The Ford Theatre Hour
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.
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Season 3
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The Traitor
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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The Married Look
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The Marble Faun
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Angel Street
Oct 20, 1950 -
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Heart of Darkness
Nov 3, 1950 -
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The Whiteheaded Boy
Nov 17, 1950 -
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Another Darling
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Alice in Wonderland
Dec 15, 1950 -
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Cause for Suspicion
Dec 29, 1950 -
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The Presentation of the Look Magazine TV Awards
Jan 12, 1951 -
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Final Copy
Jan 26, 1951 -
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Spring Again
Feb 9, 1951 · 60m -
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The Golden Mouth
Feb 23, 1951 -
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The Ghost Patrol
Mar 9, 1951 -
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Heart of Darkness (restaged)
Mar 23, 1951 -
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Ticket to Oblivion
Apr 6, 1951 -
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The Touchstone
Apr 20, 1951 -
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Dead on the Vine
May 4, 1951 -
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Peter Ibbetson
May 18, 1951 -
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Three in a Room
Jun 1, 1951 -
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Night Over London
Jun 15, 1951 -
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The Ghost Patrol (restaged)
Jun 29, 1951 -
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The Lilac Bush
Mar 3, 1955 -
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Second Sight
Mar 10, 1955 -
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Celebrity
Mar 17, 1955 -
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Garrity's Sons
Mar 24, 1955 -
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Hanrahan
Mar 31, 1955 -
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Deception
Apr 7, 1955 -
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The Woman at Fog Point
Apr 14, 1955 -
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Sunday Mourn
Apr 21, 1955 -
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While We're Young
Apr 28, 1955 -
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Appointment with Destiny
May 5, 1955 -
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The Policy of Joe Aladdin
May 12, 1955 -
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Mimi
May 19, 1955 -
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Cardboard Casanova
May 26, 1955 -
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P.J. and the Lady
Jun 2, 1955 -
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One Man Missing
Jun 9, 1955 -
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Favorite Son
Jun 16, 1955 -
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The Mumbys
Jun 23, 1955