The Ford Television Theatre: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley
Oct 2, 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 princip
Protect Her Honor
Nov 13, 1952
A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.
Sunk
Nov 20, 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 h
It Happened in a Pawn Shop
Jan 8, 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 licent
Madame 44
Mar 5, 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 respectabilit
My Daughter's Husband
Mar 12, 1953
A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.
The Bet
Mar 19, 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 accep
The Lady and the Champ
May 7, 1953
A boxer strives for the middleweight championship in order to fund his friend's business venture.
There's No Place Like Home
Jun 4, 1953
A newspaper expose precipitates a violent quarrel between the writer and his family.
The Trestle
Jun 11, 1953
A boy suspects his step-father is the murderer of a man who attempted to put a small town newspaper out of business.