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Studio One · Season 5

All Episodes

50 episodes · (Complete)

S05E01: The Kill

Sep 22, 1952 60 min

Grace Kelly in a very good early performance as the wife of Dick Foran, who is wrongly accused of murder. Nina Foch plays Foran's old girl friend who is still in love with him.

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S05E06: The Love Letter

Oct 27, 1952 60 min

Professor White teaches at a provincial university who has lost his enjoyment of teaching. His hatred of youth and all it embellishes has destroyed his faith.

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S05E09: The Formula

Nov 24, 1952 60 min

An American spy and his wife, with the help of the widow of a Swiss scientist, compete with enemy agents to find the scientist's hidden formula for a psycho-active gas that erases the will to resist.

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S05E12: The Great Lady

Dec 15, 1952 60 min

A man travels to France on business and meets a beautiful but married woman whom he falls in love with. They plan to marry once she divorces, but her soon-to-be ex-husband attempts suicide, feeling there is no hope for them she stays with her husband.

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S05E15: Black Rain

Jan 5, 1953 60 min

A happy but impoverished family has to decide on continuing their present happiness or having a secure financial future when their rich yet troublesome aunt comes to live with them.

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S05E16: The Trial of John Peter Zenger

Jan 12, 1953 60 min

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.

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S05E19: Mark of Cain

Feb 2, 1953 60 min

A young man on parole after 7 years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate, but while his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.

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S05E25: A Breath of Air

Mar 16, 1953 60 min

After being thrown off course and landing on the island of Terraqueous, a man falls in love with the island's magical qualities as well as the people that inhabit the place.

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S05E35: Fly with the Hawk

May 24, 1953 60 min

A young woman's car breaks down in front of an abandoned garage which is used as headquarters for a band of crooks. Her sudden appearance on the scene causes some unforeseen complications in the gang's plans and she unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a planned robbery.

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S05E36: Rendezvous

Jun 1, 1953 60 min

A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer-protege and meets a woman he had known many years before.

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S05E37: Conflict

Jun 8, 1953 60 min

A prisoner of war returns home after being declared dead and finds that his money and property have been left by his father to his childhood sweetheart, who refuses to return it.

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S05E39: Greed

Jun 29, 1953 60 min

An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.

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S05E44: The Roman Kid

Aug 3, 1953 60 min

Tommy Thompson, a streetwise New York sportswriter, falls in love with beautiful, demure Carla, a receptionist and tour guide at a museum in Rome. Carla's father, the museum's curator, and her fiance, his associate, both oppose Tommy's attentions to Carla. Although the odds are against him, Tommy wins the girl by saving Carla's father from disgrace and ruin.

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S05E46: Sentence of Death

Aug 17, 1953 60 min

A woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his execution date, she sees the real killer, but the police are reluctant to reopen the case.

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S05E47: The Gathering Night

Aug 24, 1953 60 min

The story of a lonely child, Dick Heldar, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army into battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.

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S05E48: Letter from Cairo

Aug 31, 1953 60 min

The mysterious disappearance of intelligence officer Steve Spence, after writing a letter to his wife in New York asking for a divorce comes under suspicion from his wife. She doesn't believe that he wrote the letter and a search for the agent is started.

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S05E49: Look Homeward, Hayseed

Sep 4, 1953 60 min

A city-bred radio announcer begins to believe his own publicity when he finds himself a success as a crack-of-dawn rural broadcaster. He gets a rude awakening, but not from a mere rooster.

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