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The Ford Television Theatre.

7.8 / 1019528 seasons146 episodesReturning Series

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

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Season 1.

Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley

1952-10-02 · 30m

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.

Junior

1952-10-09

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

National Honeymoon

1952-10-16

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

Birth of a Hero

1952-10-23

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

Girl in the Park

1952-10-30

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Edge of the Law

1952-11-06

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

Protect Her Honor

1952-11-13

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

Sunk

1952-11-20

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.

The Divided Heart

1952-11-27

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

They Also Serve

1953-01-01

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

It Happened in a Pawn Shop

1953-01-08

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.

This Is My Heart

1953-01-15

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

The Sermon of the Gun

1953-01-22

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

Adventure in Connecticut

1953-01-29

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

The First Born

1953-02-05

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

All's Fair in Love

1953-02-26

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

Madame 44

1953-03-05

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.

My Daughter's Husband

1953-03-12

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

The Bet

1953-03-19

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.

Double Exposure

1953-03-26

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

To Any Soldier

1953-04-02

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

Just What the Doctor Ordered

1953-04-09

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

Allison, Ltd.

1953-04-16

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.

The Life of the Party

1953-04-23

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

The Lady and the Champ

1953-05-07

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

Look for Tomorrow

1953-05-14

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

1953-05-21

Episode synopsis is not yet available.

There's No Place Like Home

1953-06-04

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

The Trestle

1953-06-11

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

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