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 Questioning Note
Release Date: 1957-10-06 -
Episode 2 - Father and Son Night
Release Date: 1957-10-13George 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.
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Episode 3 - Thousand Dollar Gun
Release Date: 1957-10-20Broken 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.
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Episode 4 - Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour
Release Date: 1957-10-27 -
Episode 5 - Mischief at Bandy Leg
Release Date: 1957-11-03 -
Episode 6 - Cornada
Release Date: 1957-11-10 -
Episode 7 - Love Came Late
Release Date: 1957-11-17Professor 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.
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Episode 8 - The Iron Horse
Release Date: 1957-11-24After 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.
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Episode 9 - Imp on a Cobweb Leash
Release Date: 1957-12-01J. 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.
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Episode 10 - Eyes of a Stranger
Release Date: 1957-12-08When 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
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Episode 11 - The Trail to Christmas
Release Date: 1957-12-15A 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.
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Episode 12 - The Young Years
Release Date: 1957-12-22 -
Episode 13 - Kid at the Stick
Release Date: 1958-01-05A young boy aboard a small plane has to try and land with radio help from the ground.
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Episode 14 - Letters From Cairo
Release Date: 1958-01-12A 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.
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Episode 15 - Time to Go Now
Release Date: 1958-01-19 -
Episode 16 - Silent Ambush
Release Date: 1958-01-26A sheriff struggles to keep his job even as he loses his hearing.
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Episode 17 - All I Survey
Release Date: 1958-02-02A 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.
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Episode 18 - Incident
Release Date: 1958-02-09Todays theme is Incident.
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Episode 19 - The Last Town Car - 1
Release Date: 1958-02-16"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...
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Episode 20 - The Last Town Car - 2
Release Date: 1958-02-23"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...
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Episode 21 - New York Knight
Release Date: 1958-03-02 -
Episode 22 - Angel in the Air
Release Date: 1958-03-09A 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.
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Episode 23 - The Coward of Fort Bennett
Release Date: 1958-03-16 -
Episode 24 - Strange Witness
Release Date: 1958-03-23Ruth 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.
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Episode 25 - The Unfamiliar
Release Date: 1958-03-30A 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.
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Episode 26 - No Hiding Place
Release Date: 1958-04-06An alcoholic reaches the bottom one night. Six weeks later, he is recovering and begins helping other alcoholics who believe they have nowhere to turn.
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Episode 27 - The Cold Touch
Release Date: 1958-04-13Todays theme is The Cold Touch.
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Episode 28 - God is My Judge
Release Date: 1958-04-20A 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.
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Episode 29 - Stopover
Release Date: 1958-04-27Stella 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.
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Episode 30 - Ah There, Beau Brummel
Release Date: 1958-05-04Benedict 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.
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Episode 31 - Bold Loser
Release Date: 1958-05-11Adam 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.
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Episode 32 - The Young and Scared
Release Date: 1958-05-18A 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.