Family Theater: The Major, He Was a Sailor

Family Theater presents Joe E. Brown and Gordon Oliver. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Gordon Oliver in The Major. He was a sailor. To introduce the drama, here is your host, Joe E. Brown.

Thank you, Tony Lefrano. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world, family theater urges you to pray, pray together as a family, faith, FAITH,

one syllable, one word, yet it comes to men in many ways and many forms, in many places, and it becomes many things, like a weapon, not government issued, but powerful and swift. Our story tonight is of a PT boat and it's small crew, A small crew off the coast of China.

Coral reefs all around them. Fog. Too thick to see the coral. Their engines silenced by a gun boat. Their skipper silenced too. So they sit waiting. Waiting for the verdict on their engines. And for another verdict, a big one.

We call our story strangely enough, the major. He was a sailor. Starring Gordon Oliver as the Major. Mr. Cawes. You can't lose a man on a PT boat even on a fud. Here, Chief!

I checked the damage, sir. I thought I'd better report to you. To me? Yes, sir. The, uh, Skipper got it back there. Oh. Chief, where the devil to that gunboat come from? Where do any of them come from, sir? I don't know. A search land out of the fud. The enemy hitting all around us.