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 (32)
1. The Questioning Note
Aired 6 October 1957 • 30 min
2. Father and Son Night
Aired 13 October 1957 • 30 min
George Hogan, undefeated middleweight champion of the world, retires from the ring. But new champion Eddie Seaboard wants to force him out of retirement and taunts him in front of his young son. When Hogan refuses to fight, the youngster loses faith in his father.
3. Thousand Dollar Gun
Aired 20 October 1957 • 30 min
Broken Lance, Kansas hires gunfighter Buchanan Smith to drive out a ruthless gang of outlaws who have taken over the town. Smith is faced with an additional problem when Joe Breed, head of the gang, hires a notorious killer to kill him.
4. Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour
Aired 27 October 1957 • 30 min
5. Mischief at Bandy Leg
Aired 3 November 1957 • 30 min
6. Cornada
Aired 10 November 1957 • 30 min
7. Love Came Late
Aired 17 November 1957 • 30 min
Professor Arthur Barris is unsympathetic when Jack Evans, an Army veteran and a father, falls behind in his grades. Barris refuses to allow for Evans' adjustment from Army to college life. But Jack's mother, with womanly charm, intervenes.
8. The Iron Horse
Aired 24 November 1957 • 30 min
After killing a man in a drunken brawl, wagon maker Joe Turner swears that he will never drink again. Joe and his wife settle in a small town hoping to start a new life. But the vicious town boss starts a campaign to drive the Turners out of town.
9. Imp on a Cobweb Leash
Aired 1 December 1957 • 30 min
J. Willingham Bardley is a staid and refined businessman with an eye on the presidency of his firm, until he is shaken by the arrival of a mischievous imp.
10. Eyes of a Stranger
Aired 8 December 1957 • 30 min
When Dr. Mark Andrews meets tyrannical society woman, Katherine Belmont, he believes her caustic attitude is caused by a fear that she is losing her sight. He persuades her to undergo a cornea-transplant operation
11. The Trail to Christmas
Aired 15 December 1957 • 30 min
A cowboy helps a young runaway learn the meaning of Christmas by telling the boy the story of "A Christmas Carol," changed to the American west.
12. The Young Years
Aired 22 December 1957 • 30 min
13. Kid at the Stick
Aired 5 January 1958 • 30 min
A young boy aboard a small plane has to try and land with radio help from the ground.
14. Letters From Cairo
Aired 12 January 1958 • 30 min
A happily married couple is separated when the husband is called to Cairo on a business trip. His letters tell her constantly of his devotion, and she lives for his return.
15. Time to Go Now
Aired 19 January 1958 • 30 min
16. Silent Ambush
Aired 26 January 1958 • 30 min
A sheriff struggles to keep his job even as he loses his hearing.
17. All I Survey
Aired 2 February 1958 • 30 min
A woman trying to nurse her desperately ill husband back to health is faced with a powerful temptation when an author-friend of theirs comes to visit.
18. Incident
Aired 9 February 1958 • 30 min
Todays theme is Incident.
19. The Last Town Car - 1
Aired 16 February 1958 • 30 min
"The Last Town Car" was a two-part original drama, the story of a widow who develops a consuming fear when strange and inexplicable events occur involving a 1925 Rolls-Royce town car being used as a taxicab and its secretive driver. In Part One, Edith Miller (Claudette Colbert) tells psychiatrist Jonathan Michael (Kent Smith) of terrifying events connected with the car, of delusions about people of another era who appear mysteriously, and of a driver (Harry Tyler) who bears her frightening contempt each time she rides in the car. Her consuming fear about her delusions...
20. The Last Town Car - 2
Aired 23 February 1958 • 30 min
"The Last Town Car" was a two-part original drama, the story of a widow who develops a consuming fear when strange and inexplicable events occur involving a 1925 Rolls-Royce town car being used as a taxicab and its secretive driver. In Part One, Edith Miller (Claudette Colbert) tells psychiatrist Jonathan Michael (Kent Smith) of terrifying events connected with the car, of delusions about people of another era who appear mysteriously, and of a driver (Harry Tyler) who bears her frightening contempt each time she rides in the car. Her consuming fear about her delusions...
21. New York Knight
Aired 2 March 1958 • 30 min
22. Angel in the Air
Aired 9 March 1958 • 30 min
A roving peddler becomes stranded in a rural community in the deep South. Appalled by the pitiable existence of one of the families he meets, he finds himself performing the first unselfish deed of his life.
23. The Coward of Fort Bennett
Aired 16 March 1958 • 30 min
24. Strange Witness
Aired 23 March 1958 • 30 min
Ruth and her lover David are caught having an affair by her husband John. When John refuses to give Ruth a divorce, David shoots him. Before Ruth and David can make plans to cover up the murder, John's blind friend Chris shows up.
25. The Unfamiliar
Aired 30 March 1958 • 30 min
A strange, unearthly, inarticulate little man is found clinging to a piece of driftwood off the New England coast. His utter confusion in a modern-day environment suggests that he is from another world.
26. No Hiding Place
Aired 6 April 1958 • 30 min
An alcoholic reaches the bottom one night. Six weeks later, he is recovering and begins helping other alcoholics who believe they have nowhere to turn.
27. The Cold Touch
Aired 13 April 1958 • 30 min
Todays theme is The Cold Touch.
28. God is My Judge
Aired 20 April 1958 • 30 min
A widow decides the time has come to set her life straight. She returns to the town where she lived when she was young and confesses to the murder of her husband, who had died there years before.
29. Stopover
Aired 27 April 1958 • 30 min
Stella Rutledge, traveling to the new frontier of the West, accepts temporary lodging with the Gaines family when the stagecoach breaks down. Noting the isolated family's hunger for news she entertains the two youngsters with tales about her former home, a Southern plantation, and discovers the girl plans to run away from home.
30. Ah There, Beau Brummel
Aired 4 May 1958 • 30 min
Benedict Arnold Brummel admits that he is a humorless stuffed shirt. But his routine life as a junior executive is suddenly changed one morning when it is announced in a New York gossip column that he is romancing the glamorous movie star Roselle King.
31. Bold Loser
Aired 11 May 1958 • 30 min
Adam Tenney is on the road to Virginia to deliver a wagonload of flour when he loses his town's income from the flour in a poker game.
32. The Young and Scared
Aired 18 May 1958 • 30 min
A young sailor sees a pretty teenager struck by an older man in a railroad station. He restrains the man and the girl flees. Later, he learns that the man is her foster father, and she has run away because of his cruelty to her.