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Season 5
General Electric Theater
35 EPISODES • 1956
Season 5 of General Electric Theater was released on September 16 and consists of 35 episodes.
Season 4

Episodes

1: The Great Lady
Sep 16, 1956
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.
2: The Glorious Gift of Molly Malloy
Sep 23, 1956
3: The Professor's Punch
Sep 30, 1956
4: The Pot of Gold
Oct 7, 1956
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".
5: The Enemies
Oct 14, 1956
Yankees take over the Southern home of a young girl and her sick mother who are caring for an injured Confederate deserter.
6: The Invitation
Oct 21, 1956
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.
7: The Second Stranger
Oct 28, 1956
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.
8: The Rider on the Pale Horse
Nov 4, 1956
9: The Charlatan
Nov 11, 1956
A cancer therapist defends himself against a charge of fraud made by a newspaperwoman and a doctor.
10: The Road That Led Afar
Nov 25, 1956
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.
11: Orphans
Dec 2, 1956
12: The Breach
Dec 9, 1956
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.
13: The Chess Game
Dec 16, 1956
A cynical intellectual shelters a 15-year-old boy who is wanted for murder.
14: A Child is Born
Dec 23, 1956
A retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants.
15: The Shadow Outside
Dec 30, 1956
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.
16: Never Turn Back
Jan 6, 1957
17: The Earring
Jan 13, 1957
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.
18: Lady of the House
Jan 20, 1957
19: The Doctors of Pawnee Kill
Jan 27, 1957
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.
20: No Skin Off Me
Feb 3, 1957
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.
21: The Town with a Past
Feb 10, 1957
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.
22: The Big Shooter
Feb 17, 1957
23: Flight from Tormendero
Feb 24, 1957
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.
24: The Fenton Touch
Mar 3, 1957
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.
25: With Malice Toward None
Mar 10, 1957
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.
26: The Victorian Chaise Lounge
Mar 17, 1957
Todays theme is The Victorian Chaise Longue.
27: Too Good with a Gun
Mar 24, 1957
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.
28: Bargain Bride
Apr 7, 1957
29: Cab Driver
Apr 14, 1957
A female taxicab driver finds a dead man in the back seat of her cab, and a persistent suitor in the person of the detective who investigates the case.
30: Bitter Choice
Apr 21, 1957
An Army nurse resorts to a cruel ruse in an attempt to rouse a young sergeant from complete apathy and possible death.
31: I Will Not Die
Apr 28, 1957
32: Angel of Wrath
May 5, 1957
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.
33: A Question of Survival
May 12, 1957
A cavalry captain and his small band are out-numbered by Comanche Indians. When the company surgeon offers to tend the fatally wounded son of the attacking chief, the captain must choose between certain death for the surgeon and safety for the rest.
34: The Man Who Inherited Everything
May 19, 1957
35: A New Girl in His Life
May 26, 1957
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