General Electric Theater (1953)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Golden Years
Release Date: 1961-09-10 -
Episode 2 - The Iron Silence
Release Date: 1961-09-24In 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.
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Episode 3 - Cat in the Cradle
Release Date: 1961-10-01 -
Episode 4 - A Musket for Jessica
Release Date: 1961-10-08In 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.
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Episode 5 - The $200 Parlay
Release Date: 1961-10-15An 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.
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Episode 6 - The Wish Book
Release Date: 1961-10-22A young mountain girl plans on buying fine dresses with the prize money she hopes to win for her woodcarving at the county fair.
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Episode 7 - The Great Alberti
Release Date: 1961-11-05 -
Episode 8 - Star Witness: The Lili Parrish Story
Release Date: 1961-11-12General Electric Theater
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Episode 9 - A Voice on the Phone
Release Date: 1961-11-19Newlyweds 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.
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Episode 10 - Money and the Minister
Release Date: 1961-11-26A 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.
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Episode 11 - We're Holding Your Son
Release Date: 1961-12-03Successful 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.
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Episode 12 - Call to Danger
Release Date: 1961-12-10The exploits of Robert Hale, a US Treasury Department agent. Hale recruits a civilian locksmith named Johnny Henderson to help retrieve stolen currency plates.
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Episode 13 - Tippy-Top
Release Date: 1961-12-17Young 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.
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Episode 14 - A Friendly Tribe
Release Date: 1961-12-31 -
Episode 15 - The Wall Between
Release Date: 1962-01-07The 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.
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Episode 16 - The Hold-Out
Release Date: 1962-01-14When 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.
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Episode 17 - The Little Hours
Release Date: 1962-01-21 -
Episode 18 - Go Fight City Hall
Release Date: 1962-01-28Todays theme is Go Fight City Hall.
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Episode 19 - Shadow of a Hero
Release Date: 1962-02-04A high school basketball coach is concerned when his star player skips practice to study for an exam.
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Episode 20 - Badge of Honor
Release Date: 1962-02-11Howard 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.
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Episode 21 - The Free Wheelers
Release Date: 1962-02-18 -
Episode 22 - Ten Days in the Sun
Release Date: 1962-03-04Max 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
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Episode 23 - A Very Special Girl
Release Date: 1962-03-11Successful, 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.
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Episode 24 - My Dark Days (1)
Release Date: 1962-03-18After 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
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Episode 25 - My Dark Days (2)
Release Date: 1962-03-25After 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.
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Episode 26 - Hercule Poirot
Release Date: 1962-04-01Detective Hercule Poirot investigates the disappearance of Mr. Davenheim.
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Episode 27 - The Bar Mitzvah of Major Orlovsky
Release Date: 1962-04-15Orlovsky, 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.
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Episode 28 - The Troubled Heart
Release Date: 1962-04-22After 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.
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Episode 29 - Mister Doc
Release Date: 1962-04-29Western comedy about a pharmacist and his son at the turn of the 20th century.
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Episode 30 - The Unstoppable Gray Fox
Release Date: 1962-05-06 -
Episode 31 - Acres and Pains
Release Date: 1962-05-13 -
Episode 32 - Somebody Please Help Me!
Release Date: 1962-05-20 -
Episode 33 - The First Hundred Years
Release Date: 1962-05-27The Story of Ben, an engineering student works nights in a supermarket to support his family.
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Episode 34 - The Roman Kind
Release Date: 1962-06-03