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General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
1953
A young refugee learns about American patriotism from a bandit.
A Dutch clock maker's nagging wife drives him to dream up tall tales about wealth and escape.
A scientist develops a drug so powerful it can be bring peace or destroy the world.
A rejected boyfriend is 'all wet' in his plan to regain the attention of his lady love. The event had been engineered by a smooth-talking so-called pal.
A man in a Mexican family is murdered and the gems from his house are stolen. When his brother comes to investigate, he finds the answer lies with the most influential woman he meets.
A film actress needs a glamorous personal life to go along with her stardom. She expects her press agent to invent one for her.
A man is plagued with constant troubles when his wife wants a new car and then a new house.
A man in a mental hospital realizes he witnessed a murder in London.
A young wife wants to help her husband better his career, so she invites his boss to dinner.
Story about a young man acquitted of complicity in the death of a police lieutenant's wife.
A comedy about a romance writer who doesn't believe in his own love stories.
Angie is out to put the marriage halter on boyfriend Joe, but Joe has dreams of adventure.
An artist seeks the perfect model for a painting of a Madonna. In the process of his search, he becomes involved in a murder case.
A Wall Street maverick is sent south for health reasons and encounters a man who is his exact double.
A woman's curiosity uncovers a neatly executed murder.
Calvin is an unemployed comedian who tries to make some easy money in a gold mine venture, which leads to the usual sitcom complications.
A child's face helps restore a disabled vet's self-confidence.
A man thinks his nutty aunt has killed someone.
A timid young man is forced to follow in his father's footsteps as the "shootin' sheriff."
A widowed actress who formerly teamed with her husband in all her performances is finding it hard to get a solo acting job. She becomes a cosmetic saleswoman and tries to succeed at that.
A mother loses her husband and her sons and withdraws into herself, even shutting out her daughter.
A meddling mother-in-law and a near tragic auto mishap cause a desperate young wife, trying to save her shaky marriage, to become trapped in a murder scheme.
The story of a Hollywood couple who are on their way to Nevada for a divorce.
1954
Mrs. MacDowell makes daydream plans for her young college professor son in the belief that pretending will make them so.
1957
An abusive husband gives his wife no choice but to retreat from her world of pain and degradation.
Having survived a plane crash in the jungle, Henty finds a fortress-like home in the middle of nowhere, belonging to the affable Mr. McMaster. The latter doesn't want Henty to leave.
82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.
Todays theme is The Road to Edinburgh.
Played out on a stylized, dramatically lit set, I am a fool is a classic story of a heartsick and foolish farm boy who takes on a false identity to impress a beautiful girl and in so doing loses the love of his life forever.
A man who has a face no one can remember is suckered into serving as the stooge for a bank robbery.
Newspaper reporter turned novelist Dan Holiday is kidnapped, framed for murder, and held in an asylum before he escapes and proves his innocence
A hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.
Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians perform an program of Christmas music.
1922, civil war in Ireland. A suspect is captured after a bloody ambush.
Singer Johnnie Pulaski goes on an important audition and impresses. There is one condition that makes him want to refuse their offer--they ask him to change his last name. His girlfriend convinces him that the name is unimportant if he can sing. Ray, as Pulaski, introduces a new single, "Path to Paradise."
Boxer Jim Corbett returns to face Joe Louis in the ring.
When Lincoln and Mary Todd were married, he had the phrase, "Love is Eternal", inscribed in her wedding band. Though years of loneliness and disappointment seem to disprove this sentiment, the historic pair finally realize its truth.
A struggling photographer runs over a dog while driving near the home of an actress. Little does he know that this insignificant auto accident will lead to his involvement in murder.
A film producer of B-movie Westerns has to hire a big-name actor's relative who is extremely incompetent for the chosen epic film.
Circus clown Emmett Kelly creates his famous character Weary Willie.
A traveling lecturer wants to retire and spend more time with her son.
Embittered by his wife's death during the birth of their eighth child, an Irishman refuses to set eyes on the girl and acknowledges only seven children.
An ex-gunfighter, after hiding his identity for years, enters a shooting contest to raise money for a windmill in hopes he can provide water to his family farm.
A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadblocks.
A movie director has a grudge against an actor and makes life very hard on everyone.
What better place for romance than in a classroom, especially a French class? That's the reasoning of a lonely boy and a lonely girl who enroll in a French class with hopes of learning anything but the language.
Pio, a bartender in Capri, has dreamed all his life of going to America. He asks two American tourists to help him find a way to make his dream come true.
One-time film star plans her anniversary to be as romantic as her honeymoon.
George Hogan, undefeated middleweight champion of the world, retires from the ring. But new champion Eddie Seaboard wants to force him out of retirement and taunts him in front of his young son. When Hogan refuses to fight, the youngster loses faith in his father.
Broken Lance, Kansas hires gunfighter Buchanan Smith to drive out a ruthless gang of outlaws who have taken over the town. Smith is faced with an additional problem when Joe Breed, head of the gang, hires a notorious killer to kill him.
Professor Arthur Barris is unsympathetic when Jack Evans, an Army veteran and a father, falls behind in his grades. Barris refuses to allow for Evans' adjustment from Army to college life. But Jack's mother, with womanly charm, intervenes.
After killing a man in a drunken brawl, wagon maker Joe Turner swears that he will never drink again. Joe and his wife settle in a small town hoping to start a new life. But the vicious town boss starts a campaign to drive the Turners out of town.
J. Willingham Bardley is a staid and refined businessman with an eye on the presidency of his firm, until he is shaken by the arrival of a mischievous imp.
When Dr. Mark Andrews meets tyrannical society woman, Katherine Belmont, he believes her caustic attitude is caused by a fear that she is losing her sight. He persuades her to undergo a cornea-transplant operation
A cowboy helps a young runaway learn the meaning of Christmas by telling the boy the story of "A Christmas Carol," changed to the American west.
A young boy aboard a small plane has to try and land with radio help from the ground.
A happily married couple is separated when the husband is called to Cairo on a business trip. His letters tell her constantly of his devotion, and she lives for his return.
A sheriff struggles to keep his job even as he loses his hearing.
A woman trying to nurse her desperately ill husband back to health is faced with a powerful temptation when an author-friend of theirs comes to visit.
Todays theme is Incident.
"The Last Town Car" was a two-part original drama, the story of a widow who develops a consuming fear when strange and inexplicable events occur involving a 1925 Rolls-Royce town car being used as a taxicab and its secretive driver. In Part One, Edith Miller (Claudette Colbert) tells psychiatrist Jonathan Michael (Kent Smith) of terrifying events connected with the car, of delusions about people of another era who appear mysteriously, and of a driver (Harry Tyler) who bears her frightening contempt each time she rides in the car. Her consuming fear about her delusions...
"The Last Town Car" was a two-part original drama, the story of a widow who develops a consuming fear when strange and inexplicable events occur involving a 1925 Rolls-Royce town car being used as a taxicab and its secretive driver. In Part One, Edith Miller (Claudette Colbert) tells psychiatrist Jonathan Michael (Kent Smith) of terrifying events connected with the car, of delusions about people of another era who appear mysteriously, and of a driver (Harry Tyler) who bears her frightening contempt each time she rides in the car. Her consuming fear about her delusions...
A roving peddler becomes stranded in a rural community in the deep South. Appalled by the pitiable existence of one of the families he meets, he finds himself performing the first unselfish deed of his life.
Ruth and her lover David are caught having an affair by her husband John. When John refuses to give Ruth a divorce, David shoots him. Before Ruth and David can make plans to cover up the murder, John's blind friend Chris shows up.
A strange, unearthly, inarticulate little man is found clinging to a piece of driftwood off the New England coast. His utter confusion in a modern-day environment suggests that he is from another world.
An alcoholic reaches the bottom one night. Six weeks later, he is recovering and begins helping other alcoholics who believe they have nowhere to turn.
Todays theme is The Cold Touch.
A widow decides the time has come to set her life straight. She returns to the town where she lived when she was young and confesses to the murder of her husband, who had died there years before.
Stella Rutledge, traveling to the new frontier of the West, accepts temporary lodging with the Gaines family when the stagecoach breaks down. Noting the isolated family's hunger for news she entertains the two youngsters with tales about her former home, a Southern plantation, and discovers the girl plans to run away from home.
Benedict Arnold Brummel admits that he is a humorless stuffed shirt. But his routine life as a junior executive is suddenly changed one morning when it is announced in a New York gossip column that he is romancing the glamorous movie star Roselle King.
Adam Tenney is on the road to Virginia to deliver a wagonload of flour when he loses his town's income from the flour in a poker game.
A young sailor sees a pretty teenager struck by an older man in a railroad station. He restrains the man and the girl flees. Later, he learns that the man is her foster father, and she has run away because of his cruelty to her.
1953
An elderly couple of naturalized Germans living in the U. S. discovers after 60 years of marital bliss that, technically, they were never married.
Two law enforcement officers and a dangerous young outlaw fight their way back against a common enemy to civilization and surprising justice.
A single father of three attempts to raise his children and decides to hire a mother for them.
British novelist Hilary Joyce comes to America to promote his book and encounters a beautiful woman who changes his beliefs in living.
A gambler who suffers a head injury is nursed back to health by non-traditional methods and the head doctor is not thrilled by it.
A husband suspects that his wife is plotting his murder.
1960
Steve Allen played a bank executive who woke up one morning to find all his actions governed by what his neighbors -and boss thought. In a burst of independence, he decided to paint his house barn red, and when his neighbors objected, he blew his cork and painted it red, white and blue. That raised the roof, and the neighborhood called a meeting to decide whether to sue him for creating a public nuisance. Allen didn't like the colors anyway, and was ready to give in and repaint, but not until he could make his point about conformity before the meeting. This he did so well, everybody congratulated him as a courageous, forward-thinking individualist and urged him to keep the house just the way it was. He started to do this until, with a jolt, he realized he'd fallen into the trap of conformity again, and if he didn’t like the house the way it was, he was darn well gonna change it.
Tom Parkes is still attached to the memory of his first wife. Jo, his new wife, vows to win his complete affection.
Harness racing driver, Al Roberts, fights viciously to bring in the big money. And at home he has no patience with his son Joey and pushes the boy around.
A presentation of the 1960 episode of the same name.
Super rare GE Theater written by Budd Schulberg, Memory in White, stars Sammy Davis as a punch drunk boxer trying to start a new life as a ring announcer while being tormented by Charles Bronson.
A nattily dressed gentleman climbs out of a manhole, goes down the street to the home of the Willoughbys and introduces himself to Mrs. Willoughby as Nick Lucifer, alias Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness.
Todays theme is A Little White Lye.
Todays theme is A Possibility of Oi
New York Detective Joe McQueen would like to know how to get Grover Healy, his freeloading brother-in-law, out of his house. But it isn't until smalltime hoodlum Willy Zucks shows up at McQueen's home that Grover considers leaving.
A shady operator named Pegosi tries to get a gullible actress, Leslie Blaine, to buy a miniature live elephant for a publicity stunt. When a magician named Trapollini tells Pegosi he'd like one too, Pegosi realizes he many actually have to produce the animal.
A special showing of the Albert Lamorisse 1956 French film featuring Lamorisse's son, Pascal.
Connie Marlowe is responsible for orphaned younger brother, Buzz. He hopes to win some money in a father-son bowling match, so he asks Connie to get a stand-in father for him.
Comic Sid Benton takes a hard-boiled, cynical view of life in his nightclub act where it pays off. But when he runs this attitude over into his private life, he loses his wife's affections.
Judge Cyrus Dunn is determined to get away for a holiday fishing trip. But at the last moment, his wife Betsy insists that the gardener's salary must be paid. This leaves the judge with no ready cash for his trip.
1956
Julia Courtney, a retired actress, lives in a theatrical boarding house. When one of the residents is murdered, all of the residents are under suspicion. The chief suspect is a young friend of Julia's, played by Vera Miles.
Ralph and Laura Whitemore have suffered many financial disappointments in their life together. But when a "sure thing" comes along at last, they eagerly await the phone call that will bring their "pot of gold".
Yankees take over the Southern home of a young girl and her sick mother who are caring for an injured Confederate deserter.
After her baby dies in childbirth, Alice Kellen retreats into a world of her own. As she sinks deeper into fantasy, her husband tries a desperate measure to snap her back to reality.
In 1829, a stranger enters a tavern to take shelter from the storm. He finds an old friend from the war of 1812, and the two men have a drink. The inn is crowded with townspeople, all of whom are celebrating tomorrow's hanging.
A cancer therapist defends himself against a charge of fraud made by a newspaperwoman and a doctor.
A young mountain girl marries a widower with four children and goes to live in his rustic cabin. Not only does she find the unfamiliar routine hard, but she must face the task of winning over the frightened youngsters.
Author Emily Marsden secludes herself in a small village after quarreling with her husband. There, she learns a lot about her own difficulties by trying to help someone else.
A cynical intellectual shelters a 15-year-old boy who is wanted for murder.
A retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants.
Evvy, who lives with her parents in New Mexico, has met few boys. When the town bully, Ray Poole, becomes interested in her she is both confused and frightened.
Lydia Shaw, wife of a successful lawyer, is being blackmailed by a man who has some love letters she wrote before her marriage. Afraid to let her husband find out about the romance, Lydia agrees to pay off her former sweetheart.
Two brothers, one a doctor the other a fast-draw Sheriff, live in conflict with each other in a town that is run by a ruthless saloon owner.
A young fighter lets his winnings go to his head. His more experienced fighter is worried that he will go over the top, so he sets out to teach the "boy" a lesson.
Wandering cowboy Britt Ponset finds himself caught in the middle of a dispute between mine owner "Silver Annie" Huxley, the leaders of Virtue City, and the railroad, which wants to builds tracks across her property.
During World War 2, a ship's captain picks up the survivors of a torpedoed ship. Among those rescued are a pretty Eurasian girl and a sinister-appearing man.
A man about to retire from his job at a department store after 30 years of service plots to make off with $50,000 from the store's safe.
An accountant by day and novelist by night, Miss Burrows has grown tired of rejection notices from publishers. Her latest submission is about an author who shoots an editor after his book is rejected.
Todays theme is The Victorian Chaise Longue.
An ex-gunfighter goes against his boss and teaches the son how to shoot. He also falls in love with the boss's daughter. But when he gets involved in a gunfight in town, his boss sends him passing and turns his two children against him.
A female taxicab driver finds a dead man in the back seat of her cab, and a persistent suitor in the person of the detective who investigates the case.
An Army nurse resorts to a cruel ruse in an attempt to rouse a young sergeant from complete apathy and possible death.
After he has invested in a publishing firm, a Broadway star is shocked to learn that it prints unsavory literature. He argues with the publisher, strikes the man, and is convinced he is guilty of murder.
A cavalry captain and his small band are out-numbered by Comanche Indians. When the company surgeon offers to tend the fatally wounded son of the attacking chief, the captain must choose between certain death for the surgeon and safety for the rest.
1955
A stagecoach driver and cavalry officer vie for the affections of a young lady traveling west with them.
A young boy (army brat) Struggles between his father and a deserter
While on duty on a lonely beach, a sailor meets a beautiful girl. It's love at first sight for the boy. But he learns that the girl is blind and pledged to marry another if her vision is restored.
A promising and intelligent young man has great success in the ring. His mother wants him to continue his education, but his father and his manager want him to become a fighter.
A police detective discovers that his future father-in-law and fellow cop has taken a bribe.
Orphaned Prosper sets out from his mining camp for San Francisco. He's looking for a mother to bring back to the camp. And he finds one, a kindly old eccentric who drinks medicine liberally flavored with 'hootch'.
A manager and his big time singing protegee have been engaged a long time. But he's too busy booking her to take time off for marriage. Finally, the strain of overwork becomes too much for the songstress.
A scarecrow is brought to life by a witch and made to pose as a nobleman.
A man is torn between his conscience and loyalty when a friend shoots an Indian in the back. Even though the Indian had been an idol of his son's, the man at first refuses to aid local townspeople in the arrest of the murderer.
A writer stops at a sleepy southern town intending to debunk a legend concerning a confederate soldier leaving a local girl for the battlefields, never to return. He soon realizes that he and a girl he's fallen in love with are descendants of those people.
A retelling of the Nativity story from the viewpoint of the innkeeper's wife.
Set in 1882 Paris, a young girl gets her big break for the Paris Ballet after much sacrifice from her mother.
A carpenter returns to his village, discouraged by his lack of success and respect.
A mysteriously familiar stranger sees fit to practice a bit of magic on a lazy, selfish Ozark hillbilly.
Mr. Parkinson's life has followed a familiar pattern up to now: working at his brokerage job during the week and playing golf on weekends. He's a happy, ordinary chap -- until the fact that he is secretly a poet is brought to light.
A young man becomes infatuated with the older Countess and the Countess falls for the young man, unaware that the young man plans to wed his childhood sweetheart.
A piano tuner, known for his honesty, is caught up in a crime when stolen jewels are hastily hidden in his tool bag. He doesn't realize he's got them until he gets to his girl's home, when her no-account brother hatches a scheme to blackmail him into surrendering the baubles to him, just as the thief is coming to recover them himself.
Police detective Dan "Irish" Murphy has a more than professional interest in finding the murderer of a door-to-door salesman. The man is found stabbed in Murphy's home, with Mrs. Murphy lying unconscious nearby.
Once an internationally respected statesman, former Senator Ryder is now in his 90s, and his life is turned upside down when a young history scholar, Walter Shelley, decides he wants one of Ryder's treasures: a letter written to him by Queen Victoria.
The story of scientist Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the man who "made" lightning. He did research for General Electric and then went on to become a professor of Union College in Schenectady.
An embittered spinster lives on her brother's ranch in Mexico. She becomes attracted to a young ranch hand, and when he doesn't return her affection she decides to get revenge.
A successful actress is torn between the desire to marry and settle down, and the urge to continue her career on the stage. Her producer is against her plans to leave the stage, for a number of reasons.
A family endures a difficult time and comes together during Easter.
Todays theme is a Judy Garland Musical Special.
An honest, hard-working husband is accused of being a thief, though he is proven innocent, the incident has a great effect on his life.
An Amish girl decides to find adventure in a big city before getting married.
When a schoolteacher fails one of her students, she tries to show her student compassion and understanding.
A little boy in a small town hotel is the only one who believes that a washed up elderly employee used to be a top notch railroad brakeman.
A frantic mother tries desperately to find her husband to inform him that their little girl has been hospitalized in severe shock after being hit by a car.
A movie director has a grudge against an actor and makes life very hard on everyone.
1959
Newsman Paul Stylos follows the story of Harry Pell, a cunning murderer who has managed to elude capture. Stylos contacts Pell's former military captain Joe Kittridge, then tricks him into agreeing to be the bait that could entice Pell into a trap.
"Night Club," based on a story by Katherine Brusn. Is about a powder-room attendant in a night club who has become a cynic as the result of years of watching and listening to female patrons.
In Korea, a Marine lieutenant is unpopular because he insists on adhering to the book even in the most crucial combat situations.
Miss Winoah Kelsey lives alone in her large Southern mansion. One night during a violent flood, a young man enters a second-story window of her home and threatens to kill her.
A man is considering running for national office and to clinch the deal his wife throws a party with a powerful Washington lawmaker in attendance.
The United States information officer in a small village in Southeast Asia has little faith in the fight against communism. His attitude provokes a conflict with Emily Skinner, the dedicated librarian.
Six-year-old Barnaby Baxter longs to go hunting with his father. He wishes on a star for a fairy godmother who can make his dream come true and is answered by a cigar-smoking, pink-winged fairy godfather named O'Malley.
Stan Mayor is a well-known movie comic whose face fits his talents as a clown. When his girl friend refuses to take him seriously and expresses admiration for handsome men, Stan decides to make a drastic change.
A tailor has a dream of becoming a committeeman, but because he's Italian-American he feels his chances are slight.
Small-time comic Eddie Miller hears that a big producer is looking for an unknown comedian to star in his new Broadway review. Eddie begs his agent to get him an audition.
A black man who is maligned by his military peers. They play jokes on him to see his reaction; and he soon becomes "The Patsy" for their abusive entertainment. They lose all respect for him until they play their last "joke" on him; and through his selfless act of boundless courage he makes them realize that he is a better man than the lot of them combined.
Todays theme is The Story of Judith.
A small town girl comes to New York to forget a recent tragedy only to have her life threatened by a masked strange
Arthur Martin makes his living at home, writing articles for a monthly magazine. But working at home has its disadvantages: the family hardly ever leaves him at peace.
A new preacher comes to town and is not quite up to the challenges that lie ahead of him.
A two character melodrama about an embittered woman who checks into a transient hotel late at night. The night clerk finds her attractive and accepts an invitation to her room for a drink, however he does not like what he sees after pouring a drink, a .38 automatic in the hand of his hostess.
TV-news cameraman Jonathan Love is in Acapulco, Mexico covering the mysterious torpedoing of a freighter. Not far behind is his inevitable competition: Hank Wahr, cameraman for a rival TV news service.
1958
A plumber receives a late night call for a job that turns out to be with a gang of jewel thieves.
Robert "Spider" Johnson is stationed in Germany in 1951, where he is "adopted" as a father by an orphaned boy. Spider is a taciturn man, preferring to remain alone to hide the pain of his own orphaned youth. When he encounters an abandoned boy nicknamed Joe Louis, however, Spider feels an emotional bond with the child. He becomes unnerved though, when the boy mistakenly believes that the soldier is his father. Spider leaves town, denying that he has become attached to the orphan. But when Joe hides in the back of Spider's jeep, the soldier must confront his paternal ...
A football hero on the skids returns to his hometown. He and his ex-wife Mary purchased a rare Picasso for a song on their honeymoon, and he needs cash.
Todays theme is At Miss Minner's.
A man serving time for stealing jewels insists that he is innocent and spends every waking moment plotting revenge against those he claims framed him.
The one-ring circus run by Anthony Mullins begins to prosper when a handsome trapeze artist, Angeli, joins the troupe. But Mullins is upset when his fiancee, Sue Ellen, becomes fascinated with Angeli.
A champion rodeo rider, though getting older, refuses to retire to a ranch house, even though his fiancée begs him to. After another rider and friend of them both is killed during a show, she gives him a choice, quit and marry her or she'll leave him.
Paul Ashcroft is traveling through the French Riviera equipped with a bicycle and a kit for disguises. He gains entrance to a vacant mansion, passing himself off as one M. Durobat, and proceeds to work his charm on local gambling devotees.
Retelling of the biblical tale of David and Goliath.
In this musical comedy set in the 1870s, Silas Haley wants his daughter to marry a city slicker. Matilda, however, has her eyes on a good looking trapper.
A ransom is demanded for a baby elephant missing from a hotel room.
Setting out on his vacation, newspaper reporter Mike Hackett comes across an auto accident. The injured driver is a well-known Hungarian scientist. His unharmed passenger, a young lady hitchhiker, blames the accident on the scientist.
The Incredible Jewel Robbery was an episode of General Electric Theater, broadcast by CBS on March 8, 1959. It was the first appearance of all three Marx Brothers together in the same scene since A Night in Casablanca in 1946, although they had appeared in individual scenes in The Story of Mankind in 1957, and in pairs in Love Happy in 1949. Jewel Robbery would prove to be their last joint TV appearance. Harpo and Chico play Harry and Nick, two inept would-be robbers who try to pull a jewelry heist. Chico is disguised in a police uniform, and Harpo wears, of all things, a Groucho Marx disguise. When they are caught and placed in a police lineup, the real Groucho shows up inexplicably and is immediately fingered as the thief. Groucho then delivers the only line in the otherwise silent program: "We won't talk until we see our lawyer!" Everybody gives each other their leg, and the You Bet Your Life duck drops down with "The End" in its beak. CBS explained the show as follows: "If you watch the show you'll see a familiar face equipped with mustache and leer. Because of his contract terms, his name can't be mentioned, but he is not Jerry Colonna."
It is the year 1880, and Elizabeth a lovely miss from the East, is preparing to journey West to marry her fiance. Elizabeth's mother cautions her about the Wild West, but the young girl assures her that the pioneer country has been tamed.
Martha Allen's husband and teenage offspring seem to be taking her for granted. To win recognition, she decides to learn how to fly an airplane.
When Julius Caesar and his roman legions prepare to enter the Egyptian kingdom of Cleopatra, the terrified young queen flees.
Nora's husband Judge Wayne Douglas has been nominated for DA. He fires his campaign manager Neil Watson for receiving a questionable campaign contribution. Neil then asks Nora for a favor, reminding her of the favor he once did for her.
Todays theme is Nobody's Child.
1961
In a Cold War tale, two Soviets are in an occupied Eastern European country. One is the womanizing martinet who gets himself murdered, and the other is the sympathetic Russian.
In the pioneering days of the 1760's in frontier Pennsylvania, a spirited Amish woman takes matters into her own hands when her husband-to-be refuses to bear arms against the Indians threatening the community.
An office worker named Alma can't get her bookkeeper boy friend Stanley to pop the question. His excuse: no nest egg. Her solution: make a killing at the races - with money from the office petty cash box.
A young mountain girl plans on buying fine dresses with the prize money she hopes to win for her woodcarving at the county fair.
General Electric Theater
Newlyweds Paul and Carol Madsen have scarcely settled in their new apartment when the phone begins ringing. The caller is a psychotic crank who drives Carol to near hysteria.
A wealthy recluse felt that her last years had been made happier by the guidance of Reverend Theodore Carlisle, and she named him as the major beneficiary of her will.
Successful businessman, George Harris, is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from the police. His teen-age boy, Sonny, is being held for grand larceny.
The exploits of Robert Hale, a US Treasury Department agent. Hale recruits a civilian locksmith named Johnny Henderson to help retrieve stolen currency plates.
Young Randy's insistence that his invisible friend Tippy-Top is real causes friction between his mother and the man she intends to marry. Mom humors her son, but Bob wants to convince the boy that his best buddy is imaginary.
The gridiron feats of Bud Austin are still talked about in his home town, but Bud's infant son will never grow up to follow in his father's footsteps. Tests have shown that the year-old baby is mentally disabled.
When his daughter Margie announces her intention to marry young Fred Judson, John Graham is disturbed. He believes the couple is too young for marriage and, more importantly, unprepared for the independence he believes marriage requires. Margie and Fred seem content to live on hand-outs from their parents, but John seems the only parent to think that's a bad idea. No matter what he says, the two insist on marrying, even if John won't attend the wedding. Eventually, it's what John doesn't say that affects their decision.
Todays theme is Go Fight City Hall.
A high school basketball coach is concerned when his star player skips practice to study for an exam.
Howard Douglas is driving through a deserted section of the city when he notices a body lying in the street. Stopping to investigate, he finds himself surrounded by a gang of teenagers armed with zip guns and switchblades.
Max Grossblatt, an elderly Chicago tailor, dreams of being able to visit his son Larry in California. But on a tailor's salary, all that Max can afford is dreams
Successful, attractive society-reporter, Alice Lockman, wouldn't mind being married. But the available eligible bachelors really don't measure up to Alice's standards - or her mother's either.
After a housewife attends a meeting of the Alien Protection Committee, an FBI agent informs her that the Committee is suspected of being a Communist front organization. He asks her to join as a spy
After Marion Miller testifies before a Congressional committee concerning her years as an anti-communists spy, she looks forward to a peaceful life as a housewife. But it seems the Communists have other ideas.
Detective Hercule Poirot investigates the disappearance of Mr. Davenheim.
Orlovsky, a Russian defector, falls in love with Miriam Raskin, the widowed daughter of a rabbi. Although Orlovsky moved away from religion as a child, he re-connects to his Jewish tradition through Miriam, who is preparing to celebrate her son's bar mitzvah.
After eight years of marriage, a woman is happy to finally become pregnant. Her doctors discover she has a heart defect that could kill her if she goes through childbirth.
Western comedy about a pharmacist and his son at the turn of the 20th century.
The Story of Ben, an engineering student works nights in a supermarket to support his family.
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