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The Ford Television Theatre: Season 1

29 episodes Premiered Oct 2, 1952 Updated Jul 21, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

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

S1·E7

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.

S1·E8

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

S1·E15

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

S1·E23

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

S1·E25

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

S1·E32

The Lady and the Champ

May 7, 1953

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

S1·E36

There's No Place Like Home

Jun 4, 1953

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

S1·E37

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.