Studio One - Season 3

First aired: 8/28/1950 55 episodes

Episodes

1. Zone Four

Aired: 8/28/1950

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."

2. Look Homeward, Hayseed

Aired: 9/4/1950

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.

3. Mist with the Tamara Geba

Aired: 9/11/1950

A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder.

4. Trilby

Aired: 9/18/1950

The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer

5. Away from It All

Aired: 9/25/1950

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.

6. The Passionate Pilgrim

Aired: 10/2/1950

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.

7. The Spectre of Alexander Wolff

Aired: 10/9/1950

A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground.

8. Good for Thirty Days

Aired: 10/16/1950

An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery.

9. The Road to Jericho

Aired: 10/23/1950

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.

10. Wuthering Heights

Aired: 10/30/1950

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.

11. The Blonde Comes First

Aired: 11/6/1950

An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.

12. The Last Cruise

Aired: 11/13/1950

Story about submariners

13. The Floor of Heaven

Aired: 11/20/1950

The story of young love and family pride.

14. The Shadow of a Man

Aired: 11/27/1950

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.

15. Letter from Cairo

Aired: 12/4/1950

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.

16. Mary Lou

Aired: 12/11/1950

A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood.

17. Little Women (Part 1)

Aired: 12/18/1950

Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 1 concentrates on Meg's story.

18. Little Women (Part 2)

Aired: 12/25/1950

Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 2 tells Jo's story.

19. Collector's Item

Aired: 1/1/1951

An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them

20. England Made Me

Aired: 1/8/1951

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.

21. Track of the Cat

Aired: 1/15/1951

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.

22. The Trial of John Peter Zenger

Aired: 1/22/1951

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.

23. Public Servant

Aired: 1/29/1951

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.

24. The Target

Aired: 2/5/1951

A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy.

25. None But My Foe

Aired: 2/12/1951

A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.

26. The Way Things Are

Aired: 2/19/1951

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.

27. The Ambassadors

Aired: 2/26/1951

A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.

28. One Pair of Hands

Aired: 3/5/1951

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.

29. A Chill on the Wind

Aired: 3/12/1951

A couple encounter troubles aroused by selfish love and deceit.

30. Hangman's House

Aired: 3/19/1951

In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice.

31. The Case of Karen Smith

Aired: 3/26/1951

A detective investigates the murder of a millionaire, which was witnessed by a femme fatale.

32. Wintertime

Aired: 4/2/1951

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.

33. Shake the Stars Down

Aired: 4/9/1951

A beautiful housewife turns career girl to help her husband but he doesn't want her help and trouble starts.

34. The Straight and Narrow

Aired: 4/16/1951

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.

35. The Happy Housewife

Aired: 4/23/1951

A comedy about the hidden hazards in the separate careers of a husband and wife conflicting with their everyday life.

36. Portrait by Rembrandt

Aired: 4/30/1951

The struggling years of the great artist Rembrandt's career are dramatized.

37. No Tears for Hilda

Aired: 5/7/1951

A major in the Armed Forces attempts to clear his pal who is accused of murdering his wife.

38. The Old Foolishness

Aired: 5/14/1951

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.

39. A Chance for Happiness

Aired: 5/21/1951

A middle-aged British traveling salesman befriends and eventually marries a displace Pole who is hiding from Russians.

40. Here Is My Life

Aired: 5/28/1951

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.

41. Shield for Murder

Aired: 6/4/1951

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.

42. Coriolanus

Aired: 6/11/1951

Updating of the Shakespearean play from Roman time to Fascist Italy.

43. Screwball

Aired: 6/18/1951

Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.

44. Lonely Boy

Aired: 6/25/1951

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.

45. The Swan

Aired: 7/2/1951

A man is employed to tutor the children of an aristocratic family and has an affair with the lady of the house.

46. Nightfall

Aired: 7/9/1951

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.

47. The Apple Tree

Aired: 7/16/1951

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.

48. Tremolo

Aired: 7/23/1951

A jazz musician realizes that he is doing exactly what he wanted to avoid at all costs, making an impact with his music.

49. At Mrs. Beam's

Aired: 7/30/1951

When a mysterious pair from Paris arrive at the boardinghouse, gossip and wild events take place.

50. The Pink Hussar

Aired: 8/6/1951

A Hollywood producer tries to get $200,000 to finance his new play. Unfortunately, he finds that there are strings attached.

51. The Rabbit

Aired: 8/13/1951

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.

52. Run from the Sun

Aired: 8/20/1951

A World War II veteran is framed for his wife's murder.

53. Summer Had Better Be Good

Aired: 8/27/1951

A young couple are dealing with life's ups and downs when they move from the city and settle in the country.

54. Mr. Mummery's Suspicion

Aired: 9/3/1951

British sleuth Mr. Mummery is out to catch a cook who disappeared after poisoning her guests. Wait a minute, Mr. Mummery just hired a new cook!

55. The Guinea Pig

Aired: 9/10/1951

A group of tough convicts volunteer for a cancer experiment to avoid their harsh sentences.