Studio One — Season 4
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 (51)
1. The Angelic Avengers
Aired 17 September 1951 • 60 min
Two 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.
2. The Little Black Bag
Aired 24 September 1951 • 60 min
The 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.
3. The Idol of San Vittore
Aired 1 October 1951 • 60 min
The story of General Andreas della Rovere who was imprisoned by the Nazis and inspired fellow prisoners, despite the fact that he never existed!
4. Mighty Like A Rogue
Aired 8 October 1951 • 60 min
A 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.
5. Colonel Judas
Aired 15 October 1951 • 60 min
A 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.
6. Macbeth
Aired 22 October 1951 • 60 min
Macbeth, 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.
7. They Serve the Muses
Aired 29 October 1951 • 60 min
A 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.
8. The Hero
Aired 5 November 1951 • 60 min
A 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.
9. A Bolt of Lightning
Aired 12 November 1951 • 60 min
The 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.
10. The King in Yellow
Aired 19 November 1951 • 60 min
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
11. The Dangerous Years
Aired 26 November 1951 • 60 min
The contrast of 1950s parents raised in the Roaring Twenties with their children of the Atomic Age comes with new challenges.
12. Mutiny on the Nicolette
Aired 3 December 1951 • 60 min
A 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.
13. The Legend of Jenny Lind
Aired 10 December 1951 • 60 min
P.T. Barnum hires the Swedish nightingale Jenny Lind to perform her music as part of "The Greatest Show on Earth".
14. The Innocence of Pastor Muller
Aired 17 December 1951 • 60 min
The 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.
15. Sara Crewe
Aired 24 December 1951 • 60 min
When 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.
16. The Paris Feeling
Aired 31 December 1951 • 60 min
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
17. The Devil in Velvet
Aired 7 January 1952 • 60 min
A professor goes back in time to the 17th Century to save a woman from poisoning.
18. Waterfront Boss
Aired 14 January 1952 • 60 min
The story of the infamous John M. Dunn's rise and fall as a notorious gangster on New York's Waterfront from 1934 to 1949.
19. The Other Father
Aired 21 January 1952 • 60 min
Andrew 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.
20. Burden of Guilt
Aired 28 January 1952 • 60 min
The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters
21. A Candle for St. Jude
Aired 4 February 1952 • 60 min
The story of young, talented ballet dancers
22. Pagoda
Aired 11 February 1952 • 60 min
The owner of a charter airline must cope with disease and betrayal in war-torn Burma.
23. Success Story
Aired 18 February 1952 • 60 min
Novelist Horatio Alger's life is full of accomplishments and huge disappointments as he reassesses his 'Rags to Riches' life.
24. Letter from an Unknown Woman
Aired 25 February 1952 • 60 min
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
25. Ten Thousand Horses Singing
Aired 3 March 1952 • 60 min
James 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.
26. The Wings of the Dove
Aired 10 March 1952 • 60 min
An American journalist falls in love with a Londoner.
27. The Vintage Years
Aired 17 March 1952 • 60 min
A baker retires at the insistence of his two successful sons.
28. Miss Hargreaves
Aired 24 March 1952 • 60 min
Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.
29. The Story of Meg Mallory
Aired 31 March 1952 • 60 min
The mayor's daughter, who is kidnapped, falls in love with one of her captors.
30. Pontius Pilate
Aired 7 April 1952 • 60 min
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances
31. Hold Back the Night
Aired 14 April 1952 • 60 min
A group of Marines reminisce about home as they try to hold onto a North Korean mountain pass in 1950.
32. Lily, the Queen of the Movies
Aired 21 April 1952 • 60 min
Lily's electrician boyfriend sees red when Lily is pursued by a wealthy suitor.
33. The Deep Dark
Aired 28 April 1952 • 60 min
A terrible disaster at a coal mine devastates the community.
34. Treasure Island
Aired 5 May 1952 • 60 min
The search is on for the pirate Flint's buried treasure on the treacherous ship of Long John Silver.
35. They Came to Baghdad
Aired 12 May 1952 • 60 min
In 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.
36. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
6.0Aired 19 May 1952 • 60 min
Classic tale of a modern New Englander who travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
37. Abraham Lincoln
Aired 26 May 1952 • 60 min
The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Lincoln
38. Captain-General of the Armies
Aired 2 June 1952 • 60 min
A maladjusted child is threatened by an invasion of his hometown by a racketeer.
39. Lovers and Friends
Aired 9 June 1952 • 60 min
A 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.
40. International Incident
Aired 16 June 1952 • 60 min
An 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.
41. There Was a Crooked Man
Aired 23 June 1952 • 60 min
A whodunnit set in a boarding house where fat, jolly, and crippled Mr. Otis is found murdered
42. The Blonde Comes First
Aired 30 June 1952 • 60 min
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
43. The Rockingham Tea Set
Aired 14 July 1952 • 60 min
To 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.
44. The Last Thing I Do
Aired 28 July 1952 • 60 min
An 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.
45. Jane Eyre
Aired 4 August 1952 • 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.
46. The Man They Acquitted
Aired 11 August 1952 • 60 min
After a doctor is acquitted of poisoning his evil invalid wife, he runs into complications in his attempt at a new life in Ireland.
47. One in a Million
Aired 18 August 1952 • 60 min
A 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.
48. The Good Companions
Aired 25 August 1952 • 60 min
A touring concert party named 'The Dinky Doos' are stranded in Rawsley because their manager has absconded with the funds and the lady pianist.
49. Stan, the Killer
Aired 1 September 1952 • 60 min
A French inspector and his Polish assistant must stop a murderer in Paris.
50. The Happy Housewife
Aired 8 September 1952 • 60 min
The story of the problems incurred by a couple when two careers become important instead of just one.
51. The Shadowy Third
Aired 15 September 1952 • 60 min
The tale of a nurse who is hired by a surgeon to care for his mentally unbalanced wife and dead child.