The Ford Television Theatre – Season 1
Episodes
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.
Junior
National Honeymoon
Birth of a Hero
Girl in the Park
Edge of the Law
Protect Her Honor
A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.
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.
The Divided Heart
They Also Serve
It Happened in a Pawn Shop
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.
This Is My Heart
The Sermon of the Gun
Adventure in Connecticut
The First Born
All's Fair in Love
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.
My Daughter's Husband
A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.
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.
Double Exposure
To Any Soldier
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Allison, Ltd.
The Life of the Party
The Lady and the Champ
A boxer strives for the middleweight championship in order to fund his friend's business venture.
Look for Tomorrow
Sweet Talk Me, Jackson
There's No Place Like Home
A newspaper expose precipitates a violent quarrel between the writer and his family.
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.