Studio One — Season 8
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. Like Father, Like Son
Aired 19 September 1955 • 60 min
An ex-football hero who's now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.
2. Three Empty Rooms
Aired 26 September 1955 • 60 min
Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.
3. A Likely Story
Aired 3 October 1955 • 60 min
A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.
4. Uncle Ed and Circumstances
Aired 10 October 1955 • 60 min
Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""
5. A Most Contagious Game
Aired 17 October 1955 • 60 min
In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.
6. Private History
Aired 24 October 1955 • 60 min
A son runs for public office based on nothing more than his famous father's reputation. Dad didn't think to much of him - and says so in his private diaries. The candidate's job now is to discreetly remove all of the unflattering references.
7. Split Level
Aired 31 October 1955 • 60 min
Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Though their families share a split-level house, their lives are miles apart: the woman is from a once-prominent southern family, and the man is an Italian immigrant.
8. Shakedown Cruise
Aired 7 November 1955 • 60 min
A Navy crew is trapped in a crippled submarine on the ocean floor. The captain and his second in command must organize the men, who, before the accident, were torn by petty grievances.
9. The Judge and the Hangman
Aired 14 November 1955 • 60 min
In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.
10. Julie
Aired 21 November 1955 • 60 min
A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.
11. The Man Who Caught the Ball at Coogan's Bluff
Aired 28 November 1955 • 60 min
A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.
12. Blow Up at Cortland
Aired 5 December 1955 • 60 min
The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.
13. The Strongbox
Aired 12 December 1955 • 60 min
After the death of a Foreign Aid official, the reputation of the American Embassy in London comes into question. Was he a traitor or philanthropist?
14. Miracle at Potter's Farm
Aired 19 December 1955 • 60 min
Brucie and his elder sister, Jen, are two of five children who face separation and removal from the family farm after their father's death.
15. Fair Play
Aired 26 December 1955 • 60 min
A young army officer (Dewey Martin) waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier (James Gregory) is charged with a murder that was actually committed by the two MPs who arrested him. The officer risks his career in search of material that can exonerate the soldier.
16. Dino
Aired 2 January 1956 • 60 min
Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors, but he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring kid brother will be with him.
17. The Talented Mr. Ripley
Aired 9 January 1956 • 60 min
Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to from New York to Italy to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
18. Johnny August
Aired 16 January 1956 • 60 min
Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.
19. A Public Figure
Aired 23 January 1956 • 60 min
A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.
20. My Son Johnny
Aired 30 January 1956 • 60 min
A magazine writer, married to his part-time editor, is vaguely discontented with his life. Then one night he learns that after many years of marriage, he is going to be a father. The news has an extraordinary effect on the lives of the couple.
21. The Silent Gun
Aired 6 February 1956 • 60 min
A famous gunfighter of the Wild West teaches his young ranch boy companion an important lesson in life. A team of men set out to sell a new Colt firearm and one is a sharpshooter, the other a salesman. One of the men is the famous Ringo Kid. When his identity is learned, there is trouble.
22. Manhattan Duet
Aired 13 February 1955 • 60 min
Two columnists cover the political scene and are practically identical twins. One is married, one is single and the wife of one wishes the other would get married and move to the suburbs. When the confirmed bachelor does announce plans for an impending marriage the two men decide to have adjoining penthouse apartments and the wives have other ideas.
23. Circle of Guilt
Aired 20 February 1956 • 60 min
A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.
24. Always Welcome
Aired 27 February 1956 • 60 min
A widow takes in orphans and unwanted children with loving care. She finds her latest recruit is a little more troublesome than the others.
25. A Favor for Sam
Aired 5 March 1956 • 60 min
A quick-tempered cab driver picks up what appears to be two men and a drunk. On second look the drunk proves to be a corpse.
26. Flower of Pride
Aired 12 March 1956 • 60 min
A proud Florentine duchess's prayer to the Saint of the Impossible is answered in an unexpected manner. The Italian duchess has disowned her niece because the girl insists on living a gypsy-like life as a nightclub dancer. However, the arrival of a seemingly irreverent painter penetrates the stony facade of an archly unemotional duchess and humanizes her.
27. The Laughter of Giants
Aired 19 March 1956 • 60 min
A self-made man domineering in nature has a beautiful young wife who is interested in art. He introduces her to a young male artist to teach her to paint and learns a valuable lesson.
28. The Tale of St. Emergency
Aired 26 March 1956 • 60 min
An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.
29. This Will Do Nicely
Aired 2 April 1956 • 60 min
A man is dead. His wife calls in his best friend who is an amateur sleuth who calls it suicide but she calls it murder and says that he did it.
30. The Arena
Aired 9 April 1956 • 60 min
Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.
31. Regarding File Number 4356
Aired 16 April 1956 • 60 min
A social worker is being forced to deprive a childless couple of a baby they have cared for and want to adopt.
32. I Do
Aired 30 April 1956 • 60 min
A young couple elope and try to hide in New York from their disappointed parents.
33. The Drop of a Hat
Aired 7 May 1956 • 60 min
The offices of Mode, a glossy women's magazine, is thrown into chaos when the owner suddenly shows up. The editor fears for her job--but who in the office might replace her?
34. The Genie of Sutton Place
Aired 14 May 1956 • 60 min
In New York City, a 13-year-old boy discovers the magic words that set a wish-granting genie free.
35. The Star-Spangled Soldier
Aired 21 May 1956 • 60 min
A not too sharp commandant of a military academy gets into some hilarious situations when he mistakes his father's invention for a war missile.
36. Family Protection
Aired 28 May 1956 • 60 min
A bank robber has an agreement with a suburban couple to use their home as his hideout in return for a share of the loot.
37. The Power
Aired 4 June 1956 • 60 min
A young professor must discover which of his colleagues possesses the diabolical ability to control the minds of others.
38. Flight
Aired 11 June 1956 • 60 min
A Mexican youth who lives on the California coast near Monterrey leaves his family to go on his first trip alone into town during fiesta time.
39. Snap Your Fingers
Aired 18 June 1956 • 60 min
A beautiful girl is a witch and her vain ex-suitor has been transformed into a peacock. She finally meets a nice young man from Boston.
40. Mr. Arcularis
Aired 25 June 1956 • 60 min
While a man lies unconscious on the operating table, he dreams that he has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However, death follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens. The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love, forces him back to reality, at which point, he regains consciousness to find Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right.
41. The Luck of Luke McTigger
Aired 2 July 1956 • 60 min
Luke McTrigger, proprietor of the Olympia saloon and hotel, has been thinking hard and has finally come up with a sure-fire plan to win the hand of the widow Baines. Now the widow is nothing to look at, and some folks say she's a bull-headed old battle-axe, but she has an estimated fortune of $900, and that's a lot of money in the Wyoming of 1880!
42. Song for a Summer Night
Aired 9 July 1956 • 60 min
A man who once played a hot trumpet in a band wants to break away from his successful law practice for a night and hear some good jazz. He and two other friends visit a nightclub and he manages to hit a "high" note of his own.
43. Emmaline
Aired 16 July 1956 • 60 min
A best selling novel leads everyone to wonder about who the author is.
44. An Incident of Love
Aired 23 July 1956 • 60 min
A young housewife befriends a withdrawn blind neighbor with beneficial results.
45. The Ballad of Yermo Red
Aired 30 July 1956 • 60 min
Yermo Red is a sadistic cop employed by a western railroad who delights in beating up hobos and finally kills one. The hobos want to avenge the dead man by killing Yermo. But one of them who hates violence prevails on them to try something else. He composes a song, "The Ballad of Yermo Red", which everybody up and down the railroad line begins singing.
46. Something Ventured
Aired 6 August 1956 • 60 min
A savage businessman is so hated by his employees that they band together and plan their own competing company.
47. Giulio
Aired 27 August 1956 • 60 min
In the Italian section of New York City, the talented Giulio Costello and Rose Pinato, spend the warm summer evenings on a park bench discussing Giulio's future. The young man is torn between love and the chance for a career in grand opera.
48. A Day Before Battle
Aired 3 September 1956 • 60 min
On the night before the Battle of Gettysburg, several Union soldiers capture a Southern spy and try to decide if it is morally permissible to shoot a prisoner.
49. Cauliflower Heart
Aired 10 September 1956 • 60 min
A small town businessman's son is killed and in order to fill the void he takes a tough youngster who needs a father under his wing.
50. Dark Morning
Aired 17 September 1956 • 60 min
A lumber baron is bent on revenge and intends to hang a man whom he believes responsible for his brother's death.