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The Ford Television Theatre — Season 1

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About this season

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

Episodes (29)

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E1

1. Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley

Aired 2 October 1952 • 30 min

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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2. Junior

Aired 9 October 1952

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3. National Honeymoon

Aired 16 October 1952

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4. Birth of a Hero

Aired 23 October 1952

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E5

5. Girl in the Park

Aired 30 October 1952

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E6

6. Edge of the Law

Aired 6 November 1952

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E7

7. Protect Her Honor

Aired 13 November 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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8. Sunk

Aired 20 November 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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9. The Divided Heart

Aired 27 November 1952

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14. They Also Serve

Aired 1 January 1953

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15. It Happened in a Pawn Shop

Aired 8 January 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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16. This Is My Heart

Aired 15 January 1953

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17. The Sermon of the Gun

Aired 22 January 1953

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E18

18. Adventure in Connecticut

Aired 29 January 1953

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E19

19. The First Born

Aired 5 February 1953

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22. All's Fair in Love

Aired 26 February 1953

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23. Madame 44

Aired 5 March 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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24. My Daughter's Husband

Aired 12 March 1953

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

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25. The Bet

Aired 19 March 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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26. Double Exposure

Aired 26 March 1953

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27. To Any Soldier

Aired 2 April 1953

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E28

28. Just What the Doctor Ordered

Aired 9 April 1953

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29. Allison, Ltd.

Aired 16 April 1953

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E30

30. The Life of the Party

Aired 23 April 1953

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32. The Lady and the Champ

Aired 7 May 1953

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

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33. Look for Tomorrow

Aired 14 May 1953

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E34

34. Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

Aired 21 May 1953

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36. There's No Place Like Home

Aired 4 June 1953

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

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37. The Trestle

Aired 11 June 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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