← The Ford Television Theatre

Season 1

39 episodes · 1952

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    Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley

    Oct 2, 195230 min★ 7.5

    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.

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    Junior

    Oct 9, 195230 min

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    National Honeymoon

    Oct 16, 195230 min

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    Birth of a Hero

    Oct 23, 195230 min★ 7.4

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    Girl in the Park

    Oct 30, 195230 min

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    Edge of the Law

    Nov 6, 195230 min

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    Protect Her Honor

    Nov 13, 195230 min

    A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.

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    Sunk

    Nov 20, 195230 min

    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.

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    The Divided Heart

    Nov 27, 195230 min

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    Something Old, Something New

    30 min

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    Crossed and Double Crossed

    30 min

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    So Many Things Happen

    30 min

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    Heart of Gold

    30 min★ 6.6

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    They Also Serve

    Jan 1, 195330 min

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    It Happened in a Pawn Shop

    Jan 8, 195330 min

    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.

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    This Is My Heart

    Jan 15, 195330 min

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    The Sermon of the Gun

    Jan 22, 195330 min

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    Adventure in Connecticut

    Jan 29, 195330 min★ 6.8

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    The First Born

    Feb 5, 195330 min★ 6.6

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    The Old Man's Bride

    30 min

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    Margin for Fear

    30 min

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    All's Fair in Love

    Feb 26, 195330 min

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    Madame 44

    Mar 5, 195330 min

    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.

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    My Daughter's Husband

    Mar 12, 195330 min

    A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.

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    The Bet

    Mar 19, 195330 min★ 6.8

    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.

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    Double Exposure

    Mar 26, 195330 min

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    To Any Soldier

    Apr 2, 195330 min

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    Just What the Doctor Ordered

    Apr 9, 195330 min

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    Allison, Ltd.

    Apr 16, 195330 min

    A wealthy fashion woman, poor in youth, faces a dilemma as to whether to extract her long desired revenge on a man with whom she eloped in her youth but who allowed his rich family to annul the marriage for a débutante he wants to leave.

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    The Life of the Party

    Apr 23, 195330 min

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    The Son-in-Law

    30 min

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    The Lady and the Champ

    May 7, 195330 min

    A boxer strives for the middleweight championship in order to fund his friend's business venture.

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    Look for Tomorrow

    May 14, 195330 min

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    Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

    May 21, 195330 min

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    The Jewel

    30 min

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    There's No Place Like Home

    Jun 4, 195330 min

    A newspaper expose precipitates a violent quarrel between the writer and his family.

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    The Trestle

    Jun 11, 195330 min

    A boy suspects his step-father is the murderer of a man who attempted to put a small town newspaper out of business.

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    Malaya Incident

    30 min

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    The People Versus Johnston

    30 min