Family Theater — 1947
46 episodes broadcast in 1947.
The series premiere: consumed by shame over his own selfish pride, Jim Mathews flees the wife and family who long ago forgave him.
Newly blinded, Will Caulder lets his pride keep him from the Coldwater sweetheart still waiting for his return.
An ordinary couple killed in a boating accident reach the gates of a garden paradise and must make their case to be let in.
A struggling New York writer and the devoted wife who keeps faith in him, from an original script by Walter Newman.
In the everyday life of the Jones family, young Bill's single dollar becomes a hard lesson about hunger.
After 27 years as a prison chaplain, Father Darcy settles into a quiet country parish -- until news comes of a breakout back at the penitentiary.
Told through his keychain, a ruined stockbroker discovers that a life is enriched by people, not possessions.
For Easter, Ethel Barrymore gives voice to the New Testament account of Christ's death and resurrection.
David and Diane Bruce venture far beyond the last outposts of civilization, waging a doctors' war on Malta fever and the plagues of the African bush.
A grape grower gambles everything on his fields and loses, learning that some harvests matter more -- a story narrated by God himself.
The long-delayed romance of a small-town hot-dog vendor and his fiancee, played out against the century's great events.
A guardian angel is charged with stopping a dying man from settling an old score by murder.
A two-career marriage nears collapse until husband and sister-in-law scheme to bring the working wife back home.
Pressured to sell out on a waterways bill, an honest small-town politician finds his nerve after a vision of Abraham Lincoln.
A kindly building janitor tries to teach a troubled young tenant the meaning of honoring one's father and mother.
A widower's remarriage is nearly wrecked by his grown daughter's determination to drive out her new stepmother.
On a disc jockey's final night at the mic, the records he spins trace the whole arc of his marriage -- in the vein of Penny Serenade.
A new pastor turns two feuding merchants into unlikely allies for his struggling church and his flock.
A gifted student caught cheating and his hard-pressed father both find rescue in prayer and forgiveness.
The grief that follows the loss of a child gives rise to Eugene Field's beloved poem, in a warm period piece.
Rebuffed by rancher Larry Bledsoe, an oil baron digs up a forgotten statute to force him off his land.
On a cold October night, a young woman's love for an ailing writer plays out in rain-soaked melodrama.
The life and faith of poet and patriot Joyce Kilmer.
A tough cop with no patience for lawbreakers must face the theft committed by his own grieving son.
A crippled composer, his little daughter, and a celebrated pianist, in a finely drawn melodrama.
A reporter goes blind and refuses the operation that might one day spare his daughter the same darkness.
A man takes public credit as a radio writer while his son-in-law does the actual writing, with predictable trouble.
A schoolboy's beloved tin whistle brings lasting ruin to the teacher who confiscates it.
A boy tries to do the right thing by a rough friend jailed for robbery.
A visiting foreign diplomat, played by Otto Kruger, discovers through an ordinary American household that no one is truly a stranger; Bob Hope hosts.
With six hours to live on death row, a condemned man tells how he met a godless orator and his 'stopwatch finale.'
A wife's pursuit of the stage drives a wedge into her young marriage.
After firing a faithful old employee, a hard-driving tycoon is taught the worth of the people who work for him.
Down-and-out poet Francis Thompson finds faith, and eventual fame, through the kindness of a fellow outcast.
A cocky gridiron hero paralyzed in a car wreck rediscovers what teamwork means through a five-year-old girl's faith.
In 1769, a fledgling California mission will pull through only with the help of one down-to-earth man.
Given a year to live, a rich Englishman and the servant girl he loves take on a daunting errand: giving away a fortune of twenty thousand pounds.
Fibber McGee and Molly turn matchmaker after Doc Gamble's secretary splits with her fellow.
A young hobo riding a freight train east falls in with a mysterious companion called Hawk.
The arrival of a poised career woman at her husband's office unsettles a proud homemaker.
Certain his boy is embarrassed by his modest success, a small-town druggist visits the exclusive school he scrimped to afford.
Returning one Thanksgiving to her Austrian husband's home city, an American wife finds it reduced to rubble.
A boarding-school girl defies her actor parents, longing for the stage instead of the violin.
At Christmastime, the toy floor of a bustling department store becomes the setting for romance and a reunion.
A star basketball player benched over a school essay gets help from his resourceful brother.
A poor circus juggler honors the Christ child the only way he knows how, in a medieval French Christmas fable.
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