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Studio One Season 5 Episodes

50 Episodes 1952 - 1953

Episode 1

The Kill

Mon, Sep 22, 195251 mins

Jeff and his family left the big city and settled in a rural area to farm. Some of the locals aren't happy to have a new neighbor and two of them try to wreck Jeff's water pump but Jeff fights them off. When one of the men dies under peculiar circumstances, suspicion falls on Jeff and the locals form a bloodthirsty mob to avenge their neighbor.

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Episode 2

The Square Peg

Mon, Sep 29, 195260 mins

A gangster hires a psychologist to evaluate the aptitude of his crew.

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Episode 3

The Doctor's Wife

Mon, Oct 6, 195260 mins

A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.

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Episode 4

Little Man, Big World

Mon, Oct 13, 195260 mins

A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.

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Episode 5

The Great Conspiracy

Mon, Oct 20, 195260 mins

The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.

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Episode 6

The Love Letter

Mon, Oct 27, 195260 mins

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.

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Episode 7

The Incredible Mr. Glencannon

Mon, Nov 10, 195260 mins

An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.

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Episode 8

Plan for Escape

Mon, Nov 17, 195259 mins

A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.

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Episode 9

The Formula

Mon, Nov 24, 195260 mins

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.

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Episode 10

I Am Jonathan Scrivener

Mon, Dec 1, 195260 mins

The story of Jonathan Scrivener is told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.

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Episode 11

The Hospital

Mon, Dec 8, 195260 mins

A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.

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Episode 12

The Great Lady

Mon, Dec 15, 195260 mins

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.

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Episode 13

The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus

Mon, Dec 22, 195260 mins

The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.

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Episode 14

Young Man Adam

Mon, Dec 29, 195260 mins

A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.

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Episode 15

Black Rain

Mon, Jan 5, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 16

The Trial of John Peter Zenger

Mon, Jan 12, 195360 mins

The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against King George III. 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.

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Episode 17

Signal Thirty-Two

Mon, Jan 19, 195360 mins

The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.

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Episode 18

To a Moment of Triumph

Mon, Jan 26, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 19

Mark of Cain

Mon, Feb 2, 195330 mins

A man is released from prison only to find a new kind of prison: society's judgment of an ex-con's continuing guilt. He now lives with his mother, his critical brother, and the story his mother told that he joined the army.

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Episode 20

The River Garden

Mon, Feb 9, 195360 mins

In China in 1944, a missionary teacher called "Teacher Jane," is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.

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Episode 21

The Walsh Girls

Mon, Feb 16, 195360 mins

Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.

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Episode 22

The Show Piece

Mon, Feb 23, 195360 mins

An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.

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Episode 23

My Beloved Husband

Mon, Mar 2, 195330 mins

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?

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Episode 24

The Garretson Chronicle

Mon, Mar 9, 195360 mins

The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.

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Episode 25

A Breath of Air

Mon, Mar 16, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 26

The Edge of Evil

Mon, Mar 23, 195360 mins

A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.

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Episode 27

At Midnight on the Thirty-first of March

Mon, Mar 30, 195360 mins

A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.

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Episode 28

Shadow of the Devil

Mon, Apr 6, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 29

The Magic Lantern

Mon, Apr 13, 195360 mins

A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.

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Episode 30

The Fathers

Mon, Apr 20, 195360 mins

An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.

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Episode 31

Along Came a Spider

Mon, Apr 27, 195360 mins

A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.

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Episode 32

Birthright

Mon, May 4, 195360 mins

A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.

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Episode 33

King Coffin

Mon, May 11, 195360 mins

A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.

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Episode 34

The Laugh Maker

Mon, May 18, 195360 mins

A magazine writer is sent to Los Angeles to do a feature story on a comedian who is an overnight sensation. He soon discovers that the man who provides such happiness to his viewers is really a braggart, a louse and a heel.

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Episode 35

Fly with the Hawk

Sun, May 24, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 36

Rendezvous

Mon, Jun 1, 195360 mins

A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer protégé and meets a woman whom he had known many years before.

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Episode 37

Conflict

Mon, Jun 8, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 38

The Paris Feeling

Mon, Jun 22, 195360 mins

In post-World War II Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.

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Episode 39

Greed

Mon, Jun 29, 195360 mins

An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.

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Episode 40

Beyond Reason

Mon, Jul 6, 195360 mins

A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.

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Episode 41

End of the Honeymoon

Mon, Jul 13, 195360 mins

An English girl is devastated by the disappearance of her husband on their Paris honeymoon trip.

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Episode 42

The Shadow of a Man

Mon, Jul 20, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 43

The King in Yellow

Mon, Jul 27, 195360 mins

A house detective for a fancy hotel has the misfortune to find a murdered famous jazz trumpeter, King Leopardi, in his bed wearing his trademark yellow silk pyjamas.

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Episode 44

The Roman Kid

Mon, Aug 3, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 45

Flowers from a Stranger

Mon, Aug 10, 195360 mins

A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.

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Episode 46

Sentence of Death

Mon, Aug 17, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 47

The Gathering Night

Mon, Aug 24, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 48

Letter from Cairo

Mon, Aug 31, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 49

Look Homeward, Hayseed

Fri, Sep 4, 195360 mins

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.

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Episode 50

The Storm

Mon, Sep 14, 195360 mins

During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.

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