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The Worst Episodes of General Electric Theater

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Worst episode
S7E14 And One Was Loyal
2.7161 votes
Best episode
S5E25 With Malice Toward None
8.8234 votes
Top season
Season 8
9.1avg
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    General Electric Theater Season 7 Episode 14 - And One Was Loyal
    2.7/10(161 votes)

    S7:E14

    No description available

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. General Electric Theater Season 3 Episode 7 - The Road to Edinburgh
    3.2/10(175 votes)

    S3:E7

    Todays theme is The Road to Edinburgh.

    Director:Rod Amateau
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. General Electric Theater Season 4 Episode 11 - The Seeds of Hate
    5.7/10(25 votes)

    S4:E11

    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:Unknown

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  4. General Electric Theater Season 10 Episode 26 - Hercule Poirot
    5.0/10(12 votes)

    S10:E26

    Detective Hercule Poirot investigates the disappearance of Mr. Davenheim.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Barré Lyndon

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  5. General Electric Theater Season 3 Episode 19 - The Big Shot
    5.5/10(15 votes)

    S3:E19

    Singer Johnnie Pulaski goes on an important audition and impresses. There is one condition that makes him want to refuse their offer--they ask him to change his last name. His girlfriend convinces him that the name is unimportant if he can sing. Ray, as Pulaski, introduces a new single, "Path to Paradise."

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. General Electric Theater Season 3 Episode 8 - I'm a Fool
    6.5/10(159 votes)

    S3:E8

    Played out on a stylized, dramatically lit set, I am a fool is a classic story of a heartsick and foolish farm boy who takes on a false identity to impress a beautiful girl and in so doing loses the love of his life forever.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. General Electric Theater Season 3 Episode 28 - It Gives Me Great Pleasure
    6.2/10(25 votes)

    S3:E28

    A traveling lecturer wants to retire and spend more time with her son.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. General Electric Theater Season 4 Episode 13 - A Child is Born
    5.6/10(10 votes)

    S4:E13

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

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. General Electric Theater Season 6 Episode 24 - Strange Witness
    6.6/10(182 votes)

    S6:E24

    Ruth and her lover David are caught having an affair by her husband John. When John refuses to give Ruth a divorce, David shoots him. Before Ruth and David can make plans to cover up the murder, John's blind friend Chris shows up.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. General Electric Theater Season 6 Episode 11 - The Trail to Christmas
    6.1/10(18 votes)

    S6:E11

    A cowboy helps a young runaway learn the meaning of Christmas by telling the boy the story of "A Christmas Carol," changed to the American west.

    Director:James Stewart
    Writer:Valentine Davies

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  11. General Electric Theater Season 4 Episode 12 - Let It Rain
    6.4/10(33 votes)

    S4:E12

    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:Unknown

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  12. General Electric Theater Season 10 Episode 25 - My Dark Days (2)
    6.0/10(14 votes)

    S10:E25

    After Marion Miller testifies before a Congressional committee concerning her years as an anti-communists spy, she looks forward to a peaceful life as a housewife. But it seems the Communists have other ideas.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. General Electric Theater Season 7 Episode 16 - The Stone
    6.0/10(11 votes)

    S7:E16

    Retelling of the biblical tale of David and Goliath.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. General Electric Theater Season 3 Episode 36 - Star in the House
    6.0/10(10 votes)

    S3:E36

    One-time film star plans her anniversary to be as romantic as her honeymoon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. General Electric Theater Season 7 Episode 23 - The Incredible Jewel Robbery
    6.7/10(70 votes)

    S7:E23

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. General Electric Theater Season 3 Episode 20 - The Return of Gentleman Jim
    6.5/10(20 votes)

    S3:E20

    Boxer Jim Corbett returns to face Joe Louis in the ring.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 14 - A Child is Born
    6.5/10(17 votes)

    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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  18. General Electric Theater Season 2 Episode 23 - The Crime of Daphne Rutledge
    6.7/10(24 votes)

    S2:E23

    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:Unknown

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  19. General Electric Theater Season 4 Episode 16 - The Ballad of Mender McClure
    6.8/10(30 votes)

    S4:E16

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 27 - Too Good with a Gun
    6.8/10(20 votes)

    S5:E27

    An ex-gunfighter goes against his boss and teaches the son how to shoot. He also falls in love with the boss's daughter. But when he gets involved in a gunfight in town, his boss sends him passing and turns his two children against him.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. General Electric Theater Season 4 Episode 21 - The Honest Man
    6.9/10(39 votes)

    S4:E21

    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:Unknown

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  22. General Electric Theater Season 9 Episode 15 - Don't Let It Throw You
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    S9:E15

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. General Electric Theater Season 4 Episode 33 - The Hat with the Roses
    6.8/10(15 votes)

    S4:E33

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

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. General Electric Theater Season 4 Episode 4 - Outpost at Home
    6.8/10(11 votes)

    S4:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. General Electric Theater Season 10 Episode 27 - The Bar Mitzvah of Major Orlovsky
    7.0/10(36 votes)

    S10:E27

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"And One Was Loyal" is the worst rated episode of General Electric Theater. It scored 2.7/10 from 161 votes. Directed by Herschel Daugherty and written by Unknown, it aired on January 4, 1959. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Road to Edinburgh".

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