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General Electric Theater

Season 6 1957 - 1958
NR

  • 1957-10-06T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 16h (32 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Drama
General Electric Theater featured a mix of romance, comedy, adventure, tragedy, fantasy and variety music. The General Electric Theater presented top Hollywood and Broadway stars in dramatic roles calculated to deliver company voice advertising to the largest possible audience.

32 episodes

Season Premiere

1957-10-06T04:00:00Z

6x01 The Questioning Note

Season Premiere

6x01 The Questioning Note

  • 1957-10-06T04:00:00Z30m

1957-10-13T04:00:00Z

6x02 Father And Son Night

6x02 Father And Son Night

  • 1957-10-13T04:00:00Z30m

George Hogan, undefeated middleweight champion of the world, retires from the ring. But new champion Eddie Seaboard wants him 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.

1957-10-20T04:00:00Z

6x03 Thousand Dollar Gun

6x03 Thousand Dollar Gun

  • 1957-10-20T04:00:00Z30m

Gunfighter Buchanan Smith's job is to get rid of a gang of outlaws.

6x04 Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour

  • 1957-10-27T04:00:00Z30m

1957-11-03T05:00:00Z

6x05 Mischief At Bandy Leg

6x05 Mischief At Bandy Leg

  • 1957-11-03T05:00:00Z30m

1957-11-10T05:00:00Z

6x06 Cornada

6x06 Cornada

  • 1957-11-10T05:00:00Z30m

1957-11-17T05:00:00Z

6x07 Love Comes Late

6x07 Love Comes Late

  • 1957-11-17T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1957-11-24T05:00:00Z

6x08 The Iron Horse

6x08 The Iron Horse

  • 1957-11-24T05:00:00Z30m

After killing a man in a drunken brawl, wagonmaker 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.

1957-12-01T05:00:00Z

6x09 Imp On A Cobweb Leash

6x09 Imp On A Cobweb Leash

  • 1957-12-01T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1957-12-08T05:00:00Z

6x10 Eyes Of A Stranger

6x10 Eyes Of A Stranger

  • 1957-12-08T05:00:00Z30m

Adapted from the Christopher La Farge story.
Katherine Belmont, a tyrannical society woman, casually meets Dr. Mark Andrews. He believes her caustic attitude is caused by a fear that she is losing her sight, and persuades her to undergo a cornea-transplant operation.

1957-12-15T05:00:00Z

6x11 The Trail To Christmas

6x11 The Trail To Christmas

  • 1957-12-15T05:00:00Z30m

Based on Charles Dickens story, "A Christmas Carol."
A boy is disillusioned by Christmas and runs away from home. He meets a man who narrates "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens, but sets the story in the Old West.

1957-12-22T05:00:00Z

6x12 The Young Years

6x12 The Young Years

  • 1957-12-22T05:00:00Z30m

Adapted from the Sholem Asch story.

1958-01-05T05:00:00Z

6x13 Kid At The Stick

6x13 Kid At The Stick

  • 1958-01-05T05:00:00Z30m

Eight-year-old Frankie Morgan is terrified when his father collapses at the controls of the private plane he was piloting. Since there is no one else aboard, the little boy attempts desperately to maneuver the plane. A dispatcher at an airport intercepts the youngster's distress signal and tries to instruct the boy in landing the aircraft.

1958-01-12T05:00:00Z

6x14 Letters From Cairo

6x14 Letters From Cairo

  • 1958-01-12T05:00:00Z30m

A happily married couple is separated when the husband is called to Cairo on a business trip. His letters to his wife tell her constantly of his devotion and she lives for his return. But the man is killed in a plane crash, and the wife, overcome with grief, turns her affairs over to her attorney. The attorney learns a startling fact about the husband's letters.

1958-01-19T05:00:00Z

6x15 Time To Go Now

6x15 Time To Go Now

  • 1958-01-19T05:00:00Z30m

1958-01-26T05:00:00Z

6x16 Silent Ambush

6x16 Silent Ambush

  • 1958-01-26T05:00:00Z30m

On the eve of an election, a frontier sheriff discovers that he is losing his hearing. Hoping that the lawless faction of the town will not learn of his affliction, he continues to campaign for office.

1958-02-02T05:00:00Z

6x17 All I Survey

6x17 All I Survey

  • 1958-02-02T05:00:00Z30m

Adapted from the Jerome Weidman story.
A woman is trying to nurse her desperately ill husband back to health, and finds herself faced with a powerful temptation when an author-friend of theirs comes to visit. Long in
love with her, the author offers her a life of ease and luxury, something she knows she can never find with her husband.

1958-02-09T05:00:00Z

6x18 Incident

6x18 Incident

  • 1958-02-09T05:00:00Z30m

Todays theme is Incident.

6x19 The Last Town Car - Part 1

  • 1958-02-16T05:00:00Z30m

Edith Miller is convinced that she has seen an ancient limousine-taxi and its driver. She decides to go to a psychiatrist for help when she also becomes convinced that people of another era are connected with the car.

6x20 The Last Town Car - Part 2

  • 1958-02-23T05:00:00Z30m

Second and concluding part. In last week's episode Edith Miller sought the help of a psychiatrist when she became convinced that she had seen an ancient limousine-taxi and its driver. In part two the psychiatrist convinces Edith that she must ride in the ancient vehicle. He feels that this is the only way to cure her of her hallucination.

1958-03-02T05:00:00Z

6x21 New York Knight

6x21 New York Knight

  • 1958-03-02T05:00:00Z30m

Adapted from the R.E. Connell story.

1958-03-09T05:00:00Z

6x22 Angel In The Air

6x22 Angel In The Air

  • 1958-03-09T05:00:00Z30m

A roving peddler becomes stranded in a rural community in the deep South. Attempting to make some money, he approaches a shack in the backwoods, convinced he can sell something to the tenants. Appalled by the pitiable existence of the family he meets, he finds himself performing the first unselfish deed of his life.

6x23 The Coward Of Fort Bennett

  • 1958-03-16T05:00:00Z30m

1958-03-23T05:00:00Z

6x24 Strange Witness

6x24 Strange Witness

  • 1958-03-23T05:00:00Z30m

Returning home from work early on evening, a husband surprises his wife with another man. The husband demands a divorce and the two men fight. During the struggle the husband is killed and the wife and her friend try to establish an alibi.

1958-03-30T05:00:00Z

6x25 The Unfamiliar

6x25 The Unfamiliar

  • 1958-03-30T05:00:00Z30m

A man is found clinging to a piece of driftwood off the New England coast. He is taken in by a farmer to help with the harvest, but he knows nothing of farm work and is terrified by the tractor.

1958-04-06T05:00:00Z

6x26 No Hiding Place

6x26 No Hiding Place

  • 1958-04-06T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-04-13T05:00:00Z

6x27 The Cold Touch

6x27 The Cold Touch

  • 1958-04-13T05:00:00Z30m

Todays theme is The Cold Touch.

1958-04-20T05:00:00Z

6x28 God Is My Judge

6x28 God Is My Judge

  • 1958-04-20T05:00:00Z30m

When her daughter marries and goes to England, a widow decides that 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.

1958-04-27T05:00:00Z

6x29 Stopover

6x29 Stopover

  • 1958-04-27T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-05-04T04:00:00Z

6x30 Ah There, Beau Brummel

6x30 Ah There, Beau Brummel

  • 1958-05-04T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1958-05-11T04:00:00Z

6x31 Bold Loser

6x31 Bold Loser

  • 1958-05-11T04:00:00Z30m

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.

Season Finale

1958-05-18T04:00:00Z

6x32 The Young And Scared

Season Finale

6x32 The Young And Scared

  • 1958-05-18T04:00:00Z30m

The story of a young sailor  who sees a pretty teenager  struck by an older man in a railroad station. He restrains the man and the girl flees. Later he overtakes the girl and learns that the man is her foster father and she has run away because of his cruelty to her.

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