The Ford Theatre Hour

Seasons

1948

USA

7.6

An anthology series based in New York City which attracted a high caliber group of actors, often Broadway stars. Stories were both drama and comedies, some original but others adaptions of films and plays.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Years Ago

Despite being raised in a financially strapped family, a young woman tries to make her dream of being a respected actress come true.

S1 • E2

Joy to the World

S1 • E3

Night Must Fall

When a rich woman on an isolated estates hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.

S1 • E4

The Man Who Came to Dinner

When acerbic critic Sheridan Whiteside slips on the front steps of a provincial Ohio businessman's home and breaks his hip, he and his entourage take over the house indefinitely.

S1 • E5

The Silver Cord

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.

S1 • E6

Outward Bound

Several recently deceased people awake on a ship bound for the afterlife.

S1 • E7

Arsenic and Old Lace

A theater critic must deal with his spinster aunts who poison perspective boarders, his insane brother who recently escaped from prison and his fiancée who wants to get married sooner rather than later.

S1 • E8

One Sunday Afternoon

Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.