General Electric Theater

Episode 1

The Man Who Thought for Himself

Sun, Sep 18, 1960 30 mins

Episode 2

Journal of Hope

Sun, Sep 25, 1960 30 mins

Episode 3

Hooray for Love

Sun, Oct 2, 1960

A series of comedic and musical vignettes make up this hour long program. Included is a sketch entitled 'The Heart is a Sick Summer' which is a parody of Tennessee Williams' plays; and a parody of Ingmar Bergman films called 'Strange Strawberries.'

Episode 4

Swinging Singing Years

Sun, Oct 9, 1960

Episode 5

Goodbye, My Love

Sun, Oct 16, 1960 30 mins

Episode 6

The Camel's Foot

Sun, Oct 23, 1960 30 mins

Episode 7

The Graduation Dress

Sun, Oct 30, 1960 30 mins

A slick photographer travels around the Depression-era rural south photographing graduating high school senior girls in a graduation dress he carries with him in his roadster. He stumbles upon the prettiest girl in the state and wants to take her with him--but the girl's kid brother has other ideas.

Episode 8

The Influential Americans

Sun, Nov 13, 1960 30 mins

Episode 9

The Playoff

Sun, Nov 20, 1960 30 mins

Episode 10

Journey to a Wedding

Sun, Nov 27, 1960 30 mins

Episode 11

Learn to Say Goodbye

Sun, Dec 4, 1960 30 mins

Tom Parkes is still attached to the memory of his first wife. Jo, his new wife, vows to win his complete affection.

Episode 12

Strictly Solo

Sun, Dec 11, 1960 30 mins

Episode 13

The Money Driver

Sun, Dec 18, 1960 30 mins

Harness racing driver, Al Roberts, fights viciously to bring in the big money. And at home he has no patience with his son Joey and pushes the boy around.

Episode 14

The Other Wise Man

Sun, Dec 25, 1960 30 mins

A nobleman from Persia sells all of his belongings for a sapphire, ruby and pearl to give as tribute to the newly-born baby Jesus. On his trip, he ends up using his valuable gifts to save an abandoned old man from death, a mother's infant from Herod's soldiers, and a woman being seized as a slave for her father's debts.

Episode 15

Don't Let It Throw You

Sun, Jan 1, 1961 30 mins

A big winner at the casino finds his winnings are not that big after all.

Episode 16

Memory in White

Sun, Jan 8, 1961 30 mins

Episode 17

The Devil You Say

Sun, Jan 22, 1961 30 mins

A nattily dressed gentleman climbs out of a manhole, goes down the street to the home of the Willoughbys and introduces himself to Mrs. Willoughby as Nick Lucifer, alias Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness.

Episode 18

The Drop-Out

Sun, Jan 29, 1961 30 mins

Episode 19

A Little White Lye

Sun, Feb 5, 1961 30 mins

A recently married couple rent an idyllic home to start their new life; however, they are mortified to learn that it was the site of a brutal homicide. Meanwhile, history may be poised to repeat itself as the other dark secrets, including a hidden fortune, begin to come to light.

Episode 20

The Legend That Walks Like a Man

Sun, Feb 12, 1961 30 mins

Episode 21

A Possibility of Oil

Sun, Feb 19, 1961 30 mins

Todays theme is A Possibility of Oil.

Episode 22

Image of a Doctor

Sun, Feb 26, 1961 30 mins

Episode 23

Open House

Sun, Mar 5, 1961 30 mins

New York Detective Joe McQueen would like to know how to get Grover Healy, his freeloading brother-in-law, out of his house. But it isn't until smalltime hoodlum Willy Zucks shows up at McQueen's home that Grover considers leaving.

Episode 24

The Small Elephants

Sun, Mar 12, 1961 30 mins

A shady operator named Pegosi tries to get a gullible actress, Leslie Blaine, to buy a miniature live elephant for a publicity stunt. When a magician named Trapollini tells Pegosi he'd like one too, Pegosi realizes he many actually have to produce the animal.

Episode 25

Love Is a Lion's Roar

Sun, Mar 19, 1961 30 mins

Episode 26

Labor of Love

Sun, Mar 26, 1961 30 mins

Episode 27

The Red Balloon

Sun, Apr 2, 1961

A special showing of the Albert Lamorisse 1956 French film featuring Lamorisse's son, Pascal.

Episode 28

Sis Bowls 'Em Over

Sun, Apr 9, 1961 30 mins

Connie Marlowe is responsible for orphaned younger brother, Buzz. He hopes to win some money in a father-son bowling match, so he asks Connie to get a stand-in father for him.

Episode 29

The Joke's on Me

Sun, Apr 16, 1961 30 mins

Comic Sid Benton takes a hard-boiled, cynical view of life in his nightclub act where it pays off. But when he runs this attitude over into his private life, he loses his wife's affections.

Episode 30

My Darling Judge

Sun, Apr 23, 1961 30 mins

Judge Cyrus Dunn is determined to get away for a holiday fishing trip. But at the last moment, his wife Betsy insists that the gardener's salary must be paid. This leaves the judge with no ready cash for his trip.

Episode 31

Louie and the Horseless Buggy

Sun, Apr 30, 1961 30 mins