Studio One (1948)
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Episode 1 - Zone Four
Release Date: 1950-08-28A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."
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Episode 2 - Look Homeward, Hayseed
Release Date: 1950-09-04A city-bred radio announcer thinks that he's the best thing that happened to the rural broadcasting station where he is now working until he gets a rude country style awakening.
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Episode 3 - Mist with the Tamara Geba
Release Date: 1950-09-11A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder.
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Episode 4 - Trilby
Release Date: 1950-09-18The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer
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Episode 5 - Away from It All
Release Date: 1950-09-25A Navy Lieutenant pilot and a Sergeant crash land on an island and stumble upon a lavish estate where a group of wealthy people all thought to have died now live.
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Episode 6 - The Passionate Pilgrim
Release Date: 1950-10-02The story of Sister Elizabeth Wheeler, who accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea to help the British wounded. Dismissed for speaking out against the atrocities, she was later honored by Robert E. Lee for her service to the Confederate Army.
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Episode 7 - The Spectre of Alexander Wolff
Release Date: 1950-10-09A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground.
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Episode 8 - Good for Thirty Days
Release Date: 1950-10-16An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery.
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Episode 9 - The Road to Jericho
Release Date: 1950-10-23A woman has a clandestine meeting with a man, other than her husband and uncovers some murder evidence that will prevent an innocent man from going to prison. The woman's husband is the assistant district attorney who is trying to send the innocent man to prison.
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Episode 10 - Wuthering Heights
Release Date: 1950-10-30Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
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Episode 11 - The Blonde Comes First
Release Date: 1950-11-06An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
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Episode 12 - The Last Cruise
Release Date: 1950-11-13Story about submariners
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Episode 13 - The Floor of Heaven
Release Date: 1950-11-20The story of young love and family pride.
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Episode 14 - The Shadow of a Man
Release Date: 1950-11-27After the death of Persis Bradford, both her son Francis and her second husband Alan are left with the cold empty life which leaves them to deal with their grief in an even colder atmosphere.
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Episode 15 - Letter from Cairo
Release Date: 1950-12-04Two members of the U. S. Intelligence Service become involved with Czechoslovakian patriots in exile in Austria. Their journey with this underground group takes them from the dungeons of Vienna to the high society world of New York City.
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Episode 16 - Mary Lou
Release Date: 1950-12-11A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood.
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Episode 17 - Little Women (Part 1)
Release Date: 1950-12-18Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 1 concentrates on Meg's story.
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Episode 18 - Little Women (Part 2)
Release Date: 1950-12-25Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 2 tells Jo's story.
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Episode 19 - Collector's Item
Release Date: 1951-01-01An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them
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Episode 20 - England Made Me
Release Date: 1951-01-08Kate persuades her brother Anthony, who has lied to get jobs, borrows things and then leaves in a hurry, to be her boyfriend's bodyguard, a powerful Swedish financier.
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Episode 21 - Track of the Cat
Release Date: 1951-01-15While Curt Bridges tracks down the panther that killed his brother Arthur, his family argues and bickers over whether younger brother Harold should marry a much-despised neighbor girl.
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Episode 22 - The Trial of John Peter Zenger
Release Date: 1951-01-22The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.
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Episode 23 - Public Servant
Release Date: 1951-01-29Pops Thatcher, an elderly resident of a rundown county poor farm, is appointed to the town council. His battle to save the farm exposes the corruption on the council and breaths new life into the local newspaper.
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Episode 24 - The Target
Release Date: 1951-02-05A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy.
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Episode 25 - None But My Foe
Release Date: 1951-02-12A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.
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Episode 26 - The Way Things Are
Release Date: 1951-02-19When Lucy and Barkley Cooper summon their grown children to announce that the bank has foreclosed the mortgage on their house, they are sure the children will provide a remedy.
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Episode 27 - The Ambassadors
Release Date: 1951-02-26A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
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Episode 28 - One Pair of Hands
Release Date: 1951-03-05A bored debutante decides to become a cook, because she once took a French cuisine class. What ensues is a comedic "Upstairs, Downstairs" tale between the wealthy upper class and the servants.
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Episode 29 - A Chill on the Wind
Release Date: 1951-03-12A couple encounter troubles aroused by selfish love and deceit.
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Episode 30 - Hangman's House
Release Date: 1951-03-19In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice.
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Episode 31 - The Case of Karen Smith
Release Date: 1951-03-26A detective investigates the murder of a millionaire, which was witnessed by a femme fatale.
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Episode 32 - Wintertime
Release Date: 1951-04-02A sea captain returns home to post-war Germany to find it in ruins, his shell-shocked fiancee missing a leg. When a lovely Latvian refugee stows away on his ship, he decides to help her.
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Episode 33 - Shake the Stars Down
Release Date: 1951-04-09A beautiful housewife turns career girl to help her husband but he doesn't want her help and trouble starts.
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Episode 34 - The Straight and Narrow
Release Date: 1951-04-16A young barrister forsakes his love to marry success but later discovers his former sweetheart has become a most influential figure, more powerful than his own father-in-law.
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Episode 35 - The Happy Housewife
Release Date: 1951-04-23A comedy about the hidden hazards in the separate careers of a husband and wife conflicting with their everyday life.
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Episode 36 - Portrait by Rembrandt
Release Date: 1951-04-30The struggling years of the great artist Rembrandt's career are dramatized.
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Episode 37 - No Tears for Hilda
Release Date: 1951-05-07A major in the Armed Forces attempts to clear his pal who is accused of murdering his wife.
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Episode 38 - The Old Foolishness
Release Date: 1951-05-14Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers. They are a farmer, a scholar and a Communist fighter respectively. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit.
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Episode 39 - A Chance for Happiness
Release Date: 1951-05-21A middle-aged British traveling salesman befriends and eventually marries a displace Pole who is hiding from Russians.
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Episode 40 - Here Is My Life
Release Date: 1951-05-28A young wife becomes infatuated with another man while her husband is overseas and her father tries to save her by bringing her supposedly dead mother out of obscurity.
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Episode 41 - Shield for Murder
Release Date: 1951-06-04A detective's investigation into a bookie's death and the missing $25,000 in cash, leads him to a corrupt cop thanks to a witness.
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Episode 42 - Coriolanus
Release Date: 1951-06-11Updating of the Shakespearean play from Roman time to Fascist Italy.
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Episode 43 - Screwball
Release Date: 1951-06-18Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
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Episode 44 - Lonely Boy
Release Date: 1951-06-25A grieving father must try and get his son over his wife's death. He swears that he talks to his mother all the time.
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Episode 45 - The Swan
Release Date: 1951-07-02A man is employed to tutor the children of an aristocratic family and has an affair with the lady of the house.
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Episode 46 - Nightfall
Release Date: 1951-07-09The cops, his girlfriend and his gang members are wondering why Vanning won't leave his room, especially since he's sitting on $300,000.
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Episode 47 - The Apple Tree
Release Date: 1951-07-16On their silver wedding day, Ashurst and his wife are on their way to Torquay for the festival when they stop at the moor where they had first met.
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Episode 48 - Tremolo
Release Date: 1951-07-23A jazz musician realizes that he is doing exactly what he wanted to avoid at all costs, making an impact with his music.
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Episode 49 - At Mrs. Beam's
Release Date: 1951-07-30When a mysterious pair from Paris arrive at the boardinghouse, gossip and wild events take place.
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Episode 50 - The Pink Hussar
Release Date: 1951-08-06A Hollywood producer tries to get $200,000 to finance his new play. Unfortunately, he finds that there are strings attached.
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Episode 51 - The Rabbit
Release Date: 1951-08-13A meek bank clerk suffers a blow on the head during a robbery and begins to show significant changes in his mode of life and personality.
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Episode 52 - Run from the Sun
Release Date: 1951-08-20A World War II veteran is framed for his wife's murder.
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Episode 53 - Summer Had Better Be Good
Release Date: 1951-08-27A young couple are dealing with life's ups and downs when they move from the city and settle in the country.
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Episode 54 - Mr. Mummery's Suspicion
Release Date: 1951-09-03British sleuth Mr. Mummery is out to catch a cook who disappeared after poisoning her guests. Wait a minute, Mr. Mummery just hired a new cook!
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Episode 55 - The Guinea Pig
Release Date: 1951-09-10A group of tough convicts volunteer for a cancer experiment to avoid their harsh sentences.