The Best Episodes of Studio One

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.

Director: Robert Mulligan

Writer: Reginald Rose

Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.

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Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Robert Mulligan

Writer: Reginald Rose

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.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: N/A

A modern dress adaptation of the classic play

Director: N/A

Writer: Worthington Miner

A jury must reach a verdict concerning a teenaged boy accused of murder.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: Reginald Rose

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Reginald Rose

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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Writer: N/A

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Worthington Miner

James Dean and John Forsythe star in this story of a wealthy orphan who meets a shy airline owner aboard a plane and later discovers that a corpse has been stowed there.

Director: N/A

Writer: Karl Tunberg

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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Writer: N/A

The mayor's daughter, who is kidnapped, falls in love with one of her captors.

Director: N/A

Writer: Worthington Miner

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.

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Matt Harlib

Writer: Adrian Spies

In an old Louisiana plantation, the the furnishings and the once great family are fading fast.The matriarch desperately tries to hold on the a gazebo that's slated for destruction as part of a building project, as well as holding her daughter to an unwanted marriage, though she loves the builder.

Director: N/A

Writer: Gore Vidal

A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.

Director: N/A

Writer: Reginald Rose

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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Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Lela Swift

Writer: N/A

A man discovers that the good ship Nicolette is carrying weapons as cargo, and in order to prevent a war, he stages a mutiny with the crew against the Captain.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: N/A

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

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Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Ralph Nelson

Writer: N/A

To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a beautiful but neurotic young woman fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body. When her nurse discovers her treachery, she resorts to a final desperate act of revenge.

Director: Lela Swift

Writer: Worthington Miner

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.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: Rod Serling