The Best Episodes of Studio One Season 5

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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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

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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

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

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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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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

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A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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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.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: Reginald Rose

The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.

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A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.

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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.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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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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An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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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.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: Reginald Rose

The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.

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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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A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.

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The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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

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The story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.

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Writer: James Costigan

Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.

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