10 episodes

The Ford Television Theatre - Season 8

First aired Oct 3, 1956Season 8

Browse all 10 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Catch at Straws

NR
Oct 3, 1956

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Episode 2

Sudden Silence

NR
Oct 10, 1956

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Episode 3

Paris Edition

NR
Oct 17, 1956

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Episode 4

Measure of Faith

NR
Oct 24, 1956

A Catholic priest who was brutally beaten in a Communist prison, questions his faith.

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Episode 5

Black Jim Hawk

NR
Oct 31, 1956

As a youngster, Jim Hawk begged Governor Sam Houston of Tennessee to release his father, a convicted murderer. Houston refused and the boy swore revenge.Jim Hawk became one of the West's most notorious outlaws and finally got his chance to follow through on his boyhood threat.

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Episode 6

Sometimes It Happens

NR
Nov 7, 1956

A Welsh girl lives in New York City with her uncle and aunt. An old folk legend of her native country says that a love which proves itself three times will last forever. She decides to try this theory out on a young man she meets.

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Episode 7

The Woman Who Dared

NR
Nov 14, 1956

In 1870, after years of hardship, a woman achieves her ambition of becoming a doctor. She dreams of serving the people in a small Western town, but the years of struggle seem wasted. The townspeople hate this woman who has dared enter a male profession.

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Episode 8

The Menace of Hasty Heights

NR
Nov 21, 1956

As the wife of a would-be councilman is preparing a house party to assure his election, an escaped convict takes shelter in the house. Instead of becoming frightened, she takes advantage of his entrance and puts him to work helping her.

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Episode 9

Stand By To Dive

NR
Nov 28, 1956

A young naval officer who has not seen his father since his parents were divorced when he was a child, is assigned to the submarine his father commands.

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Episode 18

Mrs. Wane Comes to Call

NR
Jan 30, 1957

Laura Chandler is unable and seemingly unwilling to recover from the loss of her son