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.
Air date: 1950-08-28
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."
Air date: 1950-09-04
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A city-bred radio announcer thinks that he's the best thing that happened to the rural broadcasting station where he is now working until he gets a rude country style awakening.
Air date: 1950-09-11
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder.
Air date: 1950-09-18
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer
Air date: 1950-09-25
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A Navy Lieutenant pilot and a Sergeant crash land on an island and stumble upon a lavish estate where a group of wealthy people all thought to have died now live.
Air date: 1950-10-02
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: The story of Sister Elizabeth Wheeler, who accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea to help the British wounded. Dismissed for speaking out against the atrocities, she was later honored by Robert E. Lee for her service to the Confederate Army.
Air date: 1950-10-09
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground.
Air date: 1950-10-16
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery.
Air date: 1950-10-23
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A woman has a clandestine meeting with a man, other than her husband and uncovers some murder evidence that will prevent an innocent man from going to prison. The woman's husband is the assistant district attorney who is trying to send the innocent man to prison.
Air date: 1950-10-30
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
Air date: 1950-11-06
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
Air date: 1950-11-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Story about submariners
Air date: 1950-11-20
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: The story of young love and family pride.
Air date: 1950-11-27
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: After the death of Persis Bradford, both her son Francis and her second husband Alan are left with the cold empty life which leaves them to deal with their grief in an even colder atmosphere.
Air date: 1950-12-04
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Two members of the U. S. Intelligence Service become involved with Czechoslovakian patriots in exile in Austria. Their journey with this underground group takes them from the dungeons of Vienna to the high society world of New York City.
Air date: 1950-12-11
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood.
Air date: 1950-12-18
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 1 concentrates on Meg's story.
Air date: 1950-12-25
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 2 tells Jo's story.
Air date: 1951-01-01
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them
Air date: 1951-01-08
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Kate persuades her brother Anthony, who has lied to get jobs, borrows things and then leaves in a hurry, to be her boyfriend's bodyguard, a powerful Swedish financier.
Air date: 1951-01-15
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: While Curt Bridges tracks down the panther that killed his brother Arthur, his family argues and bickers over whether younger brother Harold should marry a much-despised neighbor girl.
Air date: 1951-01-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1951-01-29
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Pops Thatcher, an elderly resident of a rundown county poor farm, is appointed to the town council. His battle to save the farm exposes the corruption on the council and breaths new life into the local newspaper.
Air date: 1951-02-05
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy.
Air date: 1951-02-12
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.
Air date: 1951-02-19
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: When Lucy and Barkley Cooper summon their grown children to announce that the bank has foreclosed the mortgage on their house, they are sure the children will provide a remedy.
Air date: 1951-02-26
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
Air date: 1951-03-05
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A bored debutante decides to become a cook, because she once took a French cuisine class. What ensues is a comedic "Upstairs, Downstairs" tale between the wealthy upper class and the servants.
Air date: 1951-03-12
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A couple encounter troubles aroused by selfish love and deceit.
Air date: 1951-03-19
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice.
Air date: 1951-03-26
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A detective investigates the murder of a millionaire, which was witnessed by a femme fatale.
Air date: 1951-04-02
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A sea captain returns home to post-war Germany to find it in ruins, his shell-shocked fiancee missing a leg. When a lovely Latvian refugee stows away on his ship, he decides to help her.
Air date: 1951-04-09
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A beautiful housewife turns career girl to help her husband but he doesn't want her help and trouble starts.
Air date: 1951-04-16
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A young barrister forsakes his love to marry success but later discovers his former sweetheart has become a most influential figure, more powerful than his own father-in-law.
Air date: 1951-04-23
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A comedy about the hidden hazards in the separate careers of a husband and wife conflicting with their everyday life.
Air date: 1951-04-30
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: The struggling years of the great artist Rembrandt's career are dramatized.
Air date: 1951-05-07
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A major in the Armed Forces attempts to clear his pal who is accused of murdering his wife.
Air date: 1951-05-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers. They are a farmer, a scholar and a Communist fighter respectively. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit.
Air date: 1951-05-21
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A middle-aged British traveling salesman befriends and eventually marries a displace Pole who is hiding from Russians.
Air date: 1951-05-28
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A young wife becomes infatuated with another man while her husband is overseas and her father tries to save her by bringing her supposedly dead mother out of obscurity.
Air date: 1951-06-04
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A detective's investigation into a bookie's death and the missing $25,000 in cash, leads him to a corrupt cop thanks to a witness.
Air date: 1951-06-11
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Updating of the Shakespearean play from Roman time to Fascist Italy.
Air date: 1951-06-18
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
Air date: 1951-06-25
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A grieving father must try and get his son over his wife's death. He swears that he talks to his mother all the time.
Air date: 1951-07-02
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A man is employed to tutor the children of an aristocratic family and has an affair with the lady of the house.
Air date: 1951-07-09
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: The cops, his girlfriend and his gang members are wondering why Vanning won't leave his room, especially since he's sitting on $300,000.
Air date: 1951-07-16
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: On their silver wedding day, Ashurst and his wife are on their way to Torquay for the festival when they stop at the moor where they had first met.
Air date: 1951-07-23
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A jazz musician realizes that he is doing exactly what he wanted to avoid at all costs, making an impact with his music.
Air date: 1951-07-30
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: When a mysterious pair from Paris arrive at the boardinghouse, gossip and wild events take place.
Air date: 1951-08-06
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A Hollywood producer tries to get $200,000 to finance his new play. Unfortunately, he finds that there are strings attached.
Air date: 1951-08-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A meek bank clerk suffers a blow on the head during a robbery and begins to show significant changes in his mode of life and personality.
Air date: 1951-08-20
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A World War II veteran is framed for his wife's murder.
Air date: 1951-08-27
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A young couple are dealing with life's ups and downs when they move from the city and settle in the country.
Air date: 1951-09-03
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: British sleuth Mr. Mummery is out to catch a cook who disappeared after poisoning her guests. Wait a minute, Mr. Mummery just hired a new cook!
Air date: 1951-09-10
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: A group of tough convicts volunteer for a cancer experiment to avoid their harsh sentences.
