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Ford Theatre#Television

{{Short description|Television and radio series}}

{{about|the drama anthology series}}

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{{Infobox radio show

| name = Ford Theater

| image = Fletcher Markle & Ingrid Bergman Ford Theatre.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = Director Fletcher Markle and Ingrid Bergman prepare for the Ford Theatre adaptation of Anna Christie that aired on CBS Radio January 21, 1949

| other_names =

| format = Anthology drama

| runtime = 1 hour

| country = United States

| language = English

| home_station = NBC (10/05/47–06/27/48)
CBS (10/08/48–07/01/49)

| syndicates =

| television = Ford Theatre

| presenter = NBC: Howard Lindsay
CBS: Nelson Case

| starring = NBC: Numerous radio actors
CBS: Numerous Hollywood stars

| creator =

| writer = NBC: Will Glickman, Charles Gussman, Lillian Schoen, Stanley Evans
CBS: Hugh Kemp, Brainerd Duffield

| director = NBC: George Zachary
CBS: Fletcher Markle

| producer =

| executive_producer =

| narrated =

| record_location = NBC: New York City
CBS: Hollywood

| first_aired =

| last_aired =

| num_series = 2

| num_episodes = 78

| audio_format = Monaural sound

| opentheme =

| endtheme =

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| podcast =

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Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the original radio version and known, in full, as The Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, is a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts. Ford Theatre was named for its sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, which had an earlier success with its concert music series, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour (1934–42).

Radio

{{Main|Ford Theater (radio series)}}

Ford Theater as a radio series lasted for only two seasons. Its first season was broadcast from New York City on NBC with such actors as Ed Begley, Shirley Booth, Gary Merrill, Everett Sloane and Vicki Vola. This season ran from October 5, 1947, to June 27, 1948. Due to poor ratings, Ford moved the show to Hollywood{{cite journal|last1=Elliott|first1=Jordan|title=Hooray for Hollywood!|journal=Nostalgia Digest|date=Summer 2015|volume=41|issue=3|pages=24–30}} and CBS Radio for the second season, where top Hollywood actors headed the casts. This season, which lasted from October 8, 1948, to July 1, 1949, received much higher ratings. However, with television rising in popularity, Ford decided to end its radio show and focus solely on television.

Howard Lindsay became the program's master of ceremonies on October 5, 1947.{{cite news |last1=Gould |first1=Jack |title=The News of Radio |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/107749283 |access-date=April 27, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=August 28, 1947 |page=40|id={{ProQuest|107749283}} |via = ProQuest}}

Television

{{Infobox television

| name = The Ford Television Theatre

| image = Dan Duryea Double Exposure Ford Theatre 1953.jpg

| caption = Dan Duryea in the presentation of Double Exposure, 1953

| runtime = 24–26 minutes

| country = United States

| company = Ford Motor Company (live episodes)
Screen Gems Television (filmed episodes)

| channel = CBS (1948–1951)
NBC (1952–1956)
ABC (1956–1957)

| first_aired = {{Start date|1948|10|17}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1957|06|26}}

| num_seasons = 8

| num_episodes = 245

}}

The first Ford Theatre on U.S. television appeared on October 17, 1948, near the beginning of regularly scheduled prime time network programming. It was an hour-long drama, broadcast live, as was most television of the era. This series used primarily Broadway actors. The program began as a monthly series, switching to biweekly a year later, in alternation on Friday nights at 9:00 pm Eastern time with the 54th Street Revue. During this period, programming included adaptations of Little Women, with June Lockhart and Kim Hunter, and One Sunday Afternoon, with Burgess Meredith and Hume Cronyn. During the following season, the final season for the program on CBS, the alternation in the same time slot was with Magnavox Theater.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&dq=%22Magnavox+Theater+Dramatic+Anthology%22+%22aired+on+alternate%22+%22with+Ford+Theatre%22&pg=PA835 |first1=Tim |last1=Brooks |author-link1=Tim Brooks (historian) |first2=Earle |last2=Marsh |year=2007 |edition=9 |title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present |section=Magnavox Theater |page=835 |publisher=Random House Publishing |location=New York |isbn=978-0-345-49773-4 |access-date=2024-06-03 }} Garth Montgomery was the producer, with Carl Beier as associate producer. Franklin Schaffner was the director.{{cite news |title=Debuts, Highlights, Changes (Continued) |url=https://archive.org/details/rossreportstele10ross/page/n98/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=September 18, 2022 |work=Ross Reports on Television including The Television Index |date=September 3, 1950 |page=2}}

A half-hour filmed Ford Theatre returned to the airwaves on NBC for the 1951–52 season on Thursday nights at 9:30 pm Eastern. At this time, production was moved from New York to Hollywood, and featured actors based there rather than on Broadway. Some of these programs were comedies instead of dramas. Performers appearing during this era included Frank Bank, Scott Brady, Claudette Colbert, Charles Coburn, Ed Hinton, Vivi Janiss, Peter Lawford, Sam Levene, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Dennis Morgan, Karen Sharpe, Ann Sheridan, Barry Sullivan, and Beverly Washburn. Also appearing for the first time together were Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis, in an episode entitled "First Born," which first aired on February 3, 1953. In October 1954, Ford Theatre became the first network television series to be filmed regularly in color."Television in Review", The New York Times, August 11, 1954, p. 33. During this period, Ford Theatre finished in the Nielsen ratings at number 30 for the 1952–1953 season, number seven in 1953–1954, number 9 in 1954–1955, and number 13 in 1955–1956.https://classictvguide.com/tvratings/index.htm

After four seasons on NBC, the program was shown for a final season on ABC during the 1956–57 season. The time slot was changed to Wednesdays at 9:30 pm. The last prime time broadcast of Ford Theatre was on July 10, 1957.

From 9:00 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturdays during the summer of 1958, NBC broadcast the anthology series Opening Night, which consisted entirely of reruns of episodes of Ford Theatre from the 1956–1957 season.Brooks and Marsh (1995), p. 779. First aired on June 14, 1958, Opening Night was broadcast every other week, alternating in its time slot with Club Oasis with Spike Jones. Its final episode aired on September 8, 1958.

In 1954, Billboard voted Ford Theatre the best filmed network television drama series.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zxoEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22four+star+playhouse%22+%22ford+tops+4+star%22&pg=PA14 |title = Billboard|date = 1954-07-31}}

=Episodes =

==Season 1 (1948–49)==

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|Title=Years Ago

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy=Ruth Gordon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1948|10|17}}

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|EpisodeNumber=2

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Joy To The World

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy=Alan Scott and George Haight

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1948|11|21}}

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|EpisodeNumber=3

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=Night Must Fall

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Emlyn Williams|t=Norman Lessing}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1948|12|19}}

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|EpisodeNumber=4

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=The Man Who Came To Dinner

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart|t=Max Wilk and Ellis Marcus}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|01|16}}

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|EpisodeNumber=5

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=The Silver Cord

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy=Sidney Howard

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|02|13}}

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|EpisodeNumber=6

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=Outward Bound

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy=Sutton Vane

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|03|13}}

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|EpisodeNumber=7

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Arsenic And Old Lace

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy=Joseph Kesselring

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|04|11}}

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|EpisodeNumber=8

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=One Sunday Afternoon

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy=James Hagan

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|05|16}}

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==Season 2 (1949–50)==

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|EpisodeNumber=9

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=The Twentieth Century

|DirectedBy= Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Charles Bruce Millholland, Ben Hecht, and

Charles MacArthur|t=Norman Lessing}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|10|07}}

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|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=On Borrowed Time

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|10|21}}

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|EpisodeNumber=11

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=She Loves Me Not

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Edward Hope and Howard Lindsay|t=Max Wilk}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|11|04}}

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|EpisodeNumber=12

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Skylark

|DirectedBy=

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Samson Raphaelson|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|11|18}}

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|EpisodeNumber=13

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Kind Lady

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Edward Chodorov|t=Ellis Marcus}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|12|02}}

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|EpisodeNumber=14

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=Little Women

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Louisa May Alcott|t=Ellis Marcus}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|12|09}}

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|EpisodeNumber=15

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=The Farmer Takes a Wife

|DirectedBy=

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Marc Connelly and Frank Ball Elser|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1949|12|30}}

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|EpisodeNumber=16

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=The Barker

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Kenyon Nicholson|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|01|13}}

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|EpisodeNumber=17

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Laburnum Grove

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|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=J.B. Priestley|t=Edward Mabley}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|01|29}}

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|EpisodeNumber=18

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=The Royal Family

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|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|02|10}}

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|EpisodeNumber=19

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Uncle Harry

|DirectedBy=

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Thomas Job|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|02|24}}

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|EpisodeNumber=20

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Room Service

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|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=John Murray and Allen Boretz|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|03|10}}

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|EpisodeNumber=21

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Dear Brutus

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|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=J.M. Barrie|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|03|24}}

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|EpisodeNumber=22

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=The Little Minister

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|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=J.M. Barrie|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|04|07}}

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|EpisodeNumber=23

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=The School for Scandal

|DirectedBy=

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Richard B. Sheridan|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|04|21}}

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|EpisodeNumber=24

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Father Malachy's Miracle

|DirectedBy=

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Bruce Marshall|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|05|05}}

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|EpisodeNumber=25

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=Subway Express

|DirectedBy=Marc Daniels

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Eva May Flint and Martha Madison|t=Ellis Marcus}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|05|19}}

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|EpisodeNumber=26

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=The Shining Hour

|DirectedBy=

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Keith Winter|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|06|02}}

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|EpisodeNumber=27

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=On Borrowed Time

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|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Paul Osborn and Lawrence Edward Watkin|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|06|30}}

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==Season 3 (1950–51)==

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|EpisodeNumber=28

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=The Traitor

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Herman Wouk|t=Jack Kirkland}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|09|08}}

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|EpisodeNumber=29

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=The Married Look

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert Nathan|t=Howard Rodman}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|09|22}}

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|EpisodeNumber=30

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=The Marble Faun

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Nathaniel Hawthorne|t=David Davidson}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|10|06}}

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|EpisodeNumber=31

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Angel Street

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Patrick Hamilton|t=Lois Jacoby}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|10|20}}

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|EpisodeNumber=32

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Heart of Darkness

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Joseph Conrad|t=Joseph Liss}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|11|03}}

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|EpisodeNumber=33

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=The White-Headed Boy

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Lennox Robinson|t=Willard Keefe}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|11|17}}

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|EpisodeNumber=34

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Another Darling

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Zoe Akins and Lewis Carroll|t=Nancy Moore}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|12|01}}

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|EpisodeNumber=35

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Alice in Wonderland

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Lewis Carroll|t=Lois Jacoby}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|12|14}}

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|EpisodeNumber=36

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Cause for Suspicion

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Peggy Lamson|t=Joseph Liss}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1950|12|29}}

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|EpisodeNumber=37

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=The Presentation of the Look Magazine TV Awards

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|01|12}}

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|EpisodeNumber=38

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Final Copy

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy=Jay Barbette

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|01|26}}

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|EpisodeNumber=39

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Spring Again

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Bertram Bloch and Isabel Leighton|t=Lois Jacoby}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|02|09}}

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|EpisodeNumber=40

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=The Golden Mouth

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Charles Belden and Frederick Stephani|t=Joseph Liss}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|02|23}}

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|EpisodeNumber=41

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=The Ghost Patrol

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Sinclair Lewis|t=William Kendall Clarke}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|03|09}}

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|EpisodeNumber=42

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Heart of Darkness (restaged)

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Joseph Conrad|t=Joseph Liss}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|03|23}}

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|EpisodeNumber=43

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Ticket to Oblivion

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert Packer|t=George Oppenheimer}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|04|06}}

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|EpisodeNumber=44

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=The Touchstone

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Edith Wharton|t=Lois Jacoby and Jerome Ross}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|04|20}}

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|EpisodeNumber=45

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Dead on the Vine

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Alice Fellows|t=Joseph Liss}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|05|04}}

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|EpisodeNumber=46

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=Peter Ibbetson

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=George L. Du Maurier|t=Lois Jacoby}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|05|18}}

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|EpisodeNumber=47

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=Three in a Room

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Walter Karig|t=George Oppenheimer}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|06|01}}

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|EpisodeNumber=48

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=Night over London

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Kay Boyle|t=David Davidson}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|06|15}}

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|EpisodeNumber=49

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=The Ghost Patrol

|DirectedBy=Franklin J. Schaffner

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Sinclair Lewis|t=William Kendall Clarke}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|06|29}}

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==Season 4 (1952–53)==

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|EpisodeNumber=50

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley

|DirectedBy=Robert Stevenson

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|EpisodeNumber=51

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Junior

|DirectedBy=Leigh Jason

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Charles S. Belden and Frederick Stephani|t=Cyril Hume}}

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|EpisodeNumber=52

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=National Honeymoon

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Paul Horgan, Robert Riley Crutcher, and Elizabeth Reinhardt}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|10|16}}

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|EpisodeNumber=53

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Birth of a Hero

|DirectedBy=Robert Stevenson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Lillie Hayward}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|10|23}}

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|EpisodeNumber=54

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Girl in the Park

|DirectedBy=Robert Stevenson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Rachel Maddux|t=Sheridan Gibney}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|10|30}}

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|EpisodeNumber=55

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=Edge of the Law

|DirectedBy=Fletcher Markle

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Richard Deming|t=Charles Bennett}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|11|06}}

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|EpisodeNumber=56

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=Protect Her Honor

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=George W. George, Mary C. McCall Jr., and George F. Slavin}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|11|13}}

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|EpisodeNumber=57

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Sunk

|DirectedBy=Robert Stevenson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=George F. Worts|t=Merwin Gerard and Seeleg Lester}}

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|EpisodeNumber=58

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=The Divided Heart

|DirectedBy=Fletcher Markle

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Frederick Hazlitt Brennan|t=Elizabeth Reinhardt}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|11|27}}

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|EpisodeNumber=59

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Something Old, Something New

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Dorothy Francis Canfield Fisher and Carl Leo Gass|t=Mary C. McCall Jr. and Margaret Buell Wilder}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|04}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=60

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Crossed and Double Crossed

|DirectedBy=Richard Quine

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Mortimer Braus|t=Mortimer Braus}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|11}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=61

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=So Many Things Happen

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=George W. George and George F. Slavin|t=Berne Giler}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|18}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=62

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Heart of Gold

|DirectedBy=Robert Stevenson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Nathaniel Hawthorne|t=Edward Hope}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|25}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=63

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=They Also Serve

|DirectedBy=Laslo Benedek

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=William T. Tilden|t=Edward Hope}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|01|03}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=64

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=It Happened in a Pawn Shop

|DirectedBy=Richard Quine

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert Harari|t=Frederick Brady}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|01|08}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=65

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=This Is My Heart

|DirectedBy=Robert Stevenson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Lenore J. Coffee|t=Louella MacFarlane}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|01|15}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=66

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=The Sermon of the Gun

|DirectedBy=George Archainbaud

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=George Sessions Perry|t=Lawrence Kimble}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|01|22}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=67

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Adventure in Connecticut

|DirectedBy=Victor Stoloff

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Albert Duffy|t=Jerome Gruskin}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|01|29}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=68

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=The First Born

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Marion Valensi|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|02|05}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=69

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=The Old Man's Bride

|DirectedBy=Victor Stoloff

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Jerome Gruskin and Edward Hope}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|02|12}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=70

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=Margin for Fear

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Leslie T. White|t=Berne Giler}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|02|19}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=71

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=All's Fair in Love

|DirectedBy=Leigh Jason

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Doris Peel|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|02|26}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=72

|EpisodeNumber2=23

|Title=Madame 44

|DirectedBy=James Nelson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=John Tucker Battle}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|03|05}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=73

|EpisodeNumber2=24

|Title=My Daughter's Husband

|DirectedBy=Edward Bernds

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Sumner Arthur Long}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|03|12}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=74

|EpisodeNumber2=25

|Title=The Bet

|DirectedBy=Jules Bricken

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Anton Chekhov|t=Theodore St. John}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|03|19}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=75

|EpisodeNumber2=26

|Title=Double Exposure

|DirectedBy=Lew Landers

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Ben Hecht and John D. Weaver|t=Frederick Brady}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|03|26}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=76

|EpisodeNumber2=27

|Title=To Any Soldier

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Robert Hardy Andrews}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|04|02}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=77

|EpisodeNumber2=28

|Title=Just What the Doctor Ordered

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Hilda Cole Espy|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|04|09}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=78

|EpisodeNumber2=29

|Title=Allison, Ltd.

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Karen DeWolf and Catherine Turney}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|04|16}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=79

|EpisodeNumber2=30

|Title=The Life of the Party

|DirectedBy=Lewis Allen

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=David Karp and Clarence Budington Kelland|t=Jerome Gruskin}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|04|23}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=80

|EpisodeNumber2=31

|Title=The Son-in-Law

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=John Kendrick Bangs|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|04|30}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=81

|EpisodeNumber2=32

|Title=The Lady and the Champ

|DirectedBy=Jules Bricken

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=George W. George and George F. Slavin|t=Joe Pagano}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|05|07}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=82

|EpisodeNumber2=33

|Title=Look for Tomorrow

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Gladys S. Finke|t=Jerry Sackheim}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|05|14}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=83

|EpisodeNumber2=34

|Title=Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

|DirectedBy=Edward Bernds

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Douglass Welch|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|05|21}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=84

|EpisodeNumber2=35

|Title=The Jewel

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Lawrence L. Goldman|t=Jerome Gruskin}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|05|28}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=85

|EpisodeNumber2=36

|Title=There's No Place Like Home

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Sumner Arthur Long|t=Sumner Arthur Long}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|06|04}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=86

|EpisodeNumber2=37

|Title=The Trestle

|DirectedBy=Jules Bricken

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Lawrence L. Goldman|t=Jerome Gruskin}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|06|11}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=87

|EpisodeNumber2=38

|Title=Malaya Incident

|DirectedBy=John Brahm

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Adele Comandini|t=Adele Comandini}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|06|18}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=88

|EpisodeNumber2=39

|Title=The People Versus Johnston

|DirectedBy=Arthur Dreifuss

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Arthur Dreifuss|t=Jerome Gruskin}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|06|25}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

==Season 5 (1953–54)==

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=89

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=Tangier Lady

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Jack Harvey and Sol Shor|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|10|01}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=90

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=The Doctor's Downfall

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|10|08}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=91

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=Emergency

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|10|15}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=92

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=The Bachelor

|DirectedBy=Laslo Benedek

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong and Decla Dunning|t=Karen DeWolf and Decla Dunning}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|10|22}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=93

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Tomorrow's Men

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Bill Scott|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|10|29}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=94

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=The World's My Oyster

|DirectedBy=Frederick Stephani

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Berne Giler and Ben Hecht|t=Sig Herzig and Frederick Stephani}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|11|05}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=95

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=The Ming Lama

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Michael Kraike}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|11|12}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=96

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=As the Flame Dies

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Herbert Little Jr. and David Victor|t=Herbert Little Jr., Jerry Sackheim, and David Victor}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|11|19}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=97

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Double Bet

|DirectedBy=Frederick Stephani

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Dorian Weiler and Miriam Weiler|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|11|26}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=98

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Kiss and Forget

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Jerome Gruskin}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|12|03}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=99

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=And Suddenly, You Knew

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Spencer Raymond and Luci Ward|t=Lillie Hayward}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|12|10}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=100

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Gun Job

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Thomas Thompson|t=Jerry Sackheim}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|12|17}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=101

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Ever Since the Day

|DirectedBy=Frederick Stephani

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Joseph Russell|t=Mary C. McCall Jr.}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|12|24}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=102

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=Alias Nora Hale

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Jerry Sackheim}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|12|31}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=103

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=The Fugitives

|DirectedBy=Phil Karlson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Sigman Byrd|t=Robert Hardy Andrews}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|01|07}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=104

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=The Ardent Woodsman

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Hugh B. Cave|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|01|14}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=105

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=The Happiest Day

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=William Rutherford Coe|t=Lillie Hayward and Jerry Sackheim}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|01|21}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=106

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Mantrap

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Steve McNeil|t=Lou Breslow}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|01|28}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=107

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=Lucky Tommy Jordan

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Richard Donn|t=Robert Hardy Andrews}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|02|04}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=108

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=For the Love of Kitty

|DirectedBy=

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Damon Runyon|t=Berne Giler}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|02|11}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=109

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=For Value Received

|DirectedBy=Arnold Laven

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Mildred Cram and Edith Barnard Delano|t=Erna Lazarus}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|02|18}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=110

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=Marriageable Male

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Irving Gaynor Neiman|t=Lou Breslow and Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|02|25}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=111

|EpisodeNumber2=23

|Title=The Good of His Soul

|DirectedBy=James Nelson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Jean Heavey|t=Edward Hope}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|03|04}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=112

|EpisodeNumber2=24

|Title=Come On, Red

|DirectedBy=Richard Quine

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=John B. Hymer|t=Sumner Arthur Long}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|03|11}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=113

|EpisodeNumber2=25

|Title=The Last Thirty Minutes

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Lee Horton|t=Bernie Giler}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|03|18}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=114

|EpisodeNumber2=26

|Title=The Taming of the Shrewd

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Henry Charles Witwer and Samuel Marx|t=Mary C. McCall Jr.}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|03|25}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=115

|EpisodeNumber2=27

|Title=Turn Back the Clock

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert L. Hecker and Frances Kavanaugh|t=Martin Berkeley}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|04|01}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=116

|EpisodeNumber2=28

|Title=Yours for a Dream

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Miriam Rugel|t=Dorothy Cooper}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|04|08}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=117

|EpisodeNumber2=29

|Title=Sister Veronica

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Vivian Cosby|t=Erna Lazarus}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|04|15}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=118

|EpisodeNumber2=30

|Title=Wedding March

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Merle Miller|t=Sig Herzig and Frederick Stephani}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|04|22}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=119

|EpisodeNumber2=31

|Title=Night Visitor

|DirectedBy=Phil Karlson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Norman Jacob|t=Berne Giler}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|04|29}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=120

|EpisodeNumber2=32

|Title=A Season to Love

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Fannie Baum and Dorothy DeKoven|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|05|06}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=121

|EpisodeNumber2=33

|Title=Wonderful Day for a Wedding

|DirectedBy=Harry Keller

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Virginia Lee|t=Lou Breslow}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|05|13}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=122

|EpisodeNumber2=34

|Title=Beneath These Waters

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Steve Fisher}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|05|20}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=123

|EpisodeNumber2=35

|Title=Keep It in the Family

|DirectedBy=William D. Russell

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Roswell Rogers and Paul West|t=Roswell Rogers and Paul West}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|05|27}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=124

|EpisodeNumber2=36

|Title=The Unlocked Door

|DirectedBy=Jason Lindsey

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Mary Roberts Rinehart|t=Mel Dinelli}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|06|03}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=125

|EpisodeNumber2=37

|Title=The Mason-Dixon Line

|DirectedBy=Gerald Mayer

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Michael Kraike and Albert Treynor|t=Berne Giler and Edward Hope}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|06|10}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=126

|EpisodeNumber2=38

|Title=The Tryst

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Mary Hastings Bradley and Ivan Turgenev|t=Mary C. McCall Jr.}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|06|17}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=127

|EpisodeNumber2=39

|Title=Indirect Approach

|DirectedBy=Frederick Stephani

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Dana Burnet|t=Lou Breslow}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|06|24}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

==Season 6 (1954–55)==

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=128

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=The Trouble With Youth

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=William Bowers|t=William Bowers}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|09|30}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=129

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Daughter of Mine

|DirectedBy=Arnold Laven

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Katherine Albert and Dale Eunson|t=Lillie Hayward}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|10|07}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=130

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=Shadow of Truth

|DirectedBy=Gregg G. Tallas

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Alice Lent Covert|t=Robert Hardy Andrews}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|10|14}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=131

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Segment

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=David Swift|t=Michael Kraike}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|10|21}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=132

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=A Trip Around the Block

|DirectedBy=László Kardos

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Victor Wolfson|t=Richard Morris}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|10|28}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=133

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=Remember to Live

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Mary W. Lacey|t=Mary W. Lacey}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|11|04}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=134

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=The Road Ahead

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Kurt Vonnegut Jr.|t=Robert Bassing}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|11|11}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=135

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=The Summer Memory

|DirectedBy=Jules Bricken

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Rod Serling|t=Rod Serling}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|11|18}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=136

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=The Legal Beagles

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Robert H. Bailey and Hugh King}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|11|25}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=137

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Girl in Flight

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Ellis St. Joseph|t=Andrew Solt}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|12|02}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=138

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=Charlie C Company

|DirectedBy=Arnold Laven

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=William Chamberlain|t=Steve Fisher}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|12|09}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=139

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Portrait of Lydia

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=A.A. Milne|t=Berish Rubin and Robert Smith}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|12|16}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=140

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Slide, Darling, Slide

|DirectedBy=Edward Bernds

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Ernest Lehman|t=Katherine Albert and Dale Eunson}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|12|23}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=141

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=The Unbroken Promise

|DirectedBy=Lewis Seller

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Lenore J. Coffee|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|12|30}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=142

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Magic Formula

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Marianne Mosner and Alyce Wade|t=Marianne Mosner}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|01|06}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=143

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=..... and Son

|DirectedBy=Arnold Laven

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=I.A.R. Wylie|t=Robert Bassing and Peter Packer}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|01|13}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=144

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=The Stars Don't Shine

|DirectedBy=Greg Garrison

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Al C. Ward|t=Gabrielle Upton}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|01|20}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=145

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Letters Marked Personal

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Peter Helmers|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|01|27}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=146

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=Touch of Spring

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert Bassing and Elizabeth Bibesco|t=Margaret Fitts}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|02|03}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=147

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=Pretend You're You

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Matt Taylor|t=Margaret Fitts}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|02|10}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=148

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=Tomorrow We'll Love

|DirectedBy=Arnold Laven

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Gerry Day|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|02|17}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=149

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=Too Old for Dolls

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Ann Pinchot and Ben Pinchot|t=Richard Morris}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|02|24}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=150

|EpisodeNumber2=23

|Title=The Lilac Bush

|DirectedBy=Arnold Laven

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=August William Derleth and Lesley Conger|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|03|03}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=151

|EpisodeNumber2=24

|Title=Second Sight

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Gwen Bagni|t=Gwen Bagni}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|03|10}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=152

|EpisodeNumber2=25

|Title=Celebrity

|DirectedBy=Arnold Laven

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Richard Flournoy|t=Marianne Mosner}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|03|17}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=153

|EpisodeNumber2=26

|Title=Garrity's Sons

|DirectedBy=Jules Bricken

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Rod Serling|t=Rod Serling}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|03|24}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=154

|EpisodeNumber2=27

|Title=Hanrahan

|DirectedBy=László Kardos

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Hobart Donavan and W. B. Yeats|t=Stanley Adams and Edward Hope}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|03|31}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=155

|EpisodeNumber2=28

|Title=Deception

|DirectedBy=Peter Godfrey

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Jan Leman and Ted Thomas|t=Karen DeWolf and Lillie Hayward}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|04|07}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=156

|EpisodeNumber2=29

|Title=The Woman at Fog Point

|DirectedBy=Anton M. Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Hugh B. Cave|t=David Lang}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|04|14}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=157

|EpisodeNumber2=30

|Title=Sunday Mourn

|DirectedBy=Gerald Freedman

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Roger West|t=George W. George, Jerry Sackheim, and George F. Slavin}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|04|21}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=158

|EpisodeNumber2=31

|Title=While We're Young

|DirectedBy=

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Stanley J. Wolf|t=Wolf & Paul Crabtree}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|04|28}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=159

|EpisodeNumber2=32

|Title=Appointment with Destiny

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Gene Levitt|t=Gabrielle Upton}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|05|05}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=160

|EpisodeNumber2=33

|Title=The Policy of Joe Aladdin

|DirectedBy=Gerald Freedman

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Liam O'Brien and Ben Roberts|t=George Beck}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|05|12}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=161

|EpisodeNumber2=34

|Title=Mimi

|DirectedBy=Gerald Freedman

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Jeff Bailey and Arnold Bennett|t=Edward Dein and Mildred Dein}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|05|19}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=162

|EpisodeNumber2=35

|Title=Cardboard Casanova

|DirectedBy=Anton Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=George Asness|t=Doris Gilbert}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|05|26}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=163

|EpisodeNumber2=36

|Title=P.J. and the Lady

|DirectedBy=Anton Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Thomas Phipps|t=Karen DeWolf and Melvin Levy}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|06|02}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=164

|EpisodeNumber2=37

|Title=One Man Missing

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Mildred Masterson McNeilly|t=Peter Packer}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|06|09}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=165

|EpisodeNumber2=38

|Title=Favorite Son

|DirectedBy=Lewis Seiler

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Bill Scott|t=Charles R. Marion}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|06|16}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=166

|EpisodeNumber2=39

|Title=The Mumbys

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Maude Smith Delavan|t=Sumner Arthur Long}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|06|23}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

==Season 7 (1955–56)==

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=167

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=All That Glitters

|DirectedBy=Anton Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Octavus Roy Cohen and Lee Rogow|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|10|06}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=168

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Husband

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Cornell Woolrich|t=Peter Packer}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|10|13}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=169

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=The Lady in the Wind

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Gerry Day}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|10|20}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=170

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Twelve to Eternity

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Al Martin|t=Al Martin and Jack Bennett}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|10|27}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=171

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Johnny, Where Are You?

|DirectedBy=Daniel Dare

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Phyllis Duganne|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|11|03}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=172

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=The Blue Ribbon

|DirectedBy=Ted Post

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Cornell Woolrich|t=Richard Collins}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|11|10}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=173

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=A Smattering of Bliss

|DirectedBy=Anton M. Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Virginia Faulkner|t=Frederick Brady}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|11|17}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=174

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=Passage to Yesterday

|DirectedBy=John Meredyth Lucas

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=James Warner Bellah}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|11|24}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=175

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=The Fabulous Sycamores

|DirectedBy=Edward Buzzell

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman|t=Sumner Arthur Long and Hendrik Vollaerts}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|12|01}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=176

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Bet the Queen

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Norman A. Fox|t=Richard H. Landau}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|12|08}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=177

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=South of Selangor

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Gerry Day}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|12|15}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=178

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=A Kiss for Santa

|DirectedBy=Daniel Dare

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Fred Dickenson|t=Arthur Julian}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|12|22}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=179

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=A Set of Values

|DirectedBy=Anton Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=William E. Barrett}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|12|29}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=180

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=Journey by Moonlight

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Burnham Carter|t=Frederick Brady}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|01|05}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=181

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=Dear Diane

|DirectedBy=

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Frederic Brady}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|01|12}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=182

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Never Lend Money to a Woman

|DirectedBy=Albert S. Rogell

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Steve McNeil|t=Martin Ragaway}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|01|19}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=183

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=Try Me for Size

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=George Agnew Chamberlain|t=Francis M. Cockrell}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|01|26}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=184

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Tin Can Skipper

|DirectedBy=Fred F. Sears

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Jacland Marmur|t=Don Mankiewicz}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|02|02}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=185

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=The Silent Strangers

|DirectedBy=John Meredyth Lucas

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Leon Ware|t=Frank Gruber}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|02|09}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=186

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=Airborne Honeymoon

|DirectedBy=Anton M. Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Mona Williams|t=Frank Gill Jr.}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|02|16}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=187

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=Your Other Love

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Florence Jan Soman|t=Gerry Day}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|02|23}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=188

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=Man Without Fear

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Lewis Arnold|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|03|01}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=189

|EpisodeNumber2=23

|Title=All for a Man

|DirectedBy=Albert S. Rogell

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Karen DeWolf|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|03|08}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=190

|EpisodeNumber2=24

|Title=That Evil Woman

|DirectedBy=John Meredyth Lucas

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Gertrude Schweitzer|t=Richard English}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|03|15}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=191

|EpisodeNumber2=25

|Title=Double Trouble

|DirectedBy=Albert S. Rogell

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Selden M. Loring, Gene Levitt, and Lawrence Taylor|t=Gene Levitt}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|03|22}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=192

|EpisodeNumber2=26

|Title=The Face

|DirectedBy=Roger Kay

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=William F. Leicester|t=William F. Leicester}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|03|29}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=193

|EpisodeNumber2=27

|Title=Autumn Fever

|DirectedBy=Anton Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Mary Roberts Rinehart|t=Frederick Brady}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|04|05}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=194

|EpisodeNumber2=28

|Title=On the Beach

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Gudmundur Magnusson, Joan Bourland, and N.B. Stone Jr.|t=Joan Bourland and N.B. Stone Jr.}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|04|12}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=195

|EpisodeNumber2=29

|Title=The Lady in His Life

|DirectedBy=Anton M. Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Muriel Roy Bolton|t=Martin Ragaway}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|04|19}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=196

|EpisodeNumber2=30

|Title=The Alibi

|DirectedBy=Roger Kay

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Irving H. Cooper|t=Irving H. Cooper and Gerry Day}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|04|26}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=197

|EpisodeNumber2=31

|Title=The Payoff

|DirectedBy=John Meredyth Lucas

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Blake Edwards|t=Blake Edwards}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|05|03}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=198

|EpisodeNumber2=32

|Title=Behind the Mask

|DirectedBy=Anton M. Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Robert Hardy Andrews}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|05|10}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=199

|EpisodeNumber2=33

|Title=The Kill

|DirectedBy=Gerd Oswald

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Jack Webb|t=D.D. Beauchamp}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|05|17}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=200

|EpisodeNumber2=34

|Title=Sheila

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Carol Warner Gluck and Manya Starr|t=Mary C. McCall Jr.}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|05|24}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=201

|EpisodeNumber2=35

|Title=The Clay Pigeon

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Jack Harvey|t=Jack Harvey}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|05|31}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=202

|EpisodeNumber2=36

|Title=Mr. Kagle and the Baby Sitter

|DirectedBy=Anton M. Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Oliver Crawford|t=Peggy Chantler Dick}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|06|07}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=203

|EpisodeNumber2=37

|Title=Panic

|DirectedBy=Arthur Hiller

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Forrest Kleinman|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|06|14}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=204

|EpisodeNumber2=38

|Title=Remembrance Day

|DirectedBy=Anton M. Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Matt Taylor|t=Jerry Davis}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|06|21}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=205

|EpisodeNumber2=39

|Title=A Past Remembered

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Jack R. Guss and Lionel Olay|t=Jack R. Guss, John McGreevey, and Lionel Olay}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|06|28}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

==Season 8 (1956–57)==

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! style="background:#;"| Title

! style="background:#;"| Directed by

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! style="background:#;"| Original air date

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=206

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title=Catch at Straws

|DirectedBy=Ray Milland

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Fred Freiberger and Richard H. Landau|t=Fred Freiberger}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|10|03}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=207

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title=Sudden Silence

|DirectedBy=Lewis Allen

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=William Heuman|t=Lawrence B. Marcus}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|10|10}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=208

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title=Paris Edition

|DirectedBy=John Meredyth Lucas

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Jack Harvey and Sol Shor|t=Jack Harvey}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|10|17}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=209

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title=Measure of Faith

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Norman Daniels|t=Norman Daniels and Gerry Day}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|10|24}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=210

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title=Black Jim Hawk

|DirectedBy=Arthur Hiller

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Harold Shumate|t=Russell S. Hughes}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|10|31}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=211

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title=Sometimes It Happens

|DirectedBy=James Sheldon

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Edwin Balmer|t=Gerry Day}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|11|07}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=212

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title=The Women Who Dared

|DirectedBy=James Sheldon

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Michael Cosgrove, Gerry Day|t=Michael Cosgrove, Gerry Day, and Pauline Stone}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|11|14}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=213

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title=The Menace of Hasty Heights

|DirectedBy=Norman Tokar

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert Wells|t=Frederick Brady}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|11|21}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=214

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title=Stand by to Dive

|DirectedBy=Lewis Seiler

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=David Lang}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|11|28}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=215

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title=Front Page Father

|DirectedBy=John Meredyth Lucas

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=George Bruce and William F. Leicester}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|12|05}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=216

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title=The Marriage Plan

|DirectedBy=Daniel Dare

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert Zacks|t=Barry Trivers and Jack Harvey}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|12|12}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=217

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title=Duffy's Man

|DirectedBy=Anton M. Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Louis L'Amour|t=Frederick Brady}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|12|19}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=218

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title=Model Wife

|DirectedBy=James Sheldon

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Steve McNeil|t=Mary C. McCall Jr.}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|12|26}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=219

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title=Fear Has Many Faces

|DirectedBy=Oscar Rudolph

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Joseph Ruscoll and Janet Ruscoll|t=Russell S. Hughes}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|01|02}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=220

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title=The Quiet Stranger

|DirectedBy=George Archainbaud

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=David Savage|t=Russell S. Hughes}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|01|09}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=221

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title=Sweet Charlie

|DirectedBy=James Sheldon

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Steve Fisher}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|01|16}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=222

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title=The Penlands and the Poodle

|DirectedBy=William Asher

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|01|23}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=223

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title=Mrs. Wane Comes to Call

|DirectedBy=Oscar Rudolph

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Gerry Day and Arthur E. Orloff}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|01|30}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=224

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title=The Connoisseur

|DirectedBy=Oscar Rudolph

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Walter De La Mare|t=Wells Root}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|02|06}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=225

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title=The Ringside Seat

|DirectedBy=Lewis Seiler

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Jerome Ross|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|02|13}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=226

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title=With No Regrets

|DirectedBy=Oscar Rudolph

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Norma Patterson|t=Irving H. Cooper and Edmund Morris}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|02|20}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=227

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title=The Man Who Beat Lupo

|DirectedBy=Anton Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=James Warner Bellah}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|02|27}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=228

|EpisodeNumber2=23

|Title=Broken Barrier

|DirectedBy=László Kardos

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Stephen Butler Leacock and Mary Brinker Post|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|03|06}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=229

|EpisodeNumber2=24

|Title=Fate Travels East

|DirectedBy=Anton M. Leader

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Charlotte Edwards|t=Robert Bassing and Jack Harvey}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|03|13}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=230

|EpisodeNumber2=25

|Title=The Man Across the Hall

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Rebecca Shallit|t=Bernard Drew and Jonathan Kohn}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|03|20}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=231

|EpisodeNumber2=26

|Title=House of Glass

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=DeWitt Bodeen}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|03|27}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=232

|EpisodeNumber2=27

|Title=Exclusive

|DirectedBy=Oscar Rudolph

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Eileen Pollock and Robert Mason Pollock|t=Gerry Day}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|04|03}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=233

|EpisodeNumber2=28

|Title=Moment of Decision

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Cy Chermak|t=Herbert Abbott Spiro}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|04|10}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=234

|EpisodeNumber2=29

|Title=Singapore

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Karen DeWolf|t=Gerry Day and Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|04|17}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=235

|EpisodeNumber2=30

|Title=Footnote on a Doll

|DirectedBy=James Neilson

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Edwin V. Westrate|t=Russell S. Hughes}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|04|24}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=236

|EpisodeNumber2=31

|Title=Strange Disappearance

|DirectedBy=Arthur Hiller

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Jack Harvey}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|05|01}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=237

|EpisodeNumber2=32

|Title=The Idea Man

|DirectedBy=D. Ross Lederman

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Robert McLaughlin|t=Howard Estabrook and Stirling Silliphant}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|05|08}}

|ShortSummary=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=238

|EpisodeNumber2=33

|Title=The Gentle Deceiver

|DirectedBy=Daniel Dare

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=R.C. Vodra|t=Frederick Brady}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|05|15}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=239

|EpisodeNumber2=34

|Title=Miller's Millions

|DirectedBy=Daniel Dare

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Jack Harvey}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|05|22}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=240

|EpisodeNumber2=35

|Title=Torn

|DirectedBy=Arthur Hiller

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Herman Epstein|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|05|29}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=241

|EpisodeNumber2=36

|Title=The Lie

|DirectedBy=Daniel Dare

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Sylvia Dee and Cornell Woolrich|t=Frederick Brady and Gerry Day}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|06|05}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=242

|EpisodeNumber2=37

|Title=Cross Hairs

|DirectedBy=Jack Gage

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=|t=Miles Tolner}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|06|12}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=243

|EpisodeNumber2=38

|Title=Desperation

|DirectedBy=Jack Gage

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Irene Wempe|t=Karen DeWolf}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|06|19}}

|ShortSummary=

|LineColor=

}}

{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=244

|EpisodeNumber2=39

|Title=Adventure for Hire

|DirectedBy=Oscar Rudolph

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|s=Tony Barrett|t=William E. Barrett}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|06|26}}

|ShortSummary=

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See also

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References

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Further reading

External links

Radio

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20230401043426/http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Ford-Theater.html Ford Theatre] at the Digital Deli Too
  • [http://www.otrsite.com/logs/logf1001.htm Ford Theater] at Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs
  • {{InternetArchiveOTR|id=FordTheater|title=Ford Theater}}

Television

  • [http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/FordTheatre.htm Ford Theatre] at CVTA
  • {{IMDb title|id=0191690|title=The Ford Theatre Hour}}
  • {{IMDb title|id=0041024|title=The Ford Television Theatre}}
  • [https://archive.org/details/437Panic_201612 Ford Theatre episodes]'' at the Internet Archive

Category:1947 radio programme debuts

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