John Brahm
Director
General Electric Theater (1953)
Season 6
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Released Feb. 1, 1953
Episode 30 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, imdb.company-sponsor-name-in-title, imdb.anthology-series, imdb.all-star-cast, awards.emmy-award-nominated
Watch Providers: Tubi TV
Production Companies: Theodora Productions, MCA Television, Revue Studios
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S6E1 - The Questioning Note
Oct. 6, 1957, midnight
S6E2 - Father and Son Night
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.
Oct. 13, 1957, midnight
S6E3 - Thousand Dollar Gun
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.
Oct. 20, 1957, midnight
S6E4 - Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour
Oct. 27, 1957, midnight
S6E5 - Mischief at Bandy Leg
Nov. 3, 1957, midnight
S6E6 - Cornada
Nov. 10, 1957, midnight
S6E7 - Love Came Late
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.
Nov. 17, 1957, midnight
S6E8 - The Iron Horse
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.
Nov. 24, 1957, midnight
S6E9 - Imp on a Cobweb Leash
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.
Dec. 1, 1957, midnight
S6E10 - Eyes of a Stranger
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
Dec. 8, 1957, midnight
S6E11 - The Trail to Christmas
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.
Dec. 15, 1957, midnight
S6E12 - The Young Years
Dec. 22, 1957, midnight
S6E13 - Kid at the Stick
A young boy aboard a small plane has to try and land with radio help from the ground.
Jan. 5, 1958, midnight
S6E14 - Letters From Cairo
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.
Jan. 12, 1958, midnight
S6E15 - Time to Go Now
Jan. 19, 1958, midnight
S6E16 - Silent Ambush
A sheriff struggles to keep his job even as he loses his hearing.
Jan. 26, 1958, midnight
S6E17 - All I Survey
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.
Feb. 2, 1958, midnight
S6E18 - Incident
Todays theme is Incident.
Feb. 9, 1958, midnight
S6E19 - The Last Town Car - 1
"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...
Feb. 16, 1958, midnight
S6E20 - The Last Town Car - 2
"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...
Feb. 23, 1958, midnight
S6E21 - New York Knight
March 2, 1958, midnight
S6E22 - Angel in the Air
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.
March 9, 1958, midnight
S6E23 - The Coward of Fort Bennett
March 16, 1958, midnight
S6E24 - Strange Witness
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.
March 23, 1958, midnight
S6E25 - The Unfamiliar
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.
March 30, 1958, midnight
S6E26 - No Hiding Place
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.
April 6, 1958, midnight
S6E27 - The Cold Touch
Todays theme is The Cold Touch.
April 13, 1958, midnight
S6E28 - God is My Judge
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.
April 20, 1958, midnight
S6E29 - Stopover
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.
April 27, 1958, midnight
S6E30 - Ah There, Beau Brummel
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.
May 4, 1958, midnight
S6E31 - Bold Loser
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.
May 11, 1958, midnight
S6E32 - The Young and Scared
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.
May 18, 1958, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 9090 min.
Released: Feb. 1, 1953
Last Air Date: June 3, 1962, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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