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 - Pretending Makes It Do
Release Date: 1954-09-12Mrs. MacDowell makes daydream plans for her young college professor son in the belief that pretending will make them so.
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Episode 2 - Too Old for the Girl
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Episode 3 - Nora #1
Release Date: 1954-09-26An abusive husband gives his wife no choice but to retreat from her world of pain and degradation.
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Episode 4 - The High Green Wall
Release Date: 1954-10-03Having 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.
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Episode 5 - The Long Way 'Round
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Episode 6 - Edison the Man
Release Date: 1954-10-1782 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.
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Episode 7 - The Road to Edinburgh
Release Date: 1954-10-31Todays theme is The Road to Edinburgh.
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Episode 8 - I'm a Fool
Release Date: 1954-11-14Played 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.
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Episode 9 - The Face Is Familiar
Release Date: 1954-11-21A man who has a face no one can remember is suckered into serving as the stooge for a bank robbery.
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Episode 10 - The Rider on the Pale Horse
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Episode 11 - Committed
Release Date: 1954-12-05Newspaper reporter turned novelist Dan Holiday is kidnapped, framed for murder, and held in an asylum before he escapes and proves his innocence
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Episode 12 - The Dark, Dark Hours
Release Date: 1954-12-12A hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.
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Episode 13 - Music for Christmas
Release Date: 1954-12-19Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians perform an program of Christmas music.
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Episode 14 - The White Steed
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Episode 15 - Amelia
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Episode 16 - D.P.
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Episode 17 - Yankee Pedler
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Episode 18 - The Martyr
Release Date: 1955-01-231922, civil war in Ireland. A suspect is captured after a bloody ambush.
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Episode 19 - The Big Shot
Release Date: 1955-01-30Singer 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."
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Episode 20 - The Return of Gentleman Jim
Release Date: 1955-02-06Boxer Jim Corbett returns to face Joe Louis in the ring.
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Episode 21 - Love Is Eternal
Release Date: 1955-02-13When 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.
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Episode 22 - The Bachelor's Bride
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Episode 23 - Episode 3.23
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Episode 24 - The Blond Dog
Release Date: 1955-03-06A 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.
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Episode 25 - War and Peace on the Range
Release Date: 1955-03-13A film producer of B-movie Westerns has to hire a big-name actor's relative who is extremely incompetent for the chosen epic film.
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Episode 26 - The Bitter Choice
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Episode 27 - Clown
Release Date: 1955-03-27Circus clown Emmett Kelly creates his famous character Weary Willie.
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Episode 28 - It Gives Me Great Pleasure
Release Date: 1955-04-03A traveling lecturer wants to retire and spend more time with her son.
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Episode 29 - O, Lonely Moon
Release Date: 1955-04-17Embittered 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.
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Episode 30 - The Windmill
Release Date: 1955-04-24An 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.
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Episode 31 - Mr. Blue Ocean
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Episode 32 - Into the Night
Release Date: 1955-05-08A 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.
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Episode 33 - A Man with a Vengeance
Release Date: 1955-05-15A movie director has a grudge against an actor and makes life very hard on everyone.
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Episode 34 - When in France
Release Date: 1955-05-22What 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.
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Episode 35 - The Half-Promised Land
Release Date: 1955-05-29Pio, 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.
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Episode 36 - Star in the House
Release Date: 1955-06-05One-time film star plans her anniversary to be as romantic as her honeymoon.
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Episode 37 - The Day He Got Fired
Release Date: 1955-06-19