The Ford Television Theatre
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
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E1
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.
Oct 2, 1952 · 30m -
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E2
Junior
Oct 9, 1952 -
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E3
National Honeymoon
Oct 16, 1952 -
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E4
Birth of a Hero
Oct 23, 1952 -
5
E5
Girl in the Park
Oct 30, 1952 -
6
E6
Edge of the Law
Nov 6, 1952 -
7
E7
Protect Her Honor
A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.
Nov 13, 1952 -
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E8
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.
Nov 20, 1952 -
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E9
The Divided Heart
Nov 27, 1952 -
14
E14
They Also Serve
Jan 1, 1953 -
15
E15
It Happened in a Pawn Shop
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.
Jan 8, 1953 -
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E16
This Is My Heart
Jan 15, 1953 -
17
E17
The Sermon of the Gun
Jan 22, 1953 -
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E18
Adventure in Connecticut
Jan 29, 1953 -
19
E19
The First Born
Feb 5, 1953 -
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E22
All's Fair in Love
Feb 26, 1953 -
23
E23
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.
Mar 5, 1953 -
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E24
My Daughter's Husband
A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.
Mar 12, 1953 -
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E25
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.
Mar 19, 1953 -
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E26
Double Exposure
Mar 26, 1953 -
27
E27
To Any Soldier
Apr 2, 1953 -
28
E28
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Apr 9, 1953 -
29
E29
Allison, Ltd.
Apr 16, 1953 -
30
E30
The Life of the Party
Apr 23, 1953 -
32
E32
The Lady and the Champ
A boxer strives for the middleweight championship in order to fund his friend's business venture.
May 7, 1953 -
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E33
Look for Tomorrow
May 14, 1953 -
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E34
Sweet Talk Me, Jackson
May 21, 1953 -
36
E36
There's No Place Like Home
A newspaper expose precipitates a violent quarrel between the writer and his family.
Jun 4, 1953 -
37
E37
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.
Jun 11, 1953