Studio One — Season 2
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 (42)
1. Kyra Zelas
Aired 12 September 1949 • 60 min
Kyra Zelas is a very unusual girl, the doctor diagnoses her as being in the final stages of tuberculosis, when young Dr. Scott gives her an untested injection which miraculously heals her, leaving everyone surprised.
2. The Rival Dummy
Aired 19 September 1949 • 60 min
The murder of a ventriloquist's dummy
3. The Outward Room
Aired 26 September 1949 • 60 min
A mentally disturbed woman tries to lead a normal life.
4. Mrs. Moonlight
Aired 3 October 1949 • 60 min
A bride makes a wish on her wedding day to never look a day older than she does at that moment. Her wish becomes a curse as everyone and everything around her ages and she stays as youthful as ever.
5. The Light That Failed
Aired 10 October 1949 • 60 min
A war artist, Dick Helder, follows the British army into battle and experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.
6. The Storm
Aired 17 October 1949 • 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.
7. Battleship Bismarck
Aired 24 October 1949 • 60 min
Two weeks after its maiden voyage on May 13, 1941, the battleship Bismarck was spotted, torpedoed and sunk by the British in the North Atlantic. This was a crucial point in World War II for the Germans, taking more than 2,000 lives.
8. Concerning a Woman of Sin
Aired 31 October 1949 • 60 min
A literary agent seeks to represent the author of a sensational new screenplay and is surprised to find out that the author is only nine years old.
9. The Husband
Aired 7 November 1949 • 60 min
A woman fears her late husband Connor has returned to haunt her.
10. Two Sharp Knives
Aired 14 November 1949 • 60 min
A murderer is found dead and his killer is sought.
11. Of Human Bondage
Aired 21 November 1949 • 60 min
Story of a crippled medical student's romance with a heartless waitress in 1910 Paris.
12. At Mrs. Beam's
Aired 28 November 1949 • 60 min
At the height of the Bluebeard panic, a mysterious young couple from Paris raise fears at a London boarding house.
13. Henry IV
Aired 5 December 1949 • 60 min
A wealthy eccentric Italian gentleman believes himself to be 11th-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.
14. Jane Eyre
6.0Aired 12 December 1949 • 60 min
After 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.
15. Mary Poppins
Aired 19 December 1949 • 60 min
A nanny of special talents is hired by George Banks, an old-fashioned London banker who is trying to raise his two naughty children.
16. The Inner Light
Aired 26 December 1949 • 60 min
An English home for the blind is disrupted by a visiting scientist who supposedly has a miracle discovery for curing specific cases of blindness.
17. Riviera
Aired 2 January 1950 • 60 min
Set in the French Riviera, this romantic love triangle occurs when the daughter of a wealthy Parisian widower vacations at the villa.
18. Beyond Reason
Aired 9 January 1950 • 60 min
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
19. Give Us Our Dream
Aired 16 January 1950 • 60 min
A widow named Mrs. Marsan lives in an apartment complex and pries into her neighbors' personal affairs. She is happiest when unsuspecting lovers argue and she can focus her opera glasses on them. Her innocently disingenuous nosiness helps to bring about a marriage between two cripples, a therapeutic romance for a depressed war widow, a happy ending in a sordid triangle affair. Even her death from heart trouble helps a friend, radical and fanatic, somehow learns a lesson in elementary humanity.
20. The Rockingham Tea Set
6.0Aired 23 January 1950 • 60 min
A young nurse's romance is blighted by a spirit. An early appearance by Grace Kelly.
21. Father and the Angels
Aired 30 January 1950 • 60 min
The story of a minister whose church is sandwiched between a firehouse and a brewery and who desires to build a new house of worship in a better place.
22. The Loud Red Patrick
Aired 6 February 1950 • 60 min
A widower bringing up four daughters must deal with their eventual rebellion.
23. Flowers from a Stranger
Aired 13 February 1950 • 60 min
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
24. The Wisdom Tooth
Aired 20 February 1950 • 60 min
A clerk fantasizes himself as a young freckled faced vital boy unlike his present persona, a pale and pulseless man and has the boy in him stir to life the courage to tell his boss off and ask his girl to marry him.
25. The Willow Cabin
Aired 27 February 1950 • 60 min
An American surgeon falls in love with a flighty British actress.
26. The Dreams of Jasper Hornby
Aired 6 March 1950 • 60 min
A wounded robber hands his loot to Jasper Hornby before dying. The rest of his gang begins a door-to-door search for the money.
27. The Dusty Godmother
Aired 13 March 1950 • 60 min
A reporter for a major newspaper and his wife divorce. The court awards custody of their child to the wife.
28. The Survivors
Aired 20 March 1950 • 60 min
Peter Decker returns from the American Civil War with a grudge against his neighbor, an army brigade troop leader. The showdown takes place according to the rules of the Wild West, where guns settled all conflicts but those rules are slowly being replace by civilization, and the rule of law.
29. Passenger to Bali
Aired 27 March 1950 • 60 min
A freighter captain agrees to take on an innocent looking passenger who proves to be a fountain of evil and impossible to get rid of.
30. The Scarlet Letter
Aired 3 April 1950 • 60 min
Classic tale of adultery and betrayal.
31. Walk the Dark Streets
Aired 10 April 1950 • 60 min
Janice Morel is an aging actress who works in a run-down nightclub. One night she's discovered naked in her hotel room, knifed to death.
32. Torrents of Spring
Aired 17 April 1950 • 60 min
A man falls in lust with another, abandoning his beloved Gemma in favor of a fling. Unhappy and unfulfilled with his decision he seeks out his beloved Gemma once again.
33. The Horse's Mouth
Aired 24 April 1950 • 60 min
Gulley Jimson, a poor antisocial painter just out of jail, tries to convince people to pay him for paintings they didn't actually commission.
34. Miracle in the Rain
Aired 1 May 1950 • 60 min
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
35. A Wreath of Roses
Aired 8 May 1950 • 60 min
Camilla feels lonely and insecure that her husband is more interested in painting than spending time with her. Camilla steps into an unlikely affair with Richard Elton, a dangerous liar.
36. The Ambassadors
Aired 15 May 1950 • 60 min
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
37. The Room Upstairs
Aired 22 May 1950 • 60 min
A hard-boiled private eye receives a call from a small-town policeman who suspects an auto accident which involves the daughter of a prominent citizen is connected with the finding of the body of a young girl in the river.
38. The Man Who Had Influence
4.0Aired 29 May 1950 • 60 min
The spoiled son of a politician learns a lesson when he is accused of murder.
39. The Taming of the Shrew
Aired 5 June 1950 • 60 min
A modern dress version of the Shakespeare classic
40. Zone Four
Aired 12 June 1950 • 60 min
A 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."
41. There Was a Crooked Man
Aired 19 June 1950 • 60 min
The murder of a boarding house lodger is investigated.
42. My Granny Van
Aired 26 June 1950 • 60 min
Orphaned at a young age, George, one of twelve siblings went to live with his grandmother, a woman with tremendous spirit and natural dignity in the wild west, which inspired George to become a writer of those less fortunate.