The Ford Television Theatre

The Ford Television Theatre

1952
7.3
8 Seasons

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.

Season

Episodes

Ep 1

Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley

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.

Ep 2

Junior

Ep 3

National Honeymoon

Ep 4

Birth of a Hero

Ep 5

Girl in the Park

Ep 6

Edge of the Law

Ep 7

Protect Her Honor

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

Ep 8

Sunk

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.

Ep 9

The Divided Heart

Ep 14

They Also Serve

Ep 16

This Is My Heart

Ep 17

The Sermon of the Gun

Ep 18

Adventure in Connecticut

Ep 19

The First Born

Ep 22

All's Fair in Love

Ep 23

Madame 44

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.

Ep 24

My Daughter's Husband

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

Ep 25

The Bet

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.

Ep 26

Double Exposure

Ep 27

To Any Soldier

Ep 28

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Ep 29

Allison, Ltd.

Ep 30

The Life of the Party

Ep 33

Look for Tomorrow

Ep 34

Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

Ep 37

The Trestle

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

Cast