The Best Episodes of General Electric Theater Season 7

Todays theme is At Miss Minner's.

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A plumber receives a late night call for a job that turns out to be with a gang of jewel thieves.

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Todays theme is Nobody's Child.

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The Incredible Jewel Robbery was an episode of General Electric Theater, broadcast by CBS on March 8, 1959. It was the first appearance of all three Marx Brothers together in the same scene since A Night in Casablanca in 1946, although they had appeared in individual scenes in The Story of Mankind in 1957, and in pairs in Love Happy in 1949. Jewel Robbery would prove to be their last joint TV appearance. Harpo and Chico play Harry and Nick, two inept would-be robbers who try to pull a jewelry heist. Chico is disguised in a police uniform, and Harpo wears, of all things, a Groucho Marx disguise. When they are caught and placed in a police lineup, the real Groucho shows up inexplicably and is immediately fingered as the thief. Groucho then delivers the only line in the otherwise silent program: "We won't talk until we see our lawyer!" Everybody gives each other their leg, and the You Bet Your Life duck drops down with "The End" in its beak. CBS explained the show as follows: "If you watch the show you'll see a familiar face equipped with mustache and leer. Because of his contract terms, his name can't be mentioned, but he is not Jerry Colonna."

Director: Mitchell Leisen

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Retelling of the biblical tale of David and Goliath.

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Robert "Spider" Johnson is stationed in Germany in 1951, where he is "adopted" as a father by an orphaned boy. Spider is a taciturn man, preferring to remain alone to hide the pain of his own orphaned youth. When he encounters an abandoned boy nicknamed Joe Louis, however, Spider feels an emotional bond with the child. He becomes unnerved though, when the boy mistakenly believes that the soldier is his father. Spider leaves town, denying that he has become attached to the orphan. But when Joe hides in the back of Spider's jeep, the soldier must confront his paternal ...

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Valentine Davies, Kurt Vonnegut

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A football hero on the skids returns to his hometown. He and his ex-wife Mary purchased a rare Picasso for a song on their honeymoon, and he needs cash.

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A man serving time for stealing jewels insists that he is innocent and spends every waking moment plotting revenge against those he claims framed him.

Director: Ray Milland

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The one-ring circus run by Anthony Mullins begins to prosper when a handsome trapeze artist, Angeli, joins the troupe. But Mullins is upset when his fiancee, Sue Ellen, becomes fascinated with Angeli.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

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Director: James Neilson

Writer: Jameson Brewer

A champion rodeo rider, though getting older, refuses to retire to a ranch house, even though his fiancée begs him to. After another rider and friend of them both is killed during a show, she gives him a choice, quit and marry her or she'll leave him.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

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Paul Ashcroft is traveling through the French Riviera equipped with a bicycle and a kit for disguises. He gains entrance to a vacant mansion, passing himself off as one M. Durobat, and proceeds to work his charm on local gambling devotees.

Director: Herschel Daugherty

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In this musical comedy set in the 1870s, Silas Haley wants his daughter to marry a city slicker. Matilda, however, has her eyes on a good looking trapper.

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A ransom is demanded for a baby elephant missing from a hotel room.

Director: Sidney Lanfield

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Director: David Swift

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Setting out on his vacation, newspaper reporter Mike Hackett comes across an auto accident. The injured driver is a well-known Hungarian scientist. His unharmed passenger, a young lady hitchhiker, blames the accident on the scientist.

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