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Goodyear Theatre

  • 1957-1960
  • 3 seasons
  • Columbia TriStar Domestic Television
  • Drama

Goodyear Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC.

Season 3 Episode Guide

27 Episodes 1959 - 1960

Episode 1

Story Without a Moral

Mon, Sep 14, 1959 30 mins

A lowly artist, given the chance to restore an old aristocrat's collection of masterpieces, makes a forgery of an important work to deceive Nazi art thieves. The old woman is also fooled, and so he keeps and sells the original, but though he prospers greatly, his conscience bothers him.

Episode 2

Hello, Charlie

Mon, Sep 28, 1959 30 mins

Incidents in the life of Charles Macarthur, a journalist who became a famous playwright and screenwriter.

Episode 3

The Incorrigibles

Mon, Oct 12, 1959 30 mins

Con man Harvey Otis and juvenile delinquent Steve Komak are paroled in each other's custody and told that if one breaks the law both will be held responsible. An old acquaintance of Harvey's attempts to involve him in a robbery.

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Episode 4

Any Friend of Julie's

Mon, Oct 19, 1959 30 mins

After the death of playwright Julian Webb, Ray Stuart tries to prove he has ghost-written all of Webb's plays.

Episode 5

The Golden Shanty

Mon, Nov 9, 1959 30 mins

On his return to Nugget City, traveling medicine man Doc Boatwright is spotted by Adie Walter who, having been conned into buying Boatwright's saloon, has a score to settle with the charming medicine peddler.

Episode 6

Point of Impact

Mon, Nov 23, 1959 30 mins

Major John Marshall abandons his damaged plane, which crashes into a house and kills two children.

Episode 7

Lady Bug

Mon, Dec 21, 1959 30 mins

Sarge, an elderly checkers champ, can be beaten by only one person - Benny, a seven year old boy. When a local story offers a large sum of money to anyone who can beat a robot at checkers, Sarge decides to match Benny against the machine.

Episode 8

Omaha Beach: Plus Fifteen

Mon, Jan 4, 1960 30 mins

A veteran suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome finds it difficult to go back to his old life. Larry Morris decides to attend a reunion of the squadron, he deserted under fire during World War II.

Episode 9

Birthright

Mon, Jan 18, 1960 30 mins

Czech-born Mr. and Mrs. Lanowski and their American-born son, Joseph, left the United States during the Depression. After the war, a Joseph Lanowski comes to the States, marries and changes his name to Lane. Later, another Joseph Lanowski tries to enter the country.

Episode 10

Capital Gains

Mon, Feb 1, 1960 30 mins

A TV writer who's left penniless, courtesy of taxes and alimony, is talked into forming a corporation and selling stock -- in himself -- to raise money. He makes himself and his stockholders wealthy while he churns out TV fare. Writer's block sends him back into dire financial straits. But his ex-wife has played the stock market shrewdly, to the good fortune of them both.

Episode 11

The Ticket

Mon, Feb 15, 1960 30 mins

Protégé battles former mentor in court after the younger man defeats his friend in election for district attorney.

Episode 12

Show Wagon

Mon, Feb 29, 1960 30 mins

A young law student, touring with a stock company, defends a woman accused of murder in a Western frontier town.

Episode 13

Squeeze Play

Mon, Mar 14, 1960 30 mins

A truck driver with nearly two million miles of safe driving behind him is blamed for an accident caused by another motorist.

Episode 14

All in the Family

Mon, Mar 28, 1960 30 mins

A sequel to last season's "I Remember Caviar," furthers the adventures of the once-wealthy, now-poor family of the late William Randall. Caroline and Maggie have become interior decorators, and when Maggie learns that an old family friend may relocate his offices, she sets her sights on a decorating contract.

Goodyear Theatre Season 3 All in the Family

Episode 16

Marked Down for Connie

Mon, Apr 25, 1960 30 mins

The romantic adventures of Connie Peters, a salesgirl in the Gracious Living department of Cooksin's Department Store, and her secret lover Eddie Rockwell, the floor manager of Gracious Living. Store police forbids employees dating each other.

Episode 17

The Sitter's Baby

Mon, May 9, 1960 30 mins

Professional babysitter, Melinda Gray, agrees to spend the weekend with teenager, Judy Saunders, while the family is away. To ease her charge's embarrassment, Melinda poses as Judy's grandmother. But she has to tell a few tall tales.

Episode 20

The Last Flight Out

Mon, Jan 25, 1960 301 mins

U.S. Army has the unenviable task of choosing which refugees can take the last flight out of China at the close of the war between the nationalists and communists. Those on the list include the woman he loves, and he can only take three.

Episode 22

Minister Accused

Mon, Feb 8, 1960 301 mins

A minister with progressive ideas faces crisis when the husband of a woman he has been counseling accuses him of assaulting her and the church trustees refuse to support their pastor.

Episode 23

Morning Boat to Africa

Mon, Feb 15, 1960 301 mins

Episode 24

Face to Face

Mon, Feb 22, 1960 301 mins

Phoebe Hanes tells her husband Charlie that she has decided to leave him and run off with their young farm hand. Charlie pleads with Phoebe to stay, but his pleas don't seem to have any effect on Phoebe's decision.

Episode 26

Chinese Finale

Mon, Mar 7, 1960 301 mins

Two women, one a doctor and the other a missionary, battle for control at an isolated outpost as a Chinese warlord with his forces approach. Things only get worse when the mission is overrun.

Episode 28

The Tweed Hat

Mon, Mar 21, 1960 301 mins

Charming romantic comedy about a comely widow who converses with the spirit of her late husband as they recall the joy of their short time together.

Episode 30

The Glorious Fourth

Mon, Apr 4, 1960 301 mins

The Civil War is close to its end and both sides are war-weary and hungry.

Episode 31

Author at Work

Mon, Apr 11, 1960 30 mins

Krob is an egotistical, slovenly, amazingly successful author of murder mysteries. A small, unctuous man visits and feeds his vanity with fantastic compliments. eventually revealing he knows his stories are descriptions of crimes he committed and intends extortion. But as the story takes place in jaded, immoral future year 1967, nobody cares so long as the stories entertain.

Episode 32

The Observer

Mon, Apr 18, 1960 301 mins

French peasant Sarrail poses as a saint in order to learn German war secrets.

Episode 36

You Should Meet My Sister

Mon, May 16, 1960 301 mins

The story of two pretty sisters who leave Ohio and head for New York to further their careers; Ruth as a writer, and Eileen as an actress.

Episode 37

The Proud Earth

Mon, May 23, 1960 30 mins

It isn't easy to move a family into the Idaho Territory. Homesteader Isaiah Macabee expected the natural hardships, but not the opposition of a powerful rancher who wants his land.

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