The Ford Television Theatre (1952)

Name: The Ford Television Theatre
Genre: Drama

★ 7.8 30m/ep Drama Latest: S5 E39

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

First aired: October 2, 1952

Seasons

Season 1 · 29 episodes
Season 2 · 34 episodes
Season 3 · 32 episodes
Season 4 · 22 episodes
Season 5 · 19 episodes
Season 8 · 10 episodes

Season 1 Episodes

1. Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley
When Orrin Dooley, returning from war, is rejected by a woman for his ignorance, he enters grade school under his G.I. benefits where the woman betrothed to the insensitive principal is the teacher.
2. Junior
3. National Honeymoon
4. Birth of a Hero
5. Girl in the Park
6. Edge of the Law
7. Protect Her Honor
A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.
8. Sunk
An alcoholic young man demands inheritance money from the uncle who's executor of his father's estate. The uncle refuses, but makes his nephew an offer: he'll give him $15,000 if he'll travel to the South Seas and murder a man named Jake Finch. The trip to the islands involves a three-week cruise on a schooner where the sad drunk has time to reevaluate his life.
9. The Divided Heart
14. They Also Serve
15. It Happened in a Pawn Shop
When two struggling people, a musician and young woman, make a deal in a pawnshop to resolve their individual financial shortfalls, an attraction, complicated by the woman's licentious landlady and overbearing suitor, ensues.
16. This Is My Heart
17. The Sermon of the Gun
18. Adventure in Connecticut
19. The First Born
22. All's Fair in Love
23. Madame 44
A woman saloon owner in California, known as gunslinger "Madame 44," is tried and acquitted for murder after defending herself from a claim jumper. Later, passing for respectability in New Orleans, a suitor threatens to expose her past.
24. My Daughter's Husband
A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.
25. The Bet
A wealthy man, whose poor friend has stolen the man's fiancée, bets the friend a fortune that the friend can not spend ten years in solitary confinement, which bet the friend accepts, despite the love of the woman.
26. Double Exposure
27. To Any Soldier
28. Just What the Doctor Ordered
29. Allison, Ltd.
A wealthy fashion woman, poor in youth, faces a dilemma as to whether to extract her long desired revenge on a man with whom she eloped in her youth but who allowed his rich family to annul the marriage for a débutante he wants to leave.
30. The Life of the Party
32. The Lady and the Champ
A boxer strives for the middleweight championship in order to fund his friend's business venture.
33. Look for Tomorrow
34. Sweet Talk Me, Jackson
36. There's No Place Like Home
A newspaper expose precipitates a violent quarrel between the writer and his family.
37. The Trestle
A boy suspects his step-father is the murderer of a man who attempted to put a small town newspaper out of business.