The Ford Television Theatre (Season 1)

Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley (Episode 1)

Air date: 1952-10-02

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Junior (Episode 2)

Air date: 1952-10-09

National Honeymoon (Episode 3)

Air date: 1952-10-16

Birth of a Hero (Episode 4)

Air date: 1952-10-23

Girl in the Park (Episode 5)

Air date: 1952-10-30

Edge of the Law (Episode 6)

Air date: 1952-11-06

Protect Her Honor (Episode 7)

Air date: 1952-11-13

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

Sunk (Episode 8)

Air date: 1952-11-20

Overview: 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.

The Divided Heart (Episode 9)

Air date: 1952-11-27

They Also Serve (Episode 10)

Air date: 1953-01-01

It Happened in a Pawn Shop (Episode 11)

Air date: 1953-01-08

Overview: When two struggling people, a musician and young woman, make a deal in a pawnshop to resolve their individual financial shortfalls, an attraction, complicated by the woman's licentious landlady and overbearing suitor, ensues.

This Is My Heart (Episode 12)

Air date: 1953-01-15

The Sermon of the Gun (Episode 13)

Air date: 1953-01-22

Adventure in Connecticut (Episode 14)

Air date: 1953-01-29

The First Born (Episode 15)

Air date: 1953-02-05

All's Fair in Love (Episode 16)

Air date: 1953-02-26

Madame 44 (Episode 17)

Air date: 1953-03-05

Overview: 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.

My Daughter's Husband (Episode 18)

Air date: 1953-03-12

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

The Bet (Episode 19)

Air date: 1953-03-19

Overview: 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.

Double Exposure (Episode 20)

Air date: 1953-03-26

To Any Soldier (Episode 21)

Air date: 1953-04-02

Just What the Doctor Ordered (Episode 22)

Air date: 1953-04-09

Allison, Ltd. (Episode 23)

Air date: 1953-04-16

Overview: A wealthy fashion woman, poor in youth, faces a dilemma as to whether to extract her long desired revenge on a man with whom she eloped in her youth but who allowed his rich family to annul the marriage for a débutante he wants to leave.

The Life of the Party (Episode 24)

Air date: 1953-04-23

The Lady and the Champ (Episode 25)

Air date: 1953-05-07

Overview: A boxer strives for the middleweight championship in order to fund his friend's business venture.

Look for Tomorrow (Episode 26)

Air date: 1953-05-14

Sweet Talk Me, Jackson (Episode 27)

Air date: 1953-05-21

There's No Place Like Home (Episode 28)

Air date: 1953-06-04

Overview: A newspaper expose precipitates a violent quarrel between the writer and his family.

The Trestle (Episode 29)

Air date: 1953-06-11

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