The Ford Television Theatre - Season 1

1. Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley

Aired: 10/2/1952

When Orrin Dooley, returning from war, is rejected by a woman for his ignorance, he enters grade school under his G.I. benefits where the woman betrothed to the insensitive principal is the teacher.

2. Junior

Aired: 10/9/1952

3. National Honeymoon

Aired: 10/16/1952

4. Birth of a Hero

Aired: 10/23/1952

5. Girl in the Park

Aired: 10/30/1952

6. Edge of the Law

Aired: 11/6/1952

7. Protect Her Honor

Aired: 11/13/1952

A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.

8. Sunk

Aired: 11/20/1952

An alcoholic young man demands inheritance money from the uncle who's executor of his father's estate. The uncle refuses, but makes his nephew an offer: he'll give him $15,000 if he'll travel to the South Seas and murder a man named Jake Finch. The trip to the islands involves a three-week cruise on a schooner where the sad drunk has time to reevaluate his life.

9. The Divided Heart

Aired: 11/27/1952

14. They Also Serve

Aired: 1/1/1953

16. This Is My Heart

Aired: 1/15/1953

17. The Sermon of the Gun

Aired: 1/22/1953

18. Adventure in Connecticut

Aired: 1/29/1953

19. The First Born

Aired: 2/5/1953

22. All's Fair in Love

Aired: 2/26/1953

23. Madame 44

Aired: 3/5/1953

A woman saloon owner in California, known as gunslinger "Madame 44," is tried and acquitted for murder after defending herself from a claim jumper. Later, passing for respectability in New Orleans, a suitor threatens to expose her past.

24. My Daughter's Husband

Aired: 3/12/1953

A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.

25. The Bet

Aired: 3/19/1953

A wealthy man, whose poor friend has stolen the man's fiancée, bets the friend a fortune that the friend can not spend ten years in solitary confinement, which bet the friend accepts, despite the love of the woman.

26. Double Exposure

Aired: 3/26/1953

27. To Any Soldier

Aired: 4/2/1953

28. Just What the Doctor Ordered

Aired: 4/9/1953

29. Allison, Ltd.

Aired: 4/16/1953

30. The Life of the Party

Aired: 4/23/1953

33. Look for Tomorrow

Aired: 5/14/1953

34. Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

Aired: 5/21/1953

37. The Trestle

Aired: 6/11/1953

A boy suspects his step-father is the murderer of a man who attempted to put a small town newspaper out of business.