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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 55 : The Guinea Pig
September. 10,1951
A group of tough convicts volunteer for a cancer experiment to avoid their harsh sentences.
Episode 54 : Mr. Mummery's Suspicion
September. 03,1951
British sleuth Mr. Mummery is out to catch a cook who disappeared after poisoning her guests. Wait a minute, Mr. Mummery just hired a new cook!
Episode 53 : Summer Had Better Be Good
August. 27,1951
A young couple are dealing with life's ups and downs when they move from the city and settle in the country.
Episode 52 : Run from the Sun
August. 20,1951
A World War II veteran is framed for his wife's murder.
Episode 51 : The Rabbit
August. 13,1951
A meek bank clerk suffers a blow on the head during a robbery and begins to show significant changes in his mode of life and personality.
Episode 50 : The Pink Hussar
August. 06,1951
A Hollywood producer tries to get $200,000 to finance his new play. Unfortunately, he finds that there are strings attached.
Episode 49 : At Mrs. Beam's
July. 30,1951
When a mysterious pair from Paris arrive at the boardinghouse, gossip and wild events take place.
Episode 48 : Tremolo
July. 23,1951
A jazz musician realizes that he is doing exactly what he wanted to avoid at all costs, making an impact with his music.
Episode 47 : The Apple Tree
July. 16,1951
On their silver wedding day, Ashurst and his wife are on their way to Torquay for the festival when they stop at the moor where they had first met.
Episode 46 : Nightfall
July. 09,1951
The cops, his girlfriend and his gang members are wondering why Vanning won't leave his room, especially since he's sitting on $300,000.
Episode 45 : The Swan
July. 02,1951
A man is employed to tutor the children of an aristocratic family and has an affair with the lady of the house.
Episode 44 : Lonely Boy
June. 25,1951
A grieving father must try and get his son over his wife's death. He swears that he talks to his mother all the time.
Episode 43 : Screwball
June. 18,1951
Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
Episode 42 : Coriolanus
June. 11,1951
Updating of the Shakespearean play from Roman time to Fascist Italy.
Episode 41 : Shield for Murder
June. 04,1951
A detective's investigation into a bookie's death and the missing $25,000 in cash, leads him to a corrupt cop thanks to a witness.
Episode 40 : Here Is My Life
May. 28,1951
A young wife becomes infatuated with another man while her husband is overseas and her father tries to save her by bringing her supposedly dead mother out of obscurity.
Episode 39 : A Chance for Happiness
May. 21,1951
A middle-aged British traveling salesman befriends and eventually marries a displace Pole who is hiding from Russians.
Episode 38 : The Old Foolishness
May. 14,1951
Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers. They are a farmer, a scholar and a Communist fighter respectively. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit.
Episode 37 : No Tears for Hilda
May. 07,1951
A major in the Armed Forces attempts to clear his pal who is accused of murdering his wife.
Episode 36 : Portrait by Rembrandt
April. 30,1951
The struggling years of the great artist Rembrandt's career are dramatized.
Episode 35 : The Happy Housewife
April. 23,1951
A comedy about the hidden hazards in the separate careers of a husband and wife conflicting with their everyday life.
Episode 34 : The Straight and Narrow
April. 16,1951
A young barrister forsakes his love to marry success but later discovers his former sweetheart has become a most influential figure, more powerful than his own father-in-law.
Episode 33 : Shake the Stars Down
April. 09,1951
A beautiful housewife turns career girl to help her husband but he doesn't want her help and trouble starts.
Episode 32 : Wintertime
April. 02,1951
A sea captain returns home to post-war Germany to find it in ruins, his shell-shocked fiancee missing a leg. When a lovely Latvian refugee stows away on his ship, he decides to help her.
Episode 31 : The Case of Karen Smith
March. 26,1951
A detective investigates the murder of a millionaire, which was witnessed by a femme fatale.
Episode 30 : Hangman's House
March. 19,1951
In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice.
Episode 29 : A Chill on the Wind
March. 12,1951
A couple encounter troubles aroused by selfish love and deceit.
Episode 28 : One Pair of Hands
March. 05,1951
A bored debutante decides to become a cook, because she once took a French cuisine class. What ensues is a comedic "Upstairs, Downstairs" tale between the wealthy upper class and the servants.
Episode 27 : The Ambassadors
February. 26,1951
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
Episode 26 : The Way Things Are
February. 19,1951
When Lucy and Barkley Cooper summon their grown children to announce that the bank has foreclosed the mortgage on their house, they are sure the children will provide a remedy.
Episode 25 : None But My Foe
February. 12,1951
A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.
Episode 24 : The Target
February. 05,1951
A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy.
Episode 23 : Public Servant
January. 29,1951
Pops Thatcher, an elderly resident of a rundown county poor farm, is appointed to the town council. His battle to save the farm exposes the corruption on the council and breaths new life into the local newspaper.
Episode 22 : The Trial of John Peter Zenger
January. 22,1951
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.
Episode 21 : Track of the Cat
January. 15,1951
While Curt Bridges tracks down the panther that killed his brother Arthur, his family argues and bickers over whether younger brother Harold should marry a much-despised neighbor girl.
Episode 20 : England Made Me
January. 08,1951
Kate persuades her brother Anthony, who has lied to get jobs, borrows things and then leaves in a hurry, to be her boyfriend's bodyguard, a powerful Swedish financier.
Episode 19 : Collector's Item
January. 01,1951
An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them
Episode 18 : Little Women (Part 2)
December. 25,1950
Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 2 tells Jo's story.
Episode 17 : Little Women (Part 1)
December. 18,1950
Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 1 concentrates on Meg's story.
Episode 16 : Mary Lou
December. 11,1950
A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood.
Episode 15 : Letter from Cairo
December. 04,1950
Two members of the U. S. Intelligence Service become involved with Czechoslovakian patriots in exile in Austria. Their journey with this underground group takes them from the dungeons of Vienna to the high society world of New York City.
Episode 14 : The Shadow of a Man
November. 27,1950
After the death of Persis Bradford, both her son Francis and her second husband Alan are left with the cold empty life which leaves them to deal with their grief in an even colder atmosphere.
Episode 13 : The Floor of Heaven
November. 20,1950
The story of young love and family pride.
Episode 12 : The Last Cruise
November. 13,1950
Story about submariners
Episode 11 : The Blonde Comes First
November. 06,1950
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
Episode 10 : Wuthering Heights
October. 30,1950
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
Episode 9 : The Road to Jericho
October. 23,1950
A woman has a clandestine meeting with a man, other than her husband and uncovers some murder evidence that will prevent an innocent man from going to prison. The woman's husband is the assistant district attorney who is trying to send the innocent man to prison.
Episode 8 : Good for Thirty Days
October. 16,1950
An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery.
Episode 7 : The Spectre of Alexander Wolff
October. 09,1950
A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground.
Episode 6 : The Passionate Pilgrim
October. 02,1950
The story of Sister Elizabeth Wheeler, who accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea to help the British wounded. Dismissed for speaking out against the atrocities, she was later honored by Robert E. Lee for her service to the Confederate Army.
Episode 5 : Away from It All
September. 25,1950
A Navy Lieutenant pilot and a Sergeant crash land on an island and stumble upon a lavish estate where a group of wealthy people all thought to have died now live.
Episode 4 : Trilby
September. 18,1950
The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer
Episode 3 : Mist with the Tamara Geba
September. 11,1950
A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder.
Episode 2 : Look Homeward, Hayseed
September. 04,1950
A city-bred radio announcer thinks that he's the best thing that happened to the rural broadcasting station where he is now working until he gets a rude country style awakening.
Episode 1 : Zone Four
August. 28,1950
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."
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