Studio One — Season 5
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 (50)
1. The Kill
Aired 22 September 1952 • 60 min
Grace 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.
2. The Square Peg
Aired 29 September 1952 • 60 min
A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.
3. The Doctor's Wife
Aired 6 October 1952 • 60 min
A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
4. Little Man, Big World
Aired 13 October 1952 • 60 min
A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
5. The Great Conspiracy
Aired 20 October 1952 • 60 min
The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
6. The Love Letter
Aired 27 October 1952 • 60 min
Professor 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.
7. The Incredible Mr. Glencannon
Aired 10 November 1952 • 60 min
An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
8. Plan For Escape
Aired 17 November 1952 • 60 min
A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
9. The Formula
Aired 24 November 1952 • 60 min
An 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.
10. I Am Jonathan Scrivener
Aired 1 December 1952 • 60 min
The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
11. The Hospital
Aired 8 December 1952 • 60 min
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
12. The Great Lady
Aired 15 December 1952 • 60 min
A 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.
13. The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
Aired 22 December 1952 • 60 min
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
14. Young Man Adam
Aired 29 December 1952 • 60 min
A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.
15. Black Rain
Aired 5 January 1953 • 60 min
A 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.
16. The Trial of John Peter Zenger
Aired 12 January 1953 • 60 min
The 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.
17. Signal Thirty-Two
Aired 19 January 1953 • 60 min
The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
18. To a Moment of Triumph
Aired 26 January 1953 • 60 min
A 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.
19. Mark of Cain
Aired 2 February 1953 • 60 min
A 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.
20. The River Garden
Aired 9 February 1953 • 60 min
The story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.
21. The Walsh Girls
Aired 16 February 1953 • 60 min
Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
22. The Show Piece
Aired 23 February 1953 • 60 min
An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.
23. My Beloved Husband
Aired 2 March 1953 • 60 min
An aging, lonely widow buys a young man's love. When she is found dead, questions are asked. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?
24. The Garretson Chronicle
Aired 9 March 1953 • 60 min
The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.
25. A Breath of Air
Aired 16 March 1953 • 60 min
After 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.
26. The Edge of Evil
Aired 23 March 1953 • 60 min
A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.
27. At Midnight on the Thirty-First of March
Aired 30 March 1953 • 60 min
A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
28. Shadow of the Devil
Aired 6 April 1953 • 60 min
Julia 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.
29. The Magic Lantern
Aired 13 April 1953 • 60 min
A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
30. The Fathers
Aired 20 April 1953 • 60 min
An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.
31. Along Came a Spider
Aired 27 April 1953 • 60 min
A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
32. Birthright
Aired 4 May 1953 • 60 min
A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
33. King Coffin
Aired 11 May 1953 • 60 min
A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
34. The Laugh Maker
8.0Aired 18 May 1953 • 60 min
Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.
35. Fly with the Hawk
Aired 24 May 1953 • 60 min
A 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.
36. Rendezvous
Aired 1 June 1953 • 60 min
A 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.
37. Conflict
Aired 8 June 1953 • 60 min
A 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.
38. The Paris Feeling
Aired 22 June 1953 • 60 min
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
39. Greed
Aired 29 June 1953 • 60 min
An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.
40. Beyond Reason
Aired 6 July 1953 • 60 min
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
41. End of the Honeymoon
Aired 13 July 1953 • 60 min
An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.
42. The Shadow of a Man
Aired 20 July 1953 • 60 min
After 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.
43. The King in Yellow
Aired 27 July 1953 • 60 min
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
44. The Roman Kid
Aired 3 August 1953 • 60 min
Tommy 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.
45. Flowers from a Stranger
Aired 10 August 1953 • 60 min
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
46. Sentence of Death
Aired 17 August 1953 • 60 min
A 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.
47. The Gathering Night
Aired 24 August 1953 • 60 min
The 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.
48. Letter from Cairo
Aired 31 August 1953 • 60 min
The 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.
49. Look Homeward, Hayseed
Aired 4 September 1953 • 60 min
A 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.
50. The Storm
Aired 14 September 1953 • 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.