An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
The best episode of "Studio One" season 3 is "Zone Four", rated 5.7/10 from 13 user votes. It was directed by Fielder Cook, Franklin J. Schaffner and written by Worthington Miner. "Zone Four" aired on 8/28/1950 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Look Homeward, Hayseed".
A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."
Director: Fielder Cook, Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Worthington Miner
A city-bred radio announcer thinks that he's the best thing that happened to the rural broadcasting station where he is now working until he gets a rude country style awakening.
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A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder.
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Writer: Worthington Miner
The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer
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A Navy Lieutenant pilot and a Sergeant crash land on an island and stumble upon a lavish estate where a group of wealthy people all thought to have died now live.
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Writer: Worthington Miner
The story of Sister Elizabeth Wheeler, who accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea to help the British wounded. Dismissed for speaking out against the atrocities, she was later honored by Robert E. Lee for her service to the Confederate Army.
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Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott
A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground.
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An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery.
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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.
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Writer: Worthington Miner
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
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An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
Director: Lela Swift
Writer: Worthington Miner
Story about submariners
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Writer: Worthington Miner
The story of young love and family pride.
Director: Lela Swift
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After the death of Persis Bradford, both her son Francis and her second husband Alan are left with the cold empty life which leaves them to deal with their grief in an even colder atmosphere.
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Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott
Two members of the U. S. Intelligence Service become involved with Czechoslovakian patriots in exile in Austria. Their journey with this underground group takes them from the dungeons of Vienna to the high society world of New York City.
Director: Lela Swift
Writer: Worthington Miner
A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood.
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Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 1 concentrates on Meg's story.
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Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott
Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 2 tells Jo's story.
Director: Lela Swift
Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott
An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them
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Kate persuades her brother Anthony, who has lied to get jobs, borrows things and then leaves in a hurry, to be her boyfriend's bodyguard, a powerful Swedish financier.
Director: Lela Swift
Writer: Worthington Miner
While Curt Bridges tracks down the panther that killed his brother Arthur, his family argues and bickers over whether younger brother Harold should marry a much-despised neighbor girl.
Director: Ralph Nelson
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
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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
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A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy.
Director: Lela Swift
Writer: Worthington Miner
A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.
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Writer: Worthington Miner