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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.
Episode 42 : My Granny Van
June. 26,1950
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.
Episode 41 : There Was a Crooked Man
June. 19,1950
The murder of a boarding house lodger is investigated.
Episode 40 : Zone Four
June. 12,1950
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."
Episode 39 : The Taming of the Shrew
June. 05,1950
A modern dress version of the Shakespeare classic
Episode 38 : The Man Who Had Influence
May. 29,1950
The spoiled son of a politician learns a lesson when he is accused of murder.
Episode 37 : The Room Upstairs
May. 22,1950
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.
Episode 36 : The Ambassadors
May. 15,1950
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
Episode 35 : A Wreath of Roses
May. 08,1950
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.
Episode 34 : Miracle in the Rain
May. 01,1950
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Episode 33 : The Horse's Mouth
April. 24,1950
Gulley Jimson, a poor antisocial painter just out of jail, tries to convince people to pay him for paintings they didn't actually commission.
Episode 32 : Torrents of Spring
April. 17,1950
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.
Episode 31 : Walk the Dark Streets
April. 10,1950
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.
Episode 30 : The Scarlet Letter
April. 03,1950
Classic tale of adultery and betrayal.
Episode 29 : Passenger to Bali
March. 27,1950
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.
Episode 28 : The Survivors
March. 20,1950
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.
Episode 27 : The Dusty Godmother
March. 13,1950
A reporter for a major newspaper and his wife divorce. The court awards custody of their child to the wife.
Episode 26 : The Dreams of Jasper Hornby
March. 06,1950
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.
Episode 25 : The Willow Cabin
February. 27,1950
An American surgeon falls in love with a flighty British actress.
Episode 24 : The Wisdom Tooth
February. 20,1950
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.
Episode 23 : Flowers from a Stranger
February. 13,1950
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
Episode 22 : The Loud Red Patrick
February. 06,1950
A widower bringing up four daughters must deal with their eventual rebellion.
Episode 21 : Father and the Angels
January. 30,1950
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.
Episode 20 : The Rockingham Tea Set
January. 23,1950
A young nurse's romance is blighted by a spirit. An early appearance by Grace Kelly.
Episode 19 : Give Us Our Dream
January. 16,1950
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.
Episode 18 : Beyond Reason
January. 09,1950
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
Episode 17 : Riviera
January. 02,1950
Set in the French Riviera, this romantic love triangle occurs when the daughter of a wealthy Parisian widower vacations at the villa.
Episode 16 : The Inner Light
December. 26,1949
An English home for the blind is disrupted by a visiting scientist who supposedly has a miracle discovery for curing specific cases of blindness.
Episode 15 : Mary Poppins
December. 19,1949
A nanny of special talents is hired by George Banks, an old-fashioned London banker who is trying to raise his two naughty children.
Episode 14 : Jane Eyre
December. 12,1949
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.
Episode 13 : Henry IV
December. 05,1949
A wealthy eccentric Italian gentleman believes himself to be 11th-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.
Episode 12 : At Mrs. Beam's
November. 28,1949
At the height of the Bluebeard panic, a mysterious young couple from Paris raise fears at a London boarding house.
Episode 11 : Of Human Bondage
November. 21,1949
Story of a crippled medical student's romance with a heartless waitress in 1910 Paris.
Episode 10 : Two Sharp Knives
November. 14,1949
A murderer is found dead and his killer is sought.
Episode 9 : The Husband
November. 07,1949
A woman fears her late husband Connor has returned to haunt her.
Episode 8 : Concerning a Woman of Sin
October. 31,1949
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.
Episode 7 : Battleship Bismarck
October. 24,1949
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.
Episode 6 : The Storm
October. 17,1949
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
Episode 5 : The Light That Failed
October. 10,1949
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.
Episode 4 : Mrs. Moonlight
October. 03,1949
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.
Episode 3 : The Outward Room
September. 26,1949
A mentally disturbed woman tries to lead a normal life.
Episode 2 : The Rival Dummy
September. 19,1949
The murder of a ventriloquist's dummy
Episode 1 : Kyra Zelas
September. 12,1949
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.
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