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The Ford Theatre Hour

  • 1948-1953
  • 3 seasons
  • CBS
  • Drama

An anthology series based in New York City which attracted a high caliber group of actors, often Broadway stars. Stories were both drama and comedies, some original but others adaptions of films and plays.

Season 3 Episode Guide

22 Episodes 1950 - 1951

Episode 1

The Traitor

Fri, Sep 8, 1950 60 mins

An nuclear physicist feels that the only way to hope for world peace is to share its secrets with the USSR.

Episode 2

The Married Look

Fri, Sep 22, 1950

A man who has been taking his wife of 20 years for granted is given a wake-up call. Through fantasies with a younger woman, he is reminded of what drew him to his wife so many years earlier.

Episode 3

The Marble Faun

Fri, Oct 6, 1950

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Episode 4

Angel Street

Fri, Oct 20, 1950

Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if means driving his wife insane.

Episode 5

Heart of Darkness

Fri, Nov 3, 1950 60 mins

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Episode 6

The White-Headed Boy

Fri, Nov 17, 1950

In a small Irish town, an older man is trying to get his daughter married off to the "white-headed boy" who just failed at studying medicine. In the meantime, he's courting the young man's aunt.

Episode 7

Another Darling

Fri, Dec 1, 1950

A girl shows up on the doorstep of a relative for a self-invited visit and goes about charming every man in sight with flattery and phony charm.

Episode 8

Alice in Wonderland

Fri, Dec 15, 1950

Young Dorothy goes down the hole in a dramatization of the children's classic.

Episode 9

Cause for Suspicion

Fri, Dec 29, 1950

Episode 10

The Presentation of the Look Magazine TV Awards

Fri, Jan 12, 1951

Episode 11

Final Copy

Fri, Jan 26, 1951

Episode 12

Spring Again

Fri, Feb 9, 1951 60 mins

Episode 13

The Golden Mouth

Fri, Feb 23, 1951

Episode 14

The Ghost Patrol

Fri, Mar 9, 1951

Episode 15

Heart of Darkness (restaged)

Fri, Mar 23, 1951

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Episode 16

Ticket to Oblivion

Fri, Apr 6, 1951 60 mins

Episode 17

The Touchstone

Fri, Apr 20, 1951

Episode 18

Dead on the Vine

Fri, May 4, 1951

Episode 19

Peter Ibbetson

Fri, May 18, 1951

Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love revives, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing. Mary comes to him in dreams and they are able to live out their romance in a dream world.

Episode 20

Three in a Room

Fri, Jun 1, 1951

Episode 21

Night over London

Fri, Jun 15, 1951

Episode 22

The Ghost Patrol

Fri, Jun 29, 1951

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