The Ford Television Theatre (1952)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Trouble with Youth
Release Date: 1954-09-30A middle-aged theatrical producer suddenly begins mixing with the younger set.
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Episode 2 - Daughter of Mine
Release Date: 1954-10-07 -
Episode 3 - Shadow of Truth
Release Date: 1954-10-14 -
Episode 4 - Segment
Release Date: 1954-10-21During a convention in a large city, a visiting family consisting of a man, his wife and daughter checks into a hotel. When the girl leaves, the wife's incessant nagging pushes the man into a rage building for years, and he snaps. He's going to murder his wife with a long sharp piece of glass
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Episode 5 - Trip Around the Block
Release Date: 1954-10-28 -
Episode 6 - Remember to Live
Release Date: 1954-11-04Remember to Live
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Episode 7 - The Road Ahead
Release Date: 1954-11-11 -
Episode 8 - The Summer Memory
Release Date: 1954-11-18 -
Episode 9 - The Legal Beagles
Release Date: 1954-11-25 -
Episode 10 - Girl in Flight
Release Date: 1954-12-02 -
Episode 11 - Charlie C Company
Release Date: 1954-12-09 -
Episode 12 - Portrait of Lydia
Release Date: 1954-12-16 -
Episode 13 - Slide, Darling, Slide
Release Date: 1954-12-23 -
Episode 14 - The Unbroken Promise
Release Date: 1954-12-30A man brings his fiance home to meet his teenage daughter.
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Episode 15 - Magic Formula
Release Date: 1955-01-06 -
Episode 16 - ..... and Son
Release Date: 1955-01-13 -
Episode 17 - The Stars Don't Shine
Release Date: 1955-01-20A man commits a robbery to meet payments on his fishing boat, accidentally blinding a girl in the process.
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Episode 18 - Letters Marked Personal
Release Date: 1955-01-27A man tries to capture the romance he and his wife once shared.
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Episode 19 - Touch of Spring
Release Date: 1955-02-03A wife is overcome with romance one afternoon, forgets she's married, and flirts with a handsome young doctor. She get caught up in the moment and makes a date with the man for that evening. Upon arriving home, she tells her husband about the silly predicament she's now in. Hubby decides the "other man" should come over as planned for a lesson on romance.
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Episode 20 - Pretend You're You
Release Date: 1955-02-10An honest boy meets and falls in love with an engaged girl. The boy's less than honest family decides to help the romance along.
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Episode 21 - Tomorrow We'll Love
Release Date: 1955-02-17During the Indochina War, a girl meets a young flier at a wedding. They fall in love, but the flier, sure he will be killed shortly, refuses to give up his reckless way of life.
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Episode 22 - Too Old for Dolls
Release Date: 1955-02-24Parents are concerned that their teen-aged daughter doesn't have a date for her school's formal dance. She assures them she has a boy named Al all lined up. Recalling that "Al" was the name of her imaginary childhood friend, Dad arranges for one of the boys from the office to escort her. It turns out that Al really does exist.
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Episode 23 - The Lilac Bush
Release Date: 1955-03-03On her son's fifth birthday a mother plants a lilac bush. When the boy dies, she flies into a fit of rage and attempts to destroy the bush.
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Episode 24 - Second Sight
Release Date: 1955-03-10 -
Episode 25 - Celebrity
Release Date: 1955-03-17Heiress Myla Marshall is a tabloid fixture for living the high life. The public, and her abusive ex-husband, are unaware of the son she's secretly kept at boarding schools since his birth. She was determined to save the child from the savage hands of his father. When news of the boy is leaked to the press, her hateful ex reappears and begins to rough her up. He ends up dead and Myla faces a murder trial.
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Episode 26 - Garrity's Sons
Release Date: 1955-03-24A boxing promoter gets word that his conniving brother is returning home. Years before he turned into a cheating, crooked fighter, and now is slipping. He broke the heart of a girl that still loves him, He also must win one last fight-if his brother can help him.
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Episode 27 - Hanrahan
Release Date: 1955-03-31 -
Episode 28 - Deception
Release Date: 1955-04-07A woman learns that her son, reported missing in action, is alive and returning home from Korea.
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Episode 29 - Sunday Mourn
Release Date: 1955-04-21 -
Episode 33 - Mimi
Release Date: 1955-05-19 -
Episode 36 - One Man Missing
Release Date: 1955-06-09