General Motors Theatre - Season 8

1. The New Men

Aired: 9/27/1959

Two scientists operate the first British atomic reactor. Adapted from a C. P. Snow novel.

2. The Land of Promise

Aired: 10/4/1959

3. Race for Heaven

Aired: 10/11/1959

4. The Twenty-first Floor

Aired: 10/25/1959

5. The Last of the Hot Pilots

Aired: 11/1/1959

6. The Desperate Search

Aired: 11/8/1959

7. Second Home

Aired: 11/22/1959

8. The Discoverers

Aired: 11/29/1959

9. Love Story: 1910

Aired: 12/6/1959

10. The Oddball

Aired: 12/13/1959

11. Trelawney of the Wells

Aired: 12/27/1959

A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady (Rose Trelawny) when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town (Arthur Gower).

12. Reunion

Aired: 1/3/1960

13. Here Today

Aired: 1/10/1960

14. Rehearsal for Invasion

Aired: 1/17/1960

A lieutenant attempts to use a small group of men to take German munitions and explosives storehouse in Dieppe during the raid.

15. You Win, You Lose

Aired: 1/24/1960

16. How to Make More Money Than Men

Aired: 1/31/1960

A comedy about a widow, Mary Frale, who must enter the workforce when her husband leaves her and their son penniless. But when Frale secures a secretarial job in a large firm she discovers a way to make more money than men.

17. Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners

Aired: 2/7/1960

18. Murder Anyone?

Aired: 2/14/1960

19. Sun in My Eyes

Aired: 2/21/1960

Jack Kuper's autobiographical play set in a small Polish town in 1942 details the plight of the Jews at the hands of the Nazis through the eyes of Kruper's family. Finally, the play reveals how Kuper, eleven years old at the time, was the only member of his family to survive.

20. Madge Is for Maybe

Aired: 2/28/1960

21. The Death Around Us

Aired: 3/6/1960

22. The Man Who Stole the Blarney Stone

Aired: 3/13/1960

23. Ordeal by Poison

Aired: 3/20/1960

24. The Incredible World of Horace Ford

Aired: 3/27/1960

25. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Aired: 4/10/1960

Duddy Kravitz will do anything for success. Anything? Bet on it.

26. Mr. Sycamore

Aired: 4/17/1960

So John Gwilt would rather be a tree? Get used to the idea.

27. Queen's Peace

Aired: 4/24/1960

28. Music in the Wall

Aired: 5/8/1960

29. Substitute Soldier

Aired: 5/15/1960

30. A Wind from the South

Aired: 5/22/1960

31. The Beckoning Hill

Aired: 5/29/1960

32. The Inquest

Aired: 6/5/1960

33. The Well

Aired: 6/12/1960

William Shatner plays an alcoholic opposite future Star Trek co-star James Doohan.

34. The Virtuous Island

Aired: 6/19/1960

A member of Captain Cook's expedition goes to a Tahitian island and attempts to civilize the natives.