General Electric Theater

E1 Episode 1: The Golden Years

• Now playing
• 30m
• Sep 10, 1961

E2 Episode 2: The Iron Silence

• 30m
• Sep 24, 1961

In a Cold War tale, two Soviets are in an occupied Eastern European country. One is the womanizing martinet who gets himself murdered, and the other is the sympathetic Russian.

E3 Episode 3: Cat in the Cradle

• 30m
• Oct 1, 1961

E4 Episode 4: A Musket for Jessica

• 30m
• Oct 8, 1961

In the pioneering days of the 1760's in frontier Pennsylvania, a spirited Amish woman takes matters into her own hands when her husband-to-be refuses to bear arms against the Indians threatening the community.

E5 Episode 5: The $200 Parlay

• 30m
• Oct 15, 1961

An office worker named Alma can't get her bookkeeper boy friend Stanley to pop the question. His excuse: no nest egg. Her solution: make a killing at the races - with money from the office petty cash box.

E6 Episode 6: The Wish Book

• 30m
• Oct 22, 1961

A young mountain girl plans on buying fine dresses with the prize money she hopes to win for her woodcarving at the county fair.

E7 Episode 7: The Great Alberti

• 30m
• Nov 5, 1961

E8 Episode 8: Star Witness: The Lili Parrish Story

• 30m
• Nov 12, 1961

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E9 Episode 9: A Voice on the Phone

• 30m
• Nov 19, 1961

Newlyweds Paul and Carol Madsen have scarcely settled in their new apartment when the phone begins ringing. The caller is a psychotic crank who drives Carol to near hysteria.

E10 Episode 10: Money and the Minister

• 30m
• Nov 26, 1961

A wealthy recluse felt that her last years had been made happier by the guidance of Reverend Theodore Carlisle, and she named him as the major beneficiary of her will.

E11 Episode 11: We're Holding Your Son

• 30m
• Dec 3, 1961

Successful businessman, George Harris, is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from the police. His teen-age boy, Sonny, is being held for grand larceny.

E12 Episode 12: Call to Danger

• 30m
• Dec 10, 1961

The exploits of Robert Hale, a US Treasury Department agent. Hale recruits a civilian locksmith named Johnny Henderson to help retrieve stolen currency plates.

E13 Episode 13: Tippy-Top

• 30m
• Dec 17, 1961

Young Randy's insistence that his invisible friend Tippy-Top is real causes friction between his mother and the man she intends to marry. Mom humors her son, but Bob wants to convince the boy that his best buddy is imaginary.

E14 Episode 14: A Friendly Tribe

• 30m
• Dec 31, 1961

E15 Episode 15: The Wall Between

• 30m
• Jan 7, 1962

The gridiron feats of Bud Austin are still talked about in his home town, but Bud's infant son will never grow up to follow in his father's footsteps. Tests have shown that the year-old baby is mentally disabled.

E16 Episode 16: The Hold-Out

• 30m
• Jan 14, 1962

When his daughter Margie announces her intention to marry young Fred Judson, John Graham is disturbed. He believes the couple is too young for marriage and, more importantly, unprepared for the independence he believes marriage requires. Margie and Fred seem content to live on hand-outs from their parents, but John seems the only parent to think that's a bad idea. No matter what he says, the two insist on marrying, even if John won't attend the wedding. Eventually, it's what John doesn't say that affects their decision.

E17 Episode 17: The Little Hours

• 30m
• Jan 21, 1962

E18 Episode 18: Go Fight City Hall

• 30m
• Jan 28, 1962

Todays theme is Go Fight City Hall.

E19 Episode 19: Shadow of a Hero

• 30m
• Feb 4, 1962

A high school basketball coach is concerned when his star player skips practice to study for an exam.

E20 Episode 20: Badge of Honor

• 30m
• Feb 11, 1962

Howard Douglas is driving through a deserted section of the city when he notices a body lying in the street. Stopping to investigate, he finds himself surrounded by a gang of teenagers armed with zip guns and switchblades.

E21 Episode 21: The Free Wheelers

• 30m
• Feb 18, 1962

E22 Episode 22: Ten Days in the Sun

• 30m
• Mar 4, 1962

Max Grossblatt, an elderly Chicago tailor, dreams of being able to visit his son Larry in California. But on a tailor's salary, all that Max can afford is dreams

E23 Episode 23: A Very Special Girl

• 30m
• Mar 11, 1962

Successful, attractive society-reporter, Alice Lockman, wouldn't mind being married. But the available eligible bachelors really don't measure up to Alice's standards - or her mother's either.

E24 Episode 24: My Dark Days (1)

• 30m
• Mar 18, 1962

After a housewife attends a meeting of the Alien Protection Committee, an FBI agent informs her that the Committee is suspected of being a Communist front organization. He asks her to join as a spy

E25 Episode 25: My Dark Days (2)

• 30m
• Mar 25, 1962

After Marion Miller testifies before a Congressional committee concerning her years as an anti-communists spy, she looks forward to a peaceful life as a housewife. But it seems the Communists have other ideas.

E26 Episode 26: Hercule Poirot

• 30m
• Apr 1, 1962

Detective Hercule Poirot investigates the disappearance of Mr. Davenheim.

E27 Episode 27: The Bar Mitzvah of Major Orlovsky

• 30m
• Apr 15, 1962

Orlovsky, a Russian defector, falls in love with Miriam Raskin, the widowed daughter of a rabbi. Although Orlovsky moved away from religion as a child, he re-connects to his Jewish tradition through Miriam, who is preparing to celebrate her son's bar mitzvah.

E28 Episode 28: The Troubled Heart

• 30m
• Apr 22, 1962

After eight years of marriage, a woman is happy to finally become pregnant. Her doctors discover she has a heart defect that could kill her if she goes through childbirth.

E29 Episode 29: Mister Doc

• 30m
• Apr 29, 1962

Western comedy about a pharmacist and his son at the turn of the 20th century.

E30 Episode 30: The Unstoppable Gray Fox

• 30m
• May 6, 1962

E31 Episode 31: Acres and Pains

• 30m
• May 13, 1962

E32 Episode 32: Somebody Please Help Me!

• 30m
• May 20, 1962

E33 Episode 33: The First Hundred Years

• 30m
• May 27, 1962

The Story of Ben, an engineering student works nights in a supermarket to support his family.

E34 Episode 34: The Roman Kind

• 30m
• Jun 3, 1962