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General Electric Theater Season 3 Episodes

37 Episodes 1954 - 1955

Episode 1

Pretending Makes It So

Sun, Sep 12, 195430 mins

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

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Episode 2

Too Old for the Girl

Sun, Sep 19, 195430 mins

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Episode 3

Nora #1

Sun, Sep 26, 195430 mins

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

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Episode 4

High Green Wall

Sun, Oct 3, 195430 mins

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.

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Episode 5

The Long Way 'Round

Sun, Oct 10, 195430 mins

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Episode 6

Edison the Man

Sun, Oct 17, 195430 mins

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.

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Episode 7

The Road to Edinburgh

Sun, Oct 31, 195430 mins

Todays theme is The Road to Edinburgh. An American woman driving alone through the English countryside picks up an ex-convict and an American soldier along the way. Is one of them an escaped prisoner?

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Episode 8

I'm a Fool

Sun, Nov 14, 195430 mins

A man tells the story of his coming to adulthood when he left home at age 18 and learned the consequences of telling a lie to impress a girl.

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Episode 9

The Face Is Familiar

Sun, Nov 21, 195430 mins

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

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Episode 10

The Rider on the Pale Horse

Sun, Nov 28, 195430 mins

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Episode 11

Committed

Sun, Dec 5, 195430 mins

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

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Episode 12

The Dark, Dark Hours

Sun, Dec 12, 195430 mins

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

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Episode 13

Music for Christmas

Sun, Dec 19, 195430 mins

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

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Episode 14

The White Steed

Sun, Dec 26, 195430 mins

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Episode 15

Amelia

Sun, Jan 2, 195530 mins

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Episode 16

D.P.

Sun, Jan 9, 195530 mins

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Episode 17

Yankee Peddler

Sun, Jan 16, 195530 mins

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Episode 18

The Martyr

Sun, Jan 23, 195530 mins

In this historical drama set in 1922 during the Irish Civil War, young Hartnell is captured by the enemy after a deadly ambush. To save his own life, he decides to turn informer and names the true organizer of the assault. However, his decision sets of a chain reaction that culminates in more violence.

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Episode 19

Big Shot

Sun, Jan 30, 195530 mins

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."

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Episode 20

The Return of Gentleman Jim

Sun, Feb 6, 195530 mins

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

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Episode 21

Love Is Eternal

Sun, Feb 13, 195530 mins

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.

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Episode 22

The Bachelor's Bride

Sun, Feb 20, 195530 mins

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Episode 23

Episode #3.23

Sun, Feb 27, 1955

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Episode 24

The Blond Dog

Sun, Mar 6, 195530 mins

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.

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Episode 25

War and Peace on the Range

Sun, Mar 13, 195530 mins

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.

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Episode 26

The Bitter Choice

Sun, Mar 20, 195530 mins

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Episode 27

Clown

Sun, Mar 27, 195530 mins

Circus clown Emmett Kelly creates his famous character Weary Willie.

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Episode 28

It Gives Me Great Pleasure

Sun, Apr 3, 195530 mins

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

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Episode 29

O, Lonely Moon

Sun, Apr 17, 195530 mins

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.

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Episode 30

The Windmill

Sun, Apr 24, 195530 mins

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.

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Episode 31

Mr. Blue Ocean

Sun, May 1, 195530 mins

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Episode 32

Into the Night

Sun, May 8, 195530 mins

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.

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Episode 33

Man with a Vengeance

Sun, May 15, 195530 mins

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

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Episode 34

When in France

Sun, May 22, 195530 mins

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.

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Episode 35

The Half-Promised Land

Sun, May 29, 195530 mins

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.

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Episode 36

Star in the House

Sun, Jun 5, 195530 mins

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

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Episode 37

The Day He Got Fired

Sun, Jun 19, 195530 mins

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