About this season
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.
Episodes (39)
1. The Traitor
Aired 8 September 1950 • 60 min
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
2. The Married Look
Aired 22 September 1950 • 60 min
3. The Marble Faun
Aired 6 October 1950 • 60 min
4. Angel Street
Aired 20 October 1950 • 60 min
5. Heart of Darkness
Aired 3 November 1950 • 60 min
6. The Whiteheaded Boy
Aired 17 November 1950 • 60 min
7. Another Darling
Aired 1 December 1950 • 60 min
8. Alice in Wonderland
Aired 15 December 1950 • 60 min
9. Cause for Suspicion
Aired 29 December 1950 • 60 min
10. The Presentation of the Look Magazine TV Awards
Aired 12 January 1951 • 60 min
11. Final Copy
Aired 26 January 1951 • 60 min
12. Spring Again
Aired 9 February 1951 • 60 min
13. The Golden Mouth
Aired 23 February 1951 • 60 min
14. The Ghost Patrol
Aired 9 March 1951 • 60 min
15. Heart of Darkness (restaged)
Aired 23 March 1951 • 60 min
16. Ticket to Oblivion
Aired 6 April 1951 • 60 min
17. The Touchstone
Aired 20 April 1951 • 60 min
18. Dead on the Vine
Aired 4 May 1951 • 60 min
19. Peter Ibbetson
Aired 18 May 1951 • 60 min
20. Three in a Room
Aired 1 June 1951 • 60 min
21. Night Over London
Aired 15 June 1951 • 60 min
22. The Ghost Patrol (restaged)
Aired 29 June 1951 • 60 min
23. The Lilac Bush
Aired 3 March 1955 • 60 min
24. Second Sight
Aired 10 March 1955 • 60 min
25. Celebrity
Aired 17 March 1955 • 60 min
26. Garrity's Sons
Aired 24 March 1955 • 60 min
27. Hanrahan
Aired 31 March 1955 • 60 min
28. Deception
Aired 7 April 1955 • 60 min
29. The Woman at Fog Point
Aired 14 April 1955 • 60 min
30. Sunday Mourn
Aired 21 April 1955 • 60 min
31. While We're Young
Aired 28 April 1955 • 60 min
32. Appointment with Destiny
Aired 5 May 1955 • 60 min
33. The Policy of Joe Aladdin
Aired 12 May 1955 • 60 min
34. Mimi
Aired 19 May 1955 • 60 min
35. Cardboard Casanova
Aired 26 May 1955 • 60 min
36. P.J. and the Lady
Aired 2 June 1955 • 60 min
37. One Man Missing
Aired 9 June 1955 • 60 min
38. Favorite Son
Aired 16 June 1955 • 60 min
39. The Mumbys
Aired 23 June 1955 • 60 min