The Ford Television Theatre Season 1, Episode 32: The Lady and the Champ

Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley

When Orrin Dooley, returning from war, is rejected by a woman for his ignorance, he enters grade school under his G.I. benefits where the woman betrothed to the insensitive principal is the teacher.

30 min

Junior

National Honeymoon

Birth of a Hero

Girl in the Park

Edge of the Law

Protect Her Honor

A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.

Sunk

An alcoholic young man demands inheritance money from the uncle who's executor of his father's estate. The uncle refuses, but makes his nephew an offer: he'll give him $15,000 if he'll travel to the South Seas and murder a man named Jake Finch. The trip to the islands involves a three-week cruise on a schooner where the sad drunk has time to reevaluate his life.

The Divided Heart

They Also Serve

It Happened in a Pawn Shop

When two struggling people, a musician and young woman, make a deal in a pawnshop to resolve their individual financial shortfalls, an attraction, complicated by the woman's licentious landlady and overbearing suitor, ensues.

This Is My Heart

The Sermon of the Gun

Adventure in Connecticut

The First Born

All's Fair in Love

Madame 44

A woman saloon owner in California, known as gunslinger "Madame 44," is tried and acquitted for murder after defending herself from a claim jumper. Later, passing for respectability in New Orleans, a suitor threatens to expose her past.

My Daughter's Husband

A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.

The Bet

A wealthy man, whose poor friend has stolen the man's fiancée, bets the friend a fortune that the friend can not spend ten years in solitary confinement, which bet the friend accepts, despite the love of the woman.

Double Exposure

To Any Soldier

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Allison, Ltd.

The Life of the Party

Look for Tomorrow

Sweet Talk Me, Jackson

There's No Place Like Home

A newspaper expose precipitates a violent quarrel between the writer and his family.

The Trestle

A boy suspects his step-father is the murderer of a man who attempted to put a small town newspaper out of business.