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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 47 : The Dark Intruder
September. 02,1957
A music critic is mysteriously attacked in his Manhattan penthouse and thinks that a new composer whom he has panned is responsible.
Episode 46 : Guitar
August. 26,1957
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.
Episode 45 : Rudy
August. 19,1957
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.
Episode 44 : The Unmentionable Blues
August. 12,1957
A businessman feels life is all too soon passing him by. He seeks companionship from a young girl.
Episode 43 : My Mother and How She Undid Me
August. 05,1957
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.
Episode 42 : The Human Barrier
July. 29,1957
A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia, and guilt after he crashes a new jet.
Episode 41 : In Love with a Stranger
July. 22,1957
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.
Episode 40 : Love Me to Pieces
July. 15,1957
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.
Episode 39 : A Matter of Guilt
July. 08,1957
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.
Episode 38 : Death and Taxes
July. 01,1957
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.
Episode 37 : The Goodwill Ambassadors
June. 24,1957
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.
Episode 36 : The Staring Match
June. 17,1957
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.
Episode 35 : The Mother Bit
June. 10,1957
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.
Episode 34 : The Furlough
June. 03,1957
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.
Episode 33 : The Weston Strain
May. 27,1957
A young writer must decide if his first responsibility is to his family or his creative gift.
Episode 32 : The Man Who Wasn't Himself
May. 20,1957
Peter Hendon impersonated men in various professions as a surgeon, college professor and lawyer without any previous training in these fields.
Episode 31 : Babe in the Woods
May. 13,1957
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.
Episode 30 : The Out-of-Towners
May. 06,1957
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.
Episode 29 : Eight Feet to Midnight
April. 29,1957
A story about the outlawed Irish Republican Army
Episode 28 : The Traveling Lady
April. 22,1957
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.
Episode 27 : The Rice Sprout Song
April. 15,1957
A Chinese peasant family's struggle for survival under Communist rule as obstacles and tragedy unfold.
Episode 26 : The Playwright and the Stars
April. 08,1957
A Broadway producer signs a forgotten destitute one-time star in a pivotal role in his new play.
Episode 25 : The Years in Between
April. 01,1957
A boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door.
Episode 24 : A Member of the Family
March. 25,1957
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.
Episode 23 : Walk Down the Hill
March. 18,1957
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.
Episode 22 : A Child Is Waiting
March. 11,1957
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.
Episode 21 : The Defender (Part 2)
March. 04,1957
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.
Episode 20 : The Defender (Part 1)
February. 25,1957
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.
Episode 19 : The Hollywood Complex
February. 18,1957
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.
Episode 18 : A Walk in the Forest
February. 11,1957
A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.
Episode 17 : Tale of the Comet
February. 04,1957
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.
Episode 16 : Dead of Noon
January. 28,1957
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.
Episode 15 : The Five Dollar Bill
January. 21,1957
A sensitive young boy struggles to attain his own identity against the fumbling demands of his father and the solicitous affections of his mother.
Episode 14 : The Dark Corner
January. 14,1957
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.
Episode 13 : Love at Fourth Sight
January. 07,1957
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.
Episode 12 : Goodbye Piccadilly
December. 31,1956
A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.
Episode 11 : A Christmas Surprise
December. 24,1956
A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.
Episode 10 : Career
December. 17,1956
A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.
Episode 9 : Rachel
December. 10,1956
Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.
Episode 8 : Portrait of a Citizen
December. 03,1956
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.
Episode 7 : The Landlady's Daughter
November. 26,1956
When a smooth talking lawyer moves into the boarding house, tongues start wagging about the goings on with the landlady's daughter.
Episode 6 : The Pilot
November. 12,1956
This episode depicts the story of Sister Mary Aquinas, who was the first nun ever to become a licensed aeroplane pilot.
Episode 5 : American Primitive
October. 29,1956
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.
Episode 4 : The Crimes of Peter Page
October. 22,1956
The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.
Episode 3 : The Open Door
October. 15,1956
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.
Episode 2 : A Man's World
October. 01,1956
A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.
Episode 1 : A Special Announcement
September. 24,1956
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.
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