Studio One (1948)
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Franklin J. Schaffner — Director
Episodes 110
The Rival Dummy
The murder of a ventriloquist's dummy
Read MoreMrs. Moonlight
A bride makes a wish on her wedding day to never look a day older than she does at that moment. Her wish becomes a curse as everyone and everything around her ages and she stays as youthful as ever.
Read MoreTwo Sharp Knives
A murderer is found dead and his killer is sought.
Read MoreAt Mrs. Beam's
At the height of the Bluebeard panic, a mysterious young couple from Paris raise fears at a London boarding house.
Read MoreThe Inner Light
An English home for the blind is disrupted by a visiting scientist who supposedly has a miracle discovery for curing specific cases of blindness.
Read MoreBeyond Reason
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
Read MoreThe Rockingham Tea Set
A young nurse's romance is blighted by a spirit. An early appearance by Grace Kelly.
Read MoreThe Loud Red Patrick
A widower bringing up four daughters must deal with their eventual rebellion.
Read MoreThe Wisdom Tooth
A clerk fantasizes himself as a young freckled faced vital boy unlike his present persona, a pale and pulseless man and has the boy in him stir to life the courage to tell his boss off and ask his girl to marry him.
Read MoreThe Dreams of Jasper Hornby
A wounded robber hands his loot to Jasper Hornby before dying. The rest of his gang begins a door-to-door search for the money.
Read MoreThe Survivors
Peter Decker returns from the American Civil War with a grudge against his neighbor, an army brigade troop leader. The showdown takes place according to the rules of the Wild West, where guns settled all conflicts but those rules are slowly being replace by civilization, and the rule of law.
Read MoreThe Scarlet Letter
Classic tale of adultery and betrayal.
Read MoreTorrents of Spring
A man falls in lust with another, abandoning his beloved Gemma in favor of a fling. Unhappy and unfulfilled with his decision he seeks out his beloved Gemma once again.
Read MoreMiracle in the Rain
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Read MoreThe Ambassadors
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
Read MoreThe Man Who Had Influence
The spoiled son of a politician learns a lesson when he is accused of murder.
Read MoreMy Granny Van
Orphaned at a young age, George, one of twelve siblings went to live with his grandmother, a woman with tremendous spirit and natural dignity in the wild west, which inspired George to become a writer of those less fortunate.
Read MoreThe Ambassadors
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
Read MoreThe Little Black Bag
The story deals with the heroic efforts of nearly 40 years ago of Charles Seymour Whitman, New York County district attorney, to suppress attempts by gambling elements to gain control of city government. Whitman's prosecution of Police Lt. Becker after the officer was found to be implicated in the 1913 assassination of gambling boss Herman Rosenthal.
Read MoreMighty Like A Rogue
A western comedy about the dingy wife of an outlaw who takes the rap for him and goes to prison, coming home with some new ideas.
Read MoreThey Serve the Muses
A woman is torn between her love for the life of a professional tennis player and that of being a wife, a young lady finds herself on the horns of a domestic dilemma.
Read MoreThe King in Yellow
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
Read MoreMutiny on the Nicolette
A man discovers that the good ship Nicolette is carrying weapons as cargo, and in order to prevent a war, he stages a mutiny with the crew against the Captain.
Read MoreThe Innocence of Pastor Muller
The friend of a pleasant minister has invented a camera that takes a strange kind of photo, and with it, he plans to put Germany in a position to rule the world.
Read MoreThe Paris Feeling
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
Read MoreWaterfront Boss
The story of the infamous John M. Dunn's rise and fall as a notorious gangster on New York's Waterfront from 1934 to 1949.
Read MoreBurden of Guilt
The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters
Read MoreLetter from an Unknown Woman
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
Read MoreThe Wings of the Dove
An American journalist falls in love with a Londoner.
Read MoreMiss Hargreaves
Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.
Read MorePontius Pilate
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances
Read MoreLily, the Queen of the Movies
Lily's electrician boyfriend sees red when Lily is pursued by a wealthy suitor.
Read MoreTreasure Island
The search is on for the pirate Flint's buried treasure on the treacherous ship of Long John Silver.
Read MoreA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Classic tale of a modern New Englander who travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
Read MoreCaptain-General of the Armies
A maladjusted child is threatened by an invasion of his hometown by a racketeer.
Read MoreInternational Incident
An air liner flying over a middle eastern desert is forced to land in a remote spot and the passengers locked up. All are Americans or Britons. A man from the U.S. Embassay is interrogated and threatened unless he convinces another prisoner, an oil company executive, to collaborate with a new (unsaid but implied Soviet) regime.
Read MoreThe Doctor's Wife
A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
Read MoreThe Great Conspiracy
The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
Read MoreThe Incredible Mr. Glencannon
An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe Hospital
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
Read MoreThe Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
Read MoreBlack 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.
Read MoreSignal Thirty-Two
The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
Read MoreMark 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.
Read MoreThe Walsh Girls
Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
Read MoreMy 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?
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreThe Magic Lantern
A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
Read MoreAlong Came a Spider
A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
Read MoreKing Coffin
A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
Read MoreFly 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.
Read MoreHound-Dog Man
Twelve-year-old Cotton Kinney wants a dog for Christmas and gives hints when he buys his dad a dog collar for Christmas and his mom a bowl just the right size for dog food.
Read MoreMusic and Mrs. Pratt
A wealthy 70-year-old woman believes money can do everything, especially if one has as much as 70 million, the estimated fortune of Jenny Pratt. Piano tuner Jack O'Hara comes to Mrs. Pratt's home to tune her piano and finds himself living in her mansion, seven hours of daily piano practice for a year.
Read MoreAnother Caesar
A weak man masquerades as a hero in a Latin American republic.
Read MoreBuffalo Bill is Dead
An old cowboy makes his living riding in a Wild West show and reminisces on the days when he fought side-by-side with Buffalo Bill Cody.
Read MoreCinderella '53
A modernized musical of the classic story
Read MoreThe Runaway
A Brooklyn bus driver drives off to Miami in a city bus and is apprehended by the police.
Read MoreA Criminal Design
An unemployed writer working as a press agent for an American dress designer in Italy becomes innocently involved in smuggling. [RF]
Read MoreHerman Came By Bomber
A war orphan is smuggled into the U.S. by a pilot.
Read MoreDark Possession
An anonymous letter writer creates fear and havoc in the lives of three sisters.
Read MoreSide Street
A young married couple live in a New York neighborhood and share a babysitter and maid of all work with another couple. When this paragon of domesticity decides to wed the two husbands are hard put to break up the romance.
Read MoreThunder on Sycamore Street
Neighbors attempt to run a respected citizen out of town when they learn he is a former convict.
Read MorePaul's Apartment
Paul realizes that his beautiful new wife is more interested in his belongings than she is in him.
Read MoreJack Sparling, Forty-Six
A successful businessman's achievements aren't enough as he drives himself for a higher more powerful position.
Read MoreRomney
A 9-year-old boy and his misunderstanding father come under close scrutiny as the drama delves into the deeper corners of a frightened boy's mind to search out the reasons for his fears. The story unravels a strong mood and mystery which centers around Romney.
Read MoreFear Is No Stranger
Two young women are found murdered in a small California town. A district attorney finds himself in a dilemma when he finds his daughter daring the man who is the prime suspect in the homicide case.
Read MoreA Man and Two Gods
A diplomatic attache of a military state is ordered by his government to kill a suspected spy. The government then arrests him for murder. The attache is torn between two "Gods": the decrees of his country and the commandments of God.
Read MoreThe Strike
Major Gaylord recounts an experience during World War II when he was obliged to fire on an American soldier in the dead of night on a Pacific island.
Read MoreTwelve Angry Men
A jury must reach a verdict concerning a teenaged boy accused of murder.
Read MorePrelude to Murder
A mystery writer and his wife are searching for an isolated country home where he can work undisturbed. Instead, they meet up with an odd painter whose wife had recently died.
Read MoreThe Boy Who Changed the World
The life story of the famous inventor
Read MoreThe Man Who Owned the Town
An arrogant gambler in Cripple Creek controls the village until a stranger comes along to usurp his powers.
Read MoreLet Me Go, Lover
A disc jockey is involved in a murder. As he played peekaboo with a psychopathic killer and tangled with the police, turntables all over the place kept spinning a record called "Let Me Go, Lover", the murderer's favorite song, of course.
Read MoreThe Deserter
After serving seven years in prison for desertion, a bitter soldier tries to start a new life.
Read More12:32 A.M.
A sensitive boy's relationship with his parents lacks the real understanding necessary to a happy life.
Read MoreThe Cuckoo in Spring
A young art dealer visits the home of a miserly connoisseur and discovers a pretty girl as well as some very valuable paintings.
Read MoreGrandma Rolled Her Own
Twelve-year-old orphan Bill Caldwell is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother when his aunt and uncle go to Europe. Down on her luck in 1929 Detroit, Grandma rents out 22 rooms of her 25-room house. Every March, the circus comes to town and some of the more interesting characters stay at Grandma's. Young Bill learns much more about life interacting with his Grandma and her colorful boarders than living with his stuffy aunt and uncle.
Read MoreIt Might Happen Tomorrow
A test pilot sets out for a cruise through space and suddenly loses contact with Earth.
Read MoreA Stranger May Die
Police fight a desperate battle against time to prevent a would-be suicide from killing not only himself, but also the other tenants in the building.
Read MoreThe Eddie Chapman Story
Eddie Chapman was the only Briton to win the Iron Cross in World War II. But was he really working for the Germans? Or was he a highly-placed double-agent?
Read MoreMillions of Georges
A "retread" Master Sergeant is called back into the service and it seems to his wife that most of their 10 years of marriage have been spent moving from base to base. When a young and lovely girl enters the picture the wife fears that love alone cannot hold her husband.
Read MorePassage of Arms
In 1948, while the captain of Czechoslovakia's championship hockey team is in Moscow, Russia annexes his home land. On his return, he and his fiancee plot to escape.
Read MoreStrange Companion
The drab companion of an elderly hypochondriac is transformed into a lovely woman when she falls in love with a young man she met at the opera, but she lies to him about herself, claiming she's the educated daughter of a famed operatic diva.
Read MoreOperation Home
A scholarly officer, who has spent his 3 years of military service at a secluded desk job, is assigned to shepherd some 600 troops from California to New York at the end of World War II.
Read MoreThe Incredible World of Horace Ford
Horace Ford longs for his childhood but it was not as idyllic as he remembers it.
Read MoreThree Empty Rooms
Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.
Read MoreA Most Contagious Game
In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.
Read MoreShakedown Cruise
A Navy crew is trapped in a crippled submarine on the ocean floor. The captain and his second in command must organize the men, who, before the accident, were torn by petty grievances.
Read MoreThe Man Who Caught the Ball at Coogan's Bluff
A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.
Read MoreMiracle at Potter's Farm
Brucie and his elder sister, Jen, are two of five children who face separation and removal from the family farm after their father's death.
Read MoreThe Talented Mr. Ripley
Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to from New York to Italy to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
Read MoreMy Son Johnny
A magazine writer, married to his part-time editor, is vaguely discontented with his life. Then one night he learns that after many years of marriage, he is going to be a father. The news has an extraordinary effect on the lives of the couple.
Read MoreCircle of Guilt
A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.
Read MoreFlower of Pride
A proud Florentine duchess's prayer to the Saint of the Impossible is answered in an unexpected manner. The Italian duchess has disowned her niece because the girl insists on living a gypsy-like life as a nightclub dancer. However, the arrival of a seemingly irreverent painter penetrates the stony facade of an archly unemotional duchess and humanizes her.
Read MoreThe Tale of St. Emergency
An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.
Read MoreThe Arena
Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.
Read MoreThe Drop of a Hat
The offices of Mode, a glossy women's magazine, is thrown into chaos when the owner suddenly shows up. The editor fears for her job--but who in the office might replace her?
Read MoreFamily Protection
A bank robber has an agreement with a suburban couple to use their home as his hideout in return for a share of the loot.
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