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Ford Theatre

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First Aired:October 17, 1948
Seasons:3 seasons
Episodes:117
Status:Ended

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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Seasons & Episodes

E1Years Ago

60m

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

60m

Nov 21, 1948

E3Night Must Fall

60m

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

60m

Jan 16, 1949

E5The Silver Cord

60m

Feb 2, 1949

E6Outward Bound

60m

Mar 13, 1949

E7Arsenic and Old Lace

60m

May 11, 1949

E8One Sunday Afternoon

60m

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

60m

Jun 13, 1949

E10Something Old, Something New

60m

Dec 4, 1952

E11Crossed and Double Crossed

60m

Dec 11, 1952

E12So Many Things Happen

60m

Dec 18, 1952

E13Heart of Gold

60m

Dec 25, 1952

E14They Also Serve

60m

Jan 1, 1953

E15It Happened in a Pawn Shop

60m

Jan 8, 1953

E16This Is My Heart

60m

Jan 15, 1953

E17The Sermon of the Gun

60m

Jan 22, 1953

E18Adventure in Connecticut

60m

Jan 29, 1953

E19The First Born

60m

Feb 5, 1953

E20The Old Man's Bride

60m

Feb 12, 1953

E21Margin for Fear

60m

Feb 19, 1953

E22All's Fair in Love

60m

Feb 26, 1953

E23Madame 44

60m

Mar 5, 1953

E24My Daughter's Husband

60m

Mar 12, 1953

E25The Bet

60m

Mar 19, 1953

E26Double Exposure

60m

Mar 26, 1953

E27To Any Soldier

60m

Apr 2, 1953

E28Just What the Doctor Ordered

60m

Apr 9, 1953

E29Allison, Ltd.

60m

Apr 16, 1953

E30The Life of the Party

60m

Apr 23, 1953

E31The Son-in-Law

60m

Apr 30, 1953

E32The Lady and the Champ

60m

May 7, 1953

E33Look for Tomorrow

60m

May 14, 1953

E34Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

60m

May 21, 1953

E35The Jewel

60m

May 28, 1953

E36There's No Place Like Home

60m

Jun 4, 1953

E37The Trestle

60m

Jun 11, 1953

E38Malaya Incident

60m

Jun 18, 1953

E39The People Versus Johnston

60m

Jun 25, 1953

E1Twentieth Century

60m

Oct 7, 1949

E2On Borrowed Time

60m

Oct 21, 1949

E3She Loves Me Not

60m

Nov 4, 1949

E4Skylark

60m

Nov 18, 1949

E5Kind Lady

60m

Dec 2, 1949

E6Little Women

60m

Dec 16, 1949

E7The Farmer Takes a Wife

60m

Dec 30, 1949

E8The Barker

60m

Jan 13, 1950

E9Laburnum Grove

60m

Jan 27, 1950

E10The Royal Family

60m

Feb 10, 1950

E11Uncle Harry

60m

Feb 24, 1950

E12Room Service

60m

Mar 10, 1950

E13Dear Brutus

60m

Mar 24, 1950

E14The Little Minister

60m

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

60m

Apr 21, 1950

E16Father Malachy's Miracle

60m

May 5, 1950

E17Subway Express

60m

May 19, 1950

E18The Shining Hour

60m

Jun 2, 1950

E19On Borrowed Time (restaged)

60m

Jun 30, 1950

E20For the Love of Kitty

60m

Feb 11, 1954

E21For Value Received

60m

Feb 18, 1954

E22Marriageable Male

60m

Feb 25, 1954

E23The Good of His Soul

60m

Mar 4, 1954

E24Come On, Red

60m

Mar 11, 1954

E25The Last Thirty Minutes

60m

Mar 18, 1954

E26The Taming of the Shrewd

60m

Mar 25, 1954

E27Turn Back the Clock

60m

Apr 1, 1954

E28Yours for a Dream

60m

Apr 8, 1954

E29Sister Veronica

60m

Apr 15, 1954

E30Wedding March

60m

Apr 22, 1954

E31Night Visitor

60m

Apr 29, 1954

E32A Season to Love

60m

May 6, 1954

E33Wonderful Day for a Wedding

60m

May 13, 1954

E34Beneath These Waters

60m

May 20, 1954

E35Keep It in the Family

60m

May 27, 1954

E36The Unlocked Door

60m

Jun 3, 1954

E37The Mason-Dixon Line

60m

Jun 10, 1954

E38The Tryst

60m

Jun 17, 1954

E39Indirect Approach

60m

Jun 24, 1954

E1The Traitor

60m

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 scientistโ€”the traitor โ€”to 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

60m

Sep 22, 1950

E3The Marble Faun

60m

Oct 6, 1950

E4Angel Street

60m

Oct 20, 1950

E5Heart of Darkness

60m

Nov 3, 1950

E6The Whiteheaded Boy

60m

Nov 17, 1950

E7Another Darling

60m

Dec 1, 1950

E8Alice in Wonderland

60m

Dec 15, 1950

E9Cause for Suspicion

60m

Dec 29, 1950

E10The Presentation of the Look Magazine TV Awards

60m

Jan 12, 1951

E11Final Copy

60m

Jan 26, 1951

E12Spring Again

60m

Feb 9, 1951

E13The Golden Mouth

60m

Feb 23, 1951

E14The Ghost Patrol

60m

Mar 9, 1951

E15Heart of Darkness (restaged)

60m

Mar 23, 1951

E16Ticket to Oblivion

60m

Apr 6, 1951

E17The Touchstone

60m

Apr 20, 1951

E18Dead on the Vine

60m

May 4, 1951

E19Peter Ibbetson

60m

May 18, 1951

E20Three in a Room

60m

Jun 1, 1951

E21Night Over London

60m

Jun 15, 1951

E22The Ghost Patrol (restaged)

60m

Jun 29, 1951

E23The Lilac Bush

60m

Mar 3, 1955

E24Second Sight

60m

Mar 10, 1955

E25Celebrity

60m

Mar 17, 1955

E26Garrity's Sons

60m

Mar 24, 1955

E27Hanrahan

60m

Mar 31, 1955

E28Deception

60m

Apr 7, 1955

E29The Woman at Fog Point

60m

Apr 14, 1955

E30Sunday Mourn

60m

Apr 21, 1955

E31While We're Young

60m

Apr 28, 1955

E32Appointment with Destiny

60m

May 5, 1955

E33The Policy of Joe Aladdin

60m

May 12, 1955

E34Mimi

60m

May 19, 1955

E35Cardboard Casanova

60m

May 26, 1955

E36P.J. and the Lady

60m

Jun 2, 1955

E37One Man Missing

60m

Jun 9, 1955

E38Favorite Son

60m

Jun 16, 1955

E39The Mumbys

60m

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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