NaN/100 votes#1 - A Special Announcement
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1956
An eccentric hobbyist inadvertently gets the original draft of the Gettysburg Address at an auction. He decides to burn the paper to bring a focus of attention on the ideals it contains but agrees to wait until after a TV debate.
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#2 - A Man's World
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1956
A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.
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- NaN/100 votes
#3 - The Open Door
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1956
When a man thumbs a ride and gets into an argument with the driver, he receives a 90-day jail sentence, but to his surprise, he is offered a job as counterman in a diner near the jail while serving his term, according to the ""open door"" policy of the prison.
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#4 - The Crimes of Peter Page
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1956
The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.
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#5 - American Primitive
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1956
A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indian tom-toms beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dale Wasserman
- 7.4/1016 votes
#6 - The Pilot
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1956
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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- 7.5/1020 votes
#7 - The Landlady's Daughter
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/1956
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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#8 - Portrait of a Citizen
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/1956
Lev Simon is in the U.S. illegally. As head of an immigrant family, he realizes his error when election time comes and he can't vote.
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#9 - Rachel
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1956
Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.
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#10 - Career
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1956
A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.
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#11 - A Christmas Surprise
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 12/24/1956
A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Goodbye Piccadilly
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 12/31/1956
A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.
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Writer: Marc Brandel
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Love at Fourth Sight
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1957
A young bachelor has a recurring dream about a girl named Pat who calls to him and then disappears. His mother is startled when he claims to have actually found the girl.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - The Dark Corner
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1957
Laura Morgan goes with her new husband to live in his mother's cheerless house. From her husband's mother, she learns a terrible secret about his past.
Director: N/A
Writer: Art Wallace
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - The Five Dollar Bill
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1957
A sensitive young boy struggles to attain his own identity against the fumbling demands of his father and the solicitous affections of his mother.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - Dead of Noon
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1957
A western gunman obtains a law degree while serving time in jail. When released, he hopes to aid law and justice but learns that his days of gunslinging are not over yet.
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#17 - Tale of the Comet
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1957
Tim Tully has reached the top as a successful comic but is ruthless behind the scenes alienating many. Then as his ratings begin to slide he finds it difficult to get anyone, especially writers, to work for him.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1015 votes
#18 - A Walk in the Forest
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 2/11/1957
A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.
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- 6.8/1011 votes
#19 - The Hollywood Complex
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1957
When a young movie executive, with a distorted conception of the values and rewards of Hollywood, rejects his father as an embarrassing symbol of the past, the executive's two roommates and an exotic dancer give kindness to the bewildered old man, and in so doing, discover something important about themselves and their own need for love.
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- 7.8/10137 votes
#20 - The Defender (Part 1)
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1957
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
- 7.7/1081 votes
#21 - The Defender (Part 2)
Season 9 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1957
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
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - A Child Is Waiting
Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1957
Nurse Jean Horst, who works in a retarded children's home, is drawn to Reuben Widdicomb, a little boy whose mother hasn't come to visit him.
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- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Walk Down the Hill
Season 9 Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1957
During World War II, a Jewish American soldier questions his heritage when he is thrown in a German prison camp and learns that the Jewish GI's are to be put into a separate camp.
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#24 - A Member of the Family
Season 9 Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1957
Ellis is the wealthy, elder brother of the Davenport clan, who touches off a family conflict of jealousy and suspicion when he transfers his interest from one nephew to another.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - The Years in Between
Season 9 Episode 25 - Aired 4/1/1957
A boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door.
Director: Mel Ferber
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Studio One Season 9
Every episode of Studio One Season 9 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Studio One Season 9!
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,...
Genre:Drama
Network:CBS
Season 9 Ratings Summary
"A Special Announcement" is the best rated episode of "Studio One" season 9. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/24/1956. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "A Man's World".