Fireside Theater (1949)

Fireside Theater

Fireside Theater is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American television. Stories were low budget and often based on public domain stories or written by freelance writers such as Rod Serling. While it was panned by critics, it remained in the top ten most popular shows for most of its run. It predated the other major pioneer of filmed TV in America, I Love Lucy, by two years.

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Season 6

Season 6

Season 7

Season 7

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Friend of the family

  • 1x2

    Ghost story

  • 1x3

    New faces

  • 1x4

    Meet my sister

  • 1x5

    Time bomb

  • 1x6

    Brainy bobby

  • 1x7

    Make a wish

  • 1x8

    Feature story

  • 1x9

    Dance discoveries

  • 1x10

    The stronger/a terribly strange bed

  • 1x11

    Father

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    Smooth fingers/germelshausen

  • 2x2

    Vain glory/out of the river

  • 2x3

    The spy/the postmistress of laurel rim

  • 2x4

    Like money in the bank/magic skin

  • 2x5

    Scream in the night/troubled harbor

  • 2x6

    Bandit, banker and blonde/the wall

  • 2x7

    Heartbeat/mardi gras

  • 2x8

    Checkmate/solange

  • 2x9

    The night owl/another road

  • 2x10

    Stagecoach driver mclean/cowboy's lament

  • 2x11

    The room/epilogue

  • 2x12

    Sealed orders/battle scene

  • 2x13

    The pardoner's tale

  • 2x14

    The doll/the bet

  • 2x15

    The gambler/threshold

  • 2x16

    Dinner for three/the vampire

  • 2x17

    The devil's due/rendezvous

  • 2x18

    The golden ball/just three words

  • 2x19

    Confession/reprieve

  • 2x20

    Of thee i love/double jeopary

  • 2x21

    The imp in the bottle/the stronger (restaged)

  • 2x22

    The shot/the red by the window

  • 2x23

    Anniversary/jungle terror

  • 2x24

    A terribly strange bed (restaged)/the stronger (restaged)

  • 2x25

    Germelshausen (restaged)/sealed orders (restaged)

  • 2x26

    The general's coat/vain glory (restaged)

  • 2x27

    Leather heart

  • 2x28

    The bunker

  • 2x29

    The tangled web

  • 2x30

    No strings attached

  • 2x31

    Boys will be men

  • 2x32

    Operation mona lisa

  • 2x33

    The parasol

  • 2x34

    The hired girl

  • 2x35

    Big ben

  • 2x36

    The man without a country

  • 2x37

    The human touch/the assassin

  • 2x38

    Dinner for three (restaged)/the devil's due (restaged)

  • 2x39

    The courting of bell/rendezvous (restaged)

  • 2x40

    The ear

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    Polly

  • 3x2

    Stopover

  • 3x3

    The leather heart [restaged]

  • 3x4

    Incident in the rain

  • 3x5

    Andy's old man

  • 3x6

    International incident

  • 3x7

    Lucy and the stranger

  • 3x8

    Hope chest

  • 3x9

    The amber gods

  • 3x10

    Mother's mutiny

  • 3x11

    Judas

  • 3x12

    The party line

  • 3x13

    The love of mike

  • 3x14

    Three strangers

  • 3x15

    The green convertible

  • 3x16

    The case of marina goodwin

  • 3x17

    Miggles

  • 3x18

    No children, no dogs

  • 3x19

    Flight 13

  • 3x20

    Neutral corner

  • 3x21

    Looking through

  • 3x22

    Drums in the night

  • 3x23

    Child in the house

  • 3x24

    The hottest day of the year

  • 3x25

    The substance of his house

  • 3x26

    Going home

  • 3x27

    Copy boy

  • 3x28

    The acquittal

  • 3x29

    Shifting sands

  • 3x30

    The eleventh hour

  • 3x31

    The unwritten column

  • 3x32

    The gentleman from la porte

  • 3x33

    The hot spot

  • 3x34

    Close shave

  • 3x35

    Mrs. rowland

  • 3x36

    The moment of truth

  • 3x37

    The tunnel

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    Back to zero

  • 4x2

    Moment of glory

  • 4x19

    Big night in boonetown

  • 4x24

    Land of destiny

  • 4x29

    The secret

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    The next to crash

  • 5x2

    A grand for grandma

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    The traitor

  • 6x2

    Bless the man

  • 6x3

    Man enough for millie

  • 6x4

    His name is jason

  • 6x5

    Domestic tranquility

  • 6x10

    Full portrait

  • 6x13

    Appointment with death

  • 6x16

    The boys down the road

  • 6x17

    The suitors

  • 6x22

    The first prize

  • 6x28

    The grass is greener

  • 6x34

    The relentless weavers

  • 6x35

    Invitation to marriage

  • 6x36

    Beyond the cross

  • 6x37

    Nine quarts of water

  • 6x40

    Fight night

  • 6x44

    Bread upon the waters

  • 6x48

    The desert answer

Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    Second elopement

  • 7x2

    Crusade without conscience

  • 7x3

    Smoke and fire

  • 7x4

    Second elopement

  • 7x5

    Afraid to live

  • 7x6

    Member of the jury

  • 7x13

    The last hat

  • 7x15

    His father's keeper

  • 7x19

    The indiscreet mrs. jarvis

  • 7x21

    The double life of barney peters

  • 7x23

    Brian

  • 7x24

    Mr. onion

  • 7x25

    No place to live

  • 7x26

    Marked for death

  • 7x28

    The poachers

  • 7x31

    The failure

  • 7x32

    Not the marrying kind

  • 7x33

    The blessing of the pets

  • 7x34

    Luxurious ladies

  • 7x35

    Bitter grapes

  • 7x36

    The innocent and the guilty

  • 7x37

    Cheese champion

  • 7x38

    Night of terror

  • 7x39

    A dream for jimmy

  • 7x40

    The 99th day

  • 7x41

    Murderer's wife

  • 7x42

    The man who liked to kill

  • 7x43

    A ring for nell

  • 7x44

    Argument with death

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