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The Best Episodes of Studio One Season 5

Every episode of Studio One Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Studio One Season 5!

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Studio One Season 5 Episode 15 - Black Rain
    7.9/10(17 votes)

    S5:E15

    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:Unknown

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  2. Studio One Season 5 Episode 34 - The Laugh Maker
    7.7/10(74 votes)

    S5:E34

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Studio One Season 5 Episode 19 - Mark of Cain
    7.4/10(13 votes)

    S5:E19

    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:Unknown

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  4. Studio One Season 5 Episode 16 - The Trial of John Peter Zenger
    7.2/10(37 votes)

    S5:E16

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Studio One Season 5 Episode 50 - The Storm
    7.2/10(10 votes)

    S5:E50

    During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Worthington Miner

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  6. Studio One Season 5 Episode 4 - Little Man, Big World
    7.1/10(16 votes)

    S5:E4

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Reginald Rose

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  7. Studio One Season 5 Episode 46 - Sentence of Death
    7.1/10(164 votes)

    S5:E46

    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

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  8. Studio One Season 5 Episode 11 - The Hospital
    6.6/10(17 votes)

    S5:E11

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Studio One Season 5 Episode 1 - The Kill
    6.0/10(52 votes)

    S5:E1

    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

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  10. Studio One Season 5 Episode 13 - The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
    5.8/10(49 votes)

    S5:E13

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

    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Studio One Season 5 Episode 2 - The Square Peg
    5.5/10(18 votes)

    S5:E2

    A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Studio One Season 5 Episode 8 - Plan For Escape
    5.4/10(82 votes)

    S5:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Studio One Season 5 Episode 37 - Conflict
    5.0/10(11 votes)

    S5:E37

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Studio One Season 5 Episode 3 - The Doctor's Wife
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E3

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

    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Studio One Season 5 Episode 5 - The Great Conspiracy
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E5

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

    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Studio One Season 5 Episode 6 - The Love Letter
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Studio One Season 5 Episode 7 - The Incredible Mr. Glencannon
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E7

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

    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Studio One Season 5 Episode 9 - The Formula
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E9

    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

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  19. Studio One Season 5 Episode 10 - I Am Jonathan Scrivener
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Studio One Season 5 Episode 12 - The Great Lady
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Studio One Season 5 Episode 14 - Young Man Adam
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E14

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Studio One Season 5 Episode 17 - Signal Thirty-Two
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E17

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

    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Studio One Season 5 Episode 18 - To a Moment of Triumph
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E18

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Studio One Season 5 Episode 20 - The River Garden
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E20

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:James Costigan

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  25. Studio One Season 5 Episode 21 - The Walsh Girls
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E21

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

    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Black Rain" is the best rated episode of "Studio One" season 5. It scored 7.9/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/5/1953. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Laugh Maker".