Family Theater — 1952
50 episodes broadcast in 1952.
January 2, 1952
The Littlest Angel
A marriage in deep trouble, told by the wife whose husband flees their home after a storm turns their life upside down.
Storyteller John Nesbit revives the medieval French tale of a poor juggler's gift to the Mother of Christ.
Donald O'Connor stars as a bank clerk whose homemade voice-run calculator, Imzac, can even call the stock market -- a very early computer yarn.
A Roman actor commissioned by the emperor to lampoon the Christians in a comedy instead finds a triumph greater than any applause.
A famous ballerina's daughter steps into her mother's starring role, and seemingly into the choreographer's heart as well.
The fifth-anniversary show: Loretta Young leads a sweeping portrait of Americans meeting the future.
In a rare on-air pairing of the Cagneys, a devoted nurse gives her life to her work, leaving her doctor brother to grieve.
After a bitter quarrel and a near-fatal accident, a feuding couple meet a strange old man who insists they are both already dead.
A retired Florida farmer is nursed through a wholly invented ailment, the dreaded 'Nihilitis,' by a scheming neighbor.
Near St. Patrick's Day, a young Irishman falls in with an oversized leprechaun and follows him into American adventures.
Rather than burden his niece's family, a seventy-five-year-old retired captain enters a home and rediscovers a love from forty years past.
The largely true story of the U.S. Army's attempt to raise a Camel Corps -- its rise and its fall.
For Easter, Grandpa tells his granddaughter the tale of a little tree that came to know the meaning of the season.
April 9, 1952
The Passion and Death of Our Lord
April 16, 1952
The Hound of Heaven
An Arkansas rube proves a big-league pitching sensation, in the award-winning series.
Earth's last Martian, dying, sets down at a tiny California airstrip with one plea -- that mankind restore God to its conference tables.
In Hoboken, an immigrant barber sets his dream of crafting violins aside for the sake of his family.
Fed up with Hollywood, a movie cowboy decamps to France, where an actress and some orphans help him ride herd along the Champs Elysees.
Honeymooning in the Quebec backwoods, a new bride gets the war telegram she feared, then, ten days on, word from the doctor that changes everything.
A high-school science teacher insists on minding the new baby alone for an evening, with unexpected results.
A widow with money troubles poses for a handsome artist, until her two children 'improve' on his portrait.
Guilt over failing to stop a bank robbery that killed his friend locks a man in silent paralysis, until a burglar breaks through.
Home from a navy hitch, a young letter carrier discovers his sweetheart has taken up with a Marine.
A child-psychology author meets a five-year-old terror, and learns that what the boy really needs is love.
Fourth-of-July vignettes hosted by jet ace Colonel Francis Gabreski.
A girl who attends school only once a month passes every test, runs thriving businesses, and even nabs a bank robber.
August 5, 1952
Rhapsody in Bop
A Korean War drama insisting that each 'light casualty' in the day's dispatches was someone's kin or friend.
A light comedy about a rookie stewardess whose imagination runs wild when a suspected spy boards her first flight.
After the party's mayoral candidate suddenly dies, a reformer thrust forward as his replacement must choose between integrity and office.
A condemned man on death row recounts, in his last hours, how a proudly godless man once ruined his happy home.
A private eye hired to guard an actress's diamond tiara may in fact be in league with the jewel thieves.
A Roman dramatist studying the new Christian sect during the reign of Diocletian is brought to a life-altering decision.
With war declared, a woman is drawn to her soldier fiance's brother, in a tender, sorrowful story.
A widower rebuffed by his old flame turns to a newspaper classified ad and finds unexpected satisfaction.
A plain young woman and a blind soldier fall in love, until an operation restores his sight and nearly ends the romance.
A boy lies trapped at a cliff's base as the incoming tide climbs toward him.
A soldier abroad reflects on the right to vote, in vignettes about the harm done when democracy is taken for granted.
A western comedy where Matilda, the one and only 'watch snake,' undoes a suitor's plot to rob a rich young woman.
Mom's baking-contest prize is a two-week getaway, solo, leaving her family to cope.
A stranded actress takes a governess job for a single night, in a story of mistaken impressions.
A down-and-out drunk is given a fresh start by a strange little girl named Della -- another word for goodness itself.
Charles Tazewell's Christmas fantasy of a child who could not speak, alive when Jesus was born, narrated by Roddy McDowall.
A Nazareth innkeeper endangered by his Rome-hating nephew is repaid in kind by the carpenter's family sheltering in his stable. Hosted by Irene Dunne.
A dramatization of the birth of Jesus, created alongside the Catholic Daughters of America.
Ann Blyth plays Mary as the newborn Jesus is brought to the Temple, forty days on, in keeping with the Law of Moses.
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