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General Motors Theatre was a Canadian television anthology series, which ran on CBC Television under its various titles from 1953 until 1961. First transmitted under the sponsored title on October 5, 1954, a new 60-minute drama would be presented each week. As suggested by the title, the programme was sponsored by the General Motors automobile company. It was effectively the same series as the unsponsored CBC Theatre, which had run its first season from December 1, 1953 to April 20, 1954, with General Motors becoming title sponsor for the second season.
1952
A clerk is jailed for forging a check to help a drunkard's wife.
Could Mrs. Manningham really be going made? Or does her old house in London hold a sinister secret?
When a stranger arrives in a small Russian town, it is assumed (wrongly) that he must be the feared government inspector, whose visit is expected at any moment.
Dr. Stockmann has discovered that the water supply for his town is polluted - but surprisingly few people seem to care.
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.
Harry's invalid sister doesn't want him to marry. In fact, she doesn't want him to do anything except what she wants him to do. A man might get to resent that.
During WW2, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever, but years later his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Elizabeth Barrett is in love with the poet Robert Browning. Her tyrant of a father disapproves. But why?
A young man bets $10,000 that he can tell for 24 hour nothing but the truth.
Scandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers, and young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too.
In this comedy of errors, a maid pretends to be a lady, a Prince poses as his valet, and his valet pretends to be him, the Prince.
Adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play, in which the idealist Reverend Morell tries to unite Socialism and Christianity.
A strange youth impresses the women at a remote Irish pub spot by claiming to have murdered his father.
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Three shifty sailors commandeer a smallpox-ridden boat and set out to sea. A typhoon washes them ashore on a faraway Pacific island, which is ruled by a white religious fanatic who has set himself up as the local god.
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with a potential suitor. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper. Hilarity ensues.
A passionate adulterous relationship provokes a murder.
A French girl and American Engineer struggle to find love in war-torn France.
1953
A duke imprisoned for 15 years in a castle in France feigns blindness for five years to lull the suspicions of his captors in order to plan his escape. His faithful servant, unable to bear the strain, goes mad and is drugged to death by the duke's supporters who have arranged for the duke's escape.
In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.
A Cold War era espionage thriller, about the leaking of secrets at a German facility shared by the Americans and the British.
Three women over 50, Agatha, May and Lucy, set up housekeeping together.
A young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancée's family and turns a happy household against itself.
Welsh legend about a peasant child who is believed to be the Christ child.
A romantic three-act comedy about a country girl's meeting with a Don Juan.
An intellectual New York drama critic takes a personal interest in a young playwright. Then he discovers the younger man has more than a casual interest in the critic's wife.
The young and liberated Rebekka West wants Pastor Rosmer. Will his pondering and his wife's suicide ruin their relationship?
Young Collin Fenwick, now orphaned, is taken in by his elderly aunts. Dolly is a sweet-natured spinster with a secret recipe for an elixir cure. But Verena, her demanding sister, is determined to exploit the recipe for her own purposes.
Three shifty sailors commandeer a smallpox-ridden boat and set out to sea. A typhoon washes them ashore on a faraway Pacific island, which is ruled by a white religious fanatic who has set himself up as the local god.
The lives of a successful actress and her husband, a theatre manager, are disturbed the wife's stormy affair with a young accountant.
1954
1956
After being accused by a little girl of kidnapping and murdering her sister, a salesman finds his reputation permanently damaged. Despite being exonerated of all charges, he still finds himself having to prove his innocence to his family and co-workers.
A robbery leaves a man dead, another injured and a third unhurt - the last is pilloried as a coward.
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable man even when he's interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in love with Brad, a young lawyer. Of course, Willie sees fit to give Brad all kinds of advice.
Last fortnight in the life of a youth who was sentenced to death for the killing of a police constable.
A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal, with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
The Duke has long been a prisoner. But he still has a few cards to play.
Incapable of earning an honest penny, a kindly English man turns to making counterfeit money instead - so expertly, in fact, that he baffles Scotland Yard for years.
A busybody believes sincerely that her interference in the lives of other people is all for the best. She is perhaps mistaken.
An publisher insinuates himself into the mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letters.
An elderly matriarch is on death's bed, and her family struggles to make ends meet financially.
A once-zealous IRA agent has grown sick of violence - but his younger brother hasn't.
Set in the year 1783 aboard H.M.S. Indomitable, then at war with the French, an innocent young sailor is hung from the ship's mast as a result of violence and corruption among the crew.
Has the old Countess really sold her soul to the Devil for the secret of winning at cards?
A loyal and loved housekeeper faces dismissal when her employers decide to close down the house now that the children have grown up.
A young woman feels country life is robbing her of true happiness.
Set in an idyllic mountain village near Siena in Italy in 1804. The priest Don Geronimo and his flock go about their lives contentedly and peacefully, with illness and ill-will a rarity in the village. One day however, the French army arrives with a General on a mission to Don Geronimo which attracts nobles and lawyers and begins to cause greed and ambition among people in the village.
A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown, days before her son's marriage.
A young hitchhiker goes along with a rural school girl's belief that he is a movie star.
A friend of a grief-stricken widow, a woman he's loved for many years, tries to convince her that she is making a mistake by treating the shop as a shrine to her husband's memory.
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation
A pathologist working in a hospital is called upon to perform an autopsy on a man who has died mysteriously. His findings lead him to a web of government agents, intrigue, national security and the possibility of an outbreak of bubonic plague.
1957
An immigrant worker in England on a forged passport picks up a radioactive isotope by mistake. Unless he's located quickly, he and anyone near him will suffer from radiation poisoning. The worker thinks the police are pursuing him because of his being an illegal alien and does his best not to be captured.
While wandering through the countryside, a young married couple discover an old abandoned cottage in which they decide to make their home. A mysterious stranger tells them of the curse which falls on all its inhabitants, but they disregard his warning.
In a post-apocalyptic future survivors take turns venturing outside their bunker to draw water and face glowing eyed mutated humans. The well gets lower and tensions higher. Myra, the child unlike the others, has a secret.
1960
A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.
After the wily Dr. Knock arrives in a French town, all his patients begin to feel far more unwell than they used to be.
1955
Lambert, a government official, is required to leak a secret document - which may have serious consequences.
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
When a distant cousin, pretty Toni, inherits the family fortune, two unscrupulous brothers plot her demise.
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.
A cabal in an unnamed South American country pulls a coup by choosing a popular dissident as dictator. His well meant reforms are not well received, and as his marriage fails, he shows the people what a real dictator is capable of.
A small planes pilot must take the controls of a large passenger plane when the pilots fall victim to food poisoning.
Limited and stifled by their very humble origins, a group of teenagers seek to avert their fate and find a better life by smuggling American cigarettes.
In this comedy, a husband does his best to prevent jealousy between his home and his office.
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1958
The time is 1944 and the British submarine Trident is stalking an enemy ship. When Commander Clinton gives an order to his number one man, Brooks, the latter hesitates before carrying it out. The attack is successful, but Clinton suffers what seems to be a mild injury. Back on base Brooks asks Clinton when he will get his promotion, and Clinton tells Brooks he is not certain whether he will ever be more than a number one man. Tension mounts between the two when they are sent to track down an enemy submarine
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.
The annual burning of the Guy Fawkes effigy gives Herbert Triton an idea which (like Guy Fawkes) could send him to the gallows if he is caught.
In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice.
1959
Two scientists operate the first British atomic reactor. Adapted from a C. P. Snow novel.
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady (Rose Trelawny) when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town (Arthur Gower).
A lieutenant attempts to use a small group of men to take German munitions and explosives storehouse in Dieppe during the raid.
A comedy about a widow, Mary Frale, who must enter the workforce when her husband leaves her and their son penniless. But when Frale secures a secretarial job in a large firm she discovers a way to make more money than men.
Jack Kuper's autobiographical play set in a small Polish town in 1942 details the plight of the Jews at the hands of the Nazis through the eyes of Kruper's family. Finally, the play reveals how Kuper, eleven years old at the time, was the only member of his family to survive.
Duddy Kravitz will do anything for success. Anything? Bet on it.
So John Gwilt would rather be a tree? Get used to the idea.
William Shatner plays an alcoholic opposite future Star Trek co-star James Doohan.
A member of Captain Cook's expedition goes to a Tahitian island and attempts to civilize the natives.