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General Electric Theater

Season 6 · 32 episodes · Oct 6, 1957

  1. Episode 1

    The Questioning Note

    Oct 6, 1957

  2. Episode 2

    Father and Son Night

    Oct 13, 1957

    George Hogan, undefeated middleweight champion of the world, retires from the ring. But new champion Eddie Seaboard wants to force him out of retirement and taunts him in front of his young son. When Hogan refuses to fight, the youngster loses faith in his father.

  3. Episode 3

    Thousand Dollar Gun

    Oct 20, 1957

    Broken Lance, Kansas hires gunfighter Buchanan Smith to drive out a ruthless gang of outlaws who have taken over the town. Smith is faced with an additional problem when Joe Breed, head of the gang, hires a notorious killer to kill him.

  4. Episode 4

    Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour

    Oct 27, 1957

  5. Episode 5

    Mischief at Bandy Leg

    Nov 3, 1957

  6. Episode 6

    Cornada

    Nov 10, 1957

  7. Episode 7

    Love Came Late

    Nov 17, 1957

    Professor Arthur Barris is unsympathetic when Jack Evans, an Army veteran and a father, falls behind in his grades. Barris refuses to allow for Evans' adjustment from Army to college life. But Jack's mother, with womanly charm, intervenes.

  8. Episode 8

    The Iron Horse

    Nov 24, 1957

    After killing a man in a drunken brawl, wagon maker Joe Turner swears that he will never drink again. Joe and his wife settle in a small town hoping to start a new life. But the vicious town boss starts a campaign to drive the Turners out of town.

  9. Episode 9

    Imp on a Cobweb Leash

    Dec 1, 1957

    J. Willingham Bardley is a staid and refined businessman with an eye on the presidency of his firm, until he is shaken by the arrival of a mischievous imp.

  10. Episode 10

    Eyes of a Stranger

    Dec 8, 1957

    When Dr. Mark Andrews meets tyrannical society woman, Katherine Belmont, he believes her caustic attitude is caused by a fear that she is losing her sight. He persuades her to undergo a cornea-transplant operation

  11. Episode 11

    The Trail to Christmas

    Dec 15, 1957

    A cowboy helps a young runaway learn the meaning of Christmas by telling the boy the story of "A Christmas Carol," changed to the American west.

  12. Episode 12

    The Young Years

    Dec 22, 1957

  13. Episode 13

    Kid at the Stick

    Jan 5, 1958

    A young boy aboard a small plane has to try and land with radio help from the ground.

  14. Episode 14

    Letters From Cairo

    Jan 12, 1958

    A happily married couple is separated when the husband is called to Cairo on a business trip. His letters tell her constantly of his devotion, and she lives for his return.

  15. Episode 15

    Time to Go Now

    Jan 19, 1958

  16. Episode 16

    Silent Ambush

    Jan 26, 1958

    A sheriff struggles to keep his job even as he loses his hearing.

  17. Episode 17

    All I Survey

    Feb 2, 1958

    A woman trying to nurse her desperately ill husband back to health is faced with a powerful temptation when an author-friend of theirs comes to visit.

  18. Episode 18

    Incident

    Feb 9, 1958

    Todays theme is Incident.

  19. Episode 19

    The Last Town Car - 1

    Feb 16, 1958

    "The Last Town Car" was a two-part original drama, the story of a widow who develops a consuming fear when strange and inexplicable events occur involving a 1925 Rolls-Royce town car being used as a taxicab and its secretive driver. In Part One, Edith Miller (Claudette Colbert) tells psychiatrist Jonathan Michael (Kent Smith) of terrifying events connected with the car, of delusions about people of another era who appear mysteriously, and of a driver (Harry Tyler) who bears her frightening contempt each time she rides in the car. Her consuming fear about her delusions...

  20. Episode 20

    The Last Town Car - 2

    Feb 23, 1958

    "The Last Town Car" was a two-part original drama, the story of a widow who develops a consuming fear when strange and inexplicable events occur involving a 1925 Rolls-Royce town car being used as a taxicab and its secretive driver. In Part One, Edith Miller (Claudette Colbert) tells psychiatrist Jonathan Michael (Kent Smith) of terrifying events connected with the car, of delusions about people of another era who appear mysteriously, and of a driver (Harry Tyler) who bears her frightening contempt each time she rides in the car. Her consuming fear about her delusions...

  21. Episode 21

    New York Knight

    Mar 2, 1958

  22. Episode 22

    Angel in the Air

    Mar 9, 1958

    A roving peddler becomes stranded in a rural community in the deep South. Appalled by the pitiable existence of one of the families he meets, he finds himself performing the first unselfish deed of his life.

  23. Episode 23

    The Coward of Fort Bennett

    Mar 16, 1958

  24. Episode 24

    Strange Witness

    Mar 23, 1958

    Ruth and her lover David are caught having an affair by her husband John. When John refuses to give Ruth a divorce, David shoots him. Before Ruth and David can make plans to cover up the murder, John's blind friend Chris shows up.

  25. Episode 25

    The Unfamiliar

    Mar 30, 1958

    A strange, unearthly, inarticulate little man is found clinging to a piece of driftwood off the New England coast. His utter confusion in a modern-day environment suggests that he is from another world.

  26. Episode 26

    No Hiding Place

    Apr 6, 1958

    An alcoholic reaches the bottom one night. Six weeks later, he is recovering and begins helping other alcoholics who believe they have nowhere to turn.

  27. Episode 27

    The Cold Touch

    Apr 13, 1958

    Today's theme is The Cold Touch. Upon arriving in Hong Kong, a woman's husband disappears, so she hires a private detective. Then her husband shows back up at the hotel--or so she thinks. Soon, she finds herself in deeper than imaginable.

  28. Episode 28

    God is My Judge

    Apr 20, 1958

    A widow decides the time has come to set her life straight. She returns to the town where she lived when she was young and confesses to the murder of her husband, who had died there years before.

  29. Episode 29

    Stopover

    Apr 27, 1958

    Stella Rutledge, traveling to the new frontier of the West, accepts temporary lodging with the Gaines family when the stagecoach breaks down. Noting the isolated family's hunger for news she entertains the two youngsters with tales about her former home, a Southern plantation, and discovers the girl plans to run away from home.

  30. Episode 30

    Ah There, Beau Brummel

    May 4, 1958

    Benedict Arnold Brummel admits that he is a humorless stuffed shirt. But his routine life as a junior executive is suddenly changed one morning when it is announced in a New York gossip column that he is romancing the glamorous movie star Roselle King.

  31. Episode 31

    Bold Loser

    May 11, 1958

    Adam Tenney is on the road to Virginia to deliver a wagonload of flour when he loses his town's income from the flour in a poker game.

  32. Episode 32

    The Young and Scared

    May 18, 1958

    A young sailor sees a pretty teenager struck by an older man in a railroad station. He restrains the man and the girl flees. Later, he learns that the man is her foster father, and she has run away because of his cruelty to her.