The Ford Television Theatre Season 3, Episode 3: Shadow of Truth

The Trouble with Youth

A middle-aged theatrical producer suddenly begins mixing with the younger set.

Daughter of Mine

Segment

During a convention in a large city, a visiting family consisting of a man, his wife and daughter checks into a hotel. When the girl leaves, the wife's incessant nagging pushes the man into a rage building for years, and he snaps. He's going to murder his wife with a long sharp piece of glass

Trip Around the Block

Remember to Live

Remember to Live

30 min

The Road Ahead

The Summer Memory

The Legal Beagles

Girl in Flight

Charlie C Company

Portrait of Lydia

Slide, Darling, Slide

The Unbroken Promise

A man brings his fiance home to meet his teenage daughter.

Magic Formula

..... and Son

The Stars Don't Shine

A man commits a robbery to meet payments on his fishing boat, accidentally blinding a girl in the process.

Letters Marked Personal

A man tries to capture the romance he and his wife once shared.

Touch of Spring

A wife is overcome with romance one afternoon, forgets she's married, and flirts with a handsome young doctor. She get caught up in the moment and makes a date with the man for that evening. Upon arriving home, she tells her husband about the silly predicament she's now in. Hubby decides the "other man" should come over as planned for a lesson on romance.

Pretend You're You

An honest boy meets and falls in love with an engaged girl. The boy's less than honest family decides to help the romance along.

Tomorrow We'll Love

During the Indochina War, a girl meets a young flier at a wedding. They fall in love, but the flier, sure he will be killed shortly, refuses to give up his reckless way of life.

Too Old for Dolls

Parents are concerned that their teen-aged daughter doesn't have a date for her school's formal dance. She assures them she has a boy named Al all lined up. Recalling that "Al" was the name of her imaginary childhood friend, Dad arranges for one of the boys from the office to escort her. It turns out that Al really does exist.

The Lilac Bush

On her son's fifth birthday a mother plants a lilac bush. When the boy dies, she flies into a fit of rage and attempts to destroy the bush.

Second Sight

Celebrity

Heiress Myla Marshall is a tabloid fixture for living the high life. The public, and her abusive ex-husband, are unaware of the son she's secretly kept at boarding schools since his birth. She was determined to save the child from the savage hands of his father. When news of the boy is leaked to the press, her hateful ex reappears and begins to rough her up. He ends up dead and Myla faces a murder trial.

Garrity's Sons

A boxing promoter gets word that his conniving brother is returning home. Years before he turned into a cheating, crooked fighter, and now is slipping. He broke the heart of a girl that still loves him, He also must win one last fight-if his brother can help him.

Hanrahan

Deception

A woman learns that her son, reported missing in action, is alive and returning home from Korea.

Sunday Mourn

Mimi

One Man Missing

The Mumbys

The vagabond Mumby family moved into a ritzy subdivision which causes the developer to plot their eviction. Their continued presence disturbs their haughty neighbors but also teaches them some important lessons.