CBS Playhouse

The employees in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fails during the 1965 East Coast blackout. A small party is begun, and truths about the career and personal ambitions of the workers begin to emerge.

Wilson Evans is a free-spirited young scientist who compromises his liberal views to accept a lucrative job with a high-tech chemical corporation.

Rich Meridan is white, well-to-do and off to law school so he can make more money. Macy Stander is Black, a cut above poverty and young enough to dream and hope for a better life. Both youths are stifled: one has too much, the other too little.

Comfortable New York suburbanites Arthur and Gerrie Mason discover one night that their seemingly perfect 16-year-old daughter Maxie has been using LSD. Arthur immediately suspects his 17-year-old son Artie of supplying the drug to his sister, and kicks him out. Whereupon a confused Gerrie seeks advice from high school principal David Hoffman, whose family has their own problems. Very sensibly, he advises love and understanding on part of the parents, which all but goes out the window when Maxie confesses that not only has she been tripping for some time now, but is also sexually active and on the pill.

Following a chance encounter that brings him face to face with his past, conservative businessman Bryan Gray goes in search of Janet Ferguson, an actress with whom he had a relationship many years before. His unwillingness to share private aspects arouses the suspicion of wife Doris, who is determined to know all of his secrets and the motivations behind them.

Ned, a New York editor struggling as a husband and parent, looks back and learns about the difficulties his own parents faced in life.

After 15 years together, Michael and Lois Graves contemplate divorce. Their friends—three other couples—try to repair their relationship, and ultimately observe the connections that they themselves have.

Follows a carpenter who has built his own home, but is now too old and infirm to live on his own, and is sent to live in an old age home against his desires.