Studio One — Season 1
A wide range of memorable dramas during the Golden Age of Television.
About this season
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.
Episodes (20)
1. The Storm
Aired 7 November 1948 • 60 min
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
2. Let Me Do the Talking
Aired 26 November 1948 • 60 min
A young agent in the publishing business wheels and deals his way up the ladder, stepping on a few too many toes along the way.
3. The Medium
Aired 12 December 1948 • 60 min
Madame Flora conducts bogus seances to bilk grieving parents, but during one seance she feels hands around her neck and panics.
4. Not So Long Ago
Aired 26 December 1948 • 60 min
An elderly woman remembers back to a time in her youth when she was pursued by two gentlemen.
5. The Outward Room
Aired 9 January 1949 • 60 min
A story about psychological breakdown and recovery
6. Blind Alley
Aired 30 January 1949 • 60 min
A psychopathic killer escapes from prison and comes under the care of a noted psychiatrist.
7. Holiday
Aired 20 February 1949 • 60 min
The happy-go-lucky Johnny Case, a self-made man with the dream of making just enough money to retire on and then traveling around the world, proposes to the lovely Julia in Lake Placid but later discovers she's the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.
8. Julius Caesar
Aired 6 March 1949 • 60 min
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play
9. Berkeley Square
Aired 20 March 1949 • 60 min
When a young American inherits a house in London, he travels back in time to the Revolutionary War and encounters his ancestors.
10. Redemption
Aired 3 April 1949 • 60 min
Victor Karenin is devastated when his fiancée Lisa leaves him for Fedya but is happily surprised when Fedya falls for a young reckless gypsy girl.
11. Moment of Truth
Aired 17 April 1949 • 60 min
Five refugees vie for a seat on a flight to escape a Communist occupied Britain.
12. Julius Caesar
Aired 1 May 1949 • 60 min
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play about Roman politics
13. The Glass Key
Aired 11 May 1949 • 60 min
When his boss, a corrupt politician, is accused of murder, a man hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way.
14. Shadow and Substance
Aired 18 May 1949 • 60 min
A true believer brings others, through the uncorrupted purity and simplicity of her own faith, back to first principles.
15. Flowers from a Stranger
Aired 25 May 1949 • 60 min
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
16. The Dybbuk
Aired 1 June 1949 • 60 min
A haunting tale about ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in a small Jewish town in Eastern Europe. The restless spirit of a dead man enters the body of the woman he was pledged to marry.
17. Boy Meets Girl
Aired 8 June 1949 • 60 min
A pair of screenwriters are ordered to concoct a comeback screenplay for a cowboy star whose star is on the wane.
18. Smoke
Aired 15 June 1949 • 60 min
"Smoke" is the story of European community roots and changes, reflected both in Russian politics and in the lives of two individuals who find philosophies diverging.
19. June Moon
Aired 22 June 1949 • 60 min
A naive Schenectady shipping clerk comes to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a lyricist, befriends a one-hit wonder composer, and meets the girl of his dreams.
20. The Shadowy Third
Aired 29 June 1949 • 60 min
A handsome doctor becomes the object of affection of several of his female patients, young and old alike.