Studio One

- Season 9

(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.

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

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.

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

A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indians beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.

In Michigan in 1930, Sister Aquinas has aroused an interest in science among her pupils; the school workroom, which she supervises contains every conceivable type of gadget and Sister Aquinas keeps abreast of the latest developments in various fields of science. She becomes intrigued with the airplane and goes to work in an aircraft factory in order to learn how planes are built.

When a smooth talking lawyer moves into the boarding house, tongues start wagging about the goings on with the landlady's daughter.

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.

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

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

A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.

A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.

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.

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.

A sensitive young boy struggles to attain his own identity against the fumbling demands of his father and the solicitous affections of his mother.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Jean Horst comes to a school for disabled children to work there as a teacher. She becomes particularly interested in young Reuben, an autistic boy whose parents have not visited him for several years. But the school principal, Dr. Clark does not appreciate her keen interest.

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 GIs are to be put into a separate camp.

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.

A teenage boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door. He is filled with confusion as a result of his intense first love.

A Broadway producer signs a forgotten destitute one-time star in a pivotal role in his new play.

A Chinese peasant family's struggle for survival under Communist rule as obstacles and tragedy unfold.

Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, despite her husband Henry's propensity for getting into big trouble.

A jewel robbery is the basis used by the underground Irish Republican Army in Belfast to confront and strip their political enemies.

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

A tall handsome and extremely naive young man from the Midwest arrives in New York and is bewildered by the series of situations he stumbles into.

Peter Hendon impersonated men in various professions as a surgeon, college professor and lawyer without any previous training in these fields.

A young writer must decide if his first responsibility is to his family or his creative gift.

A deranged soldier has escaped from the stockade vows to do away with his former platoon sergeant and trails him to the home of a dead buddy.

A domineering career woman and her attempt to make a home in the country for her teenage daughter: Kitty Sharpe is a popular television singer. Upon the death of her ex-husband, she faces the problem of setting up housekeeping for the first time with her only child Joy, a shy, attractive 17-year-old girl.

A small town congregation prays for rain and a man, played by James Daly, appears at the entrance of their church and claims he is an angel sent to help the town. The angel is dressed in a white suit and is carrying a fancy white cane. Dressed in white he looks the part. A short time later another man appears at the entrance dressed in black also claiming to be an angel sent to help the town. He is not as good looking as are his clothes. The congregation is up in arms about whom to believe is the angel and which one could be the devil. A wrestling match is voted on to...

An American agricultural expert and his wife are sent to a Latin-American country to help with its agricultural problems. The wife is distressed with the primitive native village where they are working and she misunderstands some of the villagers' customs and traditions.

Henri and Marie own a bar in a small French town. They've been successfully cheating on their taxes for years, but that's about to end. A new tax collector's in town and the he's determined to make an example of slippery couple.

A young wife is singled out as a hit-and-run driver through circumstantial evidence. Her husband desperately wages a battle to establish his wife's innocence.

A publisher claims that he can make any song a hit. Drawing songs at random out of a file, he comes across a song by a teenage girl which she wrote when her romance had ended.

Phyllis, a girl in her 20s, is just returning from her summer vacation, during which she has fallen in love with a struggling young musician. On the bus trip home, Phyllis is telling her girlfriend of the difficulty she is going to have in breaking this news to her parents. Phyllis' parents and her aunt and uncle have made Phyllis the center of their lives. In their over-concern for her, they have naturally assumed she would marry George, the boy next door, whom she has known all her life. These four and George too, are on hand to welcome Phyllis home. Soon after ...

A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia and guilt after he crashes a new jet.

Baby Herman's view of adults as seen through his crib, looking in wide-eyed amazement into the faces of the people around him. He learns very early on how to wrap them around his finger with coos and howls.

A businessman feels life is all too soon passing him by. He seeks companionship from a young girl.

Rudy lives in a small New England town with his father. He begins to hang around a street gang called "The Eagles." These juvenile delinquents cause him problems with the law and his family. Rudy's loneliness and attempt to forget his crippled childhood turn his desperation into a new nightmare.

A classical guitarist is forced to take a job playing popular music after his son refuses to follow in his footsteps as a famous artist.

A music critic is mysteriously attacked in his Manhattan penthouse and thinks that a new composer whom he has panned is responsible.