Family Theater — 1954
51 episodes broadcast in 1954.
Med student Roscoe Dodds trades the lecture hall for a touring band, chasing both the trumpet and romance; Jo Stafford hosts.
A cab driver who befriends a second-rate prizefighter arranges a private, fixed fight.
A meteorologist runs afoul of a heavenly clerical error, in a supernatural comedy; Lucille Ball hosts.
A tough drill sergeant who wants only to bring his boys home safe drives his platoon into shape, seen from both sides; Jimmy Durante hosts.
To settle a fifteen-year-old grudge against a single operator, a ruthless tycoon buys the whole telephone company, with surprising outcomes.
A tracer of missing heirs and a disputed inheritance test the price of a family's principles.
The seventh-anniversary show: an American corporal, a POW in Korea, defects behind the Iron Curtain and spends a decade reckoning with the choice.
A weary company president dozes at his desk and dreams of a youthful rivalry, as reality and glory blur and characters trade identities.
During the Second World War, a French chateau becomes the stage for a retelling of Stevenson's tale of Maletroit's door.
Worth ninety-three million dollars, George Gage craves only to give it all away, and finds his happiness in the giving.
With a little girl's strange power over the dice, a gambler rolls twenty-six straight winners for eighteen thousand.
Cops and robbers, a kidnapping, jailbreakers, and a bank job in the works all converge on one nervous night.
In 1796, Dr. Edward Jenner battles the smallpox that stalks Europe, developing the first vaccine.
For Easter, Grandpa tells his granddaughter the tale of a little tree that came to know the meaning of the season. With Edmund Gwenn.
Jeff Chandler plays a newsman reporting the road to Calvary live, in the 'You Are There' style.
An ambitious reporter sees only a career break in a cave-in that has pinned a nurse and three miners below ground.
Captain Scott's doomed 1912 expedition races Amundsen to the South Pole.
Having filched another's slogan-contest prize -- a Bermuda getaway -- a woman meets romance and trouble on the island.
A chance reunion with a German he once faced in combat leaves an ex-GI a single lingering question that could lay his war to rest.
One timid fellow's discovery of an age-old formula upends his whole world.
A father whose son is lost in the wilderness discovers that the prayers once left unanswered were, in fact, a blessing.
With old man Justin dead, the reading of his will turns on one question: who gets his fabulous emerald, valued at four hundred fifty thousand dollars?
Snowbound together in a country cabin, four strangers face a most unusual sort of invasion -- an odd tale for June.
A diver going for a four-hundred-foot record instead stumbles on a sunken city and the truth about Atlantis.
In 1975, scientists guiding an atom smasher by computer hit a snag when the machine insists that two and two make five.
Out in the western desert, one family stops to aid a sick Indian mother and child while others, afraid, drive on.
A young reporter assigned to a Skid Row story is aided by a mysterious figure as he works to expose the racket preying on the derelicts.
A crisp new dollar bill, out to spread happiness wherever it travels, narrated by Sterling Holloway.
A young woman meets her fiance's parents, who greet the coming marriage with little warmth.
How a millionaire came to be a celebrated songwriter.
A dim but beautiful new bride sets out to better herself, and ends up writing her husband's theater review.
A convict awaiting execution recounts meeting a godless orator whose defiant speeches came to a 'stopwatch finale.'
Three witnesses give three versions of a small grocery-store stickup, in a Rashomon-like tale with an odd finish.
Defending a banker charged with embezzlement, the lawyer -- engaged to the man's daughter -- turns up proof of his guilt.
An old-West story: Tennessee's partner goes bad, is caught, and faces the gallows, then the two meet again.
Home from Korea with battle fatigue, Ben is branded a coward by his fiancee's brother.
Broke but in love, a man pilfers four hundred dollars from his workplace to afford a wedding, and learns honesty costs the honest nothing.
Earth's first extraterrestrial callers meet a picked international delegation on a small Pacific island.
An old flame from fifteen years back nearly reignites, in a story built around the song 'Imagination.'
Homeless London poet Francis Thompson finds faith and greatness, in the program's announced four-hundredth broadcast.
Stranded at the foot of a sea cliff, a young boy watches the tide rise.
A time-travel tale in which an American prizefighter finds himself in ancient Rome, falling for a Roman woman named Flavia.
After his test plane goes down in flames, a pilot is granted a last visit to the family he loved, led by his guardian angel.
A French textile-mill owner in Indochina faces the Communist takeover of the country.
Backstage as a hit radio show jumps to television, shedding part of its cast, complete with a dead-on spoof of Mr. District Attorney.
A shipwreck strands a rich woman and a grumpy sailor together on an empty island.
An old shoemaker learns wisdom and grace in a Tolstoy parable about love and the presence of God.
In a medieval French fable, a humble juggler offers the Virgin the only gift he possesses.
December 29, 1954
The Little Prince
An American physician's mission abroad to heal a royal heir pulls him into murder and palace intrigue.
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