Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre - Season 5

Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes39
DatesOct 3, 1956 - Jun 26, 1957
Previous Season

Episodes

Catch at Straws
Season 5Episode 130 min

Catch at Straws

A district attorney tries to help a Korean War veteran who returns home in disgrace. Even though he has been cleared of treason by a military court, the ex-GI is the object of scorn and persecution by the community.

Oct 3, 1956
Sudden Silence
Season 5Episode 230 min

Sudden Silence

Incidents in the growth of an old Western Town as seen through the eyes the sheriff's wife, Irene Frazier.

Oct 10, 1956
Paris Edition
Season 5Episode 330 min

Paris Edition

An escaped convict invades the home of a ordinary American family.
Oct 17, 1956
Measure of Faith
Season 5Episode 430 min

Measure of Faith

A Catholic priest who was brutally beaten in a Communist prison, questions his faith.

Oct 24, 1956
Black Jim Hawk
Season 5Episode 530 min

Black Jim Hawk

As a youngster, Jim Hawk begged Governor Sam Houston of Tennessee to release his father, a convicted murderer. Houston refused and the boy swore revenge. Jim Hawk became one of the West's most notorious outlaws and finally got his chance to follow through on his boyhood threat.

Oct 31, 1956
Sometimes It Happens
Season 5Episode 630 min

Sometimes It Happens

A Welsh girl lives in New York City with her uncle and aunt. An old folk legend of her native country says that a love which proves itself three times will last forever. She decides to try this theory out on a young man she meets.

Nov 7, 1956
The Women Who Dared
Season 5Episode 730 min

The Women Who Dared

In 1870, after years of hardship, a woman achieves her ambition of becoming a doctor. She dreams of serving the people in a small Western town, but the years of struggle seem wasted. The townspeople hate this woman who has dared enter a male profession.

Nov 14, 1956
The Menace of Hasty Heights
Season 5Episode 830 min

The Menace of Hasty Heights

As the wife of a would-be councilman is preparing a house party to assure his election, an escaped convict takes shelter in the house. Instead of becoming frightened, she takes advantage of his entrance and puts him to work helping her.

Nov 21, 1956
Stand By to Dive
Season 5Episode 930 min

Stand By to Dive

A young naval officer who has not seen his father since his parents were divorced when he was a child, is assigned to the submarine his father commands.

Nov 28, 1956
Front Page Father
Season 5Episode 1030 min

Front Page Father

A newspaper publisher starts an attack on local police because of the high rate of juvenile delinquency in his city.

Dec 5, 1956
The Marriage Plan
Season 5Episode 1130 min

The Marriage Plan

A young man buys a seemingly worthless traffic island in front of his house. The women in his family are so outraged at this idiotic move, that the young man ends up spending the night in a pup tent.

Dec 12, 1956
Duffy's Man
Season 5Episode 1230 min

Duffy's Man

A young man arrives in a small western town and gets a job in a local stable. Most of the able-bodied men in the area are out of town on a roundup, so when five desperadoes terrorize the town, it's up to the stranger to drive them out.

Dec 19, 1956
Model Wife
Season 5Episode 1330 min

Model Wife

A group of girls earn money for their set charity by posing for a calendar. One of them becomes interested in the photographer, but he shows her only indifference.

Dec 26, 1956
Fear Has Many Faces
Season 5Episode 1430 min

Fear Has Many Faces

During the Korean War, a sergeant was forced to shoot another soldier who made a break for the rear. The sergeant finds it impossible to forget the experience even after he returns to civilian life.

Jan 2, 1957
The Quiet Stranger
Season 5Episode 1530 min

The Quiet Stranger

Jan 9, 1957
Sweet Charlie
Season 5Episode 1630 min

Sweet Charlie

Jan 16, 1957
The Penlands and the Poodle
Season 5Episode 1730 min

The Penlands and the Poodle

Jan 23, 1957
Mrs. Wane Comes to Call
Season 5Episode 1830 min

Mrs. Wane Comes to Call

Laura Chandler is unable and seemingly unwilling to recover from the loss of her son.

Jan 30, 1957
The Connoisseur
Season 5Episode 1930 min

The Connoisseur

An American, living in Europe, makes his somewhat precarious living selling art treasures to wealthy Americans. He believes that his wife and daughter are satisfied with their vagabond life until he overhears a conversation between them.

Feb 6, 1957
The Ringside Seat
Season 5Episode 2030 min

The Ringside Seat

Matty Curran loses his championship box title to a younger fighter. Matty's young son is afraid that his father has become a coward, and has let him down at a crucial moment.

Feb 13, 1957
With No Regrets
Season 5Episode 2130 min

With No Regrets

Christine Emerson, an elderly school principal, takes the side of a youngster who has been accused of setting fire to the school building. The school board wants to expel him.

Feb 20, 1957
The Man Who Beat Lupo
Season 5Episode 2230 min

The Man Who Beat Lupo

A famous Italian swordsman dons a mask and secretly turns professional to earn money for his family. After earning international renown and enough money to keep his mother comfortable until her death, he retires, intending never to duel again.

Feb 27, 1957
Broken Barrier
Season 5Episode 2330 min

Broken Barrier

A highly paid executive has never quite forgiven his father for the harsh treatment he received as a child. Even when he receives word that his father is dying, he finds it hard to pay a last visit to the family farm.

Mar 6, 1957
Fate Travels East
Season 5Episode 2430 min

Fate Travels East

A successful female novelist leaves her husband after they disagree about the amount of time she devotes to her career. On the train, she discovers an anonymous suicide note, and is afraid her husband wrote it.

Mar 13, 1957
The Man Across the Hall
Season 5Episode 2530 min

The Man Across the Hall

Mar 20, 1957
House of Glass
Season 5Episode 2630 min

House of Glass

A murder witness is afraid to go to the police for fear of losing her parole, and the killer is tracking her down.

Mar 27, 1957
Exclusive
Season 5Episode 2730 min

Exclusive

Sarah Caine, a successful newspaperwoman, refuses to marry because of her career. In Paris on an assignment she learns that her father, another journalist, is also there on a story. Raised by her mother to hate her father, she decides to scoop him on the story.

Apr 3, 1957
Moment of Decision
Season 5Episode 2830 min

Moment of Decision

Apr 10, 1957
Singapore
Season 5Episode 2930 min

Singapore

Apr 17, 1957
Footnote on a Doll
Season 5Episode 3030 min

Footnote on a Doll

Following her turn as the nation's First Lady, Dolley Madison's life continued to be colorful.
Apr 24, 1957
Strange Disappearance
Season 5Episode 3130 min

Strange Disappearance

After two of his shows have failed on Broadway, a producer pins all his hopes on his forthcoming production.

May 1, 1957
The Idea Man
Season 5Episode 3230 min

The Idea Man

May 8, 1957
The Gentle Deceiver
Season 5Episode 3330 min

The Gentle Deceiver

May 15, 1957
Miller's Millions
Season 5Episode 3430 min

Miller's Millions

May 22, 1957
Torn
Season 5Episode 3530 min

Torn

May 29, 1957
The Lie
Season 5Episode 3630 min

The Lie

Jun 5, 1957
Cross Hairs
Season 5Episode 3730 min

Cross Hairs

A shipping line security agent goes undercover to find out who is behind a series of robberies and sniper killings at the waterfront warehouses.

Jun 12, 1957
Desperation
Season 5Episode 3830 min

Desperation

A young bride learns that her husband's brother blames him for an accident that lamed him during their childhood. When her husband is called away, she uncovers a secret about her brother-in-law which places her life in danger.

Jun 19, 1957
Adventure for Hire
Season 5Episode 3930 min

Adventure for Hire

Pilot Dan Crawford is hired by a man and his wife to fly them to Las Vegas. But when the plane is approaching Las Vegas, the man draws a gun and forces Dan to land on the airstrip of a ranch.

Jun 26, 1957

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