The Best Episodes of Studio One Season 8

An ex-football hero who's now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.

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Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: Reginald Rose

A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.

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Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""

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Writer: Frank D. Gilroy

In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: Don Ettlinger

A son runs for public office based on nothing more than his famous father's reputation. Dad didn't think to much of him - and says so in his private diaries. The candidate's job now is to discreetly remove all of the unflattering references.

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Writer: Jerome Ross

Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Though their families share a split-level house, their lives are miles apart: the woman is from a once-prominent southern family, and the man is an Italian immigrant.

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A Navy crew is trapped in a crippled submarine on the ocean floor. The captain and his second in command must organize the men, who, before the accident, were torn by petty grievances.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.

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A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.

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A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: Rod Serling

The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.

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Writer: Paul Monash

After the death of a Foreign Aid official, the reputation of the American Embassy in London comes into question. Was he a traitor or philanthropist?

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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

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A young army officer (Dewey Martin) waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier (James Gregory) is charged with a murder that was actually committed by the two MPs who arrested him. The officer risks his career in search of material that can exonerate the soldier.

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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.

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Writer: Reginald Rose

Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to from New York to Italy to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writer: Marc Brandel

Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.

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A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.

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A magazine writer, married to his part-time editor, is vaguely discontented with his life. Then one night he learns that after many years of marriage, he is going to be a father. The news has an extraordinary effect on the lives of the couple.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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A famous gunfighter of the Wild West teaches his young ranch boy companion an important lesson in life. A team of men set out to sell a new Colt firearm and one is a sharpshooter, the other a salesman. One of the men is the famous Ringo Kid. When his identity is learned, there is trouble.

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Two columnists cover the political scene and are practically identical twins. One is married, one is single and the wife of one wishes the other would get married and move to the suburbs. When the confirmed bachelor does announce plans for an impending marriage the two men decide to have adjoining penthouse apartments and the wives have other ideas.

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A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

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A widow takes in orphans and unwanted children with loving care. She finds her latest recruit is a little more troublesome than the others.

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A quick-tempered cab driver picks up what appears to be two men and a drunk. On second look the drunk proves to be a corpse.

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