General Electric Theater Season 6, Episode 24: Strange Witness

The Questioning Note

30 min

Father and Son Night

George Hogan, undefeated middleweight champion of the world, retires from the ring. But new champion Eddie Seaboard wants to force him out of retirement and taunts him in front of his young son. When Hogan refuses to fight, the youngster loses faith in his father.

30 min

Thousand Dollar Gun

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.

30 min

Mr. Kensington's Finest Hour

30 min

Mischief at Bandy Leg

30 min

Cornada

30 min

Love Came Late

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.

30 min

The Iron Horse

After killing a man in a drunken brawl, wagon maker Joe Turner swears that he will never drink again. Joe and his wife settle in a small town hoping to start a new life. But the vicious town boss starts a campaign to drive the Turners out of town.

30 min

Imp on a Cobweb Leash

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.

30 min

Eyes of a Stranger

When Dr. Mark Andrews meets tyrannical society woman, Katherine Belmont, he believes her caustic attitude is caused by a fear that she is losing her sight. He persuades her to undergo a cornea-transplant operation

30 min

The Trail to Christmas

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.

30 min

The Young Years

30 min

Kid at the Stick

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

30 min

Letters From Cairo

A happily married couple is separated when the husband is called to Cairo on a business trip. His letters tell her constantly of his devotion, and she lives for his return.

30 min

Time to Go Now

30 min

Silent Ambush

A sheriff struggles to keep his job even as he loses his hearing.

30 min

All I Survey

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.

30 min

Incident

Todays theme is Incident.

30 min

The Last Town Car - 1

"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...

30 min

The Last Town Car - 2

"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...

30 min

New York Knight

30 min

Angel in the Air

A roving peddler becomes stranded in a rural community in the deep South. Appalled by the pitiable existence of one of the families he meets, he finds himself performing the first unselfish deed of his life.

30 min

The Coward of Fort Bennett

30 min

The Unfamiliar

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.

30 min

No Hiding Place

An alcoholic reaches the bottom one night. Six weeks later, he is recovering and begins helping other alcoholics who believe they have nowhere to turn.

30 min

The Cold Touch

Todays theme is The Cold Touch.

30 min

God is My Judge

A widow decides the time has come to set her life straight. She returns to the town where she lived when she was young and confesses to the murder of her husband, who had died there years before.

30 min

Stopover

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.

30 min

Ah There, Beau Brummel

Benedict Arnold Brummel admits that he is a humorless stuffed shirt. But his routine life as a junior executive is suddenly changed one morning when it is announced in a New York gossip column that he is romancing the glamorous movie star Roselle King.

30 min

Bold Loser

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.

30 min

The Young and Scared

A young sailor sees a pretty teenager struck by an older man in a railroad station. He restrains the man and the girl flees. Later, he learns that the man is her foster father, and she has run away because of his cruelty to her.

30 min