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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.
Series overview
[edit]| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 20 | November 7, 1948 | June 29, 1949 | |
| 2 | 42 | September 12, 1949 | June 26, 1950 | |
| 3 | 55 | August 28, 1950 | September 10, 1951 | |
| 4 | 51 | September 17, 1951 | September 15, 1952 | |
| 5 | 50 | September 22, 1952 | September 14, 1953 | |
| 6 | 52 | 1953 | September 13, 1954 | |
| 7 | 52 | September 20, 1954 | 1955 | |
| 8 | 50 | 1955 | 1956 | |
| 9 | 47 | 1956 | 1957 | |
| 10 | 48 | September 9, 1957 | September 29, 1958 | |
Episodes
[edit]Season 1 (1948–49)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "The Storm" | Worthington Miner | Story by : McNight Malmar Teleplay by : Worthington Miner | November 7, 1948 | |
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A woman spends a dark and stormy night alone in a country house where she finds a dead body in the basement and is terrorized by an intruder. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Let Me Do the Talking" | Paul Nickell | Story by : Richard Mealand Teleplay by : Worthington Miner | November 26, 1948 | |
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A young publishing agent faces the consequences of stepping on a few too many toes on his way up the business ladder. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Medium" | Paul Nickell | Story by : Gian Carlo Menotti Teleplay by : Worthington Miner | December 12, 1948 | |
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A phony medium feels a pair of hands around her neck during one of her seances. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Not So Long Ago" | Worthington Miner | Story by : Joseph Liss Teleplay by : Worthington Miner | December 26, 1948 | |
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An old woman remembers a time in her youth when two men competed for her affections. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Outward Room" | Worthington Miner | Story by : Millen Brand Teleplay by : Joseph Liss | January 9, 1949 | |
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A woman struggles to overcome her agoraphobia. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Blind Alley" | Paul Nickell | Teleplay by : Worthington Miner Based on a play by : James Warwick | January 30, 1949 | |
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A noted psychiatrist tries to help a killer who escaped from prison. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Holiday" | Worthington Miner | Teleplay by : Worthington Miner Based on a play by : Philip Barry | February 20, 1949 | |
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A self-made man proposes to the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Julius Caesar" | Paul Nickell | Teleplay by : Worthington Miner Based on the play by : William Shakespeare | March 6, 1949 | |
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In an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor is plotted against by conspiring senators. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Berkeley Square" | Worthington Miner | Adapted by : John L. Balderston & J.C. Squire From a story by : Henry James | March 20, 1949 | |
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A young American goes back in time to the Revolutionary War and meets his ancestors. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Redemption" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Sylvia Berger From a story by : Leo Tolstoy | March 21, 1949 | |
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A man's fiancée leaves him for another man, who falls for a gypsy girl. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Moment of Truth" | Worthington Miner | Story by : Margaret Storm Jameson Teleplay by : Joseph Liss | April 17, 1949 | |
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Five British refugees fight over a seat on a plane to escape from Communist occupation. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Julius Caesar" | Paul Nickell | Teleplay by : Worthington Miner Based on the play by : William Shakespeare | May 1, 1949 | |
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Rebroadcast. In an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor is plotted against by conspiring senators. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "The Glass Key" | George Zachary | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Dashiell Hammett | May 11, 1949 | |
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A corrupt politician is framed for murder, so his employee dodges advances from his boss's fiancee and attacks from gangsters to find the real killer. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Shadow and Substance" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Paul Vincent Carroll | May 18, 1949 | |
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A true believer uses the purity and simplicity of her faith to bring others back to first principles. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Flowers from a Stranger" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Dorothee Carousso | May 25, 1949 | |
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A psychiatrist's wife suffers an emotional breakdown when a stranger sends her a box of flowers. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "The Dybbuk" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a play by : Sholom Ansky | June 1, 1949 | |
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A woman is possessed by the spirit of a dead man she pledged to marry. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Boy Meets Girl" | George Zachary | Story by : Walter Hart Teleplay by : Sam Spewack & Bella Spewack | June 8, 1949 | |
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Two screenwriters try to come up with a comeback for a fading cowboy star. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Smoke" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Edward Mabley and Worthington Miner From a story by : Ivan Turgenev | June 15, 1949 | |
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A pair of Russian individuals have opposing philosophies in their changing community. | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "June Moon" | Walter Hart | Adapted by : Gerald Goode From a story by : George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner | June 22, 1949 | |
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A shipping clerk from Schenectady with dreams of being a lyricist comes to Manhattan, where he befriends a one-hit wonder and finds his dream girl. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "The Shadowy Third" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Ellen Glasgow | June 29, 1949 | |
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A doctor becomes an object of affection for all his female patients. | ||||||
Season 2 (1949–50)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 21 | 1 | "Kyra Zelas" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Stanley G. Weinbaum | September 12, 1949 | |
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Kyra Zelas surprises everyone when a doctor gives her an injection that miraculously cures her tuberculosis. | ||||||
| 22 | 2 | "The Rival Dummy" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner and David Opatoshu From a story by : Ben Hecht | September 19, 1949 | |
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A ventriloquist's dummy comes to life when he refuses to perform at an old vaudeville theater. | ||||||
| 23 | 3 | "The Outward Room" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a story by : Millen Brand | September 26, 1949 | |
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Rebroadcast. A mentally disturbed woman struggles to live a normal life. | ||||||
| 24 | 4 | "Mrs. Moonlight" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : William Jayme From a story by : Benn W. Levy | October 3, 1949 | |
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A newlywed bride's wish to never grow old becomes a curse as everything and everyone around her ages while she stays young. | ||||||
| 25 | 5 | "The Light That Failed" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a story by : Rudyard Kipling | October 10, 1949 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 26 | 6 | "The Storm" | Yul Brynner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : McNight Malmar | October 17, 1949 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 27 | 7 | "Battleship Bismarck" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Maurice Valency | October 24, 1949 | |
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Two weeks after its maiden voyage, the Battleship Bismarck is sunk by the British. | ||||||
| 28 | 8 | "Concerning a Woman of Sin" | Yul Brynner | Adapted by : Gerald Goode From a story by : Ben Hecht | October 31, 1949 | |
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A literary agent wishes to represent the writer of a brilliant new screenplay, who turns out to be nine years old. | ||||||
| 29 | 9 | "The Husband" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Natalie Anderson | November 7, 1949 | |
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A woman believes her deceased husband is haunting her. | ||||||
| 30 | 10 | "Two Sharp Knives" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Carl Bixby From a story by : Dashiell Hammett | November 14, 1949 | |
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A small-town police chief searches for the murderer of an innocent man he arrested for murder. | ||||||
| 31 | 11 | "Of Human Bondage" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From the novel by : W. Somerset Maugham | November 21, 1949 | |
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A crippled medical student courts a heartless waitress. | ||||||
| 32 | 12 | "At Mrs. Beam's" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Charles Monroe From the play by : C.K. Munro | November 28, 1949 | |
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During the Bluebeard panic, a mysterious young couple from Paris create fear at a London boarding house. | ||||||
| 33 | 13 | "Henry IV" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Maurice Valency From the play by : Luigi Pirandello | December 5, 1949 | |
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An eccentric Italian thinks he's Henry IV. | ||||||
| 34 | 14 | "Jane Eyre" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From the novel by : Charlotte Brontë | December 12, 1949 | |
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Nineteen-year-old Jane Eyre, whose life has been full of turmoil, falls for a man of higher social status. | ||||||
| 35 | 15 | "Mary Poppins" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From the books of : P.L. Travers | December 19, 1949 | |
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An old-fashioned London banker hires a nanny of special talents to take care of his naughty children. | ||||||
| 36 | 16 | "The Inner Light" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a story by : Hugo Csergo | December 26, 1949 | |
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A scientist visits an English home for the blind claiming to have discovered a cure for blindness. | ||||||
| 37 | 17 | "Riviera" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Ferenc Molnár | January 2, 1950 | |
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The daughter of a wealthy Parisian sets off a romantic love triangle when she vacations at the French Riviera. | ||||||
| 38 | 18 | "Beyond Reason" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From the radio play by : Devery Freeman | January 9, 1950 | |
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A young woman is convinced that her husband is plotting to kill her. | ||||||
| 39 | 19 | "Give Us Our Dream" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Artemise Goertz | January 16, 1950 | |
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A widow living in an apartment complex pries into her neighbors' personal affairs. | ||||||
| 40 | 20 | "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 | |
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A young nurse begins a romance with a spirit. | ||||||
| 41 | 21 | "Father and the Angels" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : David Shaw From a story by : William Manners | January 30, 1950 | |
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A minister decides to build a new church when his is sandwiched between a firehouse and a brewery. | ||||||
| 42 | 22 | "The Loud Red Patrick" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Ruth McKenney | February 6, 1950 | |
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A widower is forced to deal with her daughters' rebellion. | ||||||
| 43 | 23 | "Flowers from a Stranger" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Dorothee Carousso | February 13, 1950 | |
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Rebroadcast. A psychiatrist's wife struggles to fight her emotional state when a stranger sends her a box of flowers. | ||||||
| 44 | 24 | "The Wisdom Tooth" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Marc Connelly | February 20, 1950 | |
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A shy clerk's inner child encourages him to stand up to his boss and propose to his girlfriend. | ||||||
| 45 | 25 | "The Willow Cabin" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From a story by : Pamela Frankau | February 27, 1950 | |
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A British actress falls for a married American surgeon. | ||||||
| 46 | 26 | "The Dreams of Jasper Hornby" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Kevin Mullen | March 6, 1950 | |
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A gang of robbers search for stolen money left to Jasper Hornby by one of the robboers who died from a gunshot wound. | ||||||
| 47 | 27 | "The Dusty Godmother" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Thomas Sugrue From a story by : Michael Foster | March 13, 1950 | |
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When a newspaper editor and his wife get a divorce, the wife is granted full custody of their child. | ||||||
| 48 | 28 | "The Survivors" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner and Milton Wayne From a story by : Irwin Shaw & Peter Viertel | March 20, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 49 | 29 | "Passenger to Bali" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Ellis St. Joseph | March 27, 1950 | |
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A freighter captain discovers that the passenger he agreed to look after is not as innocent as he looks. | ||||||
| 50 | 30 | "The Scarlet Letter" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Joseph Liss From the novel by : Nathaniel Hawthorne | April 3, 1950 | |
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In 1642 Boston, a woman is found guilty of adultery and sentenced to wear a scarlet "A" in shame. | ||||||
| 51 | 31 | "Walk the Dark Streets" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : William Krasner | April 10, 1950 | |
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An aging actress is found stabbed to death naked in her hotel room. | ||||||
| 52 | 32 | "Torrents of Spring" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a story by : Ivan Turgenev | April 17, 1950 | |
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A man abandons his sweetheart in order to court another woman, only to realize his mistake. | ||||||
| 53 | 33 | "The Horse's Mouth" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : H.R. Hays From a story by : Joyce Cary | April 24, 1950 | |
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An antisocial painter recently released from prison asks to be paid for his paintings. | ||||||
| 54 | 34 | "Miracle in the Rain" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Story by : Ben Hecht Teleplay by : David Shaw | May 1, 1950 | |
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A lonely woman falls for a soldier back from World War II. | ||||||
| 55 | 35 | "A Wreath of Roses" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Charles Monroe From a story by : Elizabeth Taylor | May 8, 1950 | |
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A woman steps into a dangerous affair when her husband seems more interested in painting. | ||||||
| 56 | 36 | "The Ambassadors" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Story by : Henry James Teleplay by : Howard Merrill | May 15, 1950 | |
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A man finds himself changed by Paris when he goes there to pick up a woman's son. | ||||||
| 57 | 37 | "The Room Upstairs" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Mildred Davis | May 22, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 58 | 38 | "The Man Who Had Influence" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Don Mankiewicz | May 29, 1950 | |
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A politician's spoiled son is accused of murder. | ||||||
| 59 | 39 | "The Taming of the Shrew" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From the play by : William Shakespeare | June 5, 1950 | |
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In an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew, the gentleman Petruchio does everything to make the shrew Katherina his bride. | ||||||
| 60 | 40 | "Zone Four" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Fielder Cook | June 12, 1950 | |
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A former OSS officer, now a university teacher, is asked to rejoin when his services are needed in "zone four". | ||||||
| 61 | 41 | "There Was a Crooked Man" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Charles Monroe From a story by : Kelley Roos | June 19, 1950 | |
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A fat, jolly, crippled boarding house lodger is found murdered. | ||||||
| 62 | 42 | "My Granny Van" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Loren Disney From a story by : George Sessions Perry and Loren Disney | June 26, 1950 | |
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One of twelve siblings is inspired by their grandmother's spirit to become a writer of those less fortunate. | ||||||
Season 3 (1950–51)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 63 | 1 | "Zone Four" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Fielder Cook | August 28, 1950 | |
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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." | ||||||
| 64 | 2 | "Look Homeward, Hayseed" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Elizabeth Hart & Worthington Miner From a story by : John Ed Pierce | September 4, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 65 | 3 | "Mist with the Tamara Geba" | John Peyser | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Rita Weiman | September 11, 1950 | |
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A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder. | ||||||
| 66 | 4 | "Trilby" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a story by : George L. Du Maurier | September 18, 1950 | |
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The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer. | ||||||
| 67 | 5 | "Away from It All" | John Peyser | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Val Gielgud | September 25, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 68 | 6 | "The Passionate Pilgrim" | Paul Nickell | Teleplay by : Sumner Locke Elliott From a story by : Henry James & Charles Terrot | October 2, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 69 | 7 | "Spectre of Alexander Wolff" | Carl Frank | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Gaito Gazdanov | October 9, 1950 | |
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A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground. | ||||||
| 70 | 8 | "Good for Thirty Days" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Charles O'Neil From a story by : Richard Stern | October 16, 1950 | |
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An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery. | ||||||
| 71 | 9 | "The Road to Jericho" | Carl Frank | Adapted by : Loren Disney & Worthington Miner From a story by : Elmer Davis | October 23, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 72 | 10 | "Wuthering Heights" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Lois Jacoby From a story by : Emily Brontë | October 30, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 73 | 11 | "The Blonde Comes First" | Lela Swift | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : Aben Kandel | November 6, 1950 | |
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An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter. | ||||||
| 74 | 12 | "The Last Cruise" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a story by : William J. Lederer | November 13, 1950 | |
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The story is based on the armed forces and dedicated to the crews of the USS Cochino and USS Tusk submarines. | ||||||
| 75 | 13 | "The Floor of Heaven" | Lela Swift | Story by : Sylvia Chatfield Bates Adapted by : Joseph Liss | November 20, 1950 | |
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The story of young love and family pride. | ||||||
| 76 | 14 | "The Shadow of a Man" | Paul Nickell | Story by : May Sarton Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott | November 27, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 77 | 15 | "Letter from Cairo" | Lela Swift | Unknown | December 4, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 78 | 16 | "Mary Lou" | Paul Nickell | Story by : Mildred Cramin Adapted by : Catherine Turney | December 11, 1950 | |
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A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood. | ||||||
| 79 | 17 | "Little Women: Meg's Story" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From the novel by : Louisa May Alcott | December 18, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 80 | 18 | "Little Women: Jo's Story" | Lela Swift | Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From the novel by : Louisa May Alcott | December 25, 1950 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 81 | 19 | "Collector's Item" | Leonard Valenta | Unknown | January 1, 1951 | |
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An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them. | ||||||
| 82 | 20 | "England Made Me" | Lela Swift | Story by : Graham Greene | January 8, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 83 | 21 | "Track of the Cat" | Ralph Nelson | Story by : Walter Van Tilburg Clark Teleplay by : Betty Loring | January 15, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 84 | 22 | "The Trial of John Peter Zenger" | Paul Nickell | Irve Tunick | January 22, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 85 | 23 | "Public Servant" | Ralph Nelson | Hugh Pentecost | January 29, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 86 | 24 | "The Target" | Unknown | Unknown | February 5, 1951 | |
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A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy. | ||||||
| 87 | 25 | "None But My Foe" | Unknown | Adapted by : Worthington Miner | February 12, 1951 | |
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A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic. | ||||||
| 88 | 26 | "The Way Things Are" | Unknown | Unknown | February 19, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 89 | 27 | "The Ambassadors" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Lois Jacoby & Worthington Miner From the novel by : Henry James | February 26, 1951 | |
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A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city. | ||||||
| 90 | 28 | "One Pair of Hands" | Unknown | Unknown | March 5, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 91 | 29 | "A Chill on the Wind" | Ralph Nelson | Adapted by : Edward Gibbons & Worthington Miner | March 12, 1951 | |
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A couple encounter troubles aroused by selfish love and deceit. | ||||||
| 92 | 30 | "Hangman's House" | Paul Nickell | Teleplay by : Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne Adapted by : Joseph Liss | March 19, 1951 | |
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In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice. | ||||||
| 93 | 31 | "The Case of Karen Smith" | Lela Swift | Story by : Viola Brothers Shore Adapted by : Mona Kent | March 26, 1951 | |
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A detective investigates the murder of a millionaire, which was witnessed by a femme fatale. | ||||||
| 94 | 32 | "Wintertime" | Paul Nickell | Story by : Jan Valtin Adapted by : Robert Anderson | April 2, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 95 | 33 | "Shake the Stars Down" | Unknown | Unknown | April 9, 1951 | |
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A beautiful housewife turns career girl to help her husband but he doesn't want her help and trouble starts. | ||||||
| 96 | 34 | "The Straight and Narrow" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | April 16, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 97 | 35 | "The Happy Housewife" | Lela Swift | Teleplay by : Hedda Rosten | April 23, 1951 | |
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A comedy about the hidden hazards in the separate careers of a husband and wife conflicting with their everyday life. | ||||||
| 98 | 36 | "Portrait by Rembrandt" | Paul Nickell | Irve Tunick | April 30, 1951 | |
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The struggling years of the great artist Rembrandt's career are dramatized. | ||||||
| 99 | 37 | "No Tears for Hilda" | Lela Swift | Story by : Andrew Garve Adapted by : David Swift | May 7, 1951 | |
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A major in the Armed Forces attempts to clear his pal who is accused of murdering his wife. | ||||||
| 99 | 38 | "The Old Foolishness" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | May 14, 1951 | |
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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 | ||||||
| 100 | 39 | "A Chance for Happiness" | Unknown | Unknown | May 21, 1951 | |
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A middle-aged British traveling salesman befriends and eventually marries a displace Pole who is hiding from Russians. | ||||||
| 101 | 40 | "Here Is My Life" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | May 28, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 102 | 41 | "Shield for Murder" | Unknown | Story by : William P. McGivern Teleplay by : Irve Tunick | June 4, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 103 | 42 | "Coriolanus" | Paul Nickell | Based on a play by : William Shakespeare | June 11, 1951 | |
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A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city. | ||||||
| 104 | 43 | "Screwball" | Unknown | Mel Goldberg | June 18, 1951 | |
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Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player. | ||||||
| 105 | 44 | "Lonely Boy" | Unknown | Unknown | June 25, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 106 | 45 | "The Swan" | Walter Hart | Based on a play by : Ferenc Molnár | July 2, 1951 | |
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A man is employed to tutor the children of an aristocratic family and has an affair with the lady of the house. | ||||||
| 107 | 46 | "Nightfall" | John Peyser | Teleplay by : Max Ehrlich From the novel by : David Goodis | July 9, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 108 | 47 | "The Apple Tree" | Walter Hart | Story by : John Galsworthy Teleplay by : David Shaw | July 16, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 109 | 48 | "Tremolo" | Unknown | Mel Goldberg | July 23, 1951 | |
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A jazz musician realizes that he is doing exactly what he wanted to avoid at all costs, making an impact with his music. | ||||||
| 110 | 49 | "At Mrs. Beam's" | Walter Hart | Unknown | July 30, 1951 | |
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When a mysterious pair from Paris arrive at the boardinghouse, gossip and wild events take place. | ||||||
| 111 | 50 | "The Pink Hussar" | Martin Magner | Story by : Ben Hecht Teleplay by : Doris Frankel | August 6, 1951 | |
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A Hollywood producer tries to get $200,000 to finance his new play. Unfortunately, he finds that there are strings attached. | ||||||
| 112 | 51 | "The Rabbit" | John Peyser | Story by : Morton Grant Adapted by : Philo Higley | August 13, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 113 | 52 | "Run from the Sun" | Unknown | Mel Goldberg & William Krasner | August 20, 1951 | |
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A World War II veteran is framed for his wife's murder. | ||||||
| 114 | 53 | "Summer Had Better Be Good" | John Peyser | Story by : Ruth McKenney Adapted by : Alvin Sapinsley | August 27, 1951 | |
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A young couple are dealing with life's ups and downs when they move from the city and settle in the country. | ||||||
| 115 | 54 | "Mr. Mummery's Suspicion" | Martin Magner | Teleplay by : Dorothy L. Sayers Adapted by : Alvin Sapinsley | September 3, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 116 | 55 | "The Guinea Pigs" | Roy Fowler | Teleplay by : Dr. Theodore Bawer Adapted by : Sam Locke | September 10, 1951 | |
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A group of tough convicts volunteer for a cancer experiment to avoid their harsh sentences. | ||||||
Season 4 (1951–52)
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| 117 | 1 | "The Angelic Avengers" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : Karen Blixen | September 17, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 118 | 2 | "The Little Black Bag" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Lois Jacoby & Paul Peters From a Story by : Samuel R. Golding | September 24, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 119 | 3 | "The Idol of San Vittore" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | October 1, 1951 | |
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The story of General Andreas della Rovere who was imprisoned by the Nazis and inspired fellow prisoners, despite the fact that he never existed. | ||||||
| 120 | 4 | "Mighty Like a Rogue" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Lou Meltzer From a Story by : Day Keene | October 8, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 121 | 5 | "Colonel Judas" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | October 15, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 122 | 6 | "Macbeth" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Teleplay by : Worthington Miner Based on the play by : William Shakespeare | October 22, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 123 | 7 | "They Serve the Muses" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Elizabeth Hart From a Story by : Kressmann Taylor | October 29, 1951 | |
| 124 | 8 | "The Hero" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Irwin Lewis | November 5, 1951 | |
| 125 | 9 | "A Bolt of Lightning" | Paul Nickell | Irve Tunick | November 12, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 126 | 10 | "The King in Yellow" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Story by : Raymond Chandler Teleplay by : Betty Loring | November 19, 1951 | |
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A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists. | ||||||
| 127 | 11 | "The Dangerous Years" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | November 26, 1951 | |
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The contrast of 1950s parents raised in the Roaring Twenties with their children of the Atomic Age comes with new challenges. | ||||||
| 128 | 12 | "Mutiny on the Nicolette" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a Story by : James Norman | December 3, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 129 | 13 | "The Legend of Jenny Lind" | Paul Nickell | Irve Tunick | December 10, 1951 | |
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P.T. Barnum hires the Swedish nightingale Jenny Lind to perform her music as part of "The Greatest Show on Earth". | ||||||
| 130 | 14 | "The Innocence of Pastor Muller" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : Carlo Beuf | December 17, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 131 | 15 | "Sara Crewe" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | December 24, 1951 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 132 | 16 | "The Paris Feeling" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | December 31, 1951 | |
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In post-World War II Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love. | ||||||
| 133 | 17 | "The Devil in Velvet" | Paul Nickell | Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From a story by : John Dickson Carr | January 7, 1952 | |
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A professor goes back in time to the 17th century to save a woman from poisoning. | ||||||
| 134 | 18 | "Waterfront Boss" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a Story by : Edward D. Radin | January 14, 1952 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 135 | 19 | "The Other Father" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | January 21, 1952 | |
| 136 | 20 | "Burden of Guilt" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : John Hawkins & Ward Hawkins | January 28, 1952 | |
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The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters. | ||||||
| 137 | 21 | "A Candle for St. Jude" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | February 4, 1952 | |
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The story of young, talented ballet dancers. | ||||||
| 138 | 22 | "Pagoda" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Joseph Liss From a Story by : James Atlee Phillips | February 11, 1952 | |
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The owner of a charter airline must cope with disease and betrayal in war-torn Burma. | ||||||
| 139 | 23 | "Success Story" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | February 18, 1952 | |
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Novelist Horatio Alger's life is full of accomplishments and huge disappointments as he reassesses his "rags to riches" life. | ||||||
| 140 | 24 | "Letter from an Unknown Woman" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Worthington Miner From a Story by : Stefan Zweig | February 25, 1952 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
| 157 | 41 | "There Was a Crooked Man" | Martin Magner | Unknown | June 23, 1952 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 161 | 45 | "Jane Eyre" | Jack Gage | Adapted by : James P. Cavanagh From a Novel by : Charlotte Brontë | August 4, 1952 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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The police close in on a notorious assassin. | ||||||
| 165 | 50 | "The Happy Housewife" | David Lowell Rich | Unknown | September 8, 1952 | |
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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 | |
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The tale of a nurse who is hired by a surgeon to care for his mentally unbalanced wife and dead child. | ||||||
Season 5 (1952–53)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 167 | 1 | "The Kill" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adapted by : Reginald Rose From a novel by : Cameron Owen | September 22, 1952 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem. | ||||||
| 180 | 14 | "Young Man Adam" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | December 29, 1952 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
| 186 | 20 | "The River Garden" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | February 9, 1953 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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An English girl is devastated by the disappearance of her husband on their Paris honeymoon trip. | ||||||
| 208 | 42 | "The Shadow of a Man" | James Sheldon | Adapted by : Sumner Locke Elliott From a novel by : May Sarton | July 20, 1953 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
| 214 | 48 | "Letter from Cairo" | Matt Harlib | Adapted by : Reginald Rose From a story by : James Robbins Miller | August 31, 1953 | |
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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 | |
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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. | ||||||
| 216 | 50 | "The Storm" | Matt Harlib | Story by : MacIntoch Malmar Adaptation : Worthington Miner | September 14, 1953 | |
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Terrorized by an intruder, a woman alone discovers a dead body. Guest stars: Martin E. Brooks, Betty Furness, and Laurence Hugo. | ||||||
Season 6 (1953–54)
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| 217 | 1 | "1984" | Paul Nickell | Written for television by: Worthington Miner Novel: George Orwell | September 21, 1953 | |
| 218 | 2 | "Hound-Dog Man" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Writer: Mel Goldberg Novel: Fred Gipson | September 28, 1953 | |
| 219 | 3 | "Silent the Song" | Paul Nickell | Story by : Faith Baldwin Teleplay by : Tad Mosel | October 5, 1953 | |
| 220 | 4 | "Music and Mrs. Pratt" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Written by : Harry W. Junkin | October 12, 1953 | |
| 221 | 5 | "Letter of Love" | Paul Nickell | Written by : Sylvia Berger | October 19, 1953 | |
| 222 | 6 | "Another Caesar" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Adaptation: Michael Dyne Play: Rodolfo Usigli | October 26, 1953 | |
| 223 | 7 | "Crime at Blossom's" | Paul Nickell | Written by : Jerome Ross | November 2, 1953 | |
| 224 | 8 | "Camille" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Story: Alexandre Dumas Teleplay: Thomas Phipps | November 9, 1953 | |
| 225 | 9 | "A Bargain with God" | Paul Nickell | Story: Thomas Savage Teleplay: Howard Rodman | November 16, 1953 | |
| 226 | 10 | "Buffalo Bill Is Dead" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Writer: Rod Serling | November 23, 1953 | |
| 227 | 11 | "Confessions of a Nervous Man" | Paul Nickell | Writer: George Axelrod | November 30, 1953 | |
| 228 | 12 | "Dry Run" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Story: Robert I. Olsen Adaptation: David Shaw | December 7, 1953 | |
| 229 | 13 | "All My Love" | Paul Nickell | Writer: Mel Goldberg | December 14, 1953 | |
| 230 | 14 | "Cinderella '53" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Teleplay: Arnold Schulman | December 21, 1953 | |
| 231 | 15 | "Master of the Rose" | Paul Nickell | Written by : Michael Dyne | December 28, 1953 | |
| 232 | 16 | "The Runaway" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Written by : A.J. Russell | January 4, 1954 | |
| 233 | 17 | "The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners" | Paul Nickell | Writer: Reginald Rose | January 11, 1954 | |
| 234 | 18 | "A Criminal Design" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Story: William Jerome Fay (story "Murder in the Backroom") Teleplay: A.J. Russell | January 18, 1954 | |
| 235 | 19 | "A Favor for a Friend" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | January 25, 1954 | |
| 236 | 20 | "Herman, Come by Bomber" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | February 1, 1954 | |
| 237 | 21 | "Man of Extinction" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | February 8, 1954 | |
| 238 | 22 | "Dark Possession" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | February 15, 1954 | |
| 239 | 23 | "The Role of a Lover" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | February 22, 1954 | |
| 240 | 24 | "Side Street" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | March 1, 1954 | |
| 241 | 25 | "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | March 8, 1954 | |
| 242 | 26 | "Thunder on Sycamore Street" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | March 15, 1954 | |
| 243 | 27 | "The Expendables" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | March 22, 1954 | |
| 244 | 28 | "Paul's Apartment" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | March 29, 1954 | |
| 245 | 29 | "Stir Mugs" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | April 5, 1954 | |
| 246 | 30 | "Jack Sperling, Forty-six" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | April 12, 1954 | |
| 247 | 31 | "A Handful of Diamonds" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | April 19, 1954 | |
| 248 | 32 | "Romney" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | April 26, 1954 | |
| 249 | 33 | "Cardinal Mindszenty" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | May 3, 1954 | |
| 250 | 34 | "Fear Is No Stranger" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | May 10, 1954 | |
| 251 | 35 | "Castle in Spain" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | May 17, 1954 | |
| 252 | 36 | "A Man and Two Gods" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | May 24, 1954 | |
| 253 | 37 | "The Life and Death of Larry Benson" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | May 31, 1954 | |
| 254 | 38 | "The Strike" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Unknown | June 7, 1954 | |
| 255 | 39 | "A Letter to Mr. Gubbins" | Paul Nickell | Unknown | June 14, 1954 | |
| 256 | 40 | "Fandango at War Bonnet" | Allen Reisner | Unknown | June 21, 1954 | |
| 257 | 41 | "Screwball" | Byron Kelly | Unknown | June 28, 1954 | |
| 258 | 42 | "The Small Door" | Mel Ferber | Unknown | July 5, 1954 | |
| 259 | 43 | "A Guest at the Embassy" | Allen Reisner | Unknown | July 12, 1954 | |
| 260 | 44 | "Home Again, Home Again" | Allen Reisner | Unknown | July 19, 1954 | |
| 261 | 45 | "The Hero" | George Gould | Edgar Marvin | July 26, 1954 | |
| 262 | 46 | "The Magic Monday" | Allen Reisner | Harry W. Junkin | August 2, 1954 | |
| 263 | 47 | "Sue Ellen" | Mel Ferber | Carey Wilber | August 9, 1954 | |
| 264 | 48 | "The House of Gair" | Allen Reisner | Michael Dyne, Eric Linklater | August 16, 1954 | |
| 265 | 49 | "Experiment Perilous" | Mel Ferber | Mel Goldberg | August 23, 1954 | |
| 266 | 50 | "The Secret Self" | Allen Reisner | Michael Dyne | August 30, 1954 | |
| 267 | 51 | "U.F.O." | Mel Ferber | Rod Serling | September 6, 1954 | |
| 268 | 52 | "The Cliff" | Allen Reisner | Michael Dyne | September 13, 1954 | |
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After the death of a loved one, someone returns from South America to investigate. Guest stars: Martin E. Brooks, Marjorie Eaton, and Betty Furness. | ||||||
Season 7 (1954–55)
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| 269 | 1 | "Twelve Angry Men" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Reginald Rose | September 20, 1954 | |
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Behind close doors view of a jury deciding a defendant's fate. The 1957 Sidney Lumet film 12 Angry Men was based on this teleplay. | ||||||
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| 312 | 44 | "A Terrible Day" | Seymour Robbie | Carey Wilber | July 18, 1955 | |
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A ruthless landowner is terrorizing a small Western town, aided by his hired killers and the cowardice of the local gentry. Guest stars: Jack Klugman, Royal Beal, Bruce Gordon and Arthur O'Connell. | ||||||
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| 319 | 51 | "Mama's Boy" | Tom Donovan | Mel Goldberg | September 5, 1955 | |
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A possessive mother controls her two sons. Guest stars: Martin E. Brooks, Betty Furness, and Alfred Ryder. | ||||||
| 320 | 52 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1955 | |
Season 8 (1955–56)
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| 321 | 1 | TBA | TBD | TBD | 1955 | |
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| 328 | 8 | "Shakedown Cruise" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Loring Mandel | November 7, 1955 | |
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A Navy crew must organize themselves before the crippled submarine sits on the ocean floor. Guest stars: Martin E. Brooks, Betty Furness, and Don Hastings. | ||||||
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| 349 | 29 | "The Arena" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Rod Serling | April 9, 1956 | |
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| 353 | 33 | "The Drop of a Hat" | Franklin J. Schaffner | Richard Berg | May 7, 1956 | |
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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? Guest stars: Valerie Bettis, Jayne Meadows, Elizabeth Montgomery, Nina Foch, and George Voskovec. | ||||||
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| 357 | 37 | "The Power" | William H. Brown Jr. | Unknown | June 4, 1956 | |
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Season 9 (1956–57)
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Season 10 (1957–58)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 418 | 1 | "The Night America Trembled" | Tom Donovan | Nelson Bond | September 9, 1957 | |
| 419 | 2 | "First Prize for Murder" | Louis G. Cowan | Story by : John D. MacDonald Teleplay by : Phil Reisman Jr. | September 16, 1957 | |
| 420 | 3 | "Mutiny on the Shark Part 1" | Tom Donovan | Max Ehrlich | September 23, 1957 | |
| 421 | 4 | "Mutiny on the Shark Part 2" | Tom Donovan | Max Ehrlich | September 30, 1957 | |
| 422 | 5 | "The Morning Face" | Unknown | Tad Mosel | October 7, 1957 | |
| 423 | 6 | "Act of Mercy" | Tom Donovan | Jerome Ross | October 14, 1957 | |
| 424 | 7 | "The Deaf Heart" | Sidney Lumet | Mayo Simon | October 21, 1957 | |
| 425 | 8 | "The Bend in the Road" | Unknown | John Vlahos | November 4, 1957 | |
| 426 | 9 | "Twenty-Four Hours Til Dawn" | David Greene | Patrick Alexander | November 11, 1957 | |
| 427 | 10 | "Please Report Any Odd Character" | Norman Felton | Jerome Ross | November 18, 1957 | |
| 428 | 11 | "Escape Route" | Fielder Cook | William Mourne | December 2, 1957 | |
| 429 | 12 | "No Deadly Medicine Part 1" | Unknown | Arthur Hailey | December 9, 1957 | |
| 430 | 13 | "No Deadly Medicine Part 2" | Unknown | Arthur Hailey | December 15, 1957 | |
| 431 | 14 | "The Brotherhood of the Bell" | Unknown | Story by : David Karp Teleplay by : Dale Wasserman | January 6, 1958 | |
| 432 | 15 | "The Other Place" | Unknown | Story by : J.B. Priestley Teleplay by : Theodore Apstein | January 13, 1958 | |
| 433 | 16 | "Trail by Slander" | Unknown | Roger O. Hirson | January 20, 1958 | |
| 434 | 17 | "Balance of Terror" | Unknown | Story by : Peter Shaffner Teleplay by : Max Ehrlich | January 27, 1958 | |
| 435 | 18 | "The Laughing Willow" | Unknown | Sumner Locke Elliott | February 3, 1958 | |
| 436 | 19 | "Presence of the Enemy" | Jack Smight | Tad Mosel | February 10, 1958 | |
| 437 | 20 | "Tide of Corruption" | Unknown | Marc Brandel | February 17, 1958 | |
| 438 | 21 | "The Lonely Stage" | Tom Donovan | Robert Dozier | February 24, 1958 | |
| 439 | 22 | "The Fair-Haired Boy" | Unknown | Herman Raucher | March 3, 1958 | |
| 440 | 23 | "A Dead Ringer" | Robert Stevens | James Hadley Chase, Henry Misrock, Madeline Misrock | March 10, 1958 | |
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| 441 | 24 | "Tongues of Angels" | Herbert Hirschman | John Vlahos | March 17, 1958 | |
| 442 | 25 | "The Award Winner" | David Greene | Jerry Davis & Tom August | March 24, 1958 | |
| 443 | 26 | "The Shadow of a Genius" | Ralph Nelson | Jerome Ross | March 31, 1958 | |
| 444 | 27 | "Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris" | David Greene | Story by : Paul Gallico Teleplay by : Michael Dyne | April 14, 1958 | |
| 445 | 28 | "The Desperate Age" | Herbert Hirschman | Abby Mann | April 21, 1958 | |
| 446 | 29 | "The Edge of Truth" | David Greene | Adrian Spies | April 28, 1958 | |
| 447 | 30 | "The Mctaggert Succession" | Ted Post | John McGreevey | May 5, 1958 | |
| 448 | 31 | "Kurishiki Incident" | Tom Donovan | Roger O. Hirson | May 12, 1958 | |
| 449 | 32 | "A Funny-Looking Kid" | Ralph Nelson | Ben Starr | May 19, 1958 | |
| 450 | 33 | "The Enemy Within" | Herbert Hirschman | Richard DeRoy | May 26, 1958 | |
| 451 | 34 | "Ticket to Tahiti" | David Greene | Robert Bassing | June 2, 1958 | |
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| 452 | 35 | "The Strong Man" | Lamont Johnson | Harold Jack Bloom | June 9, 1958 | |
| 453 | 36 | "The Left-Handed Welcome" | Ron Winston | Story by : John D. Weaver Teleplay by : Robert Presnell Jr. | June 16, 1958 | |
| 454 | 37 | "The Man Who Asked for a Funeral" | Tom Donovan | Jerome Ross | June 23, 1958 | |
| 455 | 38 | "The Undiscovered" | James Clark | Joseph Landon | June 30, 1958 | |
| 456 | 39 | "Man Under Glass" | Ron Winston | Richard Berg | July 14, 1958 | |
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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" | Unknown | Jerome Gruskin | July 28, 1958 | |
| 458 | 41 | "The Last Summer" | John Frankenheimer | Frank D. Gilroy | August 4, 1958 | |
| 459 | 42 | "Tag-Along" | Jim Clark | Story by : Talmadge Oliver Bartley Teleplay by : Ernest Kinoy | August 11, 1958 | |
| 460 | 43 | "Birthday Present" | Don Taylor | Jack Roche | August 18, 1958 | |
| 461 | 44 | "Bellingham" | Russell Stoneham | Story by : Elliott West Teleplay by : A.J. Carothers & Elliott West | August 25, 1958 | |
| 462 | 45 | "The Lady Died at Midnight" | Paul Nickell | Charles Larson | September 1, 1958 | |
| 463 | 46 | "Music U.S.A." | Norman Abbott | Cy Howard | September 9, 1958 | |
| 464 | 47 | "No Place to Run" | James Clark | Story by : Nathaniel Benchley Teleplay by : James P. Cavanagh | September 15, 1958 | |
| 465 | 48 | "Image of Fear" | Buzz Kulik | Story by : Leslie Stevens Teleplay by : James P. Cavanagh | September 29, 1958 | |
References
[edit]- ^ An Evening in the Zone: Three Teleplays by Twilight Zone Creator Rod Serling dvd, S'More Entertainment, catalog no. SMO-7172 (2009).
External links
[edit]- Studio One at IMDb