Family Theater — 1953
52 episodes broadcast in 1953.
The twelve-year-old Jesus journeys with his family to Jerusalem for the Passover feast.
An airline stewardess crosses paths with a passenger toting sixty thousand dollars in stolen cash he is eager to return.
A retiring bank guard sets off to hunt Caribbean treasure, only to discover a richer one through his friends' troubles.
A boy named Spunky and his very unusual dog Pete, who happens to talk, voiced by Mel Blanc.
A tender holiday homecoming turns on a secret only the town's old-timers keep -- that the Atwells took Lettie in from an orphanage years ago.
A nuclear scientist blessed with a perfect memory loses it to amnesia on a train after glimpsing a woman he takes for Debra Paget.
On the program's fifth birthday, a montage of American ideals features Loretta Young in her sixteenth appearance.
As their children are steadily indoctrinated under Communist rule, a Polish family concludes that fleeing to Sweden is their only way out.
A grape grower wagers everything on his crop and loses, for God, who narrates, now and then answers no.
A red-haired troublemaker vexes the ruler of a tiny Himalayan kingdom, from Kipling.
To his father's exasperation, a boy would sooner write and act in plays than take the field.
Two former sweethearts, thrown together on a commuter train, feel a pre-war romance come flooding back.
For Easter, Macdonald Carey delivers a single-voice narration of Christ's betrayal and crucifixion.
A boy sets out to pair up his widowed father with the schoolteacher.
A woman blinded in a traffic accident turns bitter, until she falls in love during her hospital stay.
Diving again after Verne's enigmatic Captain Nemo.
The heir to a factory struggles to fill his father's shoes, numbers most of all; Mitzi Gaynor introduces.
For Mother's Day, three vignettes trace Mary's apparitions -- Guadalupe (1531), Paris (1830), Lourdes (1858), and Fatima (1913) -- with Ann Blyth in the lead.
For a win-obsessed college basketball coach, the reckoning comes when his own daughter is caught cheating.
Fresh from Korea, a sergeant and his wife tangle with a couple of gangsters, the county sheriff, and the town's justice of the peace.
Newcomers cross the town's most powerful woman, a capable lady who must learn that friendship starts with asking for help.
To win over his girl's father, an ex-GI takes to the perilous work of diving for abalone.
An aging catcher must groom the very rookie who ends up marrying his daughter; Frank Fay hosts.
A great flood tests Uncle Joe and young Slim on the veteran engineer's final run before retirement.
For eight years a family has known their son's English bride only in photographs, and she still refuses to accept him dead.
By candlelight in a cramped Philadelphia room on July 1, 1776, John Adams urges on five exhausted men drafting the Declaration.
A dilapidated traveling hair-tonic wagon chugs into a peaceful settlement one strange spring day.
In 1672, with Holland and France at war, a Dutch skipper still carries two rescued Frenchmen home, amid romance, a duel, and high adventure.
A plan to shut down a college's athletic program backfires into a whirl of physical activity -- and romance.
A beauty-contest winner lends her woman's intuition to a Chicago private eye stalking a waterfront crook.
A newsman's fix for his town's crooked politics is so plain that his own editor spikes the piece.
A convict who fancies himself always up-to-the-minute pulls off a nearly flawless jailbreak; Ed Sullivan hosts.
An unmarried woman inherits her Uncle Jim's fortune under peculiar provisions designed to get her wed.
Passed over for promotion, a wisecracking teacher uses his humor to rescue his class when the school boiler explodes.
A secretive circle of producers hands a washed-up director one last chance to mount a play.
Newly arrived from Ireland, a young woman runs a boarding house and takes up with a penniless painter.
An American exile and a world-weary socialite join a French team probing a cave system, in a story with an odd twist.
When a timid old man cannot meet a blackmailer's price, one of his beloved park birds turns up dead.
Science fiction with a soul: humanity's first moon rocket blasts off in July 1962 and finds a being from another world waiting.
A wartime drama of the Marianas 'Turkey Shoot,' and the hard choices an admiral must make.
The tall-tale hero Dan McBirdy takes credit for naming Plymouth Rock, leading the Boston Tea Party, and much more.
A party plunges into the Peruvian jungle hunting a lost Inca tribe.
A Mexican wedding is nearly ruined when the bride's father mixes up the envelopes meant to pay for the flowers.
A move from the stockroom to the sales floor works a remarkable change in an ailing clerk named Timothy Murch.
Comedy erupts when little green Martians set their saucer down on a backwoods hillbilly clan.
Engine trouble strands a planeload from Korea -- a congressman, a freed POW, a war widow -- on a very strange island.
November 25, 1953
The Thanksgiving Hour
To get his wife out of an Iron Curtain state, an American reporter is told to hand her Uncle Alex to the secret police; Bing Crosby hosts.
An old-timer fires up a restless boy with the tale of cowboy High Chin Bob, who has thirty days to earn his marriage money as a killer cat prowls.
An American couple gives their adopted Korean orphan her first real Christmas, and puzzles over her wish to Santa for a can of salmon; Ann Blyth hosts.
A Nativity play told through Ruth, the innkeeper's deaf daughter, whose faith restores her hearing.
Called overseas to treat a king's ailing son, an American physician lands in a thicket of murder and intrigue; Eddie Cantor hosts.
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