General Electric Theater - Season 6

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The Questioning Note

1 - The Questioning Note

Air Date: October 6, 1957

Father and Son Night

2 - Father and Son Night

Air Date: October 13, 1957

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

Thousand Dollar Gun

3 - Thousand Dollar Gun

Air Date: October 20, 1957

Broken Lance, Kansas hires gunfighter Buchanan Smith to drive out a ruthless gang of outlaws who have taken over the town. Smith is faced with an additional problem when Joe Breed, head of the gang, hires a notorious killer to kill him.

Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour

4 - Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour

Air Date: October 27, 1957

Mischief at Bandy Leg

5 - Mischief at Bandy Leg

Air Date: November 3, 1957

Cornada

6 - Cornada

Air Date: November 10, 1957

Love Came Late

7 - Love Came Late

Air Date: November 17, 1957

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.

The Iron Horse

8 - The Iron Horse

Air Date: November 24, 1957

After killing a man in a drunken brawl, wagon maker 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.

Imp on a Cobweb Leash

9 - Imp on a Cobweb Leash

Air Date: December 1, 1957

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.

Eyes of a Stranger

10 - Eyes of a Stranger

Air Date: December 8, 1957

When Dr. Mark Andrews meets tyrannical society woman, Katherine Belmont, he believes her caustic attitude is caused by a fear that she is losing her sight. He persuades her to undergo a cornea-transplant operation

The Trail to Christmas

11 - The Trail to Christmas

Air Date: December 15, 1957

A cowboy helps a young runaway learn the meaning of Christmas by telling the boy the story of "A Christmas Carol," changed to the American west.

The Young Years

12 - The Young Years

Air Date: December 22, 1957

Kid at the Stick

13 - Kid at the Stick

Air Date: January 5, 1958

A young boy aboard a small plane has to try and land with radio help from the ground.

Letters From Cairo

14 - Letters From Cairo

Air Date: January 12, 1958

A happily married couple is separated when the husband is called to Cairo on a business trip. His letters tell her constantly of his devotion, and she lives for his return.

Time to Go Now

15 - Time to Go Now

Air Date: January 19, 1958

Silent Ambush

16 - Silent Ambush

Air Date: January 26, 1958

A sheriff struggles to keep his job even as he loses his hearing.

All I Survey

17 - All I Survey

Air Date: February 2, 1958

A woman trying to nurse her desperately ill husband back to health is faced with a powerful temptation when an author-friend of theirs comes to visit.

Incident

18 - Incident

Air Date: February 9, 1958

Todays theme is Incident.

The Last Town Car - 1

19 - The Last Town Car - 1

Air Date: February 16, 1958

"The Last Town Car" was a two-part original drama, the story of a widow who develops a consuming fear when strange and inexplicable events occur involving a 1925 Rolls-Royce town car being used as a taxicab and its secretive driver. In Part One, Edith Miller (Claudette Colbert) tells psychiatrist Jonathan Michael (Kent Smith) of terrifying events connected with the car, of delusions about people of another era who appear mysteriously, and of a driver (Harry Tyler) who bears her frightening contempt each time she rides in the car. Her consuming fear about her delusions...

The Last Town Car - 2

20 - The Last Town Car - 2

Air Date: February 23, 1958

"The Last Town Car" was a two-part original drama, the story of a widow who develops a consuming fear when strange and inexplicable events occur involving a 1925 Rolls-Royce town car being used as a taxicab and its secretive driver. In Part One, Edith Miller (Claudette Colbert) tells psychiatrist Jonathan Michael (Kent Smith) of terrifying events connected with the car, of delusions about people of another era who appear mysteriously, and of a driver (Harry Tyler) who bears her frightening contempt each time she rides in the car. Her consuming fear about her delusions...

New York Knight

21 - New York Knight

Air Date: March 2, 1958

Angel in the Air

22 - Angel in the Air

Air Date: March 9, 1958

A roving peddler becomes stranded in a rural community in the deep South. Appalled by the pitiable existence of one of the families he meets, he finds himself performing the first unselfish deed of his life.

The Coward of Fort Bennett

23 - The Coward of Fort Bennett

Air Date: March 16, 1958

Strange Witness

24 - Strange Witness

Air Date: March 23, 1958

Ruth and her lover David are caught having an affair by her husband John. When John refuses to give Ruth a divorce, David shoots him. Before Ruth and David can make plans to cover up the murder, John's blind friend Chris shows up.

The Unfamiliar

25 - The Unfamiliar

Air Date: March 30, 1958

A strange, unearthly, inarticulate little man is found clinging to a piece of driftwood off the New England coast. His utter confusion in a modern-day environment suggests that he is from another world.

No Hiding Place

26 - No Hiding Place

Air Date: April 6, 1958

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.

The Cold Touch

27 - The Cold Touch

Air Date: April 13, 1958

Todays theme is The Cold Touch.

God is My Judge

28 - God is My Judge

Air Date: April 20, 1958

A widow decides 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.

Stopover

29 - Stopover

Air Date: April 27, 1958

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.

Ah There, Beau Brummel

30 - Ah There, Beau Brummel

Air Date: May 4, 1958

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.

Bold Loser

31 - Bold Loser

Air Date: May 11, 1958

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.

The Young and Scared

32 - The Young and Scared

Air Date: May 18, 1958

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