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 Kill
Release Date: 1952-09-22Grace Kelly in a very good early performance as the wife of Dick Foran, who is wrongly accused of murder. Nina Foch plays Foran's old girl friend who is still in love with him.
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Episode 2 - The Square Peg
Release Date: 1952-09-29A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.
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Episode 3 - The Doctor's Wife
Release Date: 1952-10-06A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
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Episode 4 - Little Man, Big World
Release Date: 1952-10-13A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
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Episode 5 - The Great Conspiracy
Release Date: 1952-10-20The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
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Episode 6 - The Love Letter
Release Date: 1952-10-27Professor White teaches at a provincial university who has lost his enjoyment of teaching. His hatred of youth and all it embellishes has destroyed his faith.
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Episode 7 - The Incredible Mr. Glencannon
Release Date: 1952-11-10An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
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Episode 8 - Plan For Escape
Release Date: 1952-11-17A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
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Episode 9 - The Formula
Release Date: 1952-11-24An American spy and his wife, with the help of the widow of a Swiss scientist, compete with enemy agents to find the scientist's hidden formula for a psycho-active gas that erases the will to resist.
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Episode 10 - I Am Jonathan Scrivener
Release Date: 1952-12-01The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
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Episode 11 - The Hospital
Release Date: 1952-12-08A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
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Episode 12 - The Great Lady
Release Date: 1952-12-15A man travels to France on business and meets a beautiful but married woman whom he falls in love with. They plan to marry once she divorces, but her soon-to-be ex-husband attempts suicide, feeling there is no hope for them she stays with her husband.
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Episode 13 - The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
Release Date: 1952-12-22The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
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Episode 14 - Young Man Adam
Release Date: 1952-12-29A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.
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Episode 15 - Black Rain
Release Date: 1953-01-05A happy but impoverished family has to decide on continuing their present happiness or having a secure financial future when their rich yet troublesome aunt comes to live with them.
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Episode 16 - The Trial of John Peter Zenger
Release Date: 1953-01-12The 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 17 - Signal Thirty-Two
Release Date: 1953-01-19The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
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Episode 18 - To a Moment of Triumph
Release Date: 1953-01-26A young man on parole after seven years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate. While his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
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Episode 19 - Mark of Cain
Release Date: 1953-02-02A young man on parole after 7 years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate, but while his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
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Episode 20 - The River Garden
Release Date: 1953-02-09The story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.
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Episode 21 - The Walsh Girls
Release Date: 1953-02-16Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
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Episode 22 - The Show Piece
Release Date: 1953-02-23An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.
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Episode 23 - My Beloved Husband
Release Date: 1953-03-02An aging, lonely widow buys a young man's love. When she is found dead, questions are asked. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?
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Episode 24 - The Garretson Chronicle
Release Date: 1953-03-09The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.
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Episode 25 - A Breath of Air
Release Date: 1953-03-16After being thrown off course and landing on the island of Terraqueous, a man falls in love with the island's magical qualities as well as the people that inhabit the place.
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Episode 26 - The Edge of Evil
Release Date: 1953-03-23A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.
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Episode 27 - At Midnight on the Thirty-First of March
Release Date: 1953-03-30A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
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Episode 28 - Shadow of the Devil
Release Date: 1953-04-06Julia Winston is left penniless and in debt in Rome when her young artist husband is killed in an accident. Desperate, she allows herself to be influenced by an evil woman.
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Episode 29 - The Magic Lantern
Release Date: 1953-04-13A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
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Episode 30 - The Fathers
Release Date: 1953-04-20An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.
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Episode 31 - Along Came a Spider
Release Date: 1953-04-27A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
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Episode 32 - Birthright
Release Date: 1953-05-04A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
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Episode 33 - King Coffin
Release Date: 1953-05-11A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
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Episode 34 - The Laugh Maker
Release Date: 1953-05-18Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.
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Episode 35 - Fly with the Hawk
Release Date: 1953-05-24A young woman's car breaks down in front of an abandoned garage which is used as headquarters for a band of crooks. Her sudden appearance on the scene causes some unforeseen complications in the gang's plans and she unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a planned robbery.
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Episode 36 - Rendezvous
Release Date: 1953-06-01A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer-protege and meets a woman he had known many years before.
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Episode 37 - Conflict
Release Date: 1953-06-08A prisoner of war returns home after being declared dead and finds that his money and property have been left by his father to his childhood sweetheart, who refuses to return it.
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Episode 38 - The Paris Feeling
Release Date: 1953-06-22In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
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Episode 39 - Greed
Release Date: 1953-06-29An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.
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Episode 40 - Beyond Reason
Release Date: 1953-07-06A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
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Episode 41 - End of the Honeymoon
Release Date: 1953-07-13An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.
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Episode 42 - The Shadow of a Man
Release Date: 1953-07-20After the death of his mother, a young man begins his journey to maturity. His grief opens his eyes not only to himself but to his stepfather whom he's always disliked.
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Episode 43 - The King in Yellow
Release Date: 1953-07-27A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
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Episode 44 - The Roman Kid
Release Date: 1953-08-03Tommy Thompson, a streetwise New York sportswriter, falls in love with beautiful, demure Carla, a receptionist and tour guide at a museum in Rome. Carla's father, the museum's curator, and her fiance, his associate, both oppose Tommy's attentions to Carla. Although the odds are against him, Tommy wins the girl by saving Carla's father from disgrace and ruin.
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Episode 45 - Flowers from a Stranger
Release Date: 1953-08-10A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
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Episode 46 - Sentence of Death
Release Date: 1953-08-17A woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his execution date, she sees the real killer, but the police are reluctant to reopen the case.
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Episode 47 - The Gathering Night
Release Date: 1953-08-24The story of a lonely child, Dick Heldar, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army into battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.
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Episode 48 - Letter from Cairo
Release Date: 1953-08-31The mysterious disappearance of intelligence officer Steve Spence, after writing a letter to his wife in New York asking for a divorce comes under suspicion from his wife. She doesn't believe that he wrote the letter and a search for the agent is started.
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Episode 49 - Look Homeward, Hayseed
Release Date: 1953-09-04A city-bred radio announcer begins to believe his own publicity when he finds himself a success as a crack-of-dawn rural broadcaster. He gets a rude awakening, but not from a mere rooster.
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Episode 50 - The Storm
Release Date: 1953-09-14During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.