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Series · 1952–Returning

The Ford Television Theatre

7.8·6 seasons·146 episodes·30 min avg.

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

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Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley
Life, Liberty and Orrin DooleyUp next
Oct 2, 1952

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.

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Junior
Junior
Oct 9, 1952
03
National Honeymoon
National Honeymoon
Oct 16, 1952
04
Birth of a Hero
Birth of a Hero
Oct 23, 1952
05
Girl in the Park
Girl in the Park
Oct 30, 1952
06
Edge of the Law
Edge of the Law
Nov 6, 1952
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Protect Her Honor
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.

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Sunk
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 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.

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The Divided Heart
The Divided Heart
Nov 27, 1952
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They Also Serve
They Also Serve
Jan 1, 1953
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It Happened in a Pawn Shop
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 licentious landlady and overbearing suitor, ensues.

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This Is My Heart
This Is My Heart
Jan 15, 1953
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The Sermon of the Gun
The Sermon of the Gun
Jan 22, 1953
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Adventure in Connecticut
Adventure in Connecticut
Jan 29, 1953
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The First Born
The First Born
Feb 5, 1953
22
All's Fair in Love
All's Fair in Love
Feb 26, 1953
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Madame 44
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 respectability in New Orleans, a suitor threatens to expose her past.

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My Daughter's Husband
My Daughter's Husband
Mar 12, 1953

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

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The Bet
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 accepts, despite the love of the woman.

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Double Exposure
Double Exposure
Mar 26, 1953
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To Any Soldier
To Any Soldier
Apr 2, 1953
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Just What the Doctor Ordered
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Apr 9, 1953
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Allison, Ltd.
Allison, Ltd.
Apr 16, 1953

A wealthy fashion woman, poor in youth, faces a dilemma as to whether to extract her long desired revenge on a man with whom she eloped in her youth but who allowed his rich family to annul the marriage for a débutante he wants to leave.

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The Life of the Party
The Life of the Party
Apr 23, 1953
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The Lady and the Champ
The Lady and the Champ
May 7, 1953

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

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Look for Tomorrow
Look for Tomorrow
May 14, 1953
34
Sweet Talk Me, Jackson
Sweet Talk Me, Jackson
May 21, 1953
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There's No Place Like Home
There's No Place Like Home
Jun 4, 1953

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

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The Trestle
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.

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