General Electric Theater – Season 9
Episodes
The Man Who Thought for Himself
Steve Allen played a bank executive who woke up one morning to find all his actions governed by what his neighbors -and boss thought. In a burst of independence, he decided to paint his house barn red, and when his neighbors objected, he blew his cork and painted it red, white and blue. That raised the roof, and the neighborhood called a meeting to decide whether to sue him for creating a public nuisance. Allen didn't like the colors anyway, and was ready to give in and repaint, but not until he could make his point about conformity before the meeting. This he did so well, everybody congratulated him as a courageous, forward-thinking individualist and urged him to keep the house just the way it was. He started to do this until, with a jolt, he realized he'd fallen into the trap of conformity again, and if he didn’t like the house the way it was, he was darn well gonna change it.
Journal of Hope
Hooray for Love
Swinging Singing Years
Goodbye, My Love
The Camel`s Foot
The Graduation Dress
The Influential Americans
The Playoff
Journey to a Wedding
Learn to Say Goodbye
Tom Parkes is still attached to the memory of his first wife. Jo, his new wife, vows to win his complete affection.
Strictly Solo
The Money Driver
Harness racing driver, Al Roberts, fights viciously to bring in the big money. And at home he has no patience with his son Joey and pushes the boy around.
The Other Wise Man
A presentation of the 1960 episode of the same name.
Don't Let It Throw You
Memory in White
Super rare GE Theater written by Budd Schulberg, Memory in White, stars Sammy Davis as a punch drunk boxer trying to start a new life as a ring announcer while being tormented by Charles Bronson.
The Devil You Say
A nattily dressed gentleman climbs out of a manhole, goes down the street to the home of the Willoughbys and introduces himself to Mrs. Willoughby as Nick Lucifer, alias Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness.
The Drop-Out
A Little White Lye
Todays theme is A Little White Lye.
The Legend That Walks Like a Man
A Possibility of Oil
Todays theme is A Possibility of Oi
Image of a Doctor
Open House
New York Detective Joe McQueen would like to know how to get Grover Healy, his freeloading brother-in-law, out of his house. But it isn't until smalltime hoodlum Willy Zucks shows up at McQueen's home that Grover considers leaving.
The Small Elephants
A shady operator named Pegosi tries to get a gullible actress, Leslie Blaine, to buy a miniature live elephant for a publicity stunt. When a magician named Trapollini tells Pegosi he'd like one too, Pegosi realizes he many actually have to produce the animal.
Love is a Lion's Roar
Labor of Love
The Red Balloon
A special showing of the Albert Lamorisse 1956 French film featuring Lamorisse's son, Pascal.
Sis Bowls 'Em Over
Connie Marlowe is responsible for orphaned younger brother, Buzz. He hopes to win some money in a father-son bowling match, so he asks Connie to get a stand-in father for him.
The Joke's on Me
Comic Sid Benton takes a hard-boiled, cynical view of life in his nightclub act where it pays off. But when he runs this attitude over into his private life, he loses his wife's affections.
My Darling Judge
Judge Cyrus Dunn is determined to get away for a holiday fishing trip. But at the last moment, his wife Betsy insists that the gardener's salary must be paid. This leaves the judge with no ready cash for his trip.