The Ford Television Theatre

- Season 5

(1956)

When Fred Karnes is beaten by Bill Corby and two friends for dating Bill's sister Carol, DA Sloan's prosecution is difficult because Karnes is considered low class and a traitor while Carol is quiet to preserve her family's influence.

Faced with saving face and respect with the townspeople, a sheriff is faced with a rancher bent on eye for an eye revenge after his sons trial and hanging.

Curiously no one remembers that Dan Doyle has been with a man who saved his life on D-day and whom he has by chance encountered in post war Paris under an assumed name and then learns the man is a black marketeer who may be murdered.

A priest of a poor parish gains a benefactor but identifies as his patron his cruel Red Chinese prison interrogator and must decide whether to report the man to authorities while the man threatens to kill himself and wife if captured.

After Sam Houston as governor of Tennessee refuses outlaw Jim Hawk as a boy to save his father from hanging, Hawk vows to kill Houston but. as a result of a teacher's influence, rejects opportunity to kill Houston as President of Texas.

A successful advertising woman finds love through a mystical test from the folklore of her Welsh origin despite the skepticism and pressure to compromise from her brother and brother's wife.

In 1870, a woman doctor dreams of serving the people in a small western town. But the townspeople hate this woman who has dared to enter a male profession.

An escaped convict fails to impress a busy housewife.

A young naval officer is assigned to the submarine his father commands. He has not seen his father since his parents were divorced when he was a child.

A newspaperman prints unfounded criticism of the juvenile crime unit and particularly of its chief officer until the gang beating of his son causes him to realize the struggles of the officer and awakens him to his own shortcomings.

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Mr. Duffy's secretive stableman under suspicion is asked by Julie on town's behalf to leave but she alters her feelings when the man singlehandedly defends the town against outlaw Clip Hart gang's plan to use the town as getaway station.

A traveling salesman gets a surprise every time he comes home from the road, from the other fast-talking Ewings: his wife and voluptuous teenage daughter. The daughter's charity organization "The Spinsters" is appearing in a calendar, and when she's deemed too hippy for a swimsuit pose, she vows to make the cocky young photographer regret his assessment, by enrolling in modeling school.

A police detective troubled by memories of the Korean War has his already fragile mental health tested when he starts receiving calls from a man he had to kill in the war to preserve his unit.

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Private detective Vic Chambers is hired by a dancer to crack a murder case she's a suspect in, but she too is murdered. The entire case seems to hinge on a single fingerprint. The search for the killer is complicated by the fact his leading suspect is his rival Scoop Donnelly.

A troublesome Poodle upsets the marital bliss of a young couple.

Laura Chandler is unable and seemingly unwilling to recover from the loss of her son.

A painter and his American wife who enjoy an unconventional life style in Europe want their daughter to marry but the father questions his daughter's conventional leanings and develops some regret about the life he has chosen.

Matty Curran loses his championship box title to a younger fighter. Matty's young son is afraid that his father has become a coward, and has let him down at a crucial moment.

At a grade school, several boys seem to be drawn to bad behavior because of one delinquent. Wise old Miss Emerson doesn't believe he's really so bad, and bucks the school board's plans to expel him, reminding them of another antisocial student, back in the early 1920's, who was also given to breaking rules, and how she helped him.

Count Da Salvaggio has fought as a professional swordsman under the alias Lupo to hide his nobility and now must find a way avoid a forbidden duel with his unsuspecting American friend whose fiancée he has stolen.

When coerced by his disapproving girlfriend, a cynical man reluctantly goes to see his estranged father after receiving a letter from his envied brother stating the father is dying.

A successful female novelist leaves her husband after they disagree about the amount of time she devotes to her career. On the train, she discovers an anonymous suicide note, and is afraid her husband wrote it.

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Louise Warner has witnessed a murder. She hesitates to go to the police for fear of losing her parole, and the killer is now tracking her down.

When a newspaper reporter losses a note from a potential Russian defector in a meeting with his estranged newspaper reporter daughter, the daughter vengefully publishes the story without considering the consequences to the defector.

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A well-to-do female casino owner seeks to separate a man from his wealthy wife to abandon him as revenge for the man allowing his parents to annul their youthful marriage and arrange a marriage to his present wife.

Following her turn as the nation's First Lady, Dolley Madison's life continued to be colorful. As a widow in Washington, she's invited to a tea party by Beatrice Trent, the spiteful wife of a senator who's convinced Dolley prevented her husband from getting an ambassadorship. Determined to humiliate the former first lady, she invites Dolley's alcoholic son from a previous marriage to disrupt the festivities.

When a playwright of declining fortune persuades an old lover and a popular actress to do his new play, his quarrelsome, jealous wife disappears and, when the clues point to murder, the man's alibis are oddly contradicted by the facts.

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Hobo Duke by power of suggestion convinces a small town he is an eccentric millionaire and begins to change the attitude and fortunes of the town.

Irony ensues as a humble bank treasurer's defalcation of a reserve fund for philanthropic purposes causes him to be perceived as a rich heir which perception requires he continue the embezzlement to avoid detection.

A woman with a hat full of hope, newly released from a psychiatric facility, keeps making embarrassing gaffes after she moves back onto the Cartwright family's ancestral ranch. She can't believe that her recovering mind is playing tricks on her, though her psychiatrist assures her that no one can remember everything, she's becoming forlorn. The psychiatrist has a bonanza on his hands, because the woman is wealthy, a whiz at business, and in love with him. Is suave, arrogant Dr. Gregg playing diabolical tricks on her, or is she experiencing hallucinations due to ...

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After a dock foreman is murdered because of his knowledge of thefts, a hired gunman moves across the street from the assistant foreman to execute a hit but the wife recognizes the gunman from a police photo after a neighborhood encounter.

New bride Alison Stevens keeps making costly gaffes after she unexpectedly moves into the Stevens family's ancestral home. She blames each screw-up on her disabled brother-in-law Russel, a pianist who's long been cared for by the groom, Bruce Stevens. Is Russel playing diabolical tricks on her, or is she cracking up in the lonely, unfriendly surroundings ?

Pilot Dan Crawford is hired by a man and his wife to fly them to Las Vegas. But when the plane is approaching Las Vegas, the man draws a gun and forces Dan to land on the airstrip of a ranch.