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Studio One Season 9 Episodes
Season 9 Episode Guide
47 Episodes 1956 - 1957
Episode 1
A Special Announcement
Mon, Sep 24, 195660 mins
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.
Episode 2
A Man's World
Mon, Oct 1, 195660 mins
A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.
Episode 3
The Open Door
Mon, Oct 15, 195660 mins
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 4
The Crimes of Peter Page
Mon, Oct 22, 195660 mins
The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.
Episode 5
American Primitive
Mon, Oct 29, 195660 mins
A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indians beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.
Episode 6
The Pilot
Mon, Nov 12, 195660 mins
In Michigan in 1930, Sister Aquinas has aroused an interest in science among her pupils; the school workroom, which she supervises contains every conceivable type of gadget and Sister Aquinas keeps abreast of the latest developments in various fields of science. She becomes intrigued with the airplane and goes to work in an aircraft factory in order to learn how planes are built.
Episode 7
The Landlady's Daughter
Mon, Nov 26, 195660 mins
When a smooth talking lawyer moves into the boarding house, tongues start wagging about the goings on with the landlady's daughter.
Episode 8
Portrait of a Citizen
Mon, Dec 3, 195660 mins
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 9
Rachel
Mon, Dec 10, 195660 mins
Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.
Episode 10
Career
Mon, Dec 17, 195660 mins
A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.
Episode 11
A Christmas Surprise
Mon, Dec 24, 195660 mins
A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.
Episode 12
Goodbye Piccadilly
Mon, Dec 31, 195660 mins
A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.
Episode 13
Love at Fourth Sight
Mon, Jan 7, 195760 mins
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 14
The Dark Corner
Mon, Jan 14, 195760 mins
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 15
The Five Dollar Bill
Mon, Jan 21, 195760 mins
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 16
Dead of Noon
Mon, Jan 28, 195760 mins
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 17
Tale of the Comet
Mon, Feb 4, 195760 mins
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 18
A Walk in the Forest
Mon, Feb 11, 195760 mins
A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.
Episode 19
The Hollywood Complex
Mon, Feb 18, 195760 mins
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 20
The Defender: Part 1
Mon, Feb 25, 195760 mins
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 21
The Defender: Part 2
Mon, Mar 4, 195760 mins
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 22
A Child Is Waiting
Mon, Mar 11, 195760 mins
Jean Horst comes to a school for disabled children to work there as a teacher. She becomes particularly interested in young Reuben, an autistic boy whose parents have not visited him for several years. But the school principal, Dr. Clark does not appreciate her keen interest.
Episode 23
Walk Down the Hill
Mon, Mar 18, 195760 mins
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 GIs are to be put into a separate camp.
Episode 24
A Member of the Family
Mon, Mar 25, 195760 mins
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 25
The Years in Between
Mon, Apr 1, 195760 mins
A teenage boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door. He is filled with confusion as a result of his intense first love.
Episode 26
The Playwright and the Stars
Mon, Apr 8, 195760 mins
A Broadway producer signs a forgotten destitute one-time star in a pivotal role in his new play.
Episode 27
The Rice Sprout Song
Mon, Apr 15, 195760 mins
The old and new orders clash in a small village in China in 1957. Moon Scent returns to her husband Gold Root, and daughter Beckon, bringing money saved from working as a domestic for three years in Shanghai. Gold Root feels uncomfortable living on his wife's earnings. When he and his wife disagree about lending money to his sister Gold Flower and her ailing husband Plenty Own, an argument ensues. Complicating these personal problems, the army, represented by Comrade Wong, demands donations of food from the peasants. Gold Root rebels at the collection site, demands that the army share its stored rice with the peasants, and is shot. Moon Scent wonders aloud about the ideological gap that had arisen between her and her husband.
Episode 28
The Traveling Lady
Mon, Apr 22, 195760 mins
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 29
Eight Feet to Midnight
Mon, Apr 29, 195760 mins
A jewel robbery is the basis used by the underground Irish Republican Army in Belfast to confront and strip their political enemies.
Episode 30
The Out-of-Towners
Mon, May 6, 195760 mins
A small-town postmistress, whose hopes are high when she makes her annual trip to the big city for a three day convention of postal employees, meets a middle-aged salesman and tries to encourage the acquaintanceship.
Episode 31
Babe in the Woods
Mon, May 13, 195760 mins
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 32
The Man Who Wasn't Himself
Mon, May 20, 195760 mins
Peter Hendon impersonated men in various professions as a surgeon, college professor and lawyer without any previous training in these fields.
Episode 33
The Weston Strain
Mon, May 27, 195760 mins
A young writer must decide if his first responsibility is to his family or his creative gift.
Episode 34
The Furlough
Mon, Jun 3, 195760 mins
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 35
The Mother Bit
Mon, Jun 10, 195760 mins
A domineering career woman and her attempt to make a home in the country for her teenage daughter: Kitty Sharpe is a popular television singer. Upon the death of her ex-husband, she faces the problem of setting up housekeeping for the first time with her only child Joy, a shy, attractive 17-year-old girl.
Episode 36
The Staring Match
Mon, Jun 17, 195760 mins
A small town congregation prays for rain and a man, played by James Daly, appears at the entrance of their church and claims he is an angel sent to help the town. The angel is dressed in a white suit and is carrying a fancy white cane. Dressed in white he looks the part. A short time later another man appears at the entrance dressed in black also claiming to be an angel sent to help the town. He is not as good looking as are his clothes. The congregation is up in arms about whom to believe is the angel and which one could be the devil. A wrestling match is voted on to decide whom to believe but the two "angels" will not agree to wrestling each other. A staring match is suggested and a staring match begins. Great story and a surprising ending.
Episode 37
The Goodwill Ambassadors
Mon, Jun 24, 195760 mins
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 38
Death and Taxes
Mon, Jul 1, 195760 mins
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 39
A Matter of Guilt
Mon, Jul 8, 195760 mins
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 40
Love Me to Pieces
Mon, Jul 15, 195760 mins
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 41
In Love with a Stranger
Mon, Jul 22, 195760 mins
Phyllis, a girl in her 20s, 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' 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 42
The Human Barrier
Mon, Jul 29, 195760 mins
A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia and guilt after he crashes a new jet.
Episode 43
My Mother and How She Undid Me
Mon, Aug 5, 195760 mins
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 44
The Unmentionable Blues
Mon, Aug 12, 195760 mins
A businessman feels life is all too soon passing him by. He seeks companionship from a young girl.
Episode 45
Rudy
Mon, Aug 19, 195760 mins
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 46
Guitar
Mon, Aug 26, 195760 mins
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 47
The Dark Intruder
Mon, Sep 2, 195760 mins
A music critic is mysteriously attacked in his Manhattan penthouse and thinks that a new composer whom he has panned is responsible.