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Studio One

Season 9 1956 - 1957
TV-PG

  • 1956-09-25T02:00:00Z on CBS
  • 45m
  • 1d 23h (47 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
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.

47 episodes

Season Premiere

1956-09-25T02:00:00Z

9x01 A Special Announcement

Season Premiere

9x01 A Special Announcement

  • 1956-09-25T02:00:00Z1h

An eccentric hobbyist inadvertently gets the original draft of the Gettysburg Address at an auction. He decides to burn the paper to bring a focus of attention on the ideals it contains but agrees to wait until after a TV debate.

1956-10-02T02:00:00Z

9x02 A Man's World

9x02 A Man's World

  • 1956-10-02T02:00:00Z1h

A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.

1956-10-16T02:00:00Z

9x03 The Open Door

9x03 The Open Door

  • 1956-10-16T02:00:00Z1h

When a man thumbs a ride and gets into an argument with the driver, he receives a 90-day jail sentence, but to his surprise, he is offered a job as counterman in a diner near the jail while serving his term, according to the ""open door"" policy of the prison.

1956-10-23T02:00:00Z

9x04 The Crimes of Peter Page

9x04 The Crimes of Peter Page

  • 1956-10-23T02:00:00Z1h

The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.

1956-10-30T03:00:00Z

9x05 American Primitive

9x05 American Primitive

  • 1956-10-30T03:00:00Z1h

A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indian tom-toms beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.

1956-11-13T03:00:00Z

9x06 The Pilot

9x06 The Pilot

  • 1956-11-13T03:00:00Z1h

This episode depicts the story of Sister Mary Aquinas, who was the first nun ever to become a licensed aeroplane pilot.

1956-11-27T03:00:00Z

9x07 The Landlady's Daughter

9x07 The Landlady's Daughter

  • 1956-11-27T03:00:00Z1h

When a smooth talking lawyer moves into the boarding house, tongues start wagging about the goings on with the landlady's daughter.

1956-12-04T03:00:00Z

9x08 Portrait of a Citizen

9x08 Portrait of a Citizen

  • 1956-12-04T03:00:00Z1h

Lev Simon is in the U.S. illegally. As head of an immigrant family, he realizes his error when election time comes and he can't vote.

1956-12-11T03:00:00Z

9x09 Rachel

9x09 Rachel

  • 1956-12-11T03:00:00Z1h

Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.

1956-12-18T03:00:00Z

9x10 Career

9x10 Career

  • 1956-12-18T03:00:00Z1h

A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.

1956-12-25T03:00:00Z

9x11 A Christmas Surprise

9x11 A Christmas Surprise

  • 1956-12-25T03:00:00Z1h

A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.

1957-01-01T03:00:00Z

9x12 Goodbye Piccadilly

9x12 Goodbye Piccadilly

  • 1957-01-01T03:00:00Z1h

A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.

1957-01-08T03:00:00Z

9x13 Love at Fourth Sight

9x13 Love at Fourth Sight

  • 1957-01-08T03:00:00Z1h

A young bachelor has a recurring dream about a girl named Pat who calls to him and then disappears. His mother is startled when he claims to have actually found the girl.

1957-01-15T03:00:00Z

9x14 The Dark Corner

9x14 The Dark Corner

  • 1957-01-15T03:00:00Z1h

Laura Morgan goes with her new husband to live in his mother's cheerless house. From her husband's mother, she learns a terrible secret about his past.

1957-01-22T03:00:00Z

9x15 The Five Dollar Bill

9x15 The Five Dollar Bill

  • 1957-01-22T03:00:00Z1h

A sensitive young boy struggles to attain his own identity against the fumbling demands of his father and the solicitous affections of his mother.

1957-01-29T03:00:00Z

9x16 Dead of Noon

9x16 Dead of Noon

  • 1957-01-29T03:00:00Z1h

A western gunman obtains a law degree while serving time in jail. When released, he hopes to aid law and justice but learns that his days of gunslinging are not over yet.

1957-02-05T03:00:00Z

9x17 Tale of the Comet

9x17 Tale of the Comet

  • 1957-02-05T03:00:00Z1h

Tim Tully has reached the top as a successful comic but is ruthless behind the scenes alienating many. Then as his ratings begin to slide he finds it difficult to get anyone, especially writers, to work for him.

1957-02-12T03:00:00Z

9x18 A Walk in the Forest

9x18 A Walk in the Forest

  • 1957-02-12T03:00:00Z1h

A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.

1957-02-19T03:00:00Z

9x19 The Hollywood Complex

9x19 The Hollywood Complex

  • 1957-02-19T03:00:00Z1h

When a young movie executive, with a distorted conception of the values and rewards of Hollywood, rejects his father as an embarrassing symbol of the past, the executive's two roommates and an exotic dancer give kindness to the bewildered old man, and in so doing, discover something important about themselves and their own need for love.

1957-02-26T03:00:00Z

9x20 The Defender (Part 1)

9x20 The Defender (Part 1)

  • 1957-02-26T03:00:00Z1h

A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.

1957-03-05T03:00:00Z

9x21 The Defender (Part 2)

9x21 The Defender (Part 2)

  • 1957-03-05T03:00:00Z1h

A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.

1957-03-12T03:00:00Z

9x22 A Child Is Waiting

9x22 A Child Is Waiting

  • 1957-03-12T03:00:00Z1h

Nurse Jean Horst, who works in a retarded children's home, is drawn to Reuben Widdicomb, a little boy whose mother hasn't come to visit him.

1957-03-19T03:00:00Z

9x23 Walk Down the Hill

9x23 Walk Down the Hill

  • 1957-03-19T03:00:00Z1h

During World War II, a Jewish American soldier questions his heritage when he is thrown in a German prison camp and learns that the Jewish GI's are to be put into a separate camp.

1957-03-26T03:00:00Z

9x24 A Member of the Family

9x24 A Member of the Family

  • 1957-03-26T03:00:00Z1h

Ellis is the wealthy, elder brother of the Davenport clan, who touches off a family conflict of jealousy and suspicion when he transfers his interest from one nephew to another.

1957-04-02T03:00:00Z

9x25 The Years in Between

9x25 The Years in Between

  • 1957-04-02T03:00:00Z1h

A boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door.

9x26 The Playwright and the Stars

  • 1957-04-09T03:00:00Z1h

A Broadway producer signs a forgotten destitute one-time star in a pivotal role in his new play.

1957-04-16T03:00:00Z

9x27 The Rice Sprout Song

9x27 The Rice Sprout Song

  • 1957-04-16T03:00:00Z1h

A Chinese peasant family's struggle for survival under Communist rule as obstacles and tragedy unfold.

1957-04-23T03:00:00Z

9x28 The Traveling Lady

9x28 The Traveling Lady

  • 1957-04-23T03:00:00Z1h

Georgette and her little daughter arrive in a small Texas town to meet her husband, Henry, who has recently been released from prison. Georgette married Henry while he was a struggling singer, but soon after their marriage he was sent to prison for a 6-year term. Weak in character, Henry is now trying to make another start and is working as a gardener for one of the town's most trusting characters. But a new person enters Georgette's life, Slim Breedlove, a pleasant young man who offers to help her find her husband.

1957-04-30T02:00:00Z

9x29 Eight Feet to Midnight

9x29 Eight Feet to Midnight

  • 1957-04-30T02:00:00Z1h

A story about the outlawed Irish Republican Army

1957-05-07T02:00:00Z

9x30 The Out-of-Towners

9x30 The Out-of-Towners

  • 1957-05-07T02:00:00Z1h

A small-town postmistress, whose hopes are high when she makes her annual trip to the big city for a 3-day convention of Postal Employees, meets a middle-aged salesman and tries to encourage the acquaintanceship.

1957-05-14T02:00:00Z

9x31 Babe in the Woods

9x31 Babe in the Woods

  • 1957-05-14T02:00:00Z1h

A tall handsome and extremely naive young man from the Midwest arrives in New York and is bewildered by the series of situations he stumbles into.

9x32 The Man Who Wasn't Himself

  • 1957-05-21T02:00:00Z1h

Peter Hendon impersonated men in various professions as a surgeon, college professor and lawyer without any previous training in these fields.

1957-05-28T02:00:00Z

9x33 The Weston Strain

9x33 The Weston Strain

  • 1957-05-28T02:00:00Z1h

A young writer must decide if his first responsibility is to his family or his creative gift.

1957-06-04T02:00:00Z

9x34 The Furlough

9x34 The Furlough

  • 1957-06-04T02:00:00Z1h

A deranged soldier has escaped from the stockade vows to do away with his former platoon sergeant and trails him to the home of a dead buddy.

1957-06-11T02:00:00Z

9x35 The Mother Bit

9x35 The Mother Bit

  • 1957-06-11T02:00:00Z1h

A driven domineering career woman and her attempt to make a home in the country for her teen-age daughter. Kitty Sharpe is a popular television singer. Upon the death of her ex-husband, Kitty faces the problem of setting up housekeeping for the first time with her only child, Joy, a shy, attractive girl of seventeen.

1957-06-18T02:00:00Z

9x36 The Staring Match

9x36 The Staring Match

  • 1957-06-18T02:00:00Z1h

Set in a small ranch town that is suffering from drought, townspeople gather to pray for rain in the schoolhouse. There is a knock at the door and a man dressed all in white greets everyone by name. He says that his name is Mr. White and that he has been sent to help them find a well. Then another knock at the door reveals a man dressed all in black, who claims that his name is Mr. Black and that he is an angel of the Lord sent to help them also. Not knowing which man to trust, the dilemma is resolved by a ""staring match"" between the two men. In the end, the angel is revealed and water is discovered.

1957-06-25T02:00:00Z

9x37 The Goodwill Ambassadors

9x37 The Goodwill Ambassadors

  • 1957-06-25T02:00:00Z1h

An American agricultural expert and his wife are sent to a Latin-American country to help with its agricultural problems. The wife is distressed with the primitive native village where they are working and she misunderstands some of the villagers' customs and traditions.

1957-07-02T02:00:00Z

9x38 Death and Taxes

9x38 Death and Taxes

  • 1957-07-02T02:00:00Z1h

Henri and Marie own a bar in a small French town. They've been successfully cheating on their taxes for years, but that's about to end. A new tax collector's in town and the he's determined to make an example of slippery couple.

1957-07-09T02:00:00Z

9x39 A Matter of Guilt

9x39 A Matter of Guilt

  • 1957-07-09T02:00:00Z1h

A young wife is singled out as a hit-and-run driver through circumstantial evidence. Her husband desperately wages a battle to establish his wife's innocence.

1957-07-16T02:00:00Z

9x40 Love Me to Pieces

9x40 Love Me to Pieces

  • 1957-07-16T02:00:00Z1h

A publisher claims that he can make any song a hit. Drawing songs at random out of a file, he comes across a song by a teenage girl which she wrote when her romance had ended.

1957-07-23T02:00:00Z

9x41 In Love with a Stranger

9x41 In Love with a Stranger

  • 1957-07-23T02:00:00Z1h

Phyllis, a girl in her 20's, is just returning from her summer vacation, during which she has fallen in love with a struggling young musician. On the bus trip home Phyllis is telling her girlfriend of the difficulty she is going to have in breaking this news to her parents. Phyllis's parents and her aunt and uncle have made Phyllis the center of their lives. In their over-concern for her, they have naturally assumed she would marry George, the boy next door, whom she has known all her life. These four and George too, are on hand to welcome Phyllis home. Soon after their initial greeting, Phyllis tells them she intends to marry the young musician. They are shocked at the news and refuse to believe there can be anything to it.

1957-07-30T02:00:00Z

9x42 The Human Barrier

9x42 The Human Barrier

  • 1957-07-30T02:00:00Z1h

A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia, and guilt after he crashes a new jet.

9x43 My Mother and How She Undid Me

  • 1957-08-06T02:00:00Z1h

Baby Herman's view of adults as seen through his crib, looking in wide-eyed amazement into the faces of the people around him. He learns very early on how to wrap them around his finger with coos and howls.

1957-08-13T02:00:00Z

9x44 The Unmentionable Blues

9x44 The Unmentionable Blues

  • 1957-08-13T02:00:00Z1h

A businessman feels life is all too soon passing him by. He seeks companionship from a young girl.

1957-08-20T02:00:00Z

9x45 Rudy

9x45 Rudy

  • 1957-08-20T02:00:00Z1h

Rudy lives in a small New England town with his father. He begins to hang around a street gang called "The Eagles." These juvenile delinquents cause him problems with the law and his family. Rudy's loneliness and attempt to forget his crippled childhood turn his desperation into a new nightmare.

1957-08-27T02:00:00Z

9x46 Guitar

9x46 Guitar

  • 1957-08-27T02:00:00Z1h

A classical guitarist is forced to take a job playing popular music after his son refuses to follow in his footsteps as a famous artist.

Season Finale

1957-09-03T02:00:00Z

9x47 The Dark Intruder

Season Finale

9x47 The Dark Intruder

  • 1957-09-03T02:00:00Z1h

A music critic is mysteriously attacked in his Manhattan penthouse and thinks that a new composer whom he has panned is responsible.

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