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 Man Who Thought for Himself
Release Date: 1960-09-18Steve Allen played a bank executive who woke up one morning to find all his actions governed by what his neighbors -and boss thought. In a burst of independence, he decided to paint his house barn red, and when his neighbors objected, he blew his cork and painted it red, white and blue. That raised the roof, and the neighborhood called a meeting to decide whether to sue him for creating a public nuisance. Allen didn't like the colors anyway, and was ready to give in and repaint, but not until he could make his point about conformity before the meeting. This he did so well, everybody congratulated him as a courageous, forward-thinking individualist and urged him to keep the house just the way it was. He started to do this until, with a jolt, he realized he'd fallen into the trap of conformity again, and if he didn’t like the house the way it was, he was darn well gonna change it.
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Episode 2 - Journal of Hope
Release Date: 1960-09-25 -
Episode 3 - Hooray for Love
Release Date: 1960-10-02 -
Episode 4 - Swinging Singing Years
Release Date: 1960-10-09 -
Episode 5 - Goodbye, My Love
Release Date: 1960-10-16 -
Episode 6 - The Camel`s Foot
Release Date: 1960-10-23 -
Episode 7 - The Graduation Dress
Release Date: 1960-10-30 -
Episode 8 - The Influential Americans
Release Date: 1960-11-13 -
Episode 9 - The Playoff
Release Date: 1960-11-20 -
Episode 10 - Journey to a Wedding
Release Date: 1960-11-27 -
Episode 11 - Learn to Say Goodbye
Release Date: 1960-12-04Tom Parkes is still attached to the memory of his first wife. Jo, his new wife, vows to win his complete affection.
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Episode 12 - Strictly Solo
Release Date: 1960-12-11 -
Episode 13 - The Money Driver
Release Date: 1960-12-18Harness racing driver, Al Roberts, fights viciously to bring in the big money. And at home he has no patience with his son Joey and pushes the boy around.
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Episode 14 - The Other Wise Man
Release Date: 1960-12-25A presentation of the 1960 episode of the same name.
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Episode 15 - Don't Let It Throw You
Release Date: 1961-01-01 -
Episode 16 - Memory in White
Release Date: 1961-01-08Super rare GE Theater written by Budd Schulberg, Memory in White, stars Sammy Davis as a punch drunk boxer trying to start a new life as a ring announcer while being tormented by Charles Bronson.
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Episode 17 - The Devil You Say
Release Date: 1961-01-22A nattily dressed gentleman climbs out of a manhole, goes down the street to the home of the Willoughbys and introduces himself to Mrs. Willoughby as Nick Lucifer, alias Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness.
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Episode 18 - The Drop-Out
Release Date: 1961-01-29 -
Episode 19 - A Little White Lye
Release Date: 1961-02-05Todays theme is A Little White Lye.
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Episode 20 - The Legend That Walks Like a Man
Release Date: 1961-02-12 -
Episode 21 - A Possibility of Oil
Release Date: 1961-02-19Todays theme is A Possibility of Oi
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Episode 22 - Image of a Doctor
Release Date: 1961-02-26 -
Episode 23 - Open House
Release Date: 1961-03-05New York Detective Joe McQueen would like to know how to get Grover Healy, his freeloading brother-in-law, out of his house. But it isn't until smalltime hoodlum Willy Zucks shows up at McQueen's home that Grover considers leaving.
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Episode 24 - The Small Elephants
Release Date: 1961-03-12A shady operator named Pegosi tries to get a gullible actress, Leslie Blaine, to buy a miniature live elephant for a publicity stunt. When a magician named Trapollini tells Pegosi he'd like one too, Pegosi realizes he many actually have to produce the animal.
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Episode 25 - Love is a Lion's Roar
Release Date: 1961-03-19 -
Episode 26 - Labor of Love
Release Date: 1961-03-26 -
Episode 27 - The Red Balloon
Release Date: 1961-04-02A special showing of the Albert Lamorisse 1956 French film featuring Lamorisse's son, Pascal.
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Episode 28 - Sis Bowls 'Em Over
Release Date: 1961-04-09Connie Marlowe is responsible for orphaned younger brother, Buzz. He hopes to win some money in a father-son bowling match, so he asks Connie to get a stand-in father for him.
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Episode 29 - The Joke's on Me
Release Date: 1961-04-16Comic Sid Benton takes a hard-boiled, cynical view of life in his nightclub act where it pays off. But when he runs this attitude over into his private life, he loses his wife's affections.
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Episode 30 - My Darling Judge
Release Date: 1961-04-23Judge Cyrus Dunn is determined to get away for a holiday fishing trip. But at the last moment, his wife Betsy insists that the gardener's salary must be paid. This leaves the judge with no ready cash for his trip.
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Episode 31 - Louie and the Horseless Buggy
Release Date: 1961-04-30