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General Electric Theater

Season 10 1961 - 1962
NR

  • 1961-09-10T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 17h 25m (35 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Drama
General Electric Theater featured a mix of romance, comedy, adventure, tragedy, fantasy and variety music. The General Electric Theater presented top Hollywood and Broadway stars in dramatic roles calculated to deliver company voice advertising to the largest possible audience.

35 episodes

Season Premiere

1961-09-10T04:00:00Z

10x01 The Golden Years

Season Premiere

10x01 The Golden Years

  • 1961-09-10T04:00:00Z30m

1961-09-17T04:00:00Z

10x02 The Red Balloon

10x02 The Red Balloon

  • 1961-09-17T04:00:00Z30m

A prizewinning French film is shown.
The story, which is without dialog, is about a boy who finds a red balloon. But instead of floating about like any normal balloon, this one follows the boy wherever he goes.

1961-09-24T04:00:00Z

10x03 The Iron Silence

10x03 The Iron Silence

  • 1961-09-24T04:00:00Z30m

It's a Cold War tale, where two Soviets are in an occupied Eastern European country, one is the womanizing martinet who gets himself murdered and the other is the sympathetic Russian.

1961-10-01T04:00:00Z

10x04 Cat In The Cradle

10x04 Cat In The Cradle

  • 1961-10-01T04:00:00Z30m

In the pioneering days of the 1760's in frontier Pennsylvania, a spirited Amish woman takes matters into her own hands when her husband-to-be refuses to bear arms against the Indians threatening the community.

1961-10-08T04:00:00Z

10x05 A Musket For Jessica

10x05 A Musket For Jessica

  • 1961-10-08T04:00:00Z30m

In 1760, the peace loving people of an Amish settlement learn of an imminent attack by Indians. They prepare to evacuate their village rather than bear arms.

1961-10-15T04:00:00Z

10x06 The $200 Parlay

10x06 The $200 Parlay

  • 1961-10-15T04:00:00Z30m

An office worker named Alma can't get her bookkeeper boyfriend Stanley to pop the question. His excuse: no nest egg.Her solution: make a killing at the races - with money from the office petty cash box.

1961-10-22T04:00:00Z

10x07 The Wish Book

10x07 The Wish Book

  • 1961-10-22T04:00:00Z30m

Based on the story by George Milburn.
Ellie Beckett is a young mountain girl who prefers whittlin' to socializin' until Grandpaw shows her all them purty clothes in the mail-order catalog. Soon Ellie figures on buyin' some of that finery with the prize money she might win for her woodcarving at the county fair.

1961-11-05T05:00:00Z

10x08 The Great Alberti

10x08 The Great Alberti

  • 1961-11-05T05:00:00Z30m

General Electric Theater

Madeline, the daughter of famed actress Lili Parrish, is on trial for murder. Lili, the key witness, is determined to make her testimony the most believable performance of her career.

1961-11-19T05:00:00Z

10x10 A Voice On The Phone

10x10 A Voice On The Phone

  • 1961-11-19T05:00:00Z30m

Newlyweds Paul and Carol Madsen have scarcely settled in their new apartment when the phone begins ringing. The caller isa psychotic crank who drives Carol to near hysteria.

1961-11-26T05:00:00Z

10x11 Money And The Minister

10x11 Money And The Minister

  • 1961-11-26T05:00:00Z30m

The late Glorietta Dwight, a wealthy recluse, felt that her last years had been made happier  by the guidance of Reverend Theodore Carlisle, and she named him as the major beneficiary of her will.

1961-12-03T05:00:00Z

10x12 We're Holding Your Son

10x12 We're Holding Your Son

  • 1961-12-03T05:00:00Z30m

George Harris, a successful businessman, is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from the police. His teen-age boy Sonny is being held for grand larceny.

1961-12-10T05:00:00Z

10x13 Call To Danger

10x13 Call To Danger

  • 1961-12-10T05:00:00Z30m

The exploits of Robert Hale, a US Treasury Department agent. Hale recruits a civilian locksmith named Johnny Henderson to help retrieve stolen currency plates.

1961-12-17T05:00:00Z

10x14 Tippy-top

10x14 Tippy-top

  • 1961-12-17T05:00:00Z30m

A lonely boy learns his beloved playmate Tippy-Top is imaginary.

1961-12-31T05:00:00Z

10x15 A Friendly Tribe

10x15 A Friendly Tribe

  • 1961-12-31T05:00:00Z30m

The gridiron feats of Bud Austin are still talked about in his home town, but Bud's infant son will never grow up to follow in his father's footsteps. Tests have shown that the year-old baby is mentally ill.

1962-01-07T05:00:00Z

10x16 The Wall Bewteen

10x16 The Wall Bewteen

  • 1962-01-07T05:00:00Z30m

The gridiron feats of Bud Austin are still talked about in his home town, but Bud's infant son will never grow up to follow in his father's footsteps. Tests have shown that the year-old baby is mentally retarded.

1962-01-14T05:00:00Z

10x17 The Hold-out

10x17 The Hold-out

  • 1962-01-14T05:00:00Z30m

Teenagers Margie Graham and Fred Judson want to get married and they ask their parents for permission and for financial help.

1962-01-21T05:00:00Z

10x18 The Little Hours

10x18 The Little Hours

  • 1962-01-21T05:00:00Z30m

Todays theme is Go Fight City Hall.

1962-01-28T05:00:00Z

10x19 Go Fight City Hall

10x19 Go Fight City Hall

  • 1962-01-28T05:00:00Z30m

A high school basketball coach is concerned when his star player skips practice to study for an exam.

1962-02-04T05:00:00Z

10x20 Shadow Of A Hero

10x20 Shadow Of A Hero

  • 1962-02-04T05:00:00Z30m

A basketball coach at Haynes High School is concerned when one of his students, the best hoop star skips practice to study for his exam.

1962-02-11T05:00:00Z

10x21 Badge Of Honor

10x21 Badge Of Honor

  • 1962-02-11T05:00:00Z30m

Howard Douglas, an official of the Boy Scouts of America, is driving through a deserted section of the city when he notices a body lying in the street. Stopping to investigate, he finds himself surrounded by a gang of teenagers armed with zip guns and switchblades.

1962-02-18T05:00:00Z

10x22 The Free Wheelers

10x22 The Free Wheelers

  • 1962-02-18T05:00:00Z30m

Max Grossblatt, an elderly Chicago tailor, dreams of being able to visit his son Larry in California. But on a tailor's salary, all that Max can afford is dreams

1962-03-04T05:00:00Z

10x23 Ten Days In The Sun

10x23 Ten Days In The Sun

  • 1962-03-04T05:00:00Z30m

Max Grossblatt, an elderly Chicago tailor, dreams of being able to visit his son Larry in California. But on a tailor's salary, all that Max can afford is dreams.

1962-03-11T05:00:00Z

10x24 A Very Special Girl

10x24 A Very Special Girl

  • 1962-03-11T05:00:00Z30m

Successful, attractive society-reporter Alice Lockman wouldn't mind being married. But the available eligible bachelors really don't measure up to Alice's standards - or her mother's either. 

1962-03-18T05:00:00Z

10x25 My Dark Days - Part 1

10x25 My Dark Days - Part 1

  • 1962-03-18T05:00:00Z30m

Story based on Marion Miller's autobiography "I WAS A SPY."
Hazel Valance asks housewife Marion Miller to attend a meeting of the Alien Protection Committee- Hazel is upset because the government plans to deport a friend. After the meeting, the FBI agent Bill Edwards informs Marion that the Committee is suspected of being a Communist front organization and asks her to join as a spy.

1962-03-25T05:00:00Z

10x26 My Dark Days - Part 2

10x26 My Dark Days - Part 2

  • 1962-03-25T05:00:00Z30m

story based on Marion Miller's autobiography "I WAS A SPY."
After Marion testifies before a Congressional committee concerning her years as an anti-communists spy, she looks forward to a peaceful life as a housewife. But it seems the Communists have other ideas.

1962-04-01T05:00:00Z

10x27 Hercule Poirot

10x27 Hercule Poirot

  • 1962-04-01T05:00:00Z30m

Based on Agatha Christie's short story "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim."
The Belgian master detective solves another puzzling crime.

Orlovsky, a janitor in a Manhatten office building, goes upstairs to the Jewish Vocational Guidance Center for a talk with the director, Miriam Raskin. Orlovsky has come to ask the widow Raskin to be his wife.

1962-04-22T05:00:00Z

10x29 The Troubled Heart

10x29 The Troubled Heart

  • 1962-04-22T05:00:00Z30m

Western comedy about a pharmacist and his son at the turn of the 20th century.

1962-04-29T05:00:00Z

10x30 Mister Doc

10x30 Mister Doc

  • 1962-04-29T05:00:00Z30m

1962-05-06T04:00:00Z

10x31 The Unstoppable Grey Fox

10x31 The Unstoppable Grey Fox

  • 1962-05-06T04:00:00Z30m

Based on a story by William Saroyan.

1962-05-13T04:00:00Z

10x32 Acres And Pains

10x32 Acres And Pains

  • 1962-05-13T04:00:00Z30m

1962-05-20T04:00:00Z

10x33 Somebody Please Help Me

10x33 Somebody Please Help Me

  • 1962-05-20T04:00:00Z30m

The Story of Ben, an engineering student works nights in a supermarket to support his family.

Season Finale

1962-05-27T04:00:00Z

10x34 First Hundred Years

Season Finale

10x34 First Hundred Years

  • 1962-05-27T04:00:00Z30m

(unsold comedy pilot)
The Story of Ben, an engineering student works nights in a supermarket to support his family.

1962-06-03T04:00:00Z

10x35 The Roman Kind

10x35 The Roman Kind

  • 1962-06-03T04:00:00Z25m

Final Episode

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