TCM showed another 1954 episode of "GE Theater" with James Dean to commemorate the 60th anniversary of his death. My father died in 2007 on September 30, so it's a date that always sticks in my mind.
Based on a story by Sherwood Anderson, Eddie Albert narrates, and Dean plays his younger self. Natalie Wood is the young woman he meets and falls for.
After seeing Dean in several other TV teleplays, I have to say this is his least impressive. For one thing, he mumbles more and is harder to understand. He and Natalie Wood do well together, and she is lovely - it's not hard to see why she was cast in Rebel without a Cause.
The young man tells a lie to the woman he wants to impress, as he puts it, "passing myself off as a big swell." Then he watches her go off on the train, knowing it is the last time he will see her.
There is not much to this as far as story, and it comes off as dull. Doubt it would have been shown were it not for Dean.