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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 50 : The Storm
September. 14,1953
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 49 : Look Homeward, Hayseed
September. 04,1953
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.
Episode 48 : Letter from Cairo
August. 31,1953
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.
Episode 47 : The Gathering Night
August. 24,1953
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.
Episode 46 : Sentence of Death
August. 17,1953
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.
Episode 45 : Flowers from a Stranger
August. 10,1953
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
Episode 44 : The Roman Kid
August. 03,1953
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.
Episode 43 : The King in Yellow
July. 27,1953
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
Episode 42 : The Shadow of a Man
July. 20,1953
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.
Episode 41 : End of the Honeymoon
July. 13,1953
An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.
Episode 40 : Beyond Reason
July. 06,1953
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
Episode 39 : Greed
June. 29,1953
An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.
Episode 38 : The Paris Feeling
June. 22,1953
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
Episode 37 : Conflict
June. 08,1953
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.
Episode 36 : Rendezvous
June. 01,1953
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.
Episode 35 : Fly with the Hawk
May. 24,1953
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.
Episode 34 : The Laugh Maker
May. 18,1953
Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.
Episode 33 : King Coffin
May. 11,1953
A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
Episode 32 : Birthright
May. 04,1953
A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
Episode 31 : Along Came a Spider
April. 27,1953
A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
Episode 30 : The Fathers
April. 20,1953
An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.
Episode 29 : The Magic Lantern
April. 13,1953
A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
Episode 28 : Shadow of the Devil
April. 06,1953
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.
Episode 27 : At Midnight on the Thirty-First of March
March. 30,1953
A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
Episode 26 : The Edge of Evil
March. 23,1953
A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.
Episode 25 : A Breath of Air
March. 16,1953
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.
Episode 24 : The Garretson Chronicle
March. 09,1953
The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.
Episode 23 : My Beloved Husband
March. 02,1953
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?
Episode 22 : The Show Piece
February. 23,1953
An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.
Episode 21 : The Walsh Girls
February. 16,1953
Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
Episode 20 : The River Garden
February. 09,1953
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.
Episode 19 : Mark of Cain
February. 02,1953
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.
Episode 18 : To a Moment of Triumph
January. 26,1953
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.
Episode 17 : Signal Thirty-Two
January. 19,1953
The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
Episode 16 : The Trial of John Peter Zenger
January. 12,1953
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 15 : Black Rain
January. 05,1953
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.
Episode 14 : Young Man Adam
December. 29,1952
A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.
Episode 13 : The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
December. 22,1952
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
Episode 12 : The Great Lady
December. 15,1952
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.
Episode 11 : The Hospital
December. 08,1952
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
Episode 10 : I Am Jonathan Scrivener
December. 01,1952
The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
Episode 9 : The Formula
November. 24,1952
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.
Episode 8 : Plan For Escape
November. 17,1952
A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
Episode 7 : The Incredible Mr. Glencannon
November. 10,1952
An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
Episode 6 : The Love Letter
October. 27,1952
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.
Episode 5 : The Great Conspiracy
October. 20,1952
The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
Episode 4 : Little Man, Big World
October. 13,1952
A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
Episode 3 : The Doctor's Wife
October. 06,1952
A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
Episode 2 : The Square Peg
September. 29,1952
A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.
Episode 1 : The Kill
September. 22,1952
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.
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