General Electric Theater Season 5 Episodes

Episode 1

The Great Lady

Sun, Sep 16, 1956

Julia Courtney, a retired actress, lives in a theatrical boarding house. When one of the residents is murdered, all of the residents are under suspicion. The chief suspect is a young friend of Julia's, played by Vera Miles.

Episode 2

The Glorious Gift of Molly Malloy

Sun, Sep 23, 195630 mins

Episode 3

The Professor's Punch

Sun, Sep 30, 195630 mins

Episode 4

The Pot of Gold

Sun, Oct 7, 195630 mins

Ralph and Laura Whitemore have suffered many financial disappointments in their life together. But when a "sure thing" comes along at last, they eagerly await the phone call that will bring their "pot of gold".

Episode 5

The Enemies

Sun, Oct 14, 195630 mins

Yankees take over the Southern home of a young girl and her sick mother who are caring for an injured Confederate deserter.

Episode 6

The Invitation

Sun, Oct 21, 195630 mins

After her baby dies in childbirth, Alice Kellen retreats into a world of her own. As she sinks deeper into fantasy, her husband tries a desperate measure to snap her back to reality.

Episode 7

The Second Stranger

Sun, Oct 28, 195630 mins

In 1829, a stranger enters a tavern to take shelter from the storm. He finds an old friend from the war of 1812, and the two men have a drink. The inn is crowded with townspeople, all of whom are celebrating tomorrow's hanging.

Episode 8

The Rider on the Pale Horse

Sun, Nov 4, 195630 mins

Episode 9

The Charlatan

Wed, Nov 7, 195630 mins

A cancer therapist defends himself against a charge of fraud made by a newspaperwoman and a doctor.

Episode 10

The Road That Led Afar

Sun, Nov 25, 195630 mins

A young mountain girl marries a widower with four children and goes to live in his rustic cabin. Not only does she find the unfamiliar routine hard, but she must face the task of winning over the frightened youngsters.

Episode 11

Orphans

Sun, Dec 2, 195630 mins

Hilda, a young Irish lass, has just announced her engagement to a fellow villager when a visitor from America arrives to complicate her life.

Episode 12

The Breach

Sun, Dec 9, 195630 mins

Author Emily Marsden secludes herself in a small village after quarreling with her husband. There, she learns a lot about her own difficulties by trying to help someone else.

Episode 13

The Chess Game

Sun, Dec 16, 195630 mins

A cynical intellectual shelters a 15-year-old boy who is wanted for murder.

Episode 14

A Child Is Born

Sun, Dec 23, 195630 mins

A retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants.

Episode 15

The Shadow Outside

Sun, Dec 30, 195630 mins

Evvy, who lives with her parents in New Mexico, has met few boys. When the town bully, Ray Poole, becomes interested in her she is both confused and frightened.

Episode 16

Never Turn Back

Sun, Jan 6, 195730 mins

Episode 17

The Earring

Sun, Jan 13, 195730 mins

Lydia Shaw, wife of a successful lawyer, is being blackmailed by a man who has some love letters she wrote before her marriage. Afraid to let her husband find out about the romance, Lydia agrees to pay off her former sweetheart.

Episode 18

Lady of the House

Sun, Jan 20, 195730 mins

Episode 19

The Doctors of Pawnee Kill

Sun, Jan 27, 195730 mins

Two brothers, one a doctor the other a fast-draw Sheriff, live in conflict with each other in a town that is run by a ruthless saloon owner.

Episode 20

No Skin Off Me

Sun, Feb 3, 195730 mins

A young fighter lets his winnings go to his head. His more experienced fighter is worried that he will go over the top, so he sets out to teach the "boy" a lesson.

Episode 21

The Town with a Past

Sun, Feb 10, 195730 mins

Wandering cowboy Britt Ponset finds himself caught in the middle of a dispute between mine owner "Silver Annie" Huxley, the leaders of Virtue City, and the railroad, which wants to builds tracks across her property.

Episode 22

The Big Shooter

Sun, Feb 17, 195730 mins

Episode 23

Flight from Tormendero

Sun, Feb 24, 195730 mins

During World War 2, a ship's captain picks up the survivors of a torpedoed ship. Among those rescued are a pretty Eurasian girl and a sinister-appearing man.

Episode 24

The Fenton Touch

Sun, Mar 3, 195730 mins

A man about to retire from his job at a department store after 30 years of service plots to make off with $50,000 from the store's safe.

Episode 25

With Malice Toward One

Sun, Mar 10, 195730 mins

An accountant by day and novelist by night, Miss Burrows has grown tired of rejection notices from publishers. Her latest submission is about an author who shoots an editor after his book is rejected.

Episode 26

The Victorian Chaise Longue

Sun, Mar 17, 195730 mins

Todays theme is The Victorian Chaise Longue.

Episode 27

Too Good with a Gun

Sun, Mar 24, 195730 mins

An ex-gunfighter goes against his boss and teaches the son how to shoot. He also falls in love with the boss's daughter. But when he gets involved in a gunfight in town, his boss sends him passing and turns his two children against him.

Episode 28

Bargain Bride

Sun, Apr 7, 195730 mins

Episode 29

Cab Driver

Sun, Apr 14, 195730 mins

A female taxicab driver finds a dead man in the back seat of her cab, and a persistent suitor in the person of the detective who investigates the case.

Episode 30

The Bitter Choice

Sun, Apr 21, 195730 mins

An Army nurse resorts to a cruel ruse in an attempt to rouse a young sergeant from complete apathy and possible death.

Episode 31

I Will Not Die

Sun, Apr 28, 195730 mins

Episode 32

Angel of Wrath

Sun, May 5, 195730 mins

After he has invested in a publishing firm, a Broadway star is shocked to learn that it prints unsavory literature. He argues with the publisher, strikes the man, and is convinced he is guilty of murder.

Episode 33

A Question of Survival

Sun, May 12, 195730 mins

A cavalry captain and his small band are out-numbered by Comanche Indians. When the company surgeon offers to tend the fatally wounded son of the attacking chief, the captain must choose between certain death for the surgeon and safety for the rest.

Episode 34

The Man Who Inherited Everything

Sun, May 19, 195730 mins

Episode 35

New Girl in His Life

Sun, May 26, 195730 mins

Kelly Gregg (an orphan whose parents had died in a car crash) is sent to live with her rich and debonair Uncle Bentley in Beverly Hills, California.