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Studio One Season 5 — Episodes and Where to Watch

50 episodes · first aired 1952-09-22

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Episode guide

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Episode 1: The Kill

1952-09-2260 min

Grace Kelly in a very good early performance as the wife of Dick Foran, who is wrongly accused of murder. Nina Foch plays Foran's old girl friend who is still in love with him.

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Episode 2: The Square Peg

1952-09-2960 min

A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.

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Episode 3: The Doctor's Wife

1952-10-0660 min

A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.

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Episode 4: Little Man, Big World

1952-10-1360 min

A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.

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Episode 5: The Great Conspiracy

1952-10-2060 min

The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.

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Episode 6: The Love Letter

1952-10-2760 min

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.

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Episode 7: The Incredible Mr. Glencannon

1952-11-1060 min

An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.

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Episode 8: Plan For Escape

1952-11-1760 min

A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.

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Episode 9: The Formula

1952-11-2460 min

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.

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Episode 10: I Am Jonathan Scrivener

1952-12-0160 min

The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.

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Episode 11: The Hospital

1952-12-0860 min

A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.

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Episode 12: The Great Lady

1952-12-1560 min

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.

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Episode 13: The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus

1952-12-2260 min

The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.

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Episode 14: Young Man Adam

1952-12-2960 min

A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.

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Episode 15: Black Rain

1953-01-0560 min

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.

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Episode 16: The Trial of John Peter Zenger

1953-01-1260 min

The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.

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Episode 17: Signal Thirty-Two

1953-01-1960 min

The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.

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Episode 18: To a Moment of Triumph

1953-01-2660 min

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.

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Episode 19: Mark of Cain

1953-02-0260 min

A young man on parole after 7 years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate, but while his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.

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Episode 20: The River Garden

1953-02-0960 min

The story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.

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Episode 21: The Walsh Girls

1953-02-1660 min

Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.

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Episode 22: The Show Piece

1953-02-2360 min

An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.

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Episode 23: My Beloved Husband

1953-03-0260 min

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?

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Episode 24: The Garretson Chronicle

1953-03-0960 min

The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.

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Episode 25: A Breath of Air

1953-03-1660 min

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.

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Episode 26: The Edge of Evil

1953-03-2360 min

A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.

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Episode 27: At Midnight on the Thirty-First of March

1953-03-3060 min

A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.

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Episode 28: Shadow of the Devil

1953-04-0660 min

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.

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Episode 29: The Magic Lantern

1953-04-1360 min

A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.

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Episode 30: The Fathers

1953-04-2060 min

An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.

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Episode 31: Along Came a Spider

1953-04-2760 min

A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.

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Episode 32: Birthright

1953-05-0460 min

A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.

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Episode 33: King Coffin

1953-05-1160 min

A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.

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Episode 34: The Laugh Maker

1953-05-1860 min

Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.

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Episode 35: Fly with the Hawk

1953-05-2460 min

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.

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Episode 36: Rendezvous

1953-06-0160 min

A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer-protege and meets a woman he had known many years before.

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Episode 37: Conflict

1953-06-0860 min

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.

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Episode 38: The Paris Feeling

1953-06-2260 min

In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.

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Episode 39: Greed

1953-06-2960 min

An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.

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Episode 40: Beyond Reason

1953-07-0660 min

A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.

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Episode 41: End of the Honeymoon

1953-07-1360 min

An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.

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Episode 42: The Shadow of a Man

1953-07-2060 min

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.

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Episode 43: The King in Yellow

1953-07-2760 min

A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.

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Episode 44: The Roman Kid

1953-08-0360 min

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.

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Episode 45: Flowers from a Stranger

1953-08-1060 min

A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.

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Episode 46: Sentence of Death

1953-08-1760 min

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.

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Episode 47: The Gathering Night

1953-08-2460 min

The story of a lonely child, Dick Heldar, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army into battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.

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Episode 48: Letter from Cairo

1953-08-3160 min

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.

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Episode 49: Look Homeward, Hayseed

1953-09-0460 min

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.

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Episode 50: The Storm

1953-09-1460 min

During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.

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