
Ford Theatre
Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the radio version and known as Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, was a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts. Ford Theatre was named for its sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, which had an earlier success with its concert music series, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour.
Seasons & Episodes
E1Years Ago
Oct 17, 1948
Despite being raised in a financially strapped family, a young woman longs to be a respected actress and sets about trying to become one.
E2Joy to the World
Nov 21, 1948
E3Night Must Fall
Dec 19, 1948
An old woman hires a young man to help around the house. Unfortunately, she begins to be concerned that he is in fact psychotic.
E4The Man Who Came to Dinner
Jan 16, 1949
E5The Silver Cord
Feb 2, 1949
E6Outward Bound
Mar 13, 1949
E7Arsenic and Old Lace
May 11, 1949
E8One Sunday Afternoon
May 16, 1949
Biff Grimes is a small-town dentist whose girlfriend is stolen by a an old friend named Hugo. Biff plots his revenge when Hugo returns to town with a toothache.
E9Light Up the Sky
Jun 13, 1949
E10Something Old, Something New
Dec 4, 1952
E11Crossed and Double Crossed
Dec 11, 1952
E12So Many Things Happen
Dec 18, 1952
E13Heart of Gold
Dec 25, 1952
E14They Also Serve
Jan 1, 1953
E15It Happened in a Pawn Shop
Jan 8, 1953
E16This Is My Heart
Jan 15, 1953
E17The Sermon of the Gun
Jan 22, 1953
E18Adventure in Connecticut
Jan 29, 1953
E19The First Born
Feb 5, 1953
E20The Old Man's Bride
Feb 12, 1953
E21Margin for Fear
Feb 19, 1953
E22All's Fair in Love
Feb 26, 1953
E23Madame 44
Mar 5, 1953
E24My Daughter's Husband
Mar 12, 1953
E25The Bet
Mar 19, 1953
E26Double Exposure
Mar 26, 1953
E27To Any Soldier
Apr 2, 1953
E28Just What the Doctor Ordered
Apr 9, 1953
E29Allison, Ltd.
Apr 16, 1953
E30The Life of the Party
Apr 23, 1953
E31The Son-in-Law
Apr 30, 1953
E32The Lady and the Champ
May 7, 1953
E33Look for Tomorrow
May 14, 1953
E34Sweet Talk Me, Jackson
May 21, 1953
E35The Jewel
May 28, 1953
E36There's No Place Like Home
Jun 4, 1953
E37The Trestle
Jun 11, 1953
E38Malaya Incident
Jun 18, 1953
E39The People Versus Johnston
Jun 25, 1953
E1Twentieth Century
Oct 7, 1949
E2On Borrowed Time
Oct 21, 1949
E3She Loves Me Not
Nov 4, 1949
E4Skylark
Nov 18, 1949
E5Kind Lady
Dec 2, 1949
E6Little Women
Dec 16, 1949
E7The Farmer Takes a Wife
Dec 30, 1949
E8The Barker
Jan 13, 1950
E9Laburnum Grove
Jan 27, 1950
E10The Royal Family
Feb 10, 1950
E11Uncle Harry
Feb 24, 1950
E12Room Service
Mar 10, 1950
E13Dear Brutus
Mar 24, 1950
E14The Little Minister
Apr 7, 1950
Ford Theatre's recent CBS-TV adaptation of James M. Barrie's *The Little Minister* brought the romance of Babbie, the bewitching gypsy, and the serious young minister to life. Tom Drake beautifully portrayed the minister's struggle with a forbidden love, culminating in the revelation that Babbie, vibrantly played by Frances Reid, was in fact Lady Barbara Rintoul.
E15The School for Scandal
Apr 21, 1950
E16Father Malachy's Miracle
May 5, 1950
E17Subway Express
May 19, 1950
E18The Shining Hour
Jun 2, 1950
E19On Borrowed Time (restaged)
Jun 30, 1950
E20For the Love of Kitty
Feb 11, 1954
E21For Value Received
Feb 18, 1954
E22Marriageable Male
Feb 25, 1954
E23The Good of His Soul
Mar 4, 1954
E24Come On, Red
Mar 11, 1954
E25The Last Thirty Minutes
Mar 18, 1954
E26The Taming of the Shrewd
Mar 25, 1954
E27Turn Back the Clock
Apr 1, 1954
E28Yours for a Dream
Apr 8, 1954
E29Sister Veronica
Apr 15, 1954
E30Wedding March
Apr 22, 1954
E31Night Visitor
Apr 29, 1954
E32A Season to Love
May 6, 1954
E33Wonderful Day for a Wedding
May 13, 1954
E34Beneath These Waters
May 20, 1954
E35Keep It in the Family
May 27, 1954
E36The Unlocked Door
Jun 3, 1954
E37The Mason-Dixon Line
Jun 10, 1954
E38The Tryst
Jun 17, 1954
E39Indirect Approach
Jun 24, 1954
E1The Traitor
Sep 8, 1950
Gripping spy play with Lee Tracy and Walter Hampden in their original stage roles. The full-hour adaptation of the past season's Broadway thriller concerns the misguided intentions of a young scientistโthe traitor โto solve the threat of an atomic war by giving nuclear energy secrets to a Russian spy ring. The youth, Wesley Addy, feels that world peace lies in sharing the atomic bomb. The main scene of the play is laid in the Manhattan apartment of Professor Tobias Emanuel, the young man's mentor, played by Hampden. Addy has hidden bomb secrets and fissionable material for the Russians in the apartment when Captain Gallagher of the Naval Intelligence Office, portrayed by Tracy, steps in, One of the exciting sequences comes when Gallagher uses a Geiger counter to spot the cache
E2The Married Look
Sep 22, 1950
E3The Marble Faun
Oct 6, 1950
E4Angel Street
Oct 20, 1950
E5Heart of Darkness
Nov 3, 1950
E6The Whiteheaded Boy
Nov 17, 1950
E7Another Darling
Dec 1, 1950
E8Alice in Wonderland
Dec 15, 1950
E9Cause for Suspicion
Dec 29, 1950
E10The Presentation of the Look Magazine TV Awards
Jan 12, 1951
E11Final Copy
Jan 26, 1951
E12Spring Again
Feb 9, 1951
E13The Golden Mouth
Feb 23, 1951
E14The Ghost Patrol
Mar 9, 1951
E15Heart of Darkness (restaged)
Mar 23, 1951
E16Ticket to Oblivion
Apr 6, 1951
E17The Touchstone
Apr 20, 1951
E18Dead on the Vine
May 4, 1951
E19Peter Ibbetson
May 18, 1951
E20Three in a Room
Jun 1, 1951
E21Night Over London
Jun 15, 1951
E22The Ghost Patrol (restaged)
Jun 29, 1951
E23The Lilac Bush
Mar 3, 1955
E24Second Sight
Mar 10, 1955
E25Celebrity
Mar 17, 1955
E26Garrity's Sons
Mar 24, 1955
E27Hanrahan
Mar 31, 1955
E28Deception
Apr 7, 1955
E29The Woman at Fog Point
Apr 14, 1955
E30Sunday Mourn
Apr 21, 1955
E31While We're Young
Apr 28, 1955
E32Appointment with Destiny
May 5, 1955
E33The Policy of Joe Aladdin
May 12, 1955
E34Mimi
May 19, 1955
E35Cardboard Casanova
May 26, 1955
E36P.J. and the Lady
Jun 2, 1955
E37One Man Missing
Jun 9, 1955
E38Favorite Son
Jun 16, 1955
E39The Mumbys
Jun 23, 1955
Storyline
Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the radio version and known as Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, was a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts. Ford Theatre was named for its sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, which had an earlier success with its concert music series, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour.
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