General Electric Theater - Season 5 (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".

Yankees take over the Southern home of a young girl and her sick mother who are caring for an injured Confederate deserter.

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.

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.

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A cancer therapist defends himself against a charge of fraud made by a newspaperwoman and a doctor.

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.

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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.

A cynical intellectual shelters a 15-year-old boy who is wanted for murder.

A retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Todays theme is The Victorian Chaise Longue.

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.

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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.

An Army nurse resorts to a cruel ruse in an attempt to rouse a young sergeant from complete apathy and possible death.

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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.

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.

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