The Best Episodes of General Electric Theater Season 4

A young man becomes infatuated with the older Countess and the Countess falls for the young man, unaware that the young man plans to wed his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Robert Stevenson

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Todays theme is a Judy Garland Musical Special.

Director: Ralph Nelson

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A scarecrow is brought to life by a witch and made to pose as a nobleman.

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Orphaned Prosper sets out from his mining camp for San Francisco. He's looking for a mother to bring back to the camp. And he finds one, a kindly old eccentric who drinks medicine liberally flavored with 'hootch'.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Writer: William Bowers

When a schoolteacher fails one of her students, she tries to show her student compassion and understanding.

Director: Don Medford

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A promising and intelligent young man has great success in the ring. His mother wants him to continue his education, but his father and his manager want him to become a fighter.

Director: William Attaway

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A mysteriously familiar stranger sees fit to practice a bit of magic on a lazy, selfish Ozark hillbilly.

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A piano tuner, known for his honesty, is caught up in a crime when stolen jewels are hastily hidden in his tool bag. He doesn't realize he's got them until he gets to his girl's home, when her no-account brother hatches a scheme to blackmail him into surrendering the baubles to him, just as the thief is coming to recover them himself.

Director: Frank Tashlin

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A writer stops at a sleepy southern town intending to debunk a legend concerning a confederate soldier leaving a local girl for the battlefields, never to return. He soon realizes that he and a girl he's fallen in love with are descendants of those people.

Director: Ralph Nelson

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A retelling of the Nativity story from the viewpoint of the innkeeper's wife.

Director: Don Medford

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A man is torn between his conscience and loyalty when a friend shoots an Indian in the back. Even though the Indian had been an idol of his son's, the man at first refuses to aid local townspeople in the arrest of the murderer.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

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A stagecoach driver and cavalry officer vie for the affections of a young lady traveling west with them.

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A young boy (army brat) Struggles between his father and a deserter

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While on duty on a lonely beach, a sailor meets a beautiful girl. It's love at first sight for the boy. But he learns that the girl is blind and pledged to marry another if her vision is restored.

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A police detective discovers that his future father-in-law and fellow cop has taken a bribe.

Director: Frank Tuttle

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A manager and his big time singing protegee have been engaged a long time. But he's too busy booking her to take time off for marriage. Finally, the strain of overwork becomes too much for the songstress.

Director: Don Medford

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Set in 1882 Paris, a young girl gets her big break for the Paris Ballet after much sacrifice from her mother.

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A carpenter returns to his village, discouraged by his lack of success and respect.

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Mr. Parkinson's life has followed a familiar pattern up to now: working at his brokerage job during the week and playing golf on weekends. He's a happy, ordinary chap -- until the fact that he is secretly a poet is brought to light.

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Police detective Dan "Irish" Murphy has a more than professional interest in finding the murderer of a door-to-door salesman. The man is found stabbed in Murphy's home, with Mrs. Murphy lying unconscious nearby.

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Once an internationally respected statesman, former Senator Ryder is now in his 90s, and his life is turned upside down when a young history scholar, Walter Shelley, decides he wants one of Ryder's treasures: a letter written to him by Queen Victoria.

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