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 - Blaze of Glory
Release Date: 1958-09-21A plumber receives a late night call for a job that turns out to be with a gang of jewel thieves.
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Episode 2 - One is a Wanderer
Release Date: 1958-09-28 -
Episode 3 - Auf Wiedersehen
Release Date: 1958-10-05Robert "Spider" Johnson is stationed in Germany in 1951, where he is "adopted" as a father by an orphaned boy. Spider is a taciturn man, preferring to remain alone to hide the pain of his own orphaned youth. When he encounters an abandoned boy nicknamed Joe Louis, however, Spider feels an emotional bond with the child. He becomes unnerved though, when the boy mistakenly believes that the soldier is his father. Spider leaves town, denying that he has become attached to the orphan. But when Joe hides in the back of Spider's jeep, the soldier must confront his paternal ...
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Episode 4 - The Castaway
Release Date: 1958-10-12 -
Episode 5 - The World's Greatest Quarterback
Release Date: 1958-10-19A football hero on the skids returns to his hometown. He and his ex-wife Mary purchased a rare Picasso for a song on their honeymoon, and he needs cash.
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Episode 6 - At Miss Minner's
Release Date: 1958-10-26Todays theme is At Miss Minner's.
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Episode 7 - Battle for a Soul
Release Date: 1958-11-02A man serving time for stealing jewels insists that he is innocent and spends every waking moment plotting revenge against those he claims framed him.
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Episode 8 - A Question of Romance
Release Date: 1958-11-09 -
Episode 9 - The Falling Angel
Release Date: 1958-11-16The one-ring circus run by Anthony Mullins begins to prosper when a handsome trapeze artist, Angeli, joins the troupe. But Mullins is upset when his fiancee, Sue Ellen, becomes fascinated with Angeli.
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Episode 10 - A Turkey for the President
Release Date: 1958-11-23 -
Episode 11 - The Last Rodeo
Release Date: 1958-12-07A champion rodeo rider, though getting older, refuses to retire to a ranch house, even though his fiancée begs him to. After another rider and friend of them both is killed during a show, she gives him a choice, quit and marry her or she'll leave him.
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Episode 12 - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Release Date: 1958-12-14 -
Episode 13 - The Odd Ball
Release Date: 1958-12-28 -
Episode 14 - And One Was Loyal
Release Date: 1959-01-04 -
Episode 15 - Man on a Bicycle
Release Date: 1959-01-11Paul Ashcroft is traveling through the French Riviera equipped with a bicycle and a kit for disguises. He gains entrance to a vacant mansion, passing himself off as one M. Durobat, and proceeds to work his charm on local gambling devotees.
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Episode 16 - The Stone
Release Date: 1959-01-18Retelling of the biblical tale of David and Goliath.
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Episode 17 - Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home?
Release Date: 1959-01-25 -
Episode 18 - No Man Can Tame Me
Release Date: 1959-02-01In this musical comedy set in the 1870s, Silas Haley wants his daughter to marry a city slicker. Matilda, however, has her eyes on a good looking trapper.
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Episode 19 - The Last Lesson
Release Date: 1959-02-08 -
Episode 20 - I Was a Bloodhound
Release Date: 1959-02-15A ransom is demanded for a baby elephant missing from a hotel room.
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Episode 21 - The Family Man
Release Date: 1959-02-22 -
Episode 22 - Deed of Mercy
Release Date: 1959-03-01Setting out on his vacation, newspaper reporter Mike Hackett comes across an auto accident. The injured driver is a well-known Hungarian scientist. His unharmed passenger, a young lady hitchhiker, blames the accident on the scientist.
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Episode 23 - The Incredible Jewel Robbery
Release Date: 1959-03-08The Incredible Jewel Robbery was an episode of General Electric Theater, broadcast by CBS on March 8, 1959. It was the first appearance of all three Marx Brothers together in the same scene since A Night in Casablanca in 1946, although they had appeared in individual scenes in The Story of Mankind in 1957, and in pairs in Love Happy in 1949. Jewel Robbery would prove to be their last joint TV appearance. Harpo and Chico play Harry and Nick, two inept would-be robbers who try to pull a jewelry heist. Chico is disguised in a police uniform, and Harpo wears, of all things, a Groucho Marx disguise. When they are caught and placed in a police lineup, the real Groucho shows up inexplicably and is immediately fingered as the thief. Groucho then delivers the only line in the otherwise silent program: "We won't talk until we see our lawyer!" Everybody gives each other their leg, and the You Bet Your Life duck drops down with "The End" in its beak. CBS explained the show as follows: "If you watch the show you'll see a familiar face equipped with mustache and leer. Because of his contract terms, his name can't be mentioned, but he is not Jerry Colonna."
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Episode 24 - Train for Tecumseh
Release Date: 1959-03-15 -
Episode 25 - The Lady's Choice
Release Date: 1959-03-22It is the year 1880, and Elizabeth a lovely miss from the East, is preparing to journey West to marry her fiance. Elizabeth's mother cautions her about the Wild West, but the young girl assures her that the pioneer country has been tamed.
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Episode 26 - Beyond the Mountains
Release Date: 1959-03-29 -
Episode 27 - The Flying Wife
Release Date: 1959-04-05Martha Allen's husband and teenage offspring seem to be taking her for granted. To win recognition, she decides to learn how to fly an airplane.
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Episode 28 - Caesar and Cleopatra
Release Date: 1959-04-12When Julius Caesar and his roman legions prepare to enter the Egyptian kingdom of Cleopatra, the terrified young queen flees.
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Episode 29 - Robbie and His Mary
Release Date: 1959-04-19 -
Episode 30 - Nora
Release Date: 1959-05-03Nora's husband Judge Wayne Douglas has been nominated for DA. He fires his campaign manager Neil Watson for receiving a questionable campaign contribution. Neil then asks Nora for a favor, reminding her of the favor he once did for her.
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Episode 31 - Nobody's Child
Release Date: 1959-05-10Todays theme is Nobody's Child.
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Episode 32 - The Indian Giver
Release Date: 1959-05-17