Studio One Season 7

1: Twelve Angry Men

Sep 20, 1954

A jury must reach a verdict concerning a teenaged boy accused of murder.

2: The Education of HYMAN KAPLAN

Sep 27, 1954

An irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults wages his personal war with the English language.

3: Prelude to Murder

Oct 4, 1954

A mystery writer and his wife are searching for an isolated country home where he can work undisturbed. Instead, they meet up with an odd painter whose wife had recently died.

4: Melissa

Oct 11, 1954

A young woman responds with deep devotion to her dominating father and upon his death she makes a postmortem discovery of a "secret" about him.

5: The Boy Who Changed the World

Oct 18, 1954

The life story of the famous inventor

6: Fatal in My Fashion

Oct 25, 1954

A Paris dressmaker's model is stabbed to death during the showing of new gowns.

7: The Man Who Owned the Town

Nov 1, 1954

An arrogant gambler in Cripple Creek controls the village until a stranger comes along to usurp his powers.

8: An Almanac of Liberty

Nov 8, 1954

When a stranger to a small town is beaten up by a locals, upright residents gather, inexplicably, against their will to the town hall. Once assembled, they find they can't leave and time has stopped. All talk about the stranger, (also present). Some express rage for his views and reveal their misguided ideas of American patriotism, which are really prejudices against freedom of thought and free speech.

9: Let Me Go, Lover

Nov 15, 1954

A disc jockey is involved in a murder. As he played peekaboo with a psychopathic killer and tangled with the police, turntables all over the place kept spinning a record called "Let Me Go, Lover", the murderer's favorite song, of course.

10: Joey

Nov 22, 1954

Joey, a clown and leader of a traveling circus, suddenly becomes depressed when his group plays the tiny town of Millville.

11: The Deserter

Nov 29, 1954

After serving seven years in prison for desertion, a bitter soldier tries to start a new life.

12: Short Cut

Dec 6, 1954

A crusading attorney finds that there are no short cuts to justice.

13: 12:32 A.M.

Dec 13, 1954

A sensitive boy's relationship with his parents lacks the real understanding necessary to a happy life.

14: Two Little Minks

Dec 20, 1954

A New England Christmas story

15: The Cuckoo in Spring

Dec 27, 1954

A young art dealer visits the home of a miserly connoisseur and discovers a pretty girl as well as some very valuable paintings.

16: The Missing Men

Jan 3, 1955

A young private investigator finds himself trapped by a web of circumstantial evidence and his name linked to that of a homicidal mugger. The tension mounts as he strives to clear himself.

17: Grandma Rolled Her Own

Jan 10, 1955

Twelve-year-old orphan Bill Caldwell is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother when his aunt and uncle go to Europe. Down on her luck in 1929 Detroit, Grandma rents out 22 rooms of her 25-room house. Every March, the circus comes to town and some of the more interesting characters stay at Grandma's. Young Bill learns much more about life interacting with his Grandma and her colorful boarders than living with his stuffy aunt and uncle.

18: Sail with the Tide

Jan 17, 1955

A beautiful but icy singer is devoted exclusively to her art and her equally icy French officer who succumbs to her charms.

19: It Might Happen Tomorrow

Jan 24, 1955

A test pilot sets out for a cruise through space and suddenly loses contact with Earth.

20: The Silent Women

Jan 31, 1955

A sheriff travels to a rural Maine island to investigate the case of a missing young woman. While there, he learns many odd things about the place and it's inhabitants.

21: A Stranger May Die

Feb 7, 1955

Police fight a desperate battle against time to prevent a would-be suicide from killing not only himself, but also the other tenants in the building.

22: The Broken Spur

Feb 14, 1955

In a shabby western town about 1900, a stranger gets off the train, goes to the sheriff's office, and kills him. His mild-mannered son takes over his position and tries to find the killer and avenge his father's death.

23: The Eddie Chapman Story

Feb 21, 1955

Eddie Chapman was the only Briton to win the Iron Cross in World War II. But was he really working for the Germans? Or was he a highly-placed double-agent?

24: Donovan's Brain

Feb 28, 1955

The brain of a billionaire who dies in an accident is kept alive and makes plans for global domination.

25: Millions of Georges

Mar 7, 1955

A "retread" Master Sergeant is called back into the service and it seems to his wife that most of their 10 years of marriage have been spent moving from base to base. When a young and lovely girl enters the picture the wife fears that love alone cannot hold her husband.

26: The Conviction of Peter Shea

Mar 14, 1955

The dying words of a young woman, the victim of a hit-and-run driver, point towards stock-broker Peter Shea. He maintains his innocence, even as he's found guilty and sent to prison.

27: Miss Turner's Decision

Mar 21, 1955

Spinster Melissa Turner is at a crossroads in life concerning her future. She must decide whether to pursue Forest, sad reclusive acquaintance or prepare for a life alone.

28: Dominique

Mar 28, 1955

When a newly wed Italian bride named Dominique moves to Vermont, she suffers culture shock and is hesitant to continue her new life in the Americas.

29: Cross My Heart

Apr 4, 1955

Feeling misunderstood and unwanted by her parents, a girl decides that she must run away.

30: Passage of Arms

Apr 11, 1955

In 1948, while the captain of Czechoslovakia's championship hockey team is in Moscow, Russia annexes his home land. On his return, he and his fiancee plot to escape.

31: Affairs of State

Apr 18, 1955

Irene is the plain niece of an elder statesman, who comes to Washington to aid her uncle. She seems an ideal match for a bachelor senator up for re-election. But her uncle and husband-to-be don't realize just how ideal she really is!

32: Mrs. Brimmer Did It!

Apr 25, 1955

Mr. Brimmer did not go over that seaside cliff unaided. Sinister Cousin Julian from South Africa gave Mr. Brimmer a bit of help.

33: Summer Pavilion

May 2, 1955

In an old Louisiana plantation, the the furnishings and the once great family are fading fast.The matriarch desperately tries to hold on the a gazebo that's slated for destruction as part of a building project, as well as holding her daughter to an unwanted marriage, though she loves the builder.

34: A Picture in the Paper

May 9, 1955

A mild-mannered bookkeeper, belittled by his family and his coworkers, is to get his picture in the paper when he is named his company's head bookkeeper. The picture is in the paper all right, but he is mistakenly named the chairman of the city's anti-vice crusade.

35: Strange Companion

May 16, 1955

The drab companion of an elderly hypochondriac is transformed into a lovely woman when she falls in love with a young man she met at the opera, but she lies to him about herself, claiming she's the educated daughter of a famed operatic diva.

36: Pigeons and People

May 23, 1955

A man named Parker prefers the companionship of the pigeons in the park to that of the human race. One day, as he sits feeding his friends, Parker is approached by a gentleman who wishes to rehabilitate him.

37: Operation Home

May 30, 1955

A scholarly officer, who has spent his 3 years of military service at a secluded desk job, is assigned to shepherd some 600 troops from California to New York at the end of World War II.

38: The Spongers

Jun 6, 1955

An elderly man has lost touch with his son when he receives a surprise visit from his son and his wife who come for a visit. They find that a pair of parasitic drifters have moved in with the old man and are "sponging" off him.

39: The Incredible World of Horace Ford

Jun 13, 1955

Horace Ford longs for his childhood but it was not as idyllic as he remembers it.

40: Heart Song

Jun 20, 1955

He used to be a Hollywood bigwig but now Jonah Silver is a casting director at a small studio. A young woman seeking a job pays him a visit.

41: For the Defense

Jun 27, 1955

A young lawyer bucks public opinion in his defense of an accused killer. When the killer suspect escapes while visiting the scene of the crime with the lawyer, life becomes very unpleasant for the defender.

42: The Day Before the Wedding

Jul 4, 1955

A mother announces on the day before her daughter's wedding that she is going to divorce her husband.

43: Sane as a Hatter

Jul 11, 1955

A man with a Robin Hood complex has a penchant for liquidating people whose lives he considers worthless in order to give their money to more deserving people.

44: A Terrible Day

Jul 18, 1955

A ruthless landowner is terrorizing a small Western town, aided by his hired killers and the cowardice of the local gentry.

45: The Tall Dark Stranger

Jul 25, 1955

A woman is found strangled in a plush hotel room and sitting dazedly by is an ex-convict who tells police he is guilty. Flashback to ten years before when the man and woman first met and events leading up to the slaying with a tall dark stranger.

46: Julius Caesar

Aug 1, 1955

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

47: The Prince and the Puppet

Aug 8, 1955

A pair of puppeteers seek funds for a trailer tour and do a show for a wealthy man's party with unusual results.

48: The Secret

Aug 15, 1955

A young wife invites her rival to dinner and sees that her husband is still interested in the old flame. He takes the woman home and is gone for several hours. In the morning, the woman is found dead in her hallway, the victim of a fall down the stairs that could have been accidental or could have been murder.

49: The Voysey Inheritance

Aug 22, 1955

In the early 1900s, a man who is about to take over the family investment firm finds that his father has played fast and loose with some of his clients' money.

50: A Chance at Love

Aug 29, 1955

A store owner in a small Iowa town goes to New York and meets a model. He falls in love with her and tries to figure a way to let the model continue her work and still become his wife.

51: Mama's Boy

Sep 5, 1955

A family is torn by divided and misplaced loyalties of a possessive mother who controls her two sons.

52: The Pit

Sep 12, 1955

Two men trapped in a mine fear that the end is near and the one man confesses to the other about a crime that he committed. Upon their rescue, the man enters a new trap as his confidence might be exposed.

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