Original title
The Ford Television Theatre
Released
10/2/1952
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
8
Number of episodes
130
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.
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.
A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.
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.
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.
A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.
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.
A boy suspects his step-father is the murderer of a man who attempted to put a small town newspaper out of business.
A former sheriff comes into conflict with a tough cattleman who refuses to recognize the law.
To win a new house, an engaged couple enters a contest for married people, planning to marry if they win. They quarrel but they win, so they draw a line down the middle of the house, evenly dividing their property.
A girl tries to shift a scandal from herself to her brother's fiancee.
A girl gets the man she wants by pretending she wants another.
A middle-aged theatrical producer suddenly begins mixing with the younger set.
During a convention in a large city, a visiting family consisting of a man, his wife and daughter checks into a hotel. When the girl leaves, the wife's incessant nagging pushes the man into a rage building for years, and he snaps. He's going to murder his wife with a long sharp piece of glass
Remember to Live
A man brings his fiance home to meet his teenage daughter.
A man commits a robbery to meet payments on his fishing boat, accidentally blinding a girl in the process.
A man tries to capture the romance he and his wife once shared.
A wife is overcome with romance one afternoon, forgets she's married, and flirts with a handsome young doctor. She get caught up in the moment and makes a date with the man for that evening. Upon arriving home, she tells her husband about the silly predicament she's now in. Hubby decides the "other man" should come over as planned for a lesson on romance.
An honest boy meets and falls in love with an engaged girl. The boy's less than honest family decides to help the romance along.
During the Indochina War, a girl meets a young flier at a wedding. They fall in love, but the flier, sure he will be killed shortly, refuses to give up his reckless way of life.
Parents are concerned that their teen-aged daughter doesn't have a date for her school's formal dance. She assures them she has a boy named Al all lined up. Recalling that "Al" was the name of her imaginary childhood friend, Dad arranges for one of the boys from the office to escort her. It turns out that Al really does exist.
On her son's fifth birthday a mother plants a lilac bush. When the boy dies, she flies into a fit of rage and attempts to destroy the bush.
Heiress Myla Marshall is a tabloid fixture for living the high life. The public, and her abusive ex-husband, are unaware of the son she's secretly kept at boarding schools since his birth. She was determined to save the child from the savage hands of his father. When news of the boy is leaked to the press, her hateful ex reappears and begins to rough her up. He ends up dead and Myla faces a murder trial.
A boxing promoter gets word that his conniving brother is returning home. Years before he turned into a cheating, crooked fighter, and now is slipping. He broke the heart of a girl that still loves him, He also must win one last fight-if his brother can help him.
A woman learns that her son, reported missing in action, is alive and returning home from Korea.
Since her parent's death, a young woman has looked to her employer for guidance. When she marries a young artist who expresses his emotions on canvas rather that in words, she again turns to her employer for understanding.
A jilted loan-company employee advances money to his ex-fiancee.
A private investigator is hired by a pretty blonde to collect an envelope at a boxing match and deliver it to her the next day. What's in the envelope causes some inconvenience.
A former all-American college football player attends a 20-year school reunion. He confronts his future by lying about his past.
An escaped convict invades the home of a ordinary American family.
A young naval officer is assigned to the submarine his father commands. He has not seen his father since his parents were divorced when he was a child.
Private detective Vic Chambers is hired by a dancer to crack a murder case she's a suspect in, but she too is murdered. The entire case seems to hinge on a single fingerprint. The search for the killer is complicated by the fact his leading suspect is his rival Scoop Donnelly.
Following her turn as the nation's First Lady, Dolley Madison's life continued to be colorful.
Adventure for Hire
A Catholic priest who was brutally beaten in a Communist prison, questions his faith.
As a youngster, Jim Hawk begged Governor Sam Houston of Tennessee to release his father, a convicted murderer. Houston refused and the boy swore revenge.Jim Hawk became one of the West's most notorious outlaws and finally got his chance to follow through on his boyhood threat.
A Welsh girl lives in New York City with her uncle and aunt. An old folk legend of her native country says that a love which proves itself three times will last forever. She decides to try this theory out on a young man she meets.
In 1870, after years of hardship, a woman achieves her ambition of becoming a doctor. She dreams of serving the people in a small Western town, but the years of struggle seem wasted. The townspeople hate this woman who has dared enter a male profession.
As the wife of a would-be councilman is preparing a house party to assure his election, an escaped convict takes shelter in the house. Instead of becoming frightened, she takes advantage of his entrance and puts him to work helping her.
A young naval officer who has not seen his father since his parents were divorced when he was a child, is assigned to the submarine his father commands.
Laura Chandler is unable and seemingly unwilling to recover from the loss of her son
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