An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.

Helmed by Edmond O'Brien, this slick crime thriller stars Jeffrey Hunter as naïve Matt Jameson, whose Korean War pal Vince Biskay talks Matt into helping commandeer nearly $4 million from a Central American dictator. After Vince is wounded in a gun battle as they're making off with the loot, the duo holes up at Matt's house -- where his boozy, promiscuous wife puts the moves on Vince.

During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. However, things don't go as planned when the conductor of the train that they stole is on to them and is doing everything he can to stop them. Based on a true story.

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

This special is hosted by Patrick Stewart and traced the history of Star Trek from its inception with "The Cage" through to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It also showed brief previews of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and TNG's second season. Also it was principally a container for the premiere of a full color print of "The Cage" which had, according to the special, recently been recovered from Paramount's studio archives.

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

《星际旅行》的试播章节「The cage」最初提供给了哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS），但被他们回绝了，改而选择较为主流的艾文·亚伦制作的《太空迷航》。接着它又被送到全国广播公司（NBC），一开始NBC也是回绝，认为它太花脑筋而且缺乏动作场景。但后来剧中的一些概念对NBC的高层们留下了深刻的印象，并让他们做出了极不寻常的决定——希望能够继续拍摄下去并形成一个系列：这就是后来所知的《星际旅行：原初系列》。不过原来的试播版本「The cage」并未获得播出。受到当时保守风气的影响，试看的观眾对於一个女性能够担任大副的职位感到无法接受，日后正式拍摄时多数主要角色也被更换。后来「The cage」的部分画面被剪接到正式影集「The Menagerie」之中，成为原主角派克舰长回忆的一部分。