General Electric Theater (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.

  • Poster for The Questioning Note

    The Questioning Note (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1957-10-06

    Runtime: 30 min

  • Poster for Father and Son Night

    Father and Son Night (Episode 2)

    Air date: 1957-10-13

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Thousand Dollar Gun

    Thousand Dollar Gun (Episode 3)

    Air date: 1957-10-20

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour

    Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour (Episode 4)

    Air date: 1957-10-27

    Runtime: 30 min

  • Poster for Mischief at Bandy Leg

    Mischief at Bandy Leg (Episode 5)

    Air date: 1957-11-03

    Runtime: 30 min

  • Poster for Cornada

    Cornada (Episode 6)

    Air date: 1957-11-10

    Runtime: 30 min

  • Poster for Love Came Late

    Love Came Late (Episode 7)

    Air date: 1957-11-17

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Iron Horse

    The Iron Horse (Episode 8)

    Air date: 1957-11-24

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Imp on a Cobweb Leash

    Imp on a Cobweb Leash (Episode 9)

    Air date: 1957-12-01

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Eyes of a Stranger

    Eyes of a Stranger (Episode 10)

    Air date: 1957-12-08

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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

  • Poster for The Trail to Christmas

    The Trail to Christmas (Episode 11)

    Writer: Valentine Davies

    Air date: 1957-12-15

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Young Years

    The Young Years (Episode 12)

    Air date: 1957-12-22

    Runtime: 30 min

  • Poster for Kid at the Stick

    Kid at the Stick (Episode 13)

    Air date: 1958-01-05

    Runtime: 30 min

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

  • Poster for Letters From Cairo

    Letters From Cairo (Episode 14)

    Air date: 1958-01-12

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Time to Go Now

    Time to Go Now (Episode 15)

    Air date: 1958-01-19

    Runtime: 30 min

  • Poster for Silent Ambush

    Silent Ambush (Episode 16)

    Air date: 1958-01-26

    Runtime: 30 min

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

  • Poster for All I Survey

    All I Survey (Episode 17)

    Air date: 1958-02-02

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Incident

    Incident (Episode 18)

    Air date: 1958-02-09

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Todays theme is Incident.

  • Poster for The Last Town Car - 1

    The Last Town Car - 1 (Episode 19)

    Air date: 1958-02-16

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: "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...

  • Poster for The Last Town Car - 2

    The Last Town Car - 2 (Episode 20)

    Air date: 1958-02-23

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: "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...

  • Poster for New York Knight

    New York Knight (Episode 21)

    Air date: 1958-03-02

    Runtime: 30 min

  • Poster for Angel in the Air

    Angel in the Air (Episode 22)

    Air date: 1958-03-09

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Coward of Fort Bennett

    The Coward of Fort Bennett (Episode 23)

    Air date: 1958-03-16

    Runtime: 30 min

  • Poster for Strange Witness

    Strange Witness (Episode 24)

    Air date: 1958-03-23

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Unfamiliar

    The Unfamiliar (Episode 25)

    Air date: 1958-03-30

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place (Episode 26)

    Air date: 1958-04-06

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Cold Touch

    The Cold Touch (Episode 27)

    Air date: 1958-04-13

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for God is My Judge

    God is My Judge (Episode 28)

    Air date: 1958-04-20

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Stopover

    Stopover (Episode 29)

    Air date: 1958-04-27

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Ah There, Beau Brummel

    Ah There, Beau Brummel (Episode 30)

    Air date: 1958-05-04

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Bold Loser

    Bold Loser (Episode 31)

    Air date: 1958-05-11

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Young and Scared

    The Young and Scared (Episode 32)

    Air date: 1958-05-18

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

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