An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Episode 1
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
Episode 2
A young agent in the publishing business wheels and deals his way up the ladder, stepping on a few too many toes along the way.
Episode 3
Madame Flora conducts bogus seances to bilk grieving parents, but during one seance she feels hands around her neck and panics.
Episode 4
An elderly woman remembers back to a time in her youth when she was pursued by two gentlemen.
Episode 5
A story about psychological breakdown and recovery
Episode 6
A psychopathic killer escapes from prison and comes under the care of a noted psychiatrist.
Episode 7
The happy-go-lucky Johnny Case, a self-made man with the dream of making just enough money to retire on and then traveling around the world, proposes to the lovely Julia in Lake Placid but later discovers she's the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.
Episode 8
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play
Episode 9
When a young American inherits a house in London, he travels back in time to the Revolutionary War and encounters his ancestors.
Episode 10
Victor Karenin is devastated when his fiancée Lisa leaves him for Fedya but is happily surprised when Fedya falls for a young reckless gypsy girl.
Episode 11
Five refugees vie for a seat on a flight to escape a Communist occupied Britain.
Episode 12
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play about Roman politics
Episode 13
When his boss, a corrupt politician, is accused of murder, a man hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way.
Episode 14
A true believer brings others, through the uncorrupted purity and simplicity of her own faith, back to first principles.
Episode 15
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
Episode 16
A haunting tale about ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in a small Jewish town in Eastern Europe. The restless spirit of a dead man enters the body of the woman he was pledged to marry.
Episode 17
A pair of screenwriters are ordered to concoct a comeback screenplay for a cowboy star whose star is on the wane.
Episode 18
"Smoke" is the story of European community roots and changes, reflected both in Russian politics and in the lives of two individuals who find philosophies diverging.
Episode 19
A naive Schenectady shipping clerk comes to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a lyricist, befriends a one-hit wonder composer, and meets the girl of his dreams.
Episode 20
A handsome doctor becomes the object of affection of several of his female patients, young and old alike.
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