The Ford Television Theatre

Season 1

29 episodes · Oct 2, 1952

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  • S1E1

    Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley

    Oct 2, 195230m

    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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  • S1E2

    Junior

    Oct 9, 1952
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  • S1E3

    National Honeymoon

    Oct 16, 1952
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  • S1E4

    Birth of a Hero

    Oct 23, 1952
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  • S1E5

    Girl in the Park

    Oct 30, 1952
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  • S1E6

    Edge of the Law

    Nov 6, 1952
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  • S1E7

    Protect Her Honor

    Nov 13, 1952

    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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  • S1E8

    Sunk

    Nov 20, 1952

    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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  • S1E9

    The Divided Heart

    Nov 27, 1952
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  • S1E14

    They Also Serve

    Jan 1, 1953
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  • S1E15

    It Happened in a Pawn Shop

    Jan 8, 1953

    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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  • S1E16

    This Is My Heart

    Jan 15, 1953
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  • S1E17

    The Sermon of the Gun

    Jan 22, 1953
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  • S1E18

    Adventure in Connecticut

    Jan 29, 1953
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  • S1E19

    The First Born

    Feb 5, 1953
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  • S1E22

    All's Fair in Love

    Feb 26, 1953
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  • S1E23

    Madame 44

    Mar 5, 1953

    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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  • S1E24

    My Daughter's Husband

    Mar 12, 1953

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

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  • S1E25

    The Bet

    Mar 19, 1953

    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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  • S1E26

    Double Exposure

    Mar 26, 1953
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  • S1E27

    To Any Soldier

    Apr 2, 1953
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  • S1E28

    Just What the Doctor Ordered

    Apr 9, 1953
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  • S1E29

    Allison, Ltd.

    Apr 16, 1953
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  • S1E30

    The Life of the Party

    Apr 23, 1953
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  • S1E32

    The Lady and the Champ

    May 7, 1953

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

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  • S1E33

    Look for Tomorrow

    May 14, 1953
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  • S1E34

    Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

    May 21, 1953
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  • S1E36

    There's No Place Like Home

    Jun 4, 1953

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

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  • S1E37

    The Trestle

    Jun 11, 1953

    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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