The Ford Television Theatre

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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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Episodes

Season 1

12 episodes

S1 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.

S1 E2 · Junior

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S1 E3 · National Honeymoon

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S1 E5 · Girl in the Park

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S1 E6 · Edge of the Law

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S1 E14 · They Also Serve

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S1 E17 · The Sermon of the Gun

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S1 E18 · Adventure in Connecticut

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S1 E19 · The First Born

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S1 E22 · All's Fair in Love

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S1 E26 · Double Exposure

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S1 E27 · To Any Soldier

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Season 2

27 episodes

S2 E1 · Tangier Lady

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S2 E2 · The Doctor's Downfall

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S2 E3 · Emergency

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S2 E4 · The Bachelor

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S2 E5 · Tomorrow's Men

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S2 E6 · The World's My Oyster

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S2 E7 · The Ming Lama

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S2 E8 · As the Flame Dies

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S2 E9 · Double Bet

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S2 E10 · Kiss and Forget

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S2 E11 · And Suddenly, You Knew

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S2 E12 · Gun Job

A former sheriff comes into conflict with a tough cattleman who refuses to recognize the law.

S2 E13 · Ever Since the Day

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S2 E14 · Alias Nora Hale

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S2 E15 · The Fugitives

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S2 E16 · The Ardent Woodsman

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S2 E17 · The Happiest Day

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S2 E18 · Mantrap

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S2 E19 · Lucky Tommy Jordan

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S2 E24 · Come On, Red

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S2 E25 · The Last Thirty Minutes

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S2 E27 · Turn Back the Clock

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S2 E29 · Sister Veronica

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S2 E30 · Wedding March

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S2 E31 · Night Visitor

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S2 E32 · A Season to Love

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S2 E33 · Wonderful Day for a Wedding

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Season 3

16 episodes

S3 E1 · The Trouble with Youth

A middle-aged theatrical producer suddenly begins mixing with the younger set.

S3 E2 · Daughter of Mine

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S3 E3 · Shadow of Truth

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S3 E4 · Segment

During a convention in a large city, a visiting family consisting of a man, his wife and daughter checks into a hotel. When the girl leaves, the wife's incessant nagging pushes the man into a rage building for years, and he snaps. He's going to murder his wife with a long sharp piece of glass

S3 E5 · Trip Around the Block

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S3 E6 · Remember to Live

Remember to Live

S3 E7 · The Road Ahead

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S3 E8 · The Summer Memory

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S3 E9 · The Legal Beagles

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S3 E10 · Girl in Flight

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S3 E11 · Charlie C Company

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S3 E12 · Portrait of Lydia

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S3 E14 · Magic Formula

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S3 E27 · Hanrahan

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S3 E33 · Mimi

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S3 E36 · One Man Missing

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Season 4

14 episodes

S4 E1 · All That Glitters

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S4 E2 · Husband

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S4 E5 · Johnny, Where Are You?

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S4 E8 · Passage to Yesterday

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S4 E12 · A Kiss for Santa

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S4 E13 · A Set of Values

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S4 E20 · Airborne Honeymoon

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S4 E26 · The Face

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S4 E27 · Autumn Fever

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S4 E31 · The Payoff

A private investigator is hired by a pretty blonde to collect an envelope at a boxing match and deliver it to her the next day. What's in the envelope causes some inconvenience.

S4 E33 · The Kill

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S4 E37 · Panic

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S4 E38 · Remembrance Day

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S4 E39 · A Past Remembered

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Season 5

16 episodes

S5 E2 · Sudden Silence

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S5 E3 · Emergency

An escaped convict invades the home of a ordinary American family.

S5 E4 · Measure of Faith

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S5 E5 · Black Jim Hawk

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S5 E8 · The Menace of Hasty Heights

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S5 E11 · The Marriage Plan

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S5 E12 · Duffy's Man

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S5 E14 · Fear Has Many Faces

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S5 E15 · The Quiet Stranger

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S5 E18 · Mrs. Wane Comes to Call

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S5 E19 · The Connoisseur

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S5 E20 · Ringside Seat

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S5 E21 · With No Regrets

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S5 E25 · The Man Across the Hall

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S5 E38 · Desperation

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S5 E39 · Adventure for Hire

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Season 8

10 episodes

S8 E1 · Catch at Straws

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S8 E2 · Sudden Silence

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S8 E3 · Paris Edition

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S8 E4 · Measure of Faith

A Catholic priest who was brutally beaten in a Communist prison, questions his faith.

S8 E5 · Black Jim Hawk

As a youngster, Jim Hawk begged Governor Sam Houston of Tennessee to release his father, a convicted murderer. Houston refused and the boy swore revenge.Jim Hawk became one of the West's most notorious outlaws and finally got his chance to follow through on his boyhood threat.

S8 E6 · Sometimes It Happens

A Welsh girl lives in New York City with her uncle and aunt. An old folk legend of her native country says that a love which proves itself three times will last forever. She decides to try this theory out on a young man she meets.

S8 E7 · The Woman Who Dared

In 1870, after years of hardship, a woman achieves her ambition of becoming a doctor. She dreams of serving the people in a small Western town, but the years of struggle seem wasted. The townspeople hate this woman who has dared enter a male profession.

S8 E8 · The Menace of Hasty Heights

As the wife of a would-be councilman is preparing a house party to assure his election, an escaped convict takes shelter in the house. Instead of becoming frightened, she takes advantage of his entrance and puts him to work helping her.

S8 E9 · Stand By To Dive

A young naval officer who has not seen his father since his parents were divorced when he was a child, is assigned to the submarine his father commands.

S8 E18 · Mrs. Wane Comes to Call

Laura Chandler is unable and seemingly unwilling to recover from the loss of her son