Original title
Ford Theatre
Released
10/17/1948
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
117
Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the radio version and known as Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, was a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts. Ford Theatre was named for its sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, which had an earlier success with its concert music series, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour.
Despite being raised in a financially strapped family, a young woman longs to be a respected actress and sets about trying to become one.
An old woman hires a young man to help around the house. Unfortunately, she begins to be concerned that he is in fact psychotic.
Biff Grimes is a small-town dentist whose girlfriend is stolen by a an old friend named Hugo. Biff plots his revenge when Hugo returns to town with a toothache.
Ford Theatre's recent CBS-TV adaptation of James M. Barrie's *The Little Minister* brought the romance of Babbie, the bewitching gypsy, and the serious young minister to life. Tom Drake beautifully portrayed the minister's struggle with a forbidden love, culminating in the revelation that Babbie, vibrantly played by Frances Reid, was in fact Lady Barbara Rintoul.
Gripping spy play with Lee Tracy and Walter Hampden in their original stage roles. The full-hour adaptation of the past season's Broadway thriller concerns the misguided intentions of a young scientist—the traitor —to solve the threat of an atomic war by giving nuclear energy secrets to a Russian spy ring. The youth, Wesley Addy, feels that world peace lies in sharing the atomic bomb. The main scene of the play is laid in the Manhattan apartment of Professor Tobias Emanuel, the young man's mentor, played by Hampden. Addy has hidden bomb secrets and fissionable material for the Russians in the apartment when Captain Gallagher of the Naval Intelligence Office, portrayed by Tracy, steps in, One of the exciting sequences comes when Gallagher uses a Geiger counter to spot the cache
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