General Electric Theater - Season 3
1 - Pretending Makes It Do
Air Date: September 12, 1954
Mrs. MacDowell makes daydream plans for her young college professor son in the belief that pretending will make them so.
2 - Too Old for the Girl
Air Date: September 19, 1954
3 - Nora #1
Air Date: September 26, 1954
An abusive husband gives his wife no choice but to retreat from her world of pain and degradation.
4 - The High Green Wall
Air Date: October 3, 1954
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.
5 - The Long Way 'Round
Air Date: October 10, 1954
6 - Edison the Man
Air Date: October 17, 1954
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.
7 - The Road to Edinburgh
Air Date: October 31, 1954
Todays theme is The Road to Edinburgh.
8 - I'm a Fool
Air Date: November 14, 1954
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.
9 - The Face Is Familiar
Air Date: November 21, 1954
A man who has a face no one can remember is suckered into serving as the stooge for a bank robbery.
10 - The Rider on the Pale Horse
Air Date: November 28, 1954
11 - Committed
Air Date: December 5, 1954
Newspaper reporter turned novelist Dan Holiday is kidnapped, framed for murder, and held in an asylum before he escapes and proves his innocence
12 - The Dark, Dark Hours
Air Date: December 12, 1954
A hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.
13 - Music for Christmas
Air Date: December 19, 1954
Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians perform an program of Christmas music.
14 - The White Steed
Air Date: December 26, 1954
15 - Amelia
Air Date: January 2, 1955
16 - D.P.
Air Date: January 9, 1955
17 - Yankee Pedler
Air Date: January 16, 1955
18 - The Martyr
Air Date: January 23, 1955
1922, civil war in Ireland. A suspect is captured after a bloody ambush.
19 - The Big Shot
Air Date: January 30, 1955
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."
20 - The Return of Gentleman Jim
Air Date: February 6, 1955
Boxer Jim Corbett returns to face Joe Louis in the ring.
21 - Love Is Eternal
Air Date: February 13, 1955
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.
22 - The Bachelor's Bride
Air Date: February 20, 1955
23 - Episode 3.23
Air Date: February 27, 1955
24 - The Blond Dog
Air Date: March 6, 1955
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.
25 - War and Peace on the Range
Air Date: March 13, 1955
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.
26 - The Bitter Choice
Air Date: March 20, 1955
27 - Clown
Air Date: March 27, 1955
Circus clown Emmett Kelly creates his famous character Weary Willie.
28 - It Gives Me Great Pleasure
Air Date: April 3, 1955
A traveling lecturer wants to retire and spend more time with her son.
29 - O, Lonely Moon
Air Date: April 17, 1955
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.
30 - The Windmill
Air Date: April 24, 1955
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.
31 - Mr. Blue Ocean
Air Date: May 1, 1955
32 - Into the Night
Air Date: May 8, 1955
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.
33 - A Man with a Vengeance
Air Date: May 15, 1955
A movie director has a grudge against an actor and makes life very hard on everyone.
34 - When in France
Air Date: May 22, 1955
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.
35 - The Half-Promised Land
Air Date: May 29, 1955
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.
36 - Star in the House
Air Date: June 5, 1955
One-time film star plans her anniversary to be as romantic as her honeymoon.
37 - The Day He Got Fired
Air Date: June 19, 1955