Studio One

- Season 8

(1955)

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

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

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

Uncle Ed, the black sheep of the family, is accepted as a contestant on the game show The $64,000 Question (1955). His large Staten Island family holds its breath, hoping he doesn't fail.

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

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.

Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Alhough 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

A young army officer waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier 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.

Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors. However, he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring young brother will be with him.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A proud Florentine duchess's prayer to the Saint of the Impossible is answered in an unexpected manner. The Italian duchess has disowned her niece because the girl insists on living a gypsy-like life as a nightclub dancer. However, the arrival of a seemingly irreverent painter penetrates the stony facade of an archly unemotional duchess and humanizes her.

A self-made man domineering in nature has a beautiful young wife who is interested in art. He introduces her to a young male artist to teach her to paint and learns a valuable lesson.

An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.

A man is dead. His wife calls in his best friend who is an amateur sleuth who calls it suicide but she calls it murder and says that he did it.

Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.

A social worker is being forced to deprive a childless couple of a baby they have cared for and want to adopt.

A young couple elope and try to hide in New York from their disappointed parents.

The offices of Mode, a glossy women's magazine, is thrown into chaos when the owner suddenly shows up. The editor fears for her job--but who in the office might replace her?

The wealthy aunt of a recently orphaned boy insists that he dispose of his inelegant mongrel dog before he comes to live in her lavish apartment in New York City. The 13-year-old boy finds a magic lamp and discovers the magic words that set a wish-granting genie free.

The not too bright commandant of a military academy gets into some hilarious situations when he mistakes his father's invention for a war missile.

A bank robber has an agreement with a suburban couple to use their home as his hideout in return for a share of the loot.

A young professor must discover which of his colleagues possesses the diabolical ability to control the minds of others.

A Mexican youth who lives on the California coast near Monterrey leaves his family to go on his first trip alone into town during fiesta time.

A beautiful girl is a witch and her vain ex-suitor has been transformed into a peacock. She finally meets a nice young man from Boston.

Following surgery, Mr. Arcularis has been rather badly shaken up, and he needs a long rest. An ocean voyage seems just the thing, but it proves anything but restful.

In Wyoming in 1880, Luke McTrigger, the proprietor of the Olympia saloon and hotel, has been thinking hard and has finally come up with a sure-fire plan to win the hand of the widow Baines. Now the widow is nothing to look at, and some folks say she's a bull-headed old battle-axe, but she has an estimated fortune of $900.

A man who once played a hot trumpet in a band wants to break away from his successful law practice for a night and hear some good jazz. He and two other friends visit a nightclub and he manages to hit a "high" note of his own.

A best selling novel leads everyone to wonder about who the author is.

A young housewife befriends a withdrawn blind neighbor with beneficial results.

Yermo Red is a sadistic cop employed by a western railroad who delights in beating up hobos and finally kills one. The hobos want to avenge the dead man by killing Yermo. But one of them who hates violence prevails on them to try something else. He composes a song, "The Ballad of Yermo Red", which everybody up and down the railroad line begins singing.

A savage businessman is so hated by his employees that they band together and plan their own competing company.

In the Italian section of New York City, the talented Giulio Costello and Rose Pinato, spend the warm summer evenings on a park bench discussing Giulio's future. The young man is torn between love and the chance for a career in grand opera.

On the night before the Battle of Gettysburg, several Union soldiers capture a Southern spy and try to decide if it is morally permissible to shoot a prisoner.

A small town businessman's son is killed and in order to fill the void he takes a tough youngster who needs a father under his wing.

A lumber baron is bent on revenge and intends to hang a man whom he believes responsible for his brother's death.