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General Electric Theater

Season 3 1954 - 1955
NR

  • 1954-09-12T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 17h 30m (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

1954-09-12T04:00:00Z

3x01 Pretending Makes It Do

Season Premiere

3x01 Pretending Makes It Do

  • 1954-09-12T04:00:00Z30m

The story concerns a mother of a young college professor and her dreams for his future. Mrs. MacDowell makes daydream plans for her son in the belief that pretending will make them so.

1954-09-19T04:00:00Z

3x02 Too Old for the Girl

3x02 Too Old for the Girl

  • 1954-09-19T04:00:00Z30m

1954-09-26T04:00:00Z

3x03 Nora #1

3x03 Nora #1

  • 1954-09-26T04:00:00Z30m

Adapted from Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House"
An abusive husband gives his wife no choice but to retreat from her world of pain and degradation.

1954-10-03T05:00:00Z

3x04 The High Green Wall

3x04 The High Green Wall

  • 1954-10-03T05:00:00Z30m

After the death of his son and his wife's abandonment, Hanly ventures forth on an ill-fated expedition to the Amazon jungle.

1954-10-10T05:00:00Z

3x05 The Long Way 'Round

3x05 The Long Way 'Round

  • 1954-10-10T05:00:00Z30m

1954-10-17T05:00:00Z

3x06 Edison the Man

3x06 Edison the Man

  • 1954-10-17T05:00:00Z30m

Adapted from the 1940 film scenario
Fifty years after inventing the light bulb, Edison retells his story beginning with his arrival to New York at age 22.

1954-10-31T05:00:00Z

3x07 The Road to Edinburgh

3x07 The Road to Edinburgh

  • 1954-10-31T05:00:00Z30m

Joan Crawford stars in "The Road to Edinburgh." An American newspaper- woman is driving to Edinburgh in order to cover a story. Her car breaks down and a man offers her some help. In return she gives him a lift but soon begins to regret her offer.

1954-11-14T05:00:00Z

3x08 I'm a Fool

3x08 I'm a Fool

  • 1954-11-14T05:00:00Z30m

Played out on a stylized, dramatically lit set, I am a fool is a classic story of a heartsick and foolish farm boy who takes on a false identity to impress a beautiful girl and in so doing loses the love of his life forever.

1954-11-21T05:00:00Z

3x09 The Face Is Familiar

3x09 The Face Is Familiar

  • 1954-11-21T05:00:00Z30m

A comedy about a man whose face no one could remember.

3x10 The Rider on the Pale Horse

  • 1954-11-28T05:00:00Z30m

1954-12-05T05:00:00Z

3x11 Committed

3x11 Committed

  • 1954-12-05T05:00:00Z30m

A news reporter looking for a big story, gets more then he bargains for when he loses his identity and is placed in a mental institution.

1954-12-12T05:00:00Z

3x12 The Dark, Dark Hours

3x12 The Dark, Dark Hours

  • 1954-12-12T05:00:00Z30m

A thug holds a doctor and his wife hostage in their home.

1954-12-26T05:00:00Z

3x13 The White Steed

3x13 The White Steed

  • 1954-12-26T05:00:00Z30m

Adapted from the Paul Vincent Carroll play.

1955-01-02T05:00:00Z

3x14 Amelia

3x14 Amelia

  • 1955-01-02T05:00:00Z30m

Adapted from the Margaret Wade Campbell Deland story.

1955-01-09T05:00:00Z

3x15 D.P.

3x15 D.P.

  • 1955-01-09T05:00:00Z30m

1955-01-16T05:00:00Z

3x16 Yankee Pedler

3x16 Yankee Pedler

  • 1955-01-16T05:00:00Z30m

1955-01-23T05:00:00Z

3x17 The Martyr

3x17 The Martyr

  • 1955-01-23T05:00:00Z30m

During the Irish rebellion of 1922, an Irish patriot turns informer to save his life from a military firing squad.

1955-01-30T05:00:00Z

3x18 The Big Shot

3x18 The Big Shot

  • 1955-01-30T05:00:00Z30m

Johnny Pulaski going to New York to audition for a record company. Johnnie comes off well as an actor, and even slips a song or two into the story.

3x19 The Return of Gentleman Jim

  • 1955-02-06T05:00:00Z30m

Story about boxer Jim Corbett's coming back to Earth to face co-star Joe Louis in the ring.

1955-02-13T05:00:00Z

3x20 Love Is Eternal

3x20 Love Is Eternal

  • 1955-02-13T05:00:00Z30m

Based on Irving Stone's novel of the same name.
When Lincoln and Mary Todd were married, he had the phrase, "Love is Eternal" inscribed in her wedding band. Though years of loneliness and disappointment seem
 to disprove this sentiment, the historic pair finally realize its truth.

1955-02-20T05:00:00Z

3x21 The Bachelor's Bride

3x21 The Bachelor's Bride

  • 1955-02-20T05:00:00Z30m

When Lincoln and Mary Todd were married, he had the phrase, "Love is Eternal", inscribed in her wedding band. Though years of loneliness and disappointment seem to disprove this sentiment, the historic pair finally realize its truth.

1955-03-06T05:00:00Z

3x22 The Blond Dog

3x22 The Blond Dog

  • 1955-03-06T05:00:00Z30m

A struggling photographer runs over a dog while driving near the home of an actress. Little does he know that this insignificant auto accident will lead to his involvement in murder.

3x23 War and Peace on the Range

  • 1955-03-13T05:00:00Z30m

A comedy-western version of Leo Tolstoy's War And Peace
A film producer of B-movie Westerns has to hire a big-name actor's relative who is extremely incompetent for the chosen epic film.

1955-03-20T05:00:00Z

3x24 The Bitter Choice

3x24 The Bitter Choice

  • 1955-03-20T05:00:00Z30m

A struggling photographer runs over a dog while driving near the home of an actress. Little does he know that this insignificant auto accident will lead to his involvement in murder.

1955-03-27T05:00:00Z

3x25 Clown

3x25 Clown

  • 1955-03-27T05:00:00Z30m

Adapted from the Emmett Kelly autobiography
An autobiographical story of the legendary circus clown Emmett Kelly. It begins in the 1930's when Kelly was performing a trapeze act.

3x26 It Gives Me Great Pleasure

  • 1955-04-03T05:00:00Z30m

A traveling lecturer wants to retire and spend more time with her son.

1955-04-17T05:00:00Z

3x27 O, Lonely Moon

3x27 O, Lonely Moon

  • 1955-04-17T05:00:00Z30m

Adaptation of a short story by Bryan MacMahon
Embittered by his wife's death during the birth of their eighth child, an Irishman refuses to set eyes on the girl and acknowledges only seven children.

1955-04-24T05:00:00Z

3x28 The Windmill

3x28 The Windmill

  • 1955-04-24T05:00:00Z30m

Adapted from the Theodore Francis Powys story
A down & out rancher has a plan to bring water to the farmers of a dry region of land in the old west. But he has to raise $500.00 to purchase a windmill & equipment to build the irrigation system. After the bank turns his loan down, he enters a 6 shooter contest in town. To win he will have to reveal a deadly secret from his past and loose his family.
However, if he doesn’t win, he risks loosing his land & his family both.

1955-05-01T04:00:00Z

3x29 Mr. Blue Ocean

3x29 Mr. Blue Ocean

  • 1955-05-01T04:00:00Z30m

Embittered by his wife's death during the birth of their eighth child, an Irishman refuses to set eyes on the girl and acknowledges only seven children.

1955-05-08T04:00:00Z

3x30 Into the Night

3x30 Into the Night

  • 1955-05-08T04:00:00Z30m

The vacation plans of a young couple are suddenly altered by a fugitive gunman. After hiding in their car, he forces them to take him to his pal's hideout.

1955-05-15T04:00:00Z

3x31 A Man with a Vengeance

3x31 A Man with a Vengeance

  • 1955-05-15T04:00:00Z30m

A ruthless film director bides his time and waits for his moment of victory, when he can pay back the movie star who once spurned him.

1955-05-22T04:00:00Z

3x32 When in France

3x32 When in France

  • 1955-05-22T04:00:00Z30m

What better place for romance than in a classroom, especially a French class? That's the reasoning of a lonely boy and a lonely girl who enroll in a French class with hopes of learning anything but the language.

1955-05-29T04:00:00Z

3x33 The Half-Promised Land

3x33 The Half-Promised Land

  • 1955-05-29T04:00:00Z30m

Pio, a bartender in Capri, has dreamed all his life of going to America. He asks two American tourists to help him find a way to make his dream come true.

1955-06-05T04:00:00Z

3x34 Star in the House

3x34 Star in the House

  • 1955-06-05T04:00:00Z30m

One-time film star plans her anniversary to be as romantic as her honeymoon.

1955-06-19T04:00:00Z

3x35 The Day He Got Fired

3x35 The Day He Got Fired

  • 1955-06-19T04:00:00Z30m

Pio, a bartender in Capri, has dreamed all his life of going to America. He asks two American tourists to help him find a way to make his dream come true.

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