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47 episodes

Studio One - Season 9

First aired Sep 24, 1956Season 9

Browse all 47 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

A Special Announcement

NR
Sep 24, 195660 min

An eccentric hobbyist inadvertently gets the original draft of the Gettysburg Address at an auction. He decides to burn the paper to bring a focus of attention on the ideals it contains but agrees to wait until after a TV debate.

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Episode 2

A Man's World

NR
Oct 1, 195660 min

A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.

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Episode 3

The Open Door

NR
Oct 15, 195660 min

When a man thumbs a ride and gets into an argument with the driver, he receives a 90-day jail sentence, but to his surprise, he is offered a job as counterman in a diner near the jail while serving his term, according to the ""open door"" policy of the prison.

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Episode 4

The Crimes of Peter Page

NR
Oct 22, 195660 min

The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.

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Episode 5

American Primitive

NR
Oct 29, 195660 min

A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indian tom-toms beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.

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Episode 6

The Pilot

NR
Nov 12, 195660 min

This episode depicts the story of Sister Mary Aquinas, who was the first nun ever to become a licensed aeroplane pilot.

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Episode 7

The Landlady's Daughter

NR
Nov 26, 195660 min

When a smooth talking lawyer moves into the boarding house, tongues start wagging about the goings on with the landlady's daughter.

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Episode 8

Portrait of a Citizen

NR
Dec 3, 195660 min

Lev Simon is in the U.S. illegally. As head of an immigrant family, he realizes his error when election time comes and he can't vote.

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Episode 9

Rachel

NR
Dec 10, 195660 min

Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.

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Episode 10

Career

NR
Dec 17, 195660 min

A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.

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Episode 11

A Christmas Surprise

NR
Dec 24, 195660 min

A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.

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Episode 12

Goodbye Piccadilly

NR
Dec 31, 195660 min

A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.

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Episode 13

Love at Fourth Sight

NR
Jan 7, 195760 min

A young bachelor has a recurring dream about a girl named Pat who calls to him and then disappears. His mother is startled when he claims to have actually found the girl.

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Episode 14

The Dark Corner

NR
Jan 14, 195760 min

Laura Morgan goes with her new husband to live in his mother's cheerless house. From her husband's mother, she learns a terrible secret about his past.

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Episode 15

The Five Dollar Bill

NR
Jan 21, 195760 min

A sensitive young boy struggles to attain his own identity against the fumbling demands of his father and the solicitous affections of his mother.

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Episode 16

Dead of Noon

NR
Jan 28, 195760 min

A western gunman obtains a law degree while serving time in jail. When released, he hopes to aid law and justice but learns that his days of gunslinging are not over yet.

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Episode 17

Tale of the Comet

NR
Feb 4, 195760 min

Tim Tully has reached the top as a successful comic but is ruthless behind the scenes alienating many. Then as his ratings begin to slide he finds it difficult to get anyone, especially writers, to work for him.

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Episode 18

A Walk in the Forest

NR
Feb 11, 195760 min

A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.

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Episode 19

The Hollywood Complex

NR
Feb 18, 195760 min

When a young movie executive, with a distorted conception of the values and rewards of Hollywood, rejects his father as an embarrassing symbol of the past, the executive's two roommates and an exotic dancer give kindness to the bewildered old man, and in so doing, discover something important about themselves and their own need for love.

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Episode 20

The Defender (1)

NR
Feb 25, 195760 min

A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.

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Episode 21

The Defender (2)

8.0
Mar 4, 195760 min1 votes

A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.

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Episode 22

A Child Is Waiting

NR
Mar 11, 195760 min

Nurse Jean Horst, who works in a retarded children's home, is drawn to Reuben Widdicomb, a little boy whose mother hasn't come to visit him.

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Episode 23

Walk Down the Hill

NR
Mar 18, 195760 min

During World War II, a Jewish American soldier questions his heritage when he is thrown in a German prison camp and learns that the Jewish GI's are to be put into a separate camp.

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Episode 24

A Member of the Family

NR
Mar 25, 195760 min

Ellis is the wealthy, elder brother of the Davenport clan, who touches off a family conflict of jealousy and suspicion when he transfers his interest from one nephew to another.

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Episode 25

The Years in Between

NR
Apr 1, 195760 min

A boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door.

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Episode 26

The Playwright and the Stars

NR
Apr 8, 195760 min

A Broadway producer signs a forgotten destitute one-time star in a pivotal role in his new play.

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Episode 27

The Rice Sprout Song

NR
Apr 15, 195760 min

A Chinese peasant family's struggle for survival under Communist rule as obstacles and tragedy unfold.

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Episode 28

The Traveling Lady

NR
Apr 22, 195760 min

Georgette and her little daughter arrive in a small Texas town to meet her husband, Henry, who has recently been released from prison. Georgette married Henry while he was a struggling singer, but soon after their marriage he was sent to prison for a 6-year term. Weak in character, Henry is now trying to make another start and is working as a gardener for one of the town's most trusting characters. But a new person enters Georgette's life, Slim Breedlove, a pleasant young man who offers to help her find her husband.

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Episode 29

Eight Feet to Midnight

NR
Apr 29, 195760 min

A story about the outlawed Irish Republican Army

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Episode 30

The Out-of-Towners

NR
May 6, 195760 min

A small-town postmistress, whose hopes are high when she makes her annual trip to the big city for a 3-day convention of Postal Employees, meets a middle-aged salesman and tries to encourage the acquaintanceship.

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Episode 31

Babe in the Woods

NR
May 13, 195760 min

A tall handsome and extremely naive young man from the Midwest arrives in New York and is bewildered by the series of situations he stumbles into.

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Episode 32

The Man Who Wasn't Himself

NR
May 20, 195760 min

Peter Hendon impersonated men in various professions as a surgeon, college professor and lawyer without any previous training in these fields.

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Episode 33

The Weston Strain

NR
May 27, 195760 min

A young writer must decide if his first responsibility is to his family or his creative gift.

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Episode 34

The Furlough

NR
Jun 3, 195760 min

A deranged soldier has escaped from the stockade vows to do away with his former platoon sergeant and trails him to the home of a dead buddy.

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Episode 35

The Mother Bit

NR
Jun 10, 195760 min

A driven domineering career woman and her attempt to make a home in the country for her teen-age daughter. Kitty Sharpe is a popular television singer. Upon the death of her ex-husband, Kitty faces the problem of setting up housekeeping for the first time with her only child, Joy, a shy, attractive girl of seventeen.

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Episode 36

The Staring Match

NR
Jun 17, 195760 min

Set in a small ranch town that is suffering from drought, townspeople gather to pray for rain in the schoolhouse. There is a knock at the door and a man dressed all in white greets everyone by name. He says that his name is Mr. White and that he has been sent to help them find a well. Then another knock at the door reveals a man dressed all in black, who claims that his name is Mr. Black and that he is an angel of the Lord sent to help them also. Not knowing which man to trust, the dilemma is resolved by a ""staring match"" between the two men. In the end, the angel is revealed and water is discovered.

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Episode 37

The Goodwill Ambassadors

NR
Jun 24, 195760 min

An American agricultural expert and his wife are sent to a Latin-American country to help with its agricultural problems. The wife is distressed with the primitive native village where they are working and she misunderstands some of the villagers' customs and traditions.

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Episode 38

Death and Taxes

NR
Jul 1, 195760 min

Henri and Marie own a bar in a small French town. They've been successfully cheating on their taxes for years, but that's about to end. A new tax collector's in town and the he's determined to make an example of slippery couple.

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Episode 39

A Matter of Guilt

NR
Jul 8, 195760 min

A young wife is singled out as a hit-and-run driver through circumstantial evidence. Her husband desperately wages a battle to establish his wife's innocence.

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Episode 40

Love Me to Pieces

NR
Jul 15, 195760 min

A publisher claims that he can make any song a hit. Drawing songs at random out of a file, he comes across a song by a teenage girl which she wrote when her romance had ended.

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Episode 41

In Love with a Stranger

NR
Jul 22, 195760 min

Phyllis, a girl in her 20's, is just returning from her summer vacation, during which she has fallen in love with a struggling young musician. On the bus trip home Phyllis is telling her girlfriend of the difficulty she is going to have in breaking this news to her parents. Phyllis's parents and her aunt and uncle have made Phyllis the center of their lives. In their over-concern for her, they have naturally assumed she would marry George, the boy next door, whom she has known all her life. These four and George too, are on hand to welcome Phyllis home. Soon after their initial greeting, Phyllis tells them she intends to marry the young musician. They are shocked at the news and refuse to believe there can be anything to it.

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Episode 42

The Human Barrier

NR
Jul 29, 195760 min

A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia, and guilt after he crashes a new jet.

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Episode 43

My Mother and How She Undid Me

NR
Aug 5, 195760 min

Baby Herman's view of adults as seen through his crib, looking in wide-eyed amazement into the faces of the people around him. He learns very early on how to wrap them around his finger with coos and howls.

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Episode 44

The Unmentionable Blues

NR
Aug 12, 195760 min

A businessman feels life is all too soon passing him by. He seeks companionship from a young girl.

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Episode 45

Rudy

NR
Aug 19, 195760 min

Rudy lives in a small New England town with his father. He begins to hang around a street gang called "The Eagles." These juvenile delinquents cause him problems with the law and his family. Rudy's loneliness and attempt to forget his crippled childhood turn his desperation into a new nightmare.

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Episode 46

Guitar

NR
Aug 26, 195760 min

A classical guitarist is forced to take a job playing popular music after his son refuses to follow in his footsteps as a famous artist.

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Episode 47

The Dark Intruder

NR
Sep 2, 195760 min

A music critic is mysteriously attacked in his Manhattan penthouse and thinks that a new composer whom he has panned is responsible.