The Ford Television Theatre

- Season 1

(1952)

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.

In a desperate effort to prove that he is as good a lawyer as his father, a young man rigs a witness as a device to win a spectacular murder case.

A bridegroom is bitter when his wife has them appear on a television show.

Spinster, workaholic banker Kate Osgood, held captive in her house by a man who intends to rob her bank, decides, despite the suspicions of an enamored doctor, to hide his actual intentions when the man saves her from a fire she starts.

A doctor's cold scientific attention is aroused by a girl who has a preference for sleeping by day and living by night.

Harry Cummings must flee after wounding in self defense at a poker game a high ranking criminal whose desire for revenge interferes with Harry's plan to use his winnings to marry his hometown sweetheart.

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

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.

A lawyer agrees to defend his girlfriend's brother despite the fact that he thinks he's guilty.

A handsome young cattle rancher visits the big city only to find that the girl he left behind is not ready to relinquish her man.

A stranger attempts a swindle in shabby Florida Keys inn by interesting the owners and patrons in an inherited treasure map that he knows leads to a junk hoard but falls for the owner's restless sister.

Linda spends a week at a resort with her divorced sister while her husband stays behind in the city. She enjoys the attention of a fellow guest who flirts with her shamelessly; he jokes that he should murder her husband so that they can be together. At least she thinks he's joking until he calls her New York City apartment. It' a good thing her sister intercepts the phone call.

James Lindsey insists his children Fitzjames and Violet face reality when Christmas fantasies are strong, but when their snowman comes to life and starts providing magical experiences, his sense of reality is shaken, until his wife Helen reminds him of his own magical experiences.

The wife of a colonel throws a party for her husband on the eve of his departure for active duty in Korea.

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.

An actress researches a role on "skid row" and falls for a man down on his luck.

A former gun-slinger turned preacher takes up his guns again to save his flock.

Arriving in America, Antonin and granddaughter Vlasta learn that their sponsor is deceased, so they escape the immigration authorities to try to persuade the sponsor's son to take his father's place, but the son is resistant to do so.

A remarried father tries to convince his son to love his new step-mother. It's a tough task because the boy has fond memories of his fun-loving late mother. Matters are complicated when the new wife becomes pregnant and needs the boy's care. Major inroads are made when the wife helps save the child's injured dog.

A prospector sends his emissary to find him a bride and the emissary falls hopelessly in love with the woman.

A detective is arrested on a brutality charge.

A young matron's romantic ideas threaten her marriage.

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.

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

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.

A dedicated but bumbling assistant press photographer inadvertently documents political corruption.

An Army chaplain, upon his return, tells his congregation about the Korean War and those who served and the families that lost loved ones.

A patient falls in love with his lady doctor.

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.

A wife is fed up with her husband's clownish behavior and decides she has had enough.

A young man falls in love at first sight, but an unknown girl declares him to be her fiance.

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

A voice coach starts drinking heavily after the death of his greatest star.

A crooner leaves his clamoring fans for the quiet of the country.

In 1947 Berlin, a shabby figure tries to sell a valuable jewel, but is chased through the rubble by police. He hides out with an American nurse, who discovers he's lost his memory. She gives him a job at the hospital, where he shows inexplicable familiarity with medical procedures.

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

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

A plantation owner and his love are united during a fight with red-armed guerrillas in Malaya.

A criminal lawyer volunteers to defend a truck driver who appears certain to be convicted on circumstantial evidence.