Ford Theatre

1948 – 1955
Ended
Drama
~1h / ep
3 seasons
8.0/10

Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the radio version and known as Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, was 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.

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Latest: Season 3 · 1950

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E1. The Traitor
Sep 8, 1950 · 60m
Gripping spy play with Lee Tracy and Walter Hampden in their original stage roles. The full-hour adaptation of the past season's Broadway thriller concerns the misguided intentions of a young scientist—the traitor —to solve the threat of an atomic war by giving nuclear energy secrets to a Russian spy ring. The youth, Wesley Addy, feels that world peace lies in sharing the atomic bomb. The main scene of the play is laid in the Manhattan apartment of Professor Tobias Emanuel, the young man's mentor, played by Hampden. Addy has hidden bomb secrets and fissionable material for the Russians in the apartment when Captain Gallagher of the Naval Intelligence Office, portrayed by Tracy, steps in, One of the exciting sequences comes when Gallagher uses a Geiger counter to spot the cache
E2. The Married Look
Sep 22, 1950 · 60m
E3. The Marble Faun
Oct 6, 1950 · 60m
E4. Angel Street
Oct 20, 1950 · 60m
E5. Heart of Darkness
Nov 3, 1950 · 60m
E6. The Whiteheaded Boy
Nov 17, 1950 · 60m