General Electric Theater

Judge Cyrus Dunn is determined to get away for a holiday fishing trip. But at the last moment, his wife Betsy insists that the gardener's salary must be paid. This leaves the judge with no ready cash for his trip.

Connie Marlowe is responsible for orphaned younger brother, Buzz. He hopes to win some money in a father-son bowling match, so he asks Connie to get a stand-in father for him.

A shady operator named Pegosi tries to get a gullible actress, Leslie Blaine, to buy a miniature live elephant for a publicity stunt. When a magician named Trapollini tells Pegosi he'd like one too, Pegosi realizes he many actually have to produce the animal.

A presentation of the 1960 episode of the same name.

A new preacher comes to town and is not quite up to the challenges that lie ahead of him.

A small town girl comes to New York to forget a recent tragedy only to have her life threatened by a masked strange

Todays theme is The Story of Judith.

A tailor has a dream of becoming a committeeman, but because he's Italian-American he feels his chances are slight.

Six-year-old Barnaby Baxter longs to go hunting with his father. He wishes on a star for a fairy godmother who can make his dream come true and is answered by a cigar-smoking, pink-winged fairy godfather named O'Malley.

A man is considering running for national office and to clinch the deal his wife throws a party with a powerful Washington lawmaker in attendance.

Todays theme is Nobody's Child.

Martha Allen's husband and teenage offspring seem to be taking her for granted. To win recognition, she decides to learn how to fly an airplane.

It is the year 1880, and Elizabeth a lovely miss from the East, is preparing to journey West to marry her fiance. Elizabeth's mother cautions her about the Wild West, but the young girl assures her that the pioneer country has been tamed.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Adam Tenney is on the road to Virginia to deliver a wagonload of flour when he loses his town's income from the flour in a poker game.

Stella Rutledge, traveling to the new frontier of the West, accepts temporary lodging with the Gaines family when the stagecoach breaks down. Noting the isolated family's hunger for news she entertains the two youngsters with tales about her former home, a Southern plantation, and discovers the girl plans to run away from home.

Todays theme is The Cold Touch.

A strange, unearthly, inarticulate little man is found clinging to a piece of driftwood off the New England coast. His utter confusion in a modern-day environment suggests that he is from another world.

"The Last Town Car" was a two-part original drama, the story of a widow who develops a consuming fear when strange and inexplicable events occur involving a 1925 Rolls-Royce town car being used as a taxicab and its secretive driver. In Part One, Edith Miller (Claudette Colbert) tells psychiatrist Jonathan Michael (Kent Smith) of terrifying events connected with the car, of delusions about people of another era who appear mysteriously, and of a driver (Harry Tyler) who bears her frightening contempt each time she rides in the car. Her consuming fear about her delusions...

A woman trying to nurse her desperately ill husband back to health is faced with a powerful temptation when an author-friend of theirs comes to visit.

A young boy aboard a small plane has to try and land with radio help from the ground.

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.

J. Willingham Bardley is a staid and refined businessman with an eye on the presidency of his firm, until he is shaken by the arrival of a mischievous imp.

Professor Arthur Barris is unsympathetic when Jack Evans, an Army veteran and a father, falls behind in his grades. Barris refuses to allow for Evans' adjustment from Army to college life. But Jack's mother, with womanly charm, intervenes.

Broken Lance, Kansas hires gunfighter Buchanan Smith to drive out a ruthless gang of outlaws who have taken over the town. Smith is faced with an additional problem when Joe Breed, head of the gang, hires a notorious killer to kill him.

After he has invested in a publishing firm, a Broadway star is shocked to learn that it prints unsavory literature. He argues with the publisher, strikes the man, and is convinced he is guilty of murder.

An Army nurse resorts to a cruel ruse in an attempt to rouse a young sergeant from complete apathy and possible death.

Todays theme is The Victorian Chaise Longue.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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".

A frantic mother tries desperately to find her husband to inform him that their little girl has been hospitalized in severe shock after being hit by a car.

A little boy in a small town hotel is the only one who believes that a washed up elderly employee used to be a top notch railroad brakeman.

An Amish girl decides to find adventure in a big city before getting married.

Todays theme is a Judy Garland Musical Special.

A successful actress is torn between the desire to marry and settle down, and the urge to continue her career on the stage. Her producer is against her plans to leave the stage, for a number of reasons.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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'.

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.

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

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

What better place for romance than in a classroom, especially a French class? That's the reasoning of a lonely boy and a lonely girl who enroll in a French class with hopes of learning anything but the language.

A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadblocks.

An ex-gunfighter, after hiding his identity for years, enters a shooting contest to raise money for a windmill in hopes he can provide water to his family farm.

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

A struggling photographer runs over a dog while driving near the home of an actress. Little does he know that this insignificant auto accident will lead to his involvement in murder.

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

1922, civil war in Ireland. A suspect is captured after a bloody ambush.

A hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.

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.

82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.

Having survived a plane crash in the jungle, Henty finds a fortress-like home in the middle of nowhere, belonging to the affable Mr. McMaster. The latter doesn't want Henty to leave.

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.

A widowed actress who formerly teamed with her husband in all her performances is finding it hard to get a solo acting job. She becomes a cosmetic saleswoman and tries to succeed at that.

A child's face helps restore a disabled vet's self-confidence.

A woman's curiosity uncovers a neatly executed murder.

An artist seeks the perfect model for a painting of a Madonna. In the process of his search, he becomes involved in a murder case.

A comedy about a romance writer who doesn't believe in his own love stories.

A young wife wants to help her husband better his career, so she invites his boss to dinner.

A man is plagued with constant troubles when his wife wants a new car and then a new house.

A man in a Mexican family is murdered and the gems from his house are stolen. When his brother comes to investigate, he finds the answer lies with the most influential woman he meets.

A scientist develops a drug so powerful it can be bring peace or destroy the world.

A young refugee learns about American patriotism from a bandit.

A gambler who suffers a head injury is nursed back to health by non-traditional methods and the head doctor is not thrilled by it.

A single father of three attempts to raise his children and decides to hire a mother for them.

An elderly couple of naturalized Germans living in the U. S. discovers after 60 years of marital bliss that, technically, they were never married.