Ford Theatre - Season 3 Episode 1 The Traitor
Gripping spy play with Lee Tracy and Walter Hampden in their original stage roles. The full-hour adaptation of the past season's Broadway thriller concerns the misguided intentions of a young scientist—the traitor —to solve the threat of an atomic war by giving nuclear energy secrets to a Russian spy ring. The youth, Wesley Addy, feels that world peace lies in sharing the atomic bomb. The main scene of the play is laid in the Manhattan apartment of Professor Tobias Emanuel, the young man's mentor, played by Hampden. Addy has hidden bomb secrets and fissionable material for the Russians in the apartment when Captain Gallagher of the Naval Intelligence Office, portrayed by Tracy, steps in, One of the exciting sequences comes when Gallagher uses a Geiger counter to spot the cache
Keyword : anthology
Episode
The Traitor
The Married Look
The Marble Faun
Angel Street
Heart of Darkness
The Whiteheaded Boy
Another Darling
Alice in Wonderland
Cause for Suspicion
The Presentation of the Look Magazine TV Awards
Final Copy
Spring Again
The Golden Mouth
The Ghost Patrol
Heart of Darkness (restaged)
Ticket to Oblivion
The Touchstone
Dead on the Vine
Peter Ibbetson
Three in a Room
Night Over London
The Ghost Patrol (restaged)
The Lilac Bush
Second Sight
Celebrity
Garrity's Sons
Hanrahan
Deception
The Woman at Fog Point
Sunday Mourn
While We're Young
Appointment with Destiny
The Policy of Joe Aladdin
Mimi
Cardboard Casanova
P.J. and the Lady
One Man Missing
Favorite Son
The Mumbys