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General Electric Theater Season 6 Episodes

32 Episodes 1957 - 1958

Episode 1

The Questioning Note

Sun, Oct 6, 195730 mins

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Episode 2

Father and Son Night

Sun, Oct 13, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 3

Thousand Dollar Gun

Sun, Oct 20, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 4

Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour

Sun, Oct 27, 195730 mins

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Episode 5

Mischief at Bandy Leg

Sun, Nov 3, 195730 mins

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Episode 6

Cornada

Sun, Nov 10, 195730 mins

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Episode 7

Love Came Late

Sun, Nov 17, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 8

The Iron Rose

Sun, Nov 24, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 9

Imp on a Cobweb Leash

Sun, Dec 1, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 10

Eyes of a Stranger

Sun, Dec 8, 195730 mins

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

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Episode 11

The Trail to Christmas

Sun, Dec 15, 195730 mins

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.

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Episode 12

The Young Years

Sun, Dec 22, 195730 mins

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Episode 13

Kid at the Stick

Sun, Jan 5, 195830 mins

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

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Episode 14

Letters from Cairo

Sun, Jan 12, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 15

Time to Go Now

Sun, Jan 19, 195830 mins

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Episode 16

Silent Ambush

Sun, Jan 26, 195830 mins

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

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Episode 17

All I Survey

Sun, Feb 2, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 18

Incident

Sun, Feb 9, 195830 mins

A Confederate soldier who, in a small war incident, meets a Union soldier. They become friends, but learn that one of them must die.

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Episode 19

The Last Town Car, Part 1

Sun, Feb 16, 195830 mins

"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 concerning the car lead her to believe that she is losing her mind. Psychiatrist Jonathan Michael persuades Edith to take a ride in the car that has frightening connections with mysteriously-appearing and strangely-acting people from another era and its driver. Doctor Michael resolves Edith's problem with an unusual and surprising explanation about her frightening journeys with a group of ghostly characters from out of the past, dead people come to life whenever she rides in the old town car.

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Episode 20

The Last Town Car, Part 2

Sun, Feb 23, 195830 mins

"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 concerning the car lead her to believe that she is losing her mind. Psychiatrist Jonathan Michael persuades Edith to take a ride in the car that has frightening connections with mysteriously-appearing and strangely-acting people from another era and its driver. Doctor Michael resolves Edith's problem with an unusual and surprising explanation about her frightening journeys with a group of ghostly characters from out of the past, dead people come to life whenever she rides in the old town car.

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Episode 21

A New York Knight

Sun, Mar 2, 195830 mins

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Episode 22

Angel in the Air

Sun, Mar 9, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 23

The Coward of Fort Bennett

Sun, Mar 16, 195830 mins

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Episode 24

Strange Witness

Sun, Mar 23, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 25

The Unfamiliar

Sun, Mar 30, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 26

No Hiding Place

Sun, Apr 6, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 27

The Cold Touch

Sun, Apr 13, 195830 mins

Today's theme is The Cold Touch. Upon arriving in Hong Kong, a woman's husband disappears, so she hires a private detective. Then her husband shows back up at the hotel--or so she thinks. Soon, she finds herself in deeper than imaginable.

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Episode 28

God Is My Judge

Sun, Apr 20, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 29

Stopover

Sun, Apr 27, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 30

Ah There, Beau Brummel

Sun, May 4, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 31

Bold Loser

Sun, May 11, 195830 mins

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.

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Episode 32

The Young and Scared

Sun, May 18, 195830 mins

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.

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