Fletcher Markle
Director
Studio One (1948)
Season 5
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.
Released Nov. 7, 1948
Episode 60 min
10+
Genres: Drama
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Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S5E1 - The Kill
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.
Sept. 22, 1952, midnight
S5E2 - The Square Peg
A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.
Sept. 29, 1952, midnight
S5E3 - The Doctor's Wife
A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
Oct. 6, 1952, midnight
S5E4 - Little Man, Big World
A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
Oct. 13, 1952, midnight
S5E5 - The Great Conspiracy
The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
Oct. 20, 1952, midnight
S5E6 - The Love Letter
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.
Oct. 27, 1952, midnight
S5E7 - The Incredible Mr. Glencannon
An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
Nov. 10, 1952, midnight
S5E8 - Plan For Escape
A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
Nov. 17, 1952, midnight
S5E9 - The Formula
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.
Nov. 24, 1952, midnight
S5E10 - I Am Jonathan Scrivener
The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
Dec. 1, 1952, midnight
S5E11 - The Hospital
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
Dec. 8, 1952, midnight
S5E12 - The Great Lady
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.
Dec. 15, 1952, midnight
S5E13 - The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
Dec. 22, 1952, midnight
S5E14 - Young Man Adam
A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.
Dec. 29, 1952, midnight
S5E15 - Black Rain
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.
Jan. 5, 1953, midnight
S5E16 - The Trial of John Peter Zenger
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.
Jan. 12, 1953, midnight
S5E17 - Signal Thirty-Two
The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
Jan. 19, 1953, midnight
S5E18 - To a Moment of Triumph
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.
Jan. 26, 1953, midnight
S5E19 - Mark of Cain
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.
Feb. 2, 1953, midnight
S5E20 - The River Garden
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.
Feb. 9, 1953, midnight
S5E21 - The Walsh Girls
Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
Feb. 16, 1953, midnight
S5E22 - The Show Piece
An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.
Feb. 23, 1953, midnight
S5E23 - My Beloved Husband
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?
March 2, 1953, midnight
S5E24 - The Garretson Chronicle
The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.
March 9, 1953, midnight
S5E25 - A Breath of Air
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.
March 16, 1953, midnight
S5E26 - The Edge of Evil
A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.
March 23, 1953, midnight
S5E27 - At Midnight on the Thirty-First of March
A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
March 30, 1953, midnight
S5E28 - Shadow of the Devil
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.
April 6, 1953, midnight
S5E29 - The Magic Lantern
A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
April 13, 1953, midnight
S5E30 - The Fathers
An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.
April 20, 1953, midnight
S5E31 - Along Came a Spider
A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
April 27, 1953, midnight
S5E32 - Birthright
A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
May 4, 1953, midnight
S5E33 - King Coffin
A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
May 11, 1953, midnight
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S5E34 - The Laugh Maker
Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.
May 18, 1953, midnight
S5E35 - Fly with the Hawk
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.
May 24, 1953, midnight
S5E36 - Rendezvous
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.
June 1, 1953, midnight
S5E37 - Conflict
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.
June 8, 1953, midnight
S5E38 - The Paris Feeling
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
June 22, 1953, midnight
S5E39 - Greed
An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.
June 29, 1953, midnight
S5E40 - Beyond Reason
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
July 6, 1953, midnight
S5E41 - End of the Honeymoon
An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.
July 13, 1953, midnight
S5E42 - The Shadow of a Man
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.
July 20, 1953, midnight
S5E43 - The King in Yellow
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
July 27, 1953, midnight
S5E44 - The Roman Kid
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.
Aug. 3, 1953, midnight
S5E45 - Flowers from a Stranger
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
Aug. 10, 1953, midnight
S5E46 - Sentence of Death
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.
Aug. 17, 1953, midnight
S5E47 - The Gathering Night
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.
Aug. 24, 1953, midnight
S5E48 - Letter from Cairo
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.
Aug. 31, 1953, midnight
S5E49 - Look Homeward, Hayseed
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.
Sept. 4, 1953, midnight
S5E50 - The Storm
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
Sept. 14, 1953, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 27960 min.
Released: Nov. 7, 1948
Last Air Date: Sept. 29, 1958, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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