NaN/100 votes#1 - Tryout
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1955
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- NaN/100 votes
#2 - The Bounty Court Martial
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1955
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- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Lash of Fear
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1955
A stagecoach driver and cavalry officer vie for the affections of a young lady traveling west with them.
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- NaN/100 votes
#4 - Outpost at Home
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1955
A young boy (army brat) Struggles between his father and a deserter
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#5 - Shadow on the Heart
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1955
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.
Director: N/A
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- 7.0/1010 votes
#6 - Winner by Decision
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1955
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
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Farewell to Kennedy
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1955
A police detective discovers that his future father-in-law and fellow cop has taken a bribe.
Director: Frank Tuttle
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1015 votes
#8 - Prosper's Old Mother
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1955
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
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - From the Top
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1955
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
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1013 votes
#10 - Feathertop
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1955
A scarecrow is brought to life by a witch and made to pose as a nobleman.
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- 5.7/1024 votes
#11 - The Seeds of Hate
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1955
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
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1031 votes
#12 - Let It Rain
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1955
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
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - A Child is Born
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1955
A retelling of the Nativity story from the viewpoint of the innkeeper's wife.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - Portrait of a Ballerina
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1956
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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- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Esteban's Legacy
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1956
A carpenter returns to his village, discouraged by his lack of success and respect.
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- 6.9/1027 votes
#16 - The Ballad of Mender McClure
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1956
A mysteriously familiar stranger sees fit to practice a bit of magic on a lazy, selfish Ozark hillbilly.
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- NaN/100 votes
#17 - The Muse and Mr. Parkinson
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1956
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.
Director: N/A
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- 8.2/1036 votes
#18 - In Summer Promise
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1956
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
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - The Song Caruso Sang
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1956
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- NaN/100 votes
#20 - Prologue to Glory
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1956
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- 6.8/1035 votes
#21 - The Honest Man
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1956
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
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Try to Remember
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1956
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.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#23 - A Letter from the Queen
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1956
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.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Steinmetz
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1956
The story of scientist Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the man who "made" lightning. He did research for General Electric and then went on to become a professor of Union College in Schenectady.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#25 - The Night Goes On
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/18/1956
An embittered spinster lives on her brother's ranch in Mexico. She becomes attracted to a young ranch hand, and when he doesn't return her affection she decides to get revenge.
Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of General Electric Theater Season 4
Every episode of General Electric Theater Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of General Electric Theater Season 4!
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Tryout" is the best rated episode of "General Electric Theater" season 4. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/2/1955. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Bounty Court Martial".