About this season
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Episodes (37)
1. Pretending Makes It Do
Aired 12 September 1954 • 30 min
Mrs. MacDowell makes daydream plans for her young college professor son in the belief that pretending will make them so.
2. Too Old for the Girl
Aired 19 September 1954 • 30 min
3. Nora #1
Aired 26 September 1954 • 30 min
An abusive husband gives his wife no choice but to retreat from her world of pain and degradation.
4. The High Green Wall
Aired 3 October 1954 • 30 min
Having survived a plane crash in the jungle, Henty finds a fortress-like home in the middle of nowhere, belonging to the affable Mr. McMaster. The latter doesn't want Henty to leave.
5. The Long Way 'Round
Aired 10 October 1954 • 30 min
6. Edison the Man
Aired 17 October 1954 • 30 min
82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.
7. The Road to Edinburgh
Aired 31 October 1954 • 30 min
Todays theme is The Road to Edinburgh.
8. I'm a Fool
Aired 14 November 1954 • 30 min
Played out on a stylized, dramatically lit set, I am a fool is a classic story of a heartsick and foolish farm boy who takes on a false identity to impress a beautiful girl and in so doing loses the love of his life forever.
9. The Face Is Familiar
Aired 21 November 1954 • 30 min
A man who has a face no one can remember is suckered into serving as the stooge for a bank robbery.
10. The Rider on the Pale Horse
Aired 28 November 1954 • 30 min
11. Committed
Aired 5 December 1954 • 30 min
Newspaper reporter turned novelist Dan Holiday is kidnapped, framed for murder, and held in an asylum before he escapes and proves his innocence
12. The Dark, Dark Hours
Aired 12 December 1954 • 30 min
A hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.
13. Music for Christmas
Aired 19 December 1954 • 30 min
Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians perform an program of Christmas music.
14. The White Steed
Aired 26 December 1954 • 30 min
15. Amelia
Aired 2 January 1955 • 30 min
16. D.P.
Aired 9 January 1955 • 30 min
17. Yankee Pedler
Aired 16 January 1955 • 30 min
18. The Martyr
Aired 23 January 1955 • 30 min
1922, civil war in Ireland. A suspect is captured after a bloody ambush.
19. The Big Shot
Aired 30 January 1955 • 30 min
Singer Johnnie Pulaski goes on an important audition and impresses. There is one condition that makes him want to refuse their offer--they ask him to change his last name. His girlfriend convinces him that the name is unimportant if he can sing. Ray, as Pulaski, introduces a new single, "Path to Paradise."
20. The Return of Gentleman Jim
Aired 6 February 1955 • 30 min
Boxer Jim Corbett returns to face Joe Louis in the ring.
21. Love Is Eternal
Aired 13 February 1955 • 30 min
When Lincoln and Mary Todd were married, he had the phrase, "Love is Eternal", inscribed in her wedding band. Though years of loneliness and disappointment seem to disprove this sentiment, the historic pair finally realize its truth.
22. The Bachelor's Bride
Aired 20 February 1955 • 30 min
23. Episode 3.23
Aired 27 February 1955 • 30 min
24. The Blond Dog
Aired 6 March 1955 • 30 min
A struggling photographer runs over a dog while driving near the home of an actress. Little does he know that this insignificant auto accident will lead to his involvement in murder.
25. War and Peace on the Range
Aired 13 March 1955 • 30 min
A film producer of B-movie Westerns has to hire a big-name actor's relative who is extremely incompetent for the chosen epic film.
26. The Bitter Choice
Aired 20 March 1955 • 30 min
27. Clown
Aired 27 March 1955 • 30 min
Circus clown Emmett Kelly creates his famous character Weary Willie.
28. It Gives Me Great Pleasure
Aired 3 April 1955 • 30 min
A traveling lecturer wants to retire and spend more time with her son.
29. O, Lonely Moon
Aired 17 April 1955 • 30 min
Embittered by his wife's death during the birth of their eighth child, an Irishman refuses to set eyes on the girl and acknowledges only seven children.
30. The Windmill
Aired 24 April 1955 • 30 min
An ex-gunfighter, after hiding his identity for years, enters a shooting contest to raise money for a windmill in hopes he can provide water to his family farm.
31. Mr. Blue Ocean
Aired 1 May 1955 • 30 min
32. Into the Night
Aired 8 May 1955 • 30 min
A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadblocks.
33. A Man with a Vengeance
Aired 15 May 1955 • 30 min
A movie director has a grudge against an actor and makes life very hard on everyone.
34. When in France
Aired 22 May 1955 • 30 min
What better place for romance than in a classroom, especially a French class? That's the reasoning of a lonely boy and a lonely girl who enroll in a French class with hopes of learning anything but the language.
35. The Half-Promised Land
Aired 29 May 1955 • 30 min
Pio, a bartender in Capri, has dreamed all his life of going to America. He asks two American tourists to help him find a way to make his dream come true.
36. Star in the House
Aired 5 June 1955 • 30 min
One-time film star plans her anniversary to be as romantic as her honeymoon.
37. The Day He Got Fired
Aired 19 June 1955 • 30 min