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#1 - The Patsy
Season 8 Episode 21
Aired 2/21/1960
A black man who is maligned by his military peers. They play jokes on him to see his reaction; and he soon becomes "The Patsy" for their abusive entertainment. They lose all respect for him until they play their last "joke" on him; and through his selfless act of boundless courage he makes them realize that he is a better man than the lot of them combined.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#2 - Shadow of a Hero
Season 10 Episode 19
Aired 2/4/1962
A high school basketball coach is concerned when his star player skips practice to study for an exam.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: N/A
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#3 - With Malice Toward None
Season 5 Episode 25
Aired 3/10/1957
An accountant by day and novelist by night, Miss Burrows has grown tired of rejection notices from publishers. Her latest submission is about an author who shoots an editor after his book is rejected.
Director: Jules Munshin
Writer: N/A
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#4 - A Little White Lye
Season 9 Episode 19
Aired 2/5/1961
Todays theme is A Little White Lye.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#5 - A Possibility of Oil
Season 9 Episode 21
Aired 2/19/1961
Todays theme is A Possibility of Oi
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#7 - The Story of Judith
Season 8 Episode 22
Aired 2/28/1960
Todays theme is The Story of Judith.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#8 - Wedding Day
Season 1 Episode 1
Aired 2/1/1953
An elderly couple of naturalized Germans living in the U. S. discovers after 60 years of marital bliss that, technically, they were never married.
Director: Sheldon Leonard
Writer: N/A
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#9 - The Fenton Touch
Season 5 Episode 24
Aired 3/3/1957
A man about to retire from his job at a department store after 30 years of service plots to make off with $50,000 from the store's safe.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#10 - The Victorian Chaise Lounge
Season 5 Episode 26
Aired 3/17/1957
Todays theme is The Victorian Chaise Longue.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#11 - No Hiding Place
Season 6 Episode 26
Aired 4/6/1958
An alcoholic reaches the bottom one night. Six weeks later, he is recovering and begins helping other alcoholics who believe they have nowhere to turn.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#12 - The Cold Touch
Season 6 Episode 27
Aired 4/13/1958
Todays theme is The Cold Touch.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#13 - The Eye of the Beholder
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 12/6/1953
An artist seeks the perfect model for a painting of a Madonna. In the process of his search, he becomes involved in a murder case.
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: N/A
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#14 - The Joke's on Me
Season 9 Episode 29
Aired 4/16/1961
Comic Sid Benton takes a hard-boiled, cynical view of life in his nightclub act where it pays off. But when he runs this attitude over into his private life, he loses his wife's affections.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#15 - A Friendly Tribe
Season 10 Episode 14
Aired 12/31/1961
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#16 - Eyes of a Stranger
Season 6 Episode 10
Aired 12/8/1957
When Dr. Mark Andrews meets tyrannical society woman, Katherine Belmont, he believes her caustic attitude is caused by a fear that she is losing her sight. He persuades her to undergo a cornea-transplant operation
Director: Ray Milland
Writer: N/A
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#17 - Incident
Season 6 Episode 18
Aired 2/9/1958
Todays theme is Incident.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#18 - The Bar Mitzvah of Major Orlovsky
Season 10 Episode 27
Aired 4/15/1962
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.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
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#19 - The Devil You Say
Season 9 Episode 17
Aired 1/22/1961
A nattily dressed gentleman climbs out of a manhole, goes down the street to the home of the Willoughbys and introduces himself to Mrs. Willoughby as Nick Lucifer, alias Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#20 - Cat in the Cradle
Season 10 Episode 3
Aired 10/1/1961
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#21 - No Skin Off Me
Season 5 Episode 20
Aired 2/3/1957
A young fighter lets his winnings go to his head. His more experienced fighter is worried that he will go over the top, so he sets out to teach the "boy" a lesson.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#22 - Blaze of Glory
Season 7 Episode 1
Aired 9/21/1958
A plumber receives a late night call for a job that turns out to be with a gang of jewel thieves.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#23 - The Little Hours
Season 10 Episode 17
Aired 1/21/1962
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Nobody's Child
Season 7 Episode 31
Aired 5/10/1959
Todays theme is Nobody's Child.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#25 - The Crime of Daphne Rutledge
Season 2 Episode 23
Aired 6/13/1954
A meddling mother-in-law and a near tragic auto mishap cause a desperate young wife, trying to save her shaky marriage, to become trapped in a murder scheme.
Director: Frank Wisbar
Writer: N/A
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Best Episodes Summary
"The Patsy" is the best rated episode of "General Electric Theater". It scored 9.8/10 based on 22 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/21/1960. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Shadow of a Hero".