The Ford Television Theatre

7.3
195230m

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.

Seasons

26 Episodes • Premiered 1952

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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.

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2. Junior

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3. National Honeymoon

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4. Birth of a Hero

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5. Girl in the Park

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6. Edge of the Law

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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.

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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.

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9. The Divided Heart

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14. They Also Serve

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16. This Is My Heart

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17. The Sermon of the Gun

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18. Adventure in Connecticut

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19. The First Born

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22. All's Fair in Love

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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.

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24. My Daughter's Husband

A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.

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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.

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26. Double Exposure

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27. To Any Soldier

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28. Just What the Doctor Ordered

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29. Allison, Ltd.

Still image for The Ford Television Theatre season 1 episode 30: The Life of the Party

30. The Life of the Party

Still image for The Ford Television Theatre season 1 episode 33: Look for Tomorrow

33. Look for Tomorrow

Still image for The Ford Television Theatre season 1 episode 34: Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

34. Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

Still image for The Ford Television Theatre season 1 episode 37: The Trestle

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.

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