The Ford Television Theatre Season 1

Season 1

Air date: 1952-10-02

Episodes: 26

Episodes

E1: Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley

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 principal is the teacher.

Air date: 1952-10-02

E2: Junior

Air date: 1952-10-09

E3: National Honeymoon

Air date: 1952-10-16

E4: Birth of a Hero

Air date: 1952-10-23

E5: Girl in the Park

Air date: 1952-10-30

E6: Edge of the Law

Air date: 1952-11-06

E7: Protect Her Honor

A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.

Air date: 1952-11-13

E8: Sunk

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 he'll travel to the South Seas and murder a man named Jake Finch. The trip to the islands involves a three-week cruise on a schooner where the sad drunk has time to reevaluate his life.

Air date: 1952-11-20

E9: The Divided Heart

Air date: 1952-11-27

E14: They Also Serve

Air date: 1953-01-01

E16: This Is My Heart

Air date: 1953-01-15

E17: The Sermon of the Gun

Air date: 1953-01-22

E18: Adventure in Connecticut

Air date: 1953-01-29

E19: The First Born

Air date: 1953-02-05

E22: All's Fair in Love

Air date: 1953-02-26

E23: Madame 44

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 respectability in New Orleans, a suitor threatens to expose her past.

Air date: 1953-03-05

E24: My Daughter's Husband

A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.

Air date: 1953-03-12

E25: The Bet

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 accepts, despite the love of the woman.

Air date: 1953-03-19

E26: Double Exposure

Air date: 1953-03-26

E27: To Any Soldier

Air date: 1953-04-02

E28: Just What the Doctor Ordered

Air date: 1953-04-09

E29: Allison, Ltd.

Air date: 1953-04-16

E30: The Life of the Party

Air date: 1953-04-23

E33: Look for Tomorrow

Air date: 1953-05-14

E34: Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

Air date: 1953-05-21

E37: The Trestle

A boy suspects his step-father is the murderer of a man who attempted to put a small town newspaper out of business.

Air date: 1953-06-11