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Studio One Season 8 — Episodes and Where to Watch

50 episodes · first aired 1955-09-19

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Episode guide

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Episode 1: Like Father, Like Son

1955-09-1960 min

An ex-football hero who's now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.

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Episode 2: Three Empty Rooms

1955-09-2660 min

Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.

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Episode 3: A Likely Story

1955-10-0360 min

A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.

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Episode 4: Uncle Ed and Circumstances

1955-10-1060 min

Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""

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Episode 5: A Most Contagious Game

1955-10-1760 min

In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.

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Episode 6: Private History

1955-10-2460 min

A son runs for public office based on nothing more than his famous father's reputation. Dad didn't think to much of him - and says so in his private diaries. The candidate's job now is to discreetly remove all of the unflattering references.

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Episode 7: Split Level

1955-10-3160 min

Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Though their families share a split-level house, their lives are miles apart: the woman is from a once-prominent southern family, and the man is an Italian immigrant.

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Episode 8: Shakedown Cruise

1955-11-0760 min

A Navy crew is trapped in a crippled submarine on the ocean floor. The captain and his second in command must organize the men, who, before the accident, were torn by petty grievances.

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Episode 9: The Judge and the Hangman

1955-11-1460 min

In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.

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Episode 10: Julie

1955-11-2160 min

A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.

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Episode 11: The Man Who Caught the Ball at Coogan's Bluff

1955-11-2860 min

A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.

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Episode 12: Blow Up at Cortland

1955-12-0560 min

The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.

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Episode 13: The Strongbox

1955-12-1260 min

After the death of a Foreign Aid official, the reputation of the American Embassy in London comes into question. Was he a traitor or philanthropist?

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Episode 14: Miracle at Potter's Farm

1955-12-1960 min

Brucie and his elder sister, Jen, are two of five children who face separation and removal from the family farm after their father's death.

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Episode 15: Fair Play

1955-12-2660 min

A young army officer (Dewey Martin) waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier (James Gregory) is charged with a murder that was actually committed by the two MPs who arrested him. The officer risks his career in search of material that can exonerate the soldier.

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Episode 16: Dino

1956-01-0260 min

Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors, but he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring kid brother will be with him.

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Episode 17: The Talented Mr. Ripley

1956-01-0960 min

Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to from New York to Italy to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.

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Episode 18: Johnny August

1956-01-1660 min

Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.

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Episode 19: A Public Figure

1956-01-2360 min

A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.

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Episode 20: My Son Johnny

1956-01-3060 min

A magazine writer, married to his part-time editor, is vaguely discontented with his life. Then one night he learns that after many years of marriage, he is going to be a father. The news has an extraordinary effect on the lives of the couple.

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Episode 21: The Silent Gun

1956-02-0660 min

A famous gunfighter of the Wild West teaches his young ranch boy companion an important lesson in life. A team of men set out to sell a new Colt firearm and one is a sharpshooter, the other a salesman. One of the men is the famous Ringo Kid. When his identity is learned, there is trouble.

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Episode 22: Manhattan Duet

1955-02-1360 min

Two columnists cover the political scene and are practically identical twins. One is married, one is single and the wife of one wishes the other would get married and move to the suburbs. When the confirmed bachelor does announce plans for an impending marriage the two men decide to have adjoining penthouse apartments and the wives have other ideas.

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Episode 23: Circle of Guilt

1956-02-2060 min

A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.

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Episode 24: Always Welcome

1956-02-2760 min

A widow takes in orphans and unwanted children with loving care. She finds her latest recruit is a little more troublesome than the others.

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Episode 25: A Favor for Sam

1956-03-0560 min

A quick-tempered cab driver picks up what appears to be two men and a drunk. On second look the drunk proves to be a corpse.

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Episode 26: Flower of Pride

1956-03-1260 min

A proud Florentine duchess's prayer to the Saint of the Impossible is answered in an unexpected manner. The Italian duchess has disowned her niece because the girl insists on living a gypsy-like life as a nightclub dancer. However, the arrival of a seemingly irreverent painter penetrates the stony facade of an archly unemotional duchess and humanizes her.

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Episode 27: The Laughter of Giants

1956-03-1960 min

A self-made man domineering in nature has a beautiful young wife who is interested in art. He introduces her to a young male artist to teach her to paint and learns a valuable lesson.

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Episode 28: The Tale of St. Emergency

1956-03-2660 min

An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.

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Episode 29: This Will Do Nicely

1956-04-0260 min

A man is dead. His wife calls in his best friend who is an amateur sleuth who calls it suicide but she calls it murder and says that he did it.

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Episode 30: The Arena

1956-04-0960 min

Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.

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Episode 31: Regarding File Number 4356

1956-04-1660 min

A social worker is being forced to deprive a childless couple of a baby they have cared for and want to adopt.

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Episode 32: I Do

1956-04-3060 min

A young couple elope and try to hide in New York from their disappointed parents.

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Episode 33: The Drop of a Hat

1956-05-0760 min

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?

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Episode 34: The Genie of Sutton Place

1956-05-1460 min

In New York City, a 13-year-old boy discovers the magic words that set a wish-granting genie free.

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Episode 35: The Star-Spangled Soldier

1956-05-2160 min

A not too sharp commandant of a military academy gets into some hilarious situations when he mistakes his father's invention for a war missile.

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Episode 36: Family Protection

1956-05-2860 min

A bank robber has an agreement with a suburban couple to use their home as his hideout in return for a share of the loot.

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Episode 37: The Power

1956-06-0460 min

A young professor must discover which of his colleagues possesses the diabolical ability to control the minds of others.

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Episode 38: Flight

1956-06-1160 min

A Mexican youth who lives on the California coast near Monterrey leaves his family to go on his first trip alone into town during fiesta time.

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Episode 39: Snap Your Fingers

1956-06-1860 min

A beautiful girl is a witch and her vain ex-suitor has been transformed into a peacock. She finally meets a nice young man from Boston.

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Episode 40: Mr. Arcularis

1956-06-2560 min

While a man lies unconscious on the operating table, he dreams that he has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However, death follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens. The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love, forces him back to reality, at which point, he regains consciousness to find Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right.

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Episode 41: The Luck of Luke McTigger

1956-07-0260 min

Luke McTrigger, proprietor of the Olympia saloon and hotel, has been thinking hard and has finally come up with a sure-fire plan to win the hand of the widow Baines. Now the widow is nothing to look at, and some folks say she's a bull-headed old battle-axe, but she has an estimated fortune of $900, and that's a lot of money in the Wyoming of 1880!

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Episode 42: Song for a Summer Night

1956-07-0960 min

A man who once played a hot trumpet in a band wants to break away from his successful law practice for a night and hear some good jazz. He and two other friends visit a nightclub and he manages to hit a "high" note of his own.

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Episode 43: Emmaline

1956-07-1660 min

A best selling novel leads everyone to wonder about who the author is.

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Episode 44: An Incident of Love

1956-07-2360 min

A young housewife befriends a withdrawn blind neighbor with beneficial results.

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Episode 45: The Ballad of Yermo Red

1956-07-3060 min

Yermo Red is a sadistic cop employed by a western railroad who delights in beating up hobos and finally kills one. The hobos want to avenge the dead man by killing Yermo. But one of them who hates violence prevails on them to try something else. He composes a song, "The Ballad of Yermo Red", which everybody up and down the railroad line begins singing.

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Episode 46: Something Ventured

1956-08-0660 min

A savage businessman is so hated by his employees that they band together and plan their own competing company.

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Episode 47: Giulio

1956-08-2760 min

In the Italian section of New York City, the talented Giulio Costello and Rose Pinato, spend the warm summer evenings on a park bench discussing Giulio's future. The young man is torn between love and the chance for a career in grand opera.

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Episode 48: A Day Before Battle

1956-09-0360 min

On the night before the Battle of Gettysburg, several Union soldiers capture a Southern spy and try to decide if it is morally permissible to shoot a prisoner.

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Episode 49: Cauliflower Heart

1956-09-1060 min

A small town businessman's son is killed and in order to fill the void he takes a tough youngster who needs a father under his wing.

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Episode 50: Dark Morning

1956-09-1760 min

A lumber baron is bent on revenge and intends to hang a man whom he believes responsible for his brother's death.

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