The Ford Television Theatre

Season 1

1952 · 29 episodes · 0h 30m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley

   2 Oct 1952 · 30 min

   When Orrin Dooley, returning from war, is rejected by a woman for his ignorance, he enters grade school under his G.I. benefits where the woman betrothed to the insensitive principal is the teacher.

2. 2

   2. Junior

   9 Oct 1952

3. 3

   3. National Honeymoon

   16 Oct 1952

4. 4

   4. Birth of a Hero

   23 Oct 1952

5. 5

   5. Girl in the Park

   30 Oct 1952

6. 6

   6. Edge of the Law

   6 Nov 1952

7. 7

   7. Protect Her Honor

   13 Nov 1952

   A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.

8. 8

   8. Sunk

   20 Nov 1952

   An alcoholic young man demands inheritance money from the uncle who's executor of his father's estate. The uncle refuses, but makes his nephew an offer: he'll give him $15,000 if he'll travel to the South Seas and murder a man named Jake Finch. The trip to the islands involves a three-week cruise on a schooner where the sad drunk has time to reevaluate his life.

9. 9

   9. The Divided Heart

   27 Nov 1952

10. 14

    14. They Also Serve

    1 Jan 1953

11. 15

    15. It Happened in a Pawn Shop

    8 Jan 1953

    When two struggling people, a musician and young woman, make a deal in a pawnshop to resolve their individual financial shortfalls, an attraction, complicated by the woman's licentious landlady and overbearing suitor, ensues.

12. 16

    16. This Is My Heart

    15 Jan 1953

13. 17

    17. The Sermon of the Gun

    22 Jan 1953

14. 18

    18. Adventure in Connecticut

    29 Jan 1953

15. 19

    19. The First Born

    5 Feb 1953

16. 22

    22. All's Fair in Love

    26 Feb 1953

17. 23

    23. Madame 44

    5 Mar 1953

    A woman saloon owner in California, known as gunslinger "Madame 44," is tried and acquitted for murder after defending herself from a claim jumper. Later, passing for respectability in New Orleans, a suitor threatens to expose her past.

18. 24

    24. My Daughter's Husband

    12 Mar 1953

    A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.

19. 25

    25. The Bet

    19 Mar 1953

    A wealthy man, whose poor friend has stolen the man's fiancée, bets the friend a fortune that the friend can not spend ten years in solitary confinement, which bet the friend accepts, despite the love of the woman.

20. 26

    26. Double Exposure

    26 Mar 1953

21. 27

    27. To Any Soldier

    2 Apr 1953

22. 28

    28. Just What the Doctor Ordered

    9 Apr 1953

23. 29

    29. Allison, Ltd.

    16 Apr 1953

    A wealthy fashion woman, poor in youth, faces a dilemma as to whether to extract her long desired revenge on a man with whom she eloped in her youth but who allowed his rich family to annul the marriage for a débutante he wants to leave.

24. 30

    30. The Life of the Party

    23 Apr 1953

25. 32

    32. The Lady and the Champ

    7 May 1953

    A boxer strives for the middleweight championship in order to fund his friend's business venture.

26. 33

    33. Look for Tomorrow

    14 May 1953

27. 34

    34. Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

    21 May 1953

28. 36

    36. There's No Place Like Home

    4 Jun 1953

    A newspaper expose precipitates a violent quarrel between the writer and his family.

29. 37

    37. The Trestle

    11 Jun 1953

    A boy suspects his step-father is the murderer of a man who attempted to put a small town newspaper out of business.