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Ford Theatre
Overview
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.
Seasons
Season 1 (1948)
No overview available.
39 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Years Ago
1948-10-17Despite being raised in a financially strapped family, a young woman longs to be a respected actress and sets about trying to become one.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: Joy to the World
1948-11-21Episode 3: Night Must Fall
1948-12-19An old woman hires a young man to help around the house. Unfortunately, she begins to be concerned that he is in fact psychotic.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: The Man Who Came to Dinner
1949-01-16Episode 5: The Silver Cord
1949-02-02Episode 6: Outward Bound
1949-03-13Episode 7: Arsenic and Old Lace
1949-05-11Episode 8: One Sunday Afternoon
1949-05-16Biff 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.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 9: Light Up the Sky
1949-06-13Episode 10: Something Old, Something New
1952-12-04Episode 11: Crossed and Double Crossed
1952-12-11Episode 12: So Many Things Happen
1952-12-18Episode 13: Heart of Gold
1952-12-25Episode 14: They Also Serve
1953-01-01Episode 15: It Happened in a Pawn Shop
1953-01-08Episode 16: This Is My Heart
1953-01-15Episode 17: The Sermon of the Gun
1953-01-22Episode 18: Adventure in Connecticut
1953-01-29Episode 19: The First Born
1953-02-05Episode 20: The Old Man's Bride
1953-02-12Episode 21: Margin for Fear
1953-02-19Episode 22: All's Fair in Love
1953-02-26Episode 23: Madame 44
1953-03-05Episode 24: My Daughter's Husband
1953-03-12Episode 25: The Bet
1953-03-19Episode 26: Double Exposure
1953-03-26Episode 27: To Any Soldier
1953-04-02Episode 28: Just What the Doctor Ordered
1953-04-09Episode 29: Allison, Ltd.
1953-04-16Episode 30: The Life of the Party
1953-04-23Episode 31: The Son-in-Law
1953-04-30Episode 32: The Lady and the Champ
1953-05-07Episode 33: Look for Tomorrow
1953-05-14Episode 34: Sweet Talk Me, Jackson
1953-05-21Episode 35: The Jewel
1953-05-28Episode 36: There's No Place Like Home
1953-06-04Episode 37: The Trestle
1953-06-11Episode 38: Malaya Incident
1953-06-18Episode 39: The People Versus Johnston
1953-06-25Season 2 (1949)
No overview available.
39 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Twentieth Century
1949-10-07Episode 2: On Borrowed Time
1949-10-21Episode 3: She Loves Me Not
1949-11-04Episode 4: Skylark
1949-11-18Episode 5: Kind Lady
1949-12-02Episode 6: Little Women
1949-12-16Episode 7: The Farmer Takes a Wife
1949-12-30Episode 8: The Barker
1950-01-13Episode 9: Laburnum Grove
1950-01-27Episode 10: The Royal Family
1950-02-10Episode 11: Uncle Harry
1950-02-24Episode 12: Room Service
1950-03-10Episode 13: Dear Brutus
1950-03-24Episode 14: The Little Minister
1950-04-07Ford 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.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 15: The School for Scandal
1950-04-21Episode 16: Father Malachy's Miracle
1950-05-05Episode 17: Subway Express
1950-05-19Episode 18: The Shining Hour
1950-06-02Episode 19: On Borrowed Time (restaged)
1950-06-30Episode 20: For the Love of Kitty
1954-02-11Episode 21: For Value Received
1954-02-18Episode 22: Marriageable Male
1954-02-25Episode 23: The Good of His Soul
1954-03-04Episode 24: Come On, Red
1954-03-11Episode 25: The Last Thirty Minutes
1954-03-18Episode 26: The Taming of the Shrewd
1954-03-25Episode 27: Turn Back the Clock
1954-04-01Episode 28: Yours for a Dream
1954-04-08Episode 29: Sister Veronica
1954-04-15Episode 30: Wedding March
1954-04-22Episode 31: Night Visitor
1954-04-29Episode 32: A Season to Love
1954-05-06Episode 33: Wonderful Day for a Wedding
1954-05-13Episode 34: Beneath These Waters
1954-05-20Episode 35: Keep It in the Family
1954-05-27Episode 36: The Unlocked Door
1954-06-03Episode 37: The Mason-Dixon Line
1954-06-10Episode 38: The Tryst
1954-06-17Episode 39: Indirect Approach
1954-06-24Season 3 (1950)
No overview available.
39 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Traitor
1950-09-08Gripping 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
Runtime: 60 min
