The Best Episodes of Studio One Season 9

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

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

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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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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A small-town postmistress, whose hopes are high when she makes her annual trip to the big city for a 3-day convention of Postal Employees, meets a middle-aged salesman and tries to encourage the acquaintanceship.

Director: Jack Smight

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A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.

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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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Georgette and her little daughter arrive in a small Texas town to meet her husband, Henry, who has recently been released from prison. Georgette married Henry while he was a struggling singer, but soon after their marriage he was sent to prison for a 6-year term. Weak in character, Henry is now trying to make another start and is working as a gardener for one of the town's most trusting characters. But a new person enters Georgette's life, Slim Breedlove, a pleasant young man who offers to help her find her husband.

Director: Robert Mulligan

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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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A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.

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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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The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.

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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.

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Writer: Dale Wasserman

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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Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.

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A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.

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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

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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

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

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.

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Writer: Art Wallace

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

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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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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

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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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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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