Ford Theatre - Season 3

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The Traitor

1 - The Traitor

Air Date: September 8, 1950

Gripping spy play with Lee Tracy and Walter Hampden in their original stage roles. The full-hour adaptation of the past season's Broadway thriller concerns the misguided intentions of a young scientist—the traitor —to solve the threat of an atomic war by giving nuclear energy secrets to a Russian spy ring. The youth, Wesley Addy, feels that world peace lies in sharing the atomic bomb. The main scene of the play is laid in the Manhattan apartment of Professor Tobias Emanuel, the young man's mentor, played by Hampden. Addy has hidden bomb secrets and fissionable material for the Russians in the apartment when Captain Gallagher of the Naval Intelligence Office, portrayed by Tracy, steps in, One of the exciting sequences comes when Gallagher uses a Geiger counter to spot the cache

The Married Look

2 - The Married Look

Air Date: September 22, 1950

The Marble Faun

3 - The Marble Faun

Air Date: October 6, 1950

Angel Street

4 - Angel Street

Air Date: October 20, 1950

Heart of Darkness

5 - Heart of Darkness

Air Date: November 3, 1950

The Whiteheaded Boy

6 - The Whiteheaded Boy

Air Date: November 17, 1950

Another Darling

7 - Another Darling

Air Date: December 1, 1950

Alice in Wonderland

8 - Alice in Wonderland

Air Date: December 15, 1950

Cause for Suspicion

9 - Cause for Suspicion

Air Date: December 29, 1950

The Presentation of the Look Magazine TV Awards

10 - The Presentation of the Look Magazine TV Awards

Air Date: January 12, 1951

Final Copy

11 - Final Copy

Air Date: January 26, 1951

Spring Again

12 - Spring Again

Air Date: February 9, 1951

The Golden Mouth

13 - The Golden Mouth

Air Date: February 23, 1951

The Ghost Patrol

14 - The Ghost Patrol

Air Date: March 9, 1951

Heart of Darkness (restaged)

15 - Heart of Darkness (restaged)

Air Date: March 23, 1951

Ticket to Oblivion

16 - Ticket to Oblivion

Air Date: April 6, 1951

The Touchstone

17 - The Touchstone

Air Date: April 20, 1951

Dead on the Vine

18 - Dead on the Vine

Air Date: May 4, 1951

Peter Ibbetson

19 - Peter Ibbetson

Air Date: May 18, 1951

Three in a Room

20 - Three in a Room

Air Date: June 1, 1951

Night Over London

21 - Night Over London

Air Date: June 15, 1951

The Ghost Patrol (restaged)

22 - The Ghost Patrol (restaged)

Air Date: June 29, 1951

The Lilac Bush

23 - The Lilac Bush

Air Date: March 3, 1955

Second Sight

24 - Second Sight

Air Date: March 10, 1955

Celebrity

25 - Celebrity

Air Date: March 17, 1955

Garrity's Sons

26 - Garrity's Sons

Air Date: March 24, 1955

Hanrahan

27 - Hanrahan

Air Date: March 31, 1955

Deception

28 - Deception

Air Date: April 7, 1955

The Woman at Fog Point

29 - The Woman at Fog Point

Air Date: April 14, 1955

Sunday Mourn

30 - Sunday Mourn

Air Date: April 21, 1955

While We're Young

31 - While We're Young

Air Date: April 28, 1955

Appointment with Destiny

32 - Appointment with Destiny

Air Date: May 5, 1955

The Policy of Joe Aladdin

33 - The Policy of Joe Aladdin

Air Date: May 12, 1955

Mimi

34 - Mimi

Air Date: May 19, 1955

Cardboard Casanova

35 - Cardboard Casanova

Air Date: May 26, 1955

P.J. and the Lady

36 - P.J. and the Lady

Air Date: June 2, 1955

One Man Missing

37 - One Man Missing

Air Date: June 9, 1955

Favorite Son

38 - Favorite Son

Air Date: June 16, 1955

The Mumbys

39 - The Mumbys

Air Date: June 23, 1955