The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode List
Season 4
20 Oct. 1955
The Lady in the Wind
Since her parent's death, a young woman has looked to her employer for guidance. When she marries a young artist who expresses his emotions on canvas rather that in words, she again turns to her employer for understanding.
3 Nov. 1955
Johnny, Where Are You?
Hope Foster is wary about the arrival of her husband's former wartime companion. She is sure that the woman is in love with him, and soon begins to think that he may be in love with her.
10 Nov. 1955
The Blue Ribbon
The wife of a prizefighter promises her dying husband that their son will be a fighter.
17 Nov. 1955
A Smattering of Bliss
A successful Hollywood writing team can't seem to team up in a successful marriage. The wife discovers that the luscious leading lady for whom she and her husband are writing a picture is making a play for her husband.
24 Nov. 1955
Passage to Yesterday
During the London Blitz in World War 2, an American captain and a British Lady meet. They fall in love, and plan to marry when the woman receives her divorce. Then they learn that the woman's husband has been wounded in battle.
1 Dec. 1955
The Fabulous Sycamores
The one normal member of a wacky family has a hard time convincing her sweetheart's pompous parents that she'd make a suitable daughter-in-law.
15 Dec. 1955
South of Selangor
A war correspondent in Malaya goes to stay at the home of a middle-aged plantation owner.
5 Jan. 1956
Journey by Moonlight
In 1941 Havana, a French intelligence officer investigates a conspiracy with the German navy in which the husband of a woman he loves might be involved.
19 Jan. 1956
Never Lend Money to a Woman
A jilted loan-company employee advances money to his ex-fiancee.
26 Jan. 1956
Try Me for Size
A veteran harness racing driver gives his son strict orders regarding the race. He is angered when the young boy disobeys him and drives to win the first heat.
23 Feb. 1956
Your Other Love
The second wife of a wealthy Southerner moves with her husband to his family estate. She unexpectedly finds herself competing with his more glamorous first wife who's scheming to win him back.
8 Mar. 1956
All for a Man
Expecting an emotional reaction, a man caught kissing another woman criticizes the wife for just pressing him on their business so the wife masquerades as her uninhibited sister dissuading him from business to underline her mindset.
15 Mar. 1956
That Evil Woman
In a small coastal village, an engaged couple is slowly being drawn apart by a rumour campaign concerning the woman's deceased husband. It's said that she lead him to suicide, but it soon appears that a lot of facts about him are being suppressed by his rich mother, who rules the town's fortunes.
22 Mar. 1956
Double Trouble
Two news cameramen who use ruthless subterfuge in their rancorous competition chase a story of a brutal criminal during which one of them becomes a hostage to the criminal along with a woman for which both cameramen have designs.
29 Mar. 1956
The Face
Donny Weaver grows to manhood with one idea fixed in his mind - to track down and kill the gunman who murdered his mother and father.
12 Apr. 1956
On the Beach
Widow Janet Wilson and her daughter come for a holiday at a seaside cabin, where a local beachcomber gets friendly with them. He spends his time working driftwood into art, and she urges him to better himself. After finding they both lost spouses, a romance begins.
19 Apr. 1956
Lady in His Life
Over a tearoom lunch, a gypsy-fortuneteller informs Carlos that he will marry a brunette he meets after a short trip across the water and an encounter with some fire and smoke. His co-workers immediately pair him up with the boss' secretary, an attractive woman he likes but doesn't love. It takes an office costume party, and some help from friends, for him to meet the right brunette.
3 May 1956
The Payoff
A private investigator is hired by a pretty blonde to collect an envelope at a boxing match and deliver it to her the next day. What's in the envelope causes some inconvenience.
10 May 1956
Behind the Mask
Dr. Stanley arrives in town and is asked by oil field owner Robles to establish a hospital for the area to which Stanley reluctantly agrees but continues to behave peculiarly.
24 May 1956
Sheila
Teenage Katherine has a new friend, a worldlier girl named Laura. Katherine's aunt Sheila trusts her implicitly, but after the two girls break curfew by switching places so Laura can see her boyfriend, suspicion is cast on what Katherine is doing.
31 May 1956
The Clay Pigeon
Ex-con Frank Darin meets his onetime nemesis, the detective that put him in prison years ago. though they part friends, he is immediately suspected when the detective is found murdered. The possibility of a crooked cop on the force being responsible starts a plan to catch him that will clear Darin's name: he poses as an eyewitness to the crime under police protection.
14 Jun. 1956
Panic
An embezzler stalks a female subordinate who he has framed for the embezzlement after her failure to accept his advances and lies about a marriage to a private investigator he has hired to maintain information about the woman's location.
21 Jun. 1956
Remembrance Day
Gentlemanly conman Silas Burton shows up in Abbeyvale with his new young assistant in tow. He smooth-talks the town's merchants and politicians into staging "Remembrance Day," a celebration of Christmas during June. All he asks is a hefty fee to be paid by the stores for the increase in business he guarantees them. Getting in the way of his flimflam is his assistant's love for a local girl and a couple of clergymen who are onto his scheme.
28 Jun. 1956
A Past Remembered
A former all-American college football player attends a 20-year school reunion. He confronts his future by lying about his past.
