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 - The Angelic Avengers
Release Date: 1951-09-17Two sisters move to a remote village in France to work for a retired English clergyman and his wife. They soon discover that there is an evil that pervades the home and attempt to overcome the evil that faces them.
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Episode 2 - The Little Black Bag
Release Date: 1951-09-24The story deals with the heroic efforts of nearly 40 years ago of Charles Seymour Whitman, New York County district attorney, to suppress attempts by gambling elements to gain control of city government. Whitman's prosecution of Police Lt. Becker after the officer was found to be implicated in the 1913 assassination of gambling boss Herman Rosenthal.
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Episode 3 - The Idol of San Vittore
Release Date: 1951-10-01The story of General Andreas della Rovere who was imprisoned by the Nazis and inspired fellow prisoners, despite the fact that he never existed!
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Episode 4 - Mighty Like A Rogue
Release Date: 1951-10-08A western comedy about the dingy wife of an outlaw who takes the rap for him and goes to prison, coming home with some new ideas.
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Episode 5 - Colonel Judas
Release Date: 1951-10-15A Czech ballerina, whose family is still trapped behind the Iron Curtain, is blackmailed into trapping a British spy for the Russians, but the spy is really a double agent.
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Episode 6 - Macbeth
Release Date: 1951-10-22Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
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Episode 7 - They Serve the Muses
Release Date: 1951-10-29A woman is torn between her love for the life of a professional tennis player and that of being a wife, a young lady finds herself on the horns of a domestic dilemma.
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Episode 8 - The Hero
Release Date: 1951-11-05A woman is torn between her love for the life of a professional tennis player and that of being a wife, a young lady finds herself on the horns of a domestic dilemma.
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Episode 9 - A Bolt of Lightning
Release Date: 1951-11-12The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during The Revolutionary War.
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Episode 10 - The King in Yellow
Release Date: 1951-11-19A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
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Episode 11 - The Dangerous Years
Release Date: 1951-11-26The contrast of 1950s parents raised in the Roaring Twenties with their children of the Atomic Age comes with new challenges.
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Episode 12 - Mutiny on the Nicolette
Release Date: 1951-12-03A man discovers that the good ship Nicolette is carrying weapons as cargo, and in order to prevent a war, he stages a mutiny with the crew against the Captain.
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Episode 13 - The Legend of Jenny Lind
Release Date: 1951-12-10P.T. Barnum hires the Swedish nightingale Jenny Lind to perform her music as part of "The Greatest Show on Earth".
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Episode 14 - The Innocence of Pastor Muller
Release Date: 1951-12-17The friend of a pleasant minister has invented a camera that takes a strange kind of photo, and with it, he plans to put Germany in a position to rule the world.
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Episode 15 - Sara Crewe
Release Date: 1951-12-24When Sara's father goes off to fight in the First World War, she is sent to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, an expensive and elite school. However, when her father is feared dead, she is relegated to menial duties.
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Episode 16 - The Paris Feeling
Release Date: 1951-12-31In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
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Episode 17 - The Devil in Velvet
Release Date: 1952-01-07A professor goes back in time to the 17th Century to save a woman from poisoning.
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Episode 18 - Waterfront Boss
Release Date: 1952-01-14The story of the infamous John M. Dunn's rise and fall as a notorious gangster on New York's Waterfront from 1934 to 1949.
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Episode 19 - The Other Father
Release Date: 1952-01-21Andrew Dynes, suffers from nearly every frustration a male can be expected to harbor. Bullied at his underpaid job, no longer in love with his wife but lacking strength to tell her, Dynes finds solace with a woman 20 years younger.
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Episode 20 - Burden of Guilt
Release Date: 1952-01-28The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters
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Episode 21 - A Candle for St. Jude
Release Date: 1952-02-04The story of young, talented ballet dancers
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Episode 22 - Pagoda
Release Date: 1952-02-11The owner of a charter airline must cope with disease and betrayal in war-torn Burma.
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Episode 23 - Success Story
Release Date: 1952-02-18Novelist Horatio Alger's life is full of accomplishments and huge disappointments as he reassesses his 'Rags to Riches' life.
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Episode 24 - Letter from an Unknown Woman
Release Date: 1952-02-25A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
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Episode 25 - Ten Thousand Horses Singing
Release Date: 1952-03-03James Dean and John Forsythe star in this story of a wealthy orphan who meets a shy airline owner aboard a plane and later discovers that a corpse has been stowed there.
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Episode 26 - The Wings of the Dove
Release Date: 1952-03-10An American journalist falls in love with a Londoner.
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Episode 27 - The Vintage Years
Release Date: 1952-03-17A baker retires at the insistence of his two successful sons.
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Episode 28 - Miss Hargreaves
Release Date: 1952-03-24Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.
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Episode 29 - The Story of Meg Mallory
Release Date: 1952-03-31The mayor's daughter, who is kidnapped, falls in love with one of her captors.
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Episode 30 - Pontius Pilate
Release Date: 1952-04-07The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances
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Episode 31 - Hold Back the Night
Release Date: 1952-04-14A group of Marines reminisce about home as they try to hold onto a North Korean mountain pass in 1950.
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Episode 32 - Lily, the Queen of the Movies
Release Date: 1952-04-21Lily's electrician boyfriend sees red when Lily is pursued by a wealthy suitor.
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Episode 33 - The Deep Dark
Release Date: 1952-04-28A terrible disaster at a coal mine devastates the community.
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Episode 34 - Treasure Island
Release Date: 1952-05-05The search is on for the pirate Flint's buried treasure on the treacherous ship of Long John Silver.
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Episode 35 - They Came to Baghdad
Release Date: 1952-05-12In the Middle East, Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure, gets more than she bargains for when a wounded agent dies in her hotel room during an important conference, which an underground organization is planning to sabotage.
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Episode 36 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Release Date: 1952-05-19Classic tale of a modern New Englander who travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
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Episode 37 - Abraham Lincoln
Release Date: 1952-05-26The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Lincoln
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Episode 38 - Captain-General of the Armies
Release Date: 1952-06-02A maladjusted child is threatened by an invasion of his hometown by a racketeer.
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Episode 39 - Lovers and Friends
Release Date: 1952-06-09A man jeopardizes his marriage by wanting to marry another woman. When he changes his mind, it's too late because now his wife wants to marry another man.
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Episode 40 - International Incident
Release Date: 1952-06-16An air liner flying over a middle eastern desert is forced to land in a remote spot and the passengers locked up. All are Americans or Britons. A man from the U.S. Embassay is interrogated and threatened unless he convinces another prisoner, an oil company executive, to collaborate with a new (unsaid but implied Soviet) regime.
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Episode 41 - There Was a Crooked Man
Release Date: 1952-06-23A whodunnit set in a boarding house where fat, jolly, and crippled Mr. Otis is found murdered
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Episode 42 - The Blonde Comes First
Release Date: 1952-06-30An 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 43 - The Rockingham Tea Set
Release Date: 1952-07-14To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a beautiful but neurotic young woman fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body. When her nurse discovers her treachery, she resorts to a final desperate act of revenge.
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Episode 44 - The Last Thing I Do
Release Date: 1952-07-28An irascible curator of a rare book collection plans the destruction of a rival professor whose research had discredited some of his most cherished theories 20 years before.
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Episode 45 - Jane Eyre
Release Date: 1952-08-04After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
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Episode 46 - The Man They Acquitted
Release Date: 1952-08-11After a doctor is acquitted of poisoning his evil invalid wife, he runs into complications in his attempt at a new life in Ireland.
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Episode 47 - One in a Million
Release Date: 1952-08-18A bizarre plot falls apart at the seams because of a trip through a subway. Seems that the plotters are riding on the 1,000,000th car to drive through the tunnel and thus their plot is uncovered as officials seek to honor them.
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Episode 48 - The Good Companions
Release Date: 1952-08-25A touring concert party named 'The Dinky Doos' are stranded in Rawsley because their manager has absconded with the funds and the lady pianist.
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Episode 49 - Stan, the Killer
Release Date: 1952-09-01A French inspector and his Polish assistant must stop a murderer in Paris.
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Episode 50 - The Happy Housewife
Release Date: 1952-09-08The story of the problems incurred by a couple when two careers become important instead of just one.
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Episode 51 - The Shadowy Third
Release Date: 1952-09-15The tale of a nurse who is hired by a surgeon to care for his mentally unbalanced wife and dead child.