Studio One is an American anthology drama television series that was adapted to from a radio series. It was created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle for CBS. It premiered on November 7, 1948, and ended on September 29, 1958, with a total of 467 episodes over the course of 10 seasons.
A ventriloquist's dummy comes to life when he refuses to perform at an old vaudeville theater.
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"The Outward Room"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a story by : Millen Brand
September 26, 1949 (1949-09-26)
Rebroadcast. A mentally disturbed woman struggles to live a normal life.
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"Mrs. Moonlight"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : William Jayme From a story by : Benn W. Levy
October 3, 1949 (1949-10-03)
A newlywed bride's wish to never grow old becomes a curse as everything and everyone around her ages while she stays young.
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"The Light That Failed"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a story by : Rudyard Kipling
October 10, 1949 (1949-10-10)
A war artist follows the British into battle and experiences their internal struggles as he provides them with incredible descriptions of warfare in the desert.
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : McNight Malmar
October 17, 1949 (1949-10-17)
Rebroadcast. On a dark and stormy night, a young woman living alone in a country house is terrorized by an intruder and discovers a dead body in her basement.
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"Battleship Bismarck"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Maurice Valency
October 24, 1949 (1949-10-24)
Two weeks after its maiden voyage, the Battleship Bismarck is sunk by the British.
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"Concerning a Woman of Sin"
Yul Brynner
Adapted by : Gerald Goode From a story by : Ben Hecht
October 31, 1949 (1949-10-31)
A literary agent wishes to represent the writer of a brilliant new screenplay, who turns out to be nine years old.
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"The Husband"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Natalie Anderson
November 7, 1949 (1949-11-07)
A woman believes her deceased husband is haunting her.
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"Two Sharp Knives"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Carl Bixby From a story by : Dashiell Hammett
November 14, 1949 (1949-11-14)
A small-town police chief searches for the murderer of an innocent man he arrested for murder.
A crippled medical student courts a heartless waitress.
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"At Mrs. Beam's"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Charles Monroe From the play by : C.K. Munro
November 28, 1949 (1949-11-28)
During the Bluebeard panic, a mysterious young couple from Paris create fear at a London boarding house.
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"Henry IV"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Maurice Valency From the play by : Luigi Pirandello
December 5, 1949 (1949-12-05)
An eccentric Italian thinks he's Henry IV.
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"Jane Eyre"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From the novel by : Charlotte Brontë
December 12, 1949 (1949-12-12)
Nineteen-year-old Jane Eyre, whose life has been full of turmoil, falls for a man of higher social status.
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"Mary Poppins"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From the books of : P.L. Travers
December 19, 1949 (1949-12-19)
An old-fashioned London banker hires a nanny of special talents to take care of his naughty children.
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"The Inner Light"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a story by : Hugo Csergo
December 26, 1949 (1949-12-26)
A scientist visits an English home for the blind claiming to have discovered a cure for blindness.
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"Riviera"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Ferenc Molnár
January 2, 1950 (1950-01-02)
The daughter of a wealthy Parisian sets off a romantic love triangle when she vacations at the French Riviera.
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"Beyond Reason"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From the radio play by : Devery Freeman
January 9, 1950 (1950-01-09)
A young woman is convinced that her husband is plotting to kill her.
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"Give Us Our Dream"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Artemise Goertz
January 16, 1950 (1950-01-16)
A widow living in an apartment complex pries into her neighbors' personal affairs.
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"The Rockingham Tea Set"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Matthew E. Harlib and Worthington Miner From a story by : Virginia Douglas Dawson
January 23, 1950 (1950-01-23)
A young nurse begins a romance with a spirit.
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"Father and the Angels"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : David Shaw From a story by : William Manners
January 30, 1950 (1950-01-30)
A minister decides to build a new church when his is sandwiched between a firehouse and a brewery.
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"The Loud Red Patrick"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Ruth McKenney
February 6, 1950 (1950-02-06)
A widower is forced to deal with her daughters' rebellion.
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"Flowers from a Stranger"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Dorothee Carousso
February 13, 1950 (1950-02-13)
Rebroadcast. A psychiatrist's wife struggles to fight her emotional state when a stranger sends her a box of flowers.
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"The Wisdom Tooth"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Marc Connelly
February 20, 1950 (1950-02-20)
A shy clerk's inner child encourages him to stand up to his boss and propose to his girlfriend.
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"The Willow Cabin"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From a story by : Pamela Frankau
February 27, 1950 (1950-02-27)
A British actress falls for a married American surgeon.
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"The Dreams of Jasper Hornby"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Kevin Mullen
March 6, 1950 (1950-03-06)
A gang of robbers search for stolen money left to Jasper Hornby by one of the robboers who died from a gunshot wound.
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"The Dusty Godmother"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Thomas Sugrue From a story by : Michael Foster
March 13, 1950 (1950-03-13)
When a newspaper editor and his wife get a divorce, the wife is granted full custody of their child.
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"The Survivors"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Worthington Miner and Milton Wayne From a story by : Irwin Shaw & Peter Viertel
March 20, 1950 (1950-03-20)
A man returns from the Civil War with the intention of settling a score with his neighbor in a gunfight, but the two soon realize that the laws of the Old West are changing.
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"Passenger to Bali"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Ellis St. Joseph
March 27, 1950 (1950-03-27)
A freighter captain discovers that the passenger he agreed to look after is not as innocent as he looks.
In 1642 Boston, a woman is found guilty of adultery and sentenced to wear a scarlet "A" in shame.
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"Walk the Dark Streets"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : William Krasner
April 10, 1950 (1950-04-10)
An aging actress is found stabbed to death naked in her hotel room.
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"Torrents of Spring"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a story by : Ivan Turgenev
April 17, 1950 (1950-04-17)
A man abandons his sweetheart in order to court another woman, only to realize his mistake.
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"The Horse's Mouth"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : H.R. Hays From a story by : Joyce Cary
April 24, 1950 (1950-04-24)
An antisocial painter recently released from prison asks to be paid for his paintings.
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"Miracle in the Rain"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Story by : Ben Hecht Teleplay by : David Shaw
May 1, 1950 (1950-05-01)
A lonely woman falls for a soldier back from World War II.
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"A Wreath of Roses"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Charles Monroe From a story by : Elizabeth Taylor
May 8, 1950 (1950-05-08)
A woman steps into a dangerous affair when her husband seems more interested in painting.
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"The Ambassadors"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Story by : Henry James Teleplay by : Howard Merrill
May 15, 1950 (1950-05-15)
A man finds himself changed by Paris when he goes there to pick up a woman's son.
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"The Room Upstairs"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Mildred Davis
May 22, 1950 (1950-05-22)
A detective investigates a possible connection between an auto accident involving a prominent citizen's daughter and the body of a young girl found in the river.
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"The Man Who Had Influence"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Don Mankiewicz
May 29, 1950 (1950-05-29)
A politician's spoiled son is accused of murder.
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"The Taming of the Shrew"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From the play by : William Shakespeare
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."
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"Look Homeward, Hayseed"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Elizabeth Hart & Worthington Miner From a story by : John Ed Pierce
September 4, 1950 (1950-09-04)
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.
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"Mist with the Tamara Geba"
John Peyser
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Rita Weiman
September 11, 1950 (1950-09-11)
A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder.
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"Trilby"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a story by : George L. Du Maurier
September 18, 1950 (1950-09-18)
The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer.
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"Away from It All"
John Peyser
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Val Gielgud
September 25, 1950 (1950-09-25)
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.
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"The Passionate Pilgrim"
Paul Nickell
Teleplay by : Sumner Locke Elliott From a story by : Henry James & Charles Terrot
October 2, 1950 (1950-10-02)
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.
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"Spectre of Alexander Wolff"
Carl Frank
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Gaito Gazdanov
October 9, 1950 (1950-10-09)
A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground.
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"Good for Thirty Days"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Charles O'Neil From a story by : Richard Stern
October 16, 1950 (1950-10-16)
An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery.
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"The Road to Jericho"
Carl Frank
Adapted by : Loren Disney & Worthington Miner From a story by : Elmer Davis
October 23, 1950 (1950-10-23)
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.
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"Wuthering Heights"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Lois Jacoby From a story by : Emily Brontë
October 30, 1950 (1950-10-30)
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.
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"The Blonde Comes First"
Lela Swift
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Aben Kandel
November 6, 1950 (1950-11-06)
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
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"The Last Cruise"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : William J. Lederer
November 13, 1950 (1950-11-13)
The story is based on the armed forces and dedicated to the crews of the USS Cochino and USS Tusk submarines.
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"The Floor of Heaven"
Lela Swift
Story by : Sylvia Chatfield Bates Adapted by : Joseph Liss
November 20, 1950 (1950-11-20)
The story of young love and family pride.
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"The Shadow of a Man"
Paul Nickell
Story by : May Sarton Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott
November 27, 1950 (1950-11-27)
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.
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"Letter from Cairo"
Lela Swift
Unknown
December 4, 1950 (1950-12-04)
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.
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"Mary Lou"
Paul Nickell
Story by : Mildred Cramin Adapted by : Catherine Turney
December 11, 1950 (1950-12-11)
A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood.
Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From the novel by : Louisa May Alcott
December 18, 1950 (1950-12-18)
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From the novel by : Louisa May Alcott
December 25, 1950 (1950-12-25)
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
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"Collector's Item"
Leonard Valenta
Unknown
January 1, 1951 (1951-01-01)
An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them.
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"England Made Me"
Lela Swift
Story by : Graham Greene
January 8, 1951 (1951-01-08)
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.
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"Track of the Cat"
Ralph Nelson
Story by : Walter Van Tilburg Clark Teleplay by : Betty Loring
January 15, 1951 (1951-01-15)
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.
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"The Trial of John Peter Zenger"
Paul Nickell
Irve Tunick
January 22, 1951 (1951-01-22)
In 1735 a German-born printer in New York named John Peter Zenger was thrown in prison and charged with libel and sedition after publishing a scathing pamphlet criticizing the corruption of the administration of Governor William Cosby. The court was rigged by Gov. Cosby to convict Zenger, but he was ultimately acquitted. The Zenger case would later become the basis for the First Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing Freedom of the Press.
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.
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"The Target"
Unknown
Unknown
February 5, 1951 (1951-02-05)
A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy.
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"None But My Foe"
Unknown
Adapted by : Worthington Miner
February 12, 1951 (1951-02-12)
A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.
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"The Way Things Are"
Unknown
Unknown
February 19, 1951 (1951-02-19)
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.
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"The Ambassadors"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Lois Jacoby & Worthington Miner From the novel by : Henry James
February 26, 1951 (1951-02-26)
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
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"One Pair of Hands"
Unknown
Unknown
March 5, 1951 (1951-03-05)
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.
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"A Chill on the Wind"
Ralph Nelson
Adapted by : Edward Gibbons & Worthington Miner
March 12, 1951 (1951-03-12)
A couple encounter troubles aroused by selfish love and deceit.
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"Hangman's House"
Paul Nickell
Teleplay by : Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne Adapted by : Joseph Liss
March 19, 1951 (1951-03-19)
In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice.
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"The Case of Karen Smith"
Lela Swift
Story by : Viola Brothers Shore Adapted by : Mona Kent
March 26, 1951 (1951-03-26)
A detective investigates the murder of a millionaire, which was witnessed by a femme fatale.
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"Wintertime"
Paul Nickell
Story by : Jan Valtin Adapted by : Robert Anderson
April 2, 1951 (1951-04-02)
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.
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"Shake the Stars Down"
Unknown
Unknown
April 9, 1951 (1951-04-09)
A beautiful housewife turns career girl to help her husband but he doesn't want her help and trouble starts.
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"The Straight and Narrow"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
April 16, 1951 (1951-04-16)
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.
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"The Happy Housewife"
Lela Swift
Teleplay by : Hedda Rosten
April 23, 1951 (1951-04-23)
A comedy about the hidden hazards in the separate careers of a husband and wife conflicting with their everyday life.
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"Portrait by Rembrandt"
Paul Nickell
Irve Tunick
April 30, 1951 (1951-04-30)
The struggling years of the great artist Rembrandt's career are dramatized.
A major in the Armed Forces attempts to clear his pal who is accused of murdering his wife.
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"The Old Foolishness"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
May 14, 1951 (1951-05-14)
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
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"A Chance for Happiness"
Unknown
Unknown
May 21, 1951 (1951-05-21)
A middle-aged British traveling salesman befriends and eventually marries a displace Pole who is hiding from Russians.
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"Here Is My Life"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
May 28, 1951 (1951-05-28)
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.
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"Shield for Murder"
Unknown
Story by : William P. McGivern Teleplay by : Irve Tunick
June 4, 1951 (1951-06-04)
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.
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"Coriolanus"
Paul Nickell
Based on a play by : William Shakespeare
June 11, 1951 (1951-06-11)
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
A Hollywood producer tries to get $200,000 to finance his new play. Unfortunately, he finds that there are strings attached.
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"The Rabbit"
John Peyser
Story by : Morton Grant Adapted by : Philo Higley
August 13, 1951 (1951-08-13)
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.
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"Run from the Sun"
Unknown
Mel Goldberg & William Krasner
August 20, 1951 (1951-08-20)
A World War II veteran is framed for his wife's murder.
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"Summer Had Better Be Good"
John Peyser
Story by : Ruth McKenney Adapted by : Alvin Sapinsley
August 27, 1951 (1951-08-27)
A young couple are dealing with life's ups and downs when they move from the city and settle in the country.
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"Mr. Mummery's Suspicion"
Martin Magner
Teleplay by : Dorothy L. Sayers Adapted by : Alvin Sapinsley
September 3, 1951 (1951-09-03)
A female cook is known to have been poisoning her patrons, and Mr. Mummery, an elderly man who doesn't quite trust his young wife, begins to suspect that she has jut hired the killer chef. He finds an open can of arsenic in the garden shed and convinces himself that the cook and his wife are in fact tampering with his tea in a plot to kill him. What he doesn't know is that, in actuality, the situation is much more serious than even he suspects it is.
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"The Guinea Pigs"
Roy Fowler
Teleplay by : Dr. Theodore Bawer Adapted by : Sam Locke
September 10, 1951 (1951-09-10)
A group of tough convicts volunteer for a cancer experiment to avoid their harsh sentences.
Two sisters move to a remote village in France to work for a retired English clergyman and his wife. They soon discover that there is an evil that pervades the home and attempt to overcome the evil that faces them.
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"The Little Black Bag"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Lois Jacoby & Paul Peters From a Story by : Samuel R. Golding
September 24, 1951 (1951-09-24)
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.
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"The Idol of San Vittore"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
October 1, 1951 (1951-10-01)
The story of General Andreas della Rovere who was imprisoned by the Nazis and inspired fellow prisoners, despite the fact that he never existed.
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"Mighty Like a Rogue"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Lou Meltzer From a Story by : Day Keene
October 8, 1951 (1951-10-08)
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.
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"Colonel Judas"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
October 15, 1951 (1951-10-15)
A Czech ballerina, whose family is still trapped behind the Iron Curtain, is blackmailed into trapping a British spy for the Russians, but the spy is really a double agent.
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"Macbeth"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Teleplay by : Worthington Miner Based on the play by : William Shakespeare
October 22, 1951 (1951-10-22)
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
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"They Serve the Muses"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Elizabeth Hart From a Story by : Kressmann Taylor
The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during the American Revolutionary War.
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"The King in Yellow"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Story by : Raymond Chandler Teleplay by : Betty Loring
November 19, 1951 (1951-11-19)
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
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"The Dangerous Years"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
November 26, 1951 (1951-11-26)
The contrast of 1950s parents raised in the Roaring Twenties with their children of the Atomic Age comes with new challenges.
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"Mutiny on the Nicolette"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a Story by : James Norman
December 3, 1951 (1951-12-03)
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.
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"The Legend of Jenny Lind"
Paul Nickell
Irve Tunick
December 10, 1951 (1951-12-10)
P.T. Barnum hires the Swedish nightingale Jenny Lind to perform her music as part of "The Greatest Show on Earth".
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"The Innocence of Pastor Muller"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : Carlo Beuf
December 17, 1951 (1951-12-17)
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.
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"Sara Crewe"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
December 24, 1951 (1951-12-24)
When Sara's father goes off to fight in the First World War, she is sent to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, an expensive and elite school. However, when her father is feared dead, she is relegated to menial duties.
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"The Paris Feeling"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Unknown
December 31, 1951 (1951-12-31)
In post-World War II Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
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"The Devil in Velvet"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From a story by : John Dickson Carr
January 7, 1952 (1952-01-07)
A professor goes back in time to the 17th century to save a woman from poisoning.
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"Waterfront Boss"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a Story by : Edward D. Radin
January 14, 1952 (1952-01-14)
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.
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"The Other Father"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
January 21, 1952 (1952-01-21)
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"Burden of Guilt"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : John Hawkins & Ward Hawkins
January 28, 1952 (1952-01-28)
The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters.
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"A Candle for St. Jude"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
February 4, 1952 (1952-02-04)
The story of young, talented ballet dancers.
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"Pagoda"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a Story by : James Atlee Phillips
February 11, 1952 (1952-02-11)
The owner of a charter airline must cope with disease and betrayal in war-torn Burma.
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"Success Story"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
February 18, 1952 (1952-02-18)
Novelist Horatio Alger's life is full of accomplishments and huge disappointments as he reassesses his "rags to riches" life.
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"Letter from an Unknown Woman"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : Stefan Zweig
February 25, 1952 (1952-02-25)
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.
141
25
"Ten Thousand Horses Singing"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : Robert Carson
March 3, 1952 (1952-03-03)
James Dean and John Forsythe star in this story of a wealthy orphan who meets a shy airline owner aboard a plane and later discovers that a corpse has been stowed there.
142
26
"The Wings of the Dove"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Howard Merrill From the novel by : Henry James
March 10, 1952 (1952-03-10)
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
143
27
"The Vintage Years"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
March 17, 1952 (1952-03-17)
A baker retires at the insistence of his two successful sons.
144
28
"Miss Hargreaves"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From a story by : Frank Baker
March 24, 1952 (1952-03-24)
Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.
145
29
"The Story of Meg Mallory"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : William Dozier
March 31, 1952 (1952-03-31)
The mayor's daughter is kidnapped but soon falls in love with one of her captors. When it is revealed that the Mayor is on the take, Meg is devastated to learn the truth about her father.
146
30
"Pontius Pilate"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : Michael Dyne
April 7, 1952 (1952-04-07)
The story is set 15 years after the crucifixion of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances.
147
31
"Hold Back the Night"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Mel Goldberg From a novel by : Pat Frank
April 14, 1952 (1952-04-14)
GIs retreating during a cold Korean night hate their captain.
148
32
"Lilly, the Queen of the Movies"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Alvin Sapinsley From a Story by : Paul Gallico
April 21, 1952 (1952-04-21)
Lily's electrician boyfriend sees red when Lily is pursued by a wealthy suitor.
149
33
"The Deep Dark"
Paul Nickell
Mel Goldberg
April 28, 1952 (1952-04-28)
A terrible disaster at a coal mine devastates the community.
150
34
"Treasure Island"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Donald Davis From a novel by : Robert Louis Stevenson
May 5, 1952 (1952-05-05)
The search is on for the pirate Flint's buried treasure on the treacherous ship of Long John Silver.
151
35
"They Came to Baghdad"
Paul Nickell
Story by : Agatha Christie
May 12, 1952 (1952-05-12)
In the Middle East, Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure, gets more than she bargains for when a wounded agent dies in her hotel room during an important conference, which an underground organization is planning to sabotage.
152
36
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Alvin Sapinsley From a Novel by : Samuel Clemens
May 19, 1952 (1952-05-19)
A modern New England man travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
153
37
"Abraham Lincoln"
Paul Nickell
Teleplay by : David Shaw From a story by : John Drinkwater
May 26, 1952 (1952-05-26)
The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Abraham Lincoln.
154
38
"Captain-General of the Armies"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : James Costigan From a Story by : Robert Sherman Townes
June 2, 1952 (1952-06-02)
A maladjusted child is threatened by an invasion of his hometown by a racketeer.
155
39
"Lovers and Friends"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
June 9, 1952 (1952-06-09)
A man jeopardizes his marriage by wanting to marry another woman. When he changes his mind, it's too late because now his wife wants to marry another man.
156
40
"International Incident"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Whitfield Cook From a Novel by : S.B. Hough
June 16, 1952 (1952-06-16)
157
41
"There Was a Crooked Man"
Martin Magner
Unknown
June 23, 1952 (1952-06-23)
When Mr. Otis is found murdered, everyone in the boarding house becomes a suspect.
158
42
"The Blonde Comes First"
Matt Harlib
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Aben Kandel
June 30, 1952 (1952-06-30)
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
159
43
"The Rockingham Tea Set"
Lela Swift
Adapted by : Worthington Miner & Matt Harlib From a story by : Virginia Douglas Dawson
July 14, 1952 (1952-07-14)
To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a beautiful but neurotic young woman fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body. When her nurse discovers her treachery, she resorts to a final desperate act of revenge.
160
44
"The Last Thing I Do"
Unknown
Unknown
July 28, 1952 (1952-07-28)
An irascible curator of a rare book collection plans the destruction of a rival professor whose research had discredited some of his most cherished theories 20 years before.
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
161
46
"The Man They Acquitted"
Andrew McCullough
Teleplay by : Reginald Denham & Mary Orr
August 11, 1952 (1952-08-11)
After a doctor is acquitted of poisoning his evil, invalid wife, he runs into complications in his attempt at a new life in Ireland.
162
47
"One in a Million"
Unknown
Unknown
August 18, 1952 (1952-08-18)
A bizarre plot falls apart at the seams because of a trip through a subway. Seems that the plotters are riding on the 1,000,000th car to drive through the tunnel and thus their plot is uncovered as officials seek to honor them.
163
48
"The Good Companions"
Unknown
Story by : J.B. Priestley
August 25, 1952 (1952-08-25)
A touring concert party named "The Dinky Doos" are stranded in Rawsley because their manager has absconded with the funds and the lady pianist.
164
49
"Stan, the Killer"
Paul Nickell
Story by : Georges Simenon Teleplay by : Paul Monash
September 1, 1952 (1952-09-01)
The police close in on a notorious assassin.
165
50
"The Happy Housewife"
David Lowell Rich
Unknown
September 8, 1952 (1952-09-08)
The story of the problems incurred by a couple when two careers become important instead of just one.
166
51
"The Shadowy Third"
Unknown
Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : Ellen Glasgow
September 15, 1952 (1952-09-15)
The tale of a nurse who is hired by a surgeon to care for his mentally unbalanced wife and dead child.
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1
"The Kill"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Reginald Rose From a novel by : Cameron Owen
September 22, 1952 (1952-09-22)
A woman is wrongly accused of murder. Her husband is being blackmailed by an ex-girlfriend who is still in love with him and has the motive to set-up his wife.
168
2
"The Square Peg"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Alvin Sapinsley From a Story by : George Malcolm-Smith
September 29, 1952 (1952-09-29)
A gangster hires a psychologist to evaluate the aptitude of his crew.
169
3
"The Doctor's Wife"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : David Shaw From a Story by : Nelia Gardner White
October 6, 1952 (1952-10-06)
A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
170
4
"Little Man, Big World"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Reginald Rose From a story by : W.R. Burnett
October 13, 1952 (1952-10-13)
A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
171
5
"The Great Conspiracy"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Unknown
October 20, 1952 (1952-10-20)
The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
172
6
"The Love Letter"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
October 27, 1952 (1952-10-27)
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.
173
7
"The Incredible Mr. Glencannon"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Alvin Sapinsley From a Story by : Guy Gilpatric
November 10, 1952 (1952-11-10)
An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
174
8
"Plan for Escape"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Sam Elkin & Raphael Hayes From a Story by : Violet Wolfson
November 17, 1952 (1952-11-17)
A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
175
9
"The Formula"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Reginald Rose From a story by : Gordon Sager
November 24, 1952 (1952-11-24)
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.
176
10
"I Am Jonathan Scrivener"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
December 1, 1952 (1952-12-01)
The story of Jonathan Scrivener is told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
177
11
"The Hospital"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : A.J. Russell From a story by : Kenneth Fearing
December 8, 1952 (1952-12-08)
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
178
12
"The Great Lady"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
December 15, 1952 (1952-12-15)
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.
179
13
"The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Unknown
December 22, 1952 (1952-12-22)
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
180
14
"Young Man Adam"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
December 29, 1952 (1952-12-29)
A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.
181
15
"Black Rain"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Gerald Savory From a novel by : Georges Simenon
January 5, 1953 (1953-01-05)
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.
182
16
"The Trial of John Peter Zenger"
Paul Nickell
Teleplay by : Irve Tunick
January 12, 1953 (1953-01-12)
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.
183
17
"Signal Thirty-Two"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Stanley Niss From a story by : MacKinlay Kantor
January 19, 1953 (1953-01-19)
The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
184
18
"To a Moment of Triumph"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
January 26, 1953 (1953-01-26)
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.
185
19
"Mark of Cain"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Teleplay by : Stanley Niss
February 2, 1953 (1953-02-02)
186
20
"The River Garden"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
February 9, 1953 (1953-02-09)
In China in 1944, a missionary teacher called "Teacher Jane," is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.
187
21
"The Walsh Girls"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : A.J. Russell From a story by : Elizabeth Janeway
February 16, 1953 (1953-02-16)
Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
188
22
"The Show Piece"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
February 23, 1953 (1953-02-23)
An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.
189
23
"My Beloved Husband"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Adapted by : Robert Wallstens From a story by : Philip Loraine
March 2, 1953 (1953-03-02)
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?
190
24
"The Garretson Chronicle"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
March 9, 1953 (1953-03-09)
The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.
191
25
"A Breath of Air"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Unknown
March 16, 1953 (1953-03-16)
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.
192
26
"The Edge of Evil"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Don Mankiewicz
March 23, 1953 (1953-03-23)
A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.
193
27
"At Midnight on the Thirty-first of March"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Unknown
March 30, 1953 (1953-03-30)
A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
194
28
"Shadow of the Devil"
Paul Nickell
Unknown
April 6, 1953 (1953-04-06)
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.
195
29
"The Magic Lantern"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Unknown
April 13, 1953 (1953-04-13)
A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
196
30
"The Fathers"
Paul Nickell
Teleplay by : Henry Kane
April 20, 1953 (1953-04-20)
An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.
197
31
"Along Came a Spider"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Unknown
April 27, 1953 (1953-04-27)
A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
198
32
"Birthright"
Paul Nickell
Adapted by : Emerson Crocker From a novel by : Claude Houghton
May 4, 1953 (1953-05-04)
A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
199
33
"King Coffin"
Franklin J. Schaffner
From a novel by : Conrad Aiken
May 11, 1953 (1953-05-11)
A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
200
34
"The Laugh Maker"
Paul Nickell
Teleplay by : A.J. Russell
May 18, 1953 (1953-05-18)
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.
201
35
"Fly with the Hawk"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Teleplay by : Stanley Niss
May 24, 1953 (1953-05-24)
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.
202
36
"Rendezvous"
Paul Nickell
Teleplay by : Robert Wallsten Based on a play by : Vincent McConnor
June 1, 1953 (1953-06-01)
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.
203
37
"Conflict"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Teleplay by : A.J. Russell
June 8, 1953 (1953-06-08)
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.
204
38
"The Paris Feeling"
Matt Harlib
Unknown
June 22, 1953 (1953-06-22)
In post-World War II Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
205
39
"Greed"
Unknown
Unknown
June 29, 1953 (1953-06-29)
An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.
206
40
"Beyond Reason"
Unknown
Unknown
July 6, 1953 (1953-07-06)
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
207
41
"End of the Honeymoon"
Unknown
Teleplay by : Raphael Hayes From a story by : Marie Belloc Lowndes
July 13, 1953 (1953-07-13)
An English girl is devastated by the disappearance of her husband on their Paris honeymoon trip.
Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From a novel by : May Sarton
July 20, 1953 (1953-07-20)
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.
209
43
"The King in Yellow"
James Sheldon
Teleplay by : Betty Loring From a story by : Raymond Chandler
July 27, 1953 (1953-07-27)
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.
210
44
"The Roman Kid"
Judd Whiting
Teleplay by : Reginald Rose From a story by : Paul Gallico
August 3, 1953 (1953-08-03)
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.
211
45
"Flowers from a Stranger"
Unknown
Unknown
August 10, 1953 (1953-08-10)
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
212
46
"Sentence of Death"
Matt Harlib
Teleplay by : Adrian Spies From a story by : Thomas Walsh
August 17, 1953 (1953-08-17)
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.
213
47
"The Gathering Night"
James Sheldon
Teleplay by : Raphael Hayes From a story by : Rudyard Kipling
August 24, 1953 (1953-08-24)
214
48
"Letter from Cairo"
Matt Harlib
Adapted by : Reginald Rose From a story by : James Robbins Miller
August 31, 1953 (1953-08-31)
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
215
49
"Look Homeward, Hayseed"
Unknown
Unknown
September 4, 1953 (1953-09-04)
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.
A newly appointed junior senator defends his father, a former senator voted out of office, from accusations by a senior senator. When the junior senator learns evidence to ruin the senior senator's reputation, he faces a dilemma as to whether to divulge the evidence. Guest stars : Wendell Corey, Chester Morris, Leora Dana and Frances Sternhagen.[1]
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33
"The Drop of a Hat"
Franklin J. Schaffner
Richard Berg
May 7, 1956 (1956-05-07)
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?
A widower's dreams of escaping his job and family with a trip to the South Seas fall through when his spoiled irresponsible son asks him for a large sum of money. Bill Gibson (Franchot Tone), Jim Gibson (James MacArthur), Maggie Church (Kim Hunter), Shirley Gibson (Olive Sturgess).
Story by : John D. Weaver Teleplay by : Robert Presnell Jr.
June 16, 1958 (June 16, 1958)
454
37
"The Man Who Asked for a Funeral"
Tom Donovan
Jerome Ross
June 23, 1958 (June 23, 1958)
455
38
"The Undiscovered"
James Clark
Joseph Landon
June 30, 1958 (June 30, 1958)
456
39
"Man Under Glass"
Ron Winston
Richard Berg
July 14, 1958 (July 14, 1958)
Tension inside the television director's control booth mounts to a breaking point when the television drama spills over into life and death reality. Starring Albert Salmi (Lenny Shank), Jason Robards Sr. (Walter Osgood), Patrick Macnee (Bill Cheever). Includes young Michael Landon (Augie Barone).
457
40
"A Delicate Affair"
Paul Nickell
Jerome Gruskin
July 28, 1958 (July 28, 1958)
458
41
"The Last Summer"
John Frankenheimer
Frank D. Gilroy
August 4, 1958 (August 4, 1958)
459
42
"Tag-Along"
Jim Clark
Story by : Talmadge Oliver Bartley Teleplay by : Ernest Kinoy
August 11, 1958 (August 11, 1958)
460
43
"Birthday Present"
Don Taylor
Jack Roche
August 18, 1958 (August 18, 1958)
461
44
"Bellingham"
Russell Stoneham
Story by : Elliott West Teleplay by : A.J. Carothers & Elliott West
August 25, 1958 (August 25, 1958)
462
45
"The Lady Died at Midnight"
Paul Nickell
Charles Larson
September 1, 1958 (September 1, 1958)
463
46
"Music U.S.A."
Norman Abbott
Cy Howard
September 9, 1958 (September 9, 1958)
464
47
"No Place to Run"
James Clark
Story by : Nathaniel Benchley Teleplay by : James P. Cavanagh