Every season of Actors Studio ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Actors Studio!

Portrait of a Madonna

Night Club

The Giant's Stair

The Thousand Dollar Bill

The Catbird Seat

The Inexperienced Ghost

Ropes

Esther

Good Bye, Miss Lizzie Borden

Ten Percent

The Night the Ghost Got In

The Widow of Wasdale Head

The Man Who Lost Christmas

To the Lovely Margaret

A Day in Town

I'm No Hero

The Little Wife

The Lady on 142

A Trip to Czardis

Jim Pemberton and His Boy Trigger

Zone of Quiet

The Tell-Tale Heart

Greasy Luck

Joe McSween's Atomic Machine

Dead Man

Concerning a Woman of Sin

Three O'Clock

A Reputation

I Can't Breathe

From Paradise to Butte

Here Comes Spring

Somebody Has to Be Nobody

Salt of the Earth

Spreading the News

You're Breaking My Heart

The Canterville Ghost

Terror in the Streets

It's a Free Country

We'll Never Have a Nickel

Clarissa

The Return to Kansas City

O'Halloran's Luck

The Frame-Up

The Three Strangers

The Thousand Dollar Bill [restaged]

The Man with the Heart in the Highlands

The Midway

A Child Is Born

Counry Full of Sweden

Hannah

An Ingenue of the Sierras

The Little Wife [restaged]

The Timid Guy

Joe McSween's Atomic Machine [restaged]

Telas, the King

Mr. Mummery's Suspicion

The Apple Tree

The Pink Hussar

The Salt of the Earth

Sanctuary in Paris

Screwball

Alison's House

The Token

The Swan

The Good Companions

Actors Studio is an American TV show which aired for 65 episodes, from September 26, 1948 to October 26 on the fledgling ABC Television Network; then from November 1, 1949 to June 23, 1950 on CBS Television. It was hosted by Mark Connelly.

The series showcased short pieces of adapted, classic and original drama, performed and produced live each week. Among some of the known authors were William Saroyan, James Thurber, Ring Lardner, Edgar Allan Poe, Irwin Shaw and Budd Schulberg. Featured actors included Martin Balsam, Richard Boone, Marlon Brando, Hume Cronyn, Julie Harris, Jean Muir and Jessica Tandy. Recurring performers included Jocelyn Brando, Tom Ewell, Steven Hill, Kim Hunter and Cloris Leachman.

In February 1950, the series moved to Friday nights and was expanded to one hour, alternating every other week with broadcasts of Ford Theatre. In March, the name of the show was changed to The Play's the Thing.

The series received a Peabody Award in 1948 for pioneering in the field of televised drama.

The Best Seasons of Actors Studio

The Best Seasons of Actors Studio

Season 1

Season 2