General Motors Theatre - Season 1

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EP 1

Justice

Sep 18, 1952

A clerk is jailed for forging a check to help a drunkard's wife.

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EP 2

Angel Street

Sep 25, 1952

Could Mrs. Manningham really be going made? Or does her old house in London hold a sinister secret?

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EP 3

Inspector General

Oct 2, 1952

When a stranger arrives in a small Russian town, it is assumed (wrongly) that he must be the feared government inspector, whose visit is expected at any moment.

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EP 4

Payment Deferred

Oct 9, 1952

No overview available for this episode.

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EP 5

An Enemy of the People

Oct 16, 1952

Dr. Stockmann has discovered that the water supply for his town is polluted - but surprisingly few people seem to care.

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EP 6

To Tell the Truth

Oct 23, 1952

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EP 7

Juno and the Paycock

Oct 30, 1952

During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.

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EP 8

Uncle Harry

Nov 6, 1952

Harry's invalid sister doesn't want him to marry. In fact, she doesn't want him to do anything except what she wants him to do. A man might get to resent that.

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EP 9

All My Sons

Nov 13, 1952

During WW2, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever, but years later his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.

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EP 10

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Nov 20, 1952

Elizabeth Barrett is in love with the poet Robert Browning. Her tyrant of a father disapproves. But why?

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EP 11

Hilda Morgan

Nov 27, 1952

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EP 12

The Moneymakers

Dec 4, 1952

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EP 13

Nothing But the Truth

Dec 11, 1952

A young man bets $10,000 that he can tell for 24 hour nothing but the truth.

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EP 14

School for Scandal

Jan 1, 1953

Scandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers, and young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too.

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EP 15

By Candlelight

Jan 22, 1953

In this comedy of errors, a maid pretends to be a lady, a Prince poses as his valet, and his valet pretends to be him, the Prince.

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EP 16

Candida

Jan 29, 1953

Adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play, in which the idealist Reverend Morell tries to unite Socialism and Christianity.

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EP 17

Playboy of the Western World

Feb 5, 1953

A strange youth impresses the women at a remote Irish pub spot by claiming to have murdered his father.

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EP 18

Othello

Feb 12, 1953

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.

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EP 19

Dr. Angelus

Feb 19, 1953

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EP 20

One John Smith

Feb 26, 1953

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EP 21

Ebb Tide

Mar 5, 1953

Three shifty sailors commandeer a smallpox-ridden boat and set out to sea. A typhoon washes them ashore on a faraway Pacific island, which is ruled by a white religious fanatic who has set himself up as the local god.

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EP 22

She Stoops to Conquer

Mar 12, 1953

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with a potential suitor. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper. Hilarity ensues.

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EP 23