juror was an excellent post-grad course for future "cult" director Bud Boetticher. (allrovi.com)

Mary Gibson, a naive orphan, goes to Manhatten to find her missing sister Jacqueline. Her investigation leads her to Jacqueline's secret husband, and also to a strange cult of Diabolists who are also hunting Jacqueline. (imdb)