General Electric Theater Season 3

Mrs. MacDowell makes daydream plans for her young college professor son in the belief that pretending will make them so.

An abusive husband gives his wife no choice but to retreat from her world of pain and degradation.

Having survived a plane crash in the jungle, Henty finds a fortress-like home in the middle of nowhere, belonging to the affable Mr. McMaster. The latter doesn't want Henty to leave.

82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.

Todays theme is The Road to Edinburgh.

Played out on a stylized, dramatically lit set, I am a fool is a classic story of a heartsick and foolish farm boy who takes on a false identity to impress a beautiful girl and in so doing loses the love of his life forever.

A man who has a face no one can remember is suckered into serving as the stooge for a bank robbery.

Newspaper reporter turned novelist Dan Holiday is kidnapped, framed for murder, and held in an asylum before he escapes and proves his innocence

A hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.

Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians perform an program of Christmas music.

1922, civil war in Ireland. A suspect is captured after a bloody ambush.

Singer Johnnie Pulaski goes on an important audition and impresses. There is one condition that makes him want to refuse their offer--they ask him to change his last name. His girlfriend convinces him that the name is unimportant if he can sing. Ray, as Pulaski, introduces a new single, "Path to Paradise."

Boxer Jim Corbett returns to face Joe Louis in the ring.

When Lincoln and Mary Todd were married, he had the phrase, "Love is Eternal", inscribed in her wedding band. Though years of loneliness and disappointment seem to disprove this sentiment, the historic pair finally realize its truth.

A struggling photographer runs over a dog while driving near the home of an actress. Little does he know that this insignificant auto accident will lead to his involvement in murder.

A film producer of B-movie Westerns has to hire a big-name actor's relative who is extremely incompetent for the chosen epic film.

Circus clown Emmett Kelly creates his famous character Weary Willie.

A traveling lecturer wants to retire and spend more time with her son.

Embittered by his wife's death during the birth of their eighth child, an Irishman refuses to set eyes on the girl and acknowledges only seven children.

An ex-gunfighter, after hiding his identity for years, enters a shooting contest to raise money for a windmill in hopes he can provide water to his family farm.

A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadblocks.

A movie director has a grudge against an actor and makes life very hard on everyone.

What better place for romance than in a classroom, especially a French class? That's the reasoning of a lonely boy and a lonely girl who enroll in a French class with hopes of learning anything but the language.

Pio, a bartender in Capri, has dreamed all his life of going to America. He asks two American tourists to help him find a way to make his dream come true.

One-time film star plans her anniversary to be as romantic as her honeymoon.