Studio One - Season 8

First aired: 9/19/1955 50 episodes

Episodes

1. Like Father, Like Son

Aired: 9/19/1955

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.

2. Three Empty Rooms

Aired: 9/26/1955

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

3. A Likely Story

Aired: 10/3/1955

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

4. Uncle Ed and Circumstances

Aired: 10/10/1955

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

5. A Most Contagious Game

Aired: 10/17/1955

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

6. Private History

Aired: 10/24/1955

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.

7. Split Level

Aired: 10/31/1955

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.

8. Shakedown Cruise

Aired: 11/7/1955

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.

9. The Judge and the Hangman

Aired: 11/14/1955

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

10. Julie

Aired: 11/21/1955

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

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

Aired: 11/28/1955

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

12. Blow Up at Cortland

Aired: 12/5/1955

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

13. The Strongbox

Aired: 12/12/1955

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?

14. Miracle at Potter's Farm

Aired: 12/19/1955

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.

15. Fair Play

Aired: 12/26/1955

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.

16. Dino

Aired: 1/2/1956

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.

17. The Talented Mr. Ripley

Aired: 1/9/1956

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.

18. Johnny August

Aired: 1/16/1956

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

19. A Public Figure

Aired: 1/23/1956

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

20. My Son Johnny

Aired: 1/30/1956

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.

21. The Silent Gun

Aired: 2/6/1956

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.

22. Manhattan Duet

Aired: 2/13/1955

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.

23. Circle of Guilt

Aired: 2/20/1956

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

24. Always Welcome

Aired: 2/27/1956

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

25. A Favor for Sam

Aired: 3/5/1956

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.

26. Flower of Pride

Aired: 3/12/1956

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.

27. The Laughter of Giants

Aired: 3/19/1956

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.

28. The Tale of St. Emergency

Aired: 3/26/1956

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

29. This Will Do Nicely

Aired: 4/2/1956

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.

30. The Arena

Aired: 4/9/1956

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.

31. Regarding File Number 4356

Aired: 4/16/1956

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

32. I Do

Aired: 4/30/1956

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

33. The Drop of a Hat

Aired: 5/7/1956

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?

34. The Genie of Sutton Place

Aired: 5/14/1956

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

35. The Star-Spangled Soldier

Aired: 5/21/1956

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.

36. Family Protection

Aired: 5/28/1956

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.

37. The Power

Aired: 6/4/1956

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

38. Flight

Aired: 6/11/1956

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.

39. Snap Your Fingers

Aired: 6/18/1956

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.

40. Mr. Arcularis

Aired: 6/25/1956

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.

41. The Luck of Luke McTigger

Aired: 7/2/1956

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!

42. Song for a Summer Night

Aired: 7/9/1956

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.

43. Emmaline

Aired: 7/16/1956

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

44. An Incident of Love

Aired: 7/23/1956

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

45. The Ballad of Yermo Red

Aired: 7/30/1956

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.

46. Something Ventured

Aired: 8/6/1956

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

47. Giulio

Aired: 8/27/1956

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.

48. A Day Before Battle

Aired: 9/3/1956

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.

49. Cauliflower Heart

Aired: 9/10/1956

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.

50. Dark Morning

Aired: 9/17/1956

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