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 (35)
1. The Great Lady
Aired 16 September 1956 • 30 min
Julia Courtney, a retired actress, lives in a theatrical boarding house. When one of the residents is murdered, all of the residents are under suspicion. The chief suspect is a young friend of Julia's, played by Vera Miles.
2. The Glorious Gift of Molly Malloy
Aired 23 September 1956 • 30 min
3. The Professor's Punch
Aired 30 September 1956 • 30 min
4. The Pot of Gold
Aired 7 October 1956 • 30 min
Ralph and Laura Whitemore have suffered many financial disappointments in their life together. But when a "sure thing" comes along at last, they eagerly await the phone call that will bring their "pot of gold".
5. The Enemies
Aired 14 October 1956 • 30 min
Yankees take over the Southern home of a young girl and her sick mother who are caring for an injured Confederate deserter.
6. The Invitation
Aired 21 October 1956 • 30 min
After her baby dies in childbirth, Alice Kellen retreats into a world of her own. As she sinks deeper into fantasy, her husband tries a desperate measure to snap her back to reality.
7. The Second Stranger
Aired 28 October 1956 • 30 min
In 1829, a stranger enters a tavern to take shelter from the storm. He finds an old friend from the war of 1812, and the two men have a drink. The inn is crowded with townspeople, all of whom are celebrating tomorrow's hanging.
8. The Rider on the Pale Horse
Aired 4 November 1956 • 30 min
9. The Charlatan
Aired 11 November 1956 • 30 min
A cancer therapist defends himself against a charge of fraud made by a newspaperwoman and a doctor.
10. The Road That Led Afar
Aired 25 November 1956 • 30 min
A young mountain girl marries a widower with four children and goes to live in his rustic cabin. Not only does she find the unfamiliar routine hard, but she must face the task of winning over the frightened youngsters.
11. Orphans
Aired 2 December 1956 • 30 min
12. The Breach
Aired 9 December 1956 • 30 min
Author Emily Marsden secludes herself in a small village after quarreling with her husband. There, she learns a lot about her own difficulties by trying to help someone else.
13. The Chess Game
Aired 16 December 1956 • 30 min
A cynical intellectual shelters a 15-year-old boy who is wanted for murder.
14. A Child is Born
Aired 23 December 1956 • 30 min
A retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants.
15. The Shadow Outside
Aired 30 December 1956 • 30 min
Evvy, who lives with her parents in New Mexico, has met few boys. When the town bully, Ray Poole, becomes interested in her she is both confused and frightened.
16. Never Turn Back
Aired 6 January 1957 • 30 min
17. The Earring
Aired 13 January 1957 • 30 min
Lydia Shaw, wife of a successful lawyer, is being blackmailed by a man who has some love letters she wrote before her marriage. Afraid to let her husband find out about the romance, Lydia agrees to pay off her former sweetheart.
18. Lady of the House
Aired 20 January 1957 • 30 min
19. The Doctors of Pawnee Kill
Aired 27 January 1957 • 30 min
Two brothers, one a doctor the other a fast-draw Sheriff, live in conflict with each other in a town that is run by a ruthless saloon owner.
20. No Skin Off Me
Aired 3 February 1957 • 30 min
A young fighter lets his winnings go to his head. His more experienced fighter is worried that he will go over the top, so he sets out to teach the "boy" a lesson.
21. The Town with a Past
Aired 10 February 1957 • 30 min
Wandering cowboy Britt Ponset finds himself caught in the middle of a dispute between mine owner "Silver Annie" Huxley, the leaders of Virtue City, and the railroad, which wants to builds tracks across her property.
22. The Big Shooter
Aired 17 February 1957 • 30 min
23. Flight from Tormendero
Aired 24 February 1957 • 30 min
During World War 2, a ship's captain picks up the survivors of a torpedoed ship. Among those rescued are a pretty Eurasian girl and a sinister-appearing man.
24. The Fenton Touch
Aired 3 March 1957 • 30 min
A man about to retire from his job at a department store after 30 years of service plots to make off with $50,000 from the store's safe.
25. With Malice Toward None
Aired 10 March 1957 • 30 min
An accountant by day and novelist by night, Miss Burrows has grown tired of rejection notices from publishers. Her latest submission is about an author who shoots an editor after his book is rejected.
26. The Victorian Chaise Lounge
Aired 17 March 1957 • 30 min
Todays theme is The Victorian Chaise Longue.
27. Too Good with a Gun
Aired 24 March 1957 • 30 min
An ex-gunfighter goes against his boss and teaches the son how to shoot. He also falls in love with the boss's daughter. But when he gets involved in a gunfight in town, his boss sends him passing and turns his two children against him.
28. Bargain Bride
Aired 7 April 1957 • 30 min
29. Cab Driver
Aired 14 April 1957 • 30 min
A female taxicab driver finds a dead man in the back seat of her cab, and a persistent suitor in the person of the detective who investigates the case.
30. Bitter Choice
Aired 21 April 1957 • 30 min
An Army nurse resorts to a cruel ruse in an attempt to rouse a young sergeant from complete apathy and possible death.
31. I Will Not Die
Aired 28 April 1957 • 30 min
32. Angel of Wrath
Aired 5 May 1957 • 30 min
After he has invested in a publishing firm, a Broadway star is shocked to learn that it prints unsavory literature. He argues with the publisher, strikes the man, and is convinced he is guilty of murder.
33. A Question of Survival
Aired 12 May 1957 • 30 min
A cavalry captain and his small band are out-numbered by Comanche Indians. When the company surgeon offers to tend the fatally wounded son of the attacking chief, the captain must choose between certain death for the surgeon and safety for the rest.
34. The Man Who Inherited Everything
Aired 19 May 1957 • 30 min
35. A New Girl in His Life
Aired 26 May 1957 • 30 min