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The Best Episodes of General Electric Theater Season 5

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 1 - The Great Lady
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    #1 - The Great Lady

    S5:E1

    Julia Courtney, a retired actress, lives in a theatrical boarding house. When one of the residents is murdered, all of the residents are under suspicion. The chief suspect is a young friend of Julia's, played by Vera Miles.

    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 2 - The Glorious Gift of Molly Malloy
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    #2 - The Glorious Gift of Molly Malloy

    S5:E2

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 3 - The Professor's Punch
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    #3 - The Professor's Punch

    S5:E3

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 4 - The Pot of Gold
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    #4 - The Pot of Gold

    S5:E4

    Ralph and Laura Whitemore have suffered many financial disappointments in their life together. But when a "sure thing" comes along at last, they eagerly await the phone call that will bring their "pot of gold".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 5 - The Enemies
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    #5 - The Enemies

    S5:E5

    Yankees take over the Southern home of a young girl and her sick mother who are caring for an injured Confederate deserter.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 6 - The Invitation
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    #6 - The Invitation

    S5:E6

    After her baby dies in childbirth, Alice Kellen retreats into a world of her own. As she sinks deeper into fantasy, her husband tries a desperate measure to snap her back to reality.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 7 - The Second Stranger
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    #7 - The Second Stranger

    S5:E7

    In 1829, a stranger enters a tavern to take shelter from the storm. He finds an old friend from the war of 1812, and the two men have a drink. The inn is crowded with townspeople, all of whom are celebrating tomorrow's hanging.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 8 - The Rider on the Pale Horse
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    #8 - The Rider on the Pale Horse

    S5:E8

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 9 - The Charlatan
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    #9 - The Charlatan

    S5:E9

    A cancer therapist defends himself against a charge of fraud made by a newspaperwoman and a doctor.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 10 - The Road That Led Afar
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    #10 - The Road That Led Afar

    S5:E10

    A young mountain girl marries a widower with four children and goes to live in his rustic cabin. Not only does she find the unfamiliar routine hard, but she must face the task of winning over the frightened youngsters.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 11 - Orphans
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    #11 - Orphans

    S5:E11

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 12 - The Breach
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    #12 - The Breach

    S5:E12

    Author Emily Marsden secludes herself in a small village after quarreling with her husband. There, she learns a lot about her own difficulties by trying to help someone else.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 13 - The Chess Game
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    #13 - The Chess Game

    S5:E13

    A cynical intellectual shelters a 15-year-old boy who is wanted for murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 14 - A Child is Born
    6.5/10(16 votes)

    #14 - A Child is Born

    S5:E14

    A retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 15 - The Shadow Outside
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    #15 - The Shadow Outside

    S5:E15

    Evvy, who lives with her parents in New Mexico, has met few boys. When the town bully, Ray Poole, becomes interested in her she is both confused and frightened.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 16 - Never Turn Back
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    #16 - Never Turn Back

    S5:E16

    No description available

    Director:Ray Milland
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 17 - The Earring
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    #17 - The Earring

    S5:E17

    Lydia Shaw, wife of a successful lawyer, is being blackmailed by a man who has some love letters she wrote before her marriage. Afraid to let her husband find out about the romance, Lydia agrees to pay off her former sweetheart.

    Director:Jules Munshin
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 18 - Lady of the House
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    #18 - Lady of the House

    S5:E18

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 19 - The Doctors of Pawnee Kill
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    #19 - The Doctors of Pawnee Kill

    S5:E19

    Two brothers, one a doctor the other a fast-draw Sheriff, live in conflict with each other in a town that is run by a ruthless saloon owner.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 20 - No Skin Off Me
    7.4/10(19 votes)

    #20 - No Skin Off Me

    S5:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 21 - The Town with a Past
    7.0/10(13 votes)

    #21 - The Town with a Past

    S5:E21

    Wandering cowboy Britt Ponset finds himself caught in the middle of a dispute between mine owner "Silver Annie" Huxley, the leaders of Virtue City, and the railroad, which wants to builds tracks across her property.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 22 - The Big Shooter
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    #22 - The Big Shooter

    S5:E22

    No description available

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 23 - Flight from Tormendero
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    #23 - Flight from Tormendero

    S5:E23

    During World War 2, a ship's captain picks up the survivors of a torpedoed ship. Among those rescued are a pretty Eurasian girl and a sinister-appearing man.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 24 - The Fenton Touch
    8.3/10(13 votes)

    #24 - The Fenton Touch

    S5:E24

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 25 - With Malice Toward None
    8.8/10(262 votes)

    #25 - With Malice Toward None

    S5:E25

    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:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Great Lady" is the best rated episode of "General Electric Theater" season 5. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Roy Kellino and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/16/1956. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Glorious Gift of Molly Malloy".