TV ShowEnded

General Motors Theatre

1952

~1h / ep

9 seasons

297 episodes

Drama

General Motors Theatre was a Canadian television anthology series, which ran on CBC Television under its various titles from 1953 until 1961. First transmitted under the sponsored title on October 5, 1954, a new 60-minute drama would be presented each week. As suggested by the title, the programme was sponsored by the General Motors automobile company. It was effectively the same series as the unsponsored CBC Theatre, which had run its first season from December 1, 1953 to April 20, 1954, with General Motors becoming title sponsor for the second season.

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Cast

William Shatner

Seasons

Ep 1
1.Justice
18-09-1952
A clerk is jailed for forging a check to help a drunkard's wife.
Ep 2
2.Angel Street
25-09-1952
Could Mrs. Manningham really be going made? Or does her old house in London hold a sinister secret?
Ep 3
3.Inspector General
02-10-1952
When a stranger arrives in a small Russian town, it is assumed (wrongly) that he must be the feared government inspector, whose visit is expected at any moment.
Ep 4
4.Payment Deferred
09-10-1952
Ep 5
5.An Enemy of the People
16-10-1952
Dr. Stockmann has discovered that the water supply for his town is polluted - but surprisingly few people seem to care.
Ep 6
6.To Tell the Truth
23-10-1952
Ep 7
7.Juno and the Paycock
30-10-1952
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.
Ep 8
8.Uncle Harry
06-11-1952
Harry's invalid sister doesn't want him to marry. In fact, she doesn't want him to do anything except what she wants him to do. A man might get to resent that.
Ep 9
9.All My Sons
13-11-1952
During WW2, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever, but years later his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry D...
Ep 10
10.The Barretts of Wimpole Street
20-11-1952
Elizabeth Barrett is in love with the poet Robert Browning. Her tyrant of a father disapproves. But why?
Ep 11
11.Hilda Morgan
27-11-1952
Ep 12
12.The Moneymakers
04-12-1952
Ep 13
13.Nothing But the Truth
11-12-1952
A young man bets $10,000 that he can tell for 24 hour nothing but the truth.
Ep 14
14.School for Scandal
01-01-1953
Scandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers, and young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too.
Ep 15
15.By Candlelight
22-01-1953
In this comedy of errors, a maid pretends to be a lady, a Prince poses as his valet, and his valet pretends to be him, the Prince.
Ep 16
16.Candida
29-01-1953
Adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play, in which the idealist Reverend Morell tries to unite Socialism and Christianity.
Ep 17
17.Playboy of the Western World
05-02-1953
A strange youth impresses the women at a remote Irish pub spot by claiming to have murdered his father.
Ep 18
18.Othello
12-02-1953
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all par...
Ep 19
19.Dr. Angelus
19-02-1953
Ep 20
20.One John Smith
26-02-1953
Ep 21
21.Ebb Tide
05-03-1953
Three shifty sailors commandeer a smallpox-ridden boat and set out to sea. A typhoon washes them ashore on a faraway Pacific island, which is ruled by a white religious fanatic who...
Ep 22
22.She Stoops to Conquer
12-03-1953
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with a potential suitor. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow...
Ep 23
23.The First Mrs. Fraser
19-03-1953
Ep 24
24.The Vigil
02-04-1953
Ep 25
25.The Case of Prince Charming
16-04-1953
Ep 26
26.Guilt
23-04-1953
A passionate adulterous relationship provokes a murder.
Ep 27
27.The Bridge
30-04-1953
A French girl and American Engineer struggle to find love in war-torn France.
Ep 28
28.Fortune My Foe
07-05-1953

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