Studio One - Season 5
Season 5
Network
Episodes50
DatesSep 22, 1952 - Sep 14, 1953
Episodes
Season 5Episode 160 min
The Kill
Grace Kelly in a very good early performance as the wife of Dick Foran, who is wrongly accused of murder. Nina Foch plays Foran's old girl friend who is still in love with him.
Sep 22, 1952
Season 5Episode 260 min
The Square Peg
A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.
Sep 29, 1952
Season 5Episode 360 min
The Doctor's Wife
A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
Oct 6, 1952
Season 5Episode 460 min
Little Man, Big World
A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
Oct 13, 1952
Season 5Episode 560 min
The Great Conspiracy
The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
Oct 20, 1952
Season 5Episode 660 min
The Love Letter
Professor White teaches at a provincial university who has lost his enjoyment of teaching. His hatred of youth and all it embellishes has destroyed his faith.
Oct 27, 1952
Season 5Episode 760 min
The Incredible Mr. Glencannon
An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
Nov 10, 1952
Season 5Episode 860 min
Plan For Escape
A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
Nov 17, 1952
Season 5Episode 960 min
The Formula
An American spy and his wife, with the help of the widow of a Swiss scientist, compete with enemy agents to find the scientist's hidden formula for a psycho-active gas that erases the will to resist.
Nov 24, 1952
Season 5Episode 1060 min
I Am Jonathan Scrivener
The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
Dec 1, 1952
Season 5Episode 1160 min
The Hospital
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
Dec 8, 1952
Season 5Episode 1260 min
The Great Lady
A man travels to France on business and meets a beautiful but married woman whom he falls in love with. They plan to marry once she divorces, but her soon-to-be ex-husband attempts suicide, feeling there is no hope for them she stays with her husband.
Dec 15, 1952
Season 5Episode 1360 min
The Nativity
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
Dec 22, 1952
Season 5Episode 1460 min
Young Man Adam
A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.
Dec 29, 1952
Season 5Episode 1560 min
Black Rain
A happy but impoverished family has to decide on continuing their present happiness or having a secure financial future when their rich yet troublesome aunt comes to live with them.
Jan 5, 1953
Season 5Episode 1660 min
The Trial of John Peter Zenger
The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.
Jan 12, 1953
Season 5Episode 1760 min
Signal Thirty-Two
The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
Jan 19, 1953
Season 5Episode 1860 min
To a Moment of Triumph
A young man on parole after seven years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate. While his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
Jan 26, 1953
Season 5Episode 1960 min
Mark of Cain
A young man on parole after 7 years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate, but while his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
Feb 2, 1953
Season 5Episode 2060 min
The River Garden
The story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.
Feb 9, 1953
Season 5Episode 2160 min
The Walsh Girls
Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
Feb 16, 1953
Season 5Episode 2260 min
The Show Piece
An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.
Feb 23, 1953
Season 5Episode 2360 min
My Beloved Husband
An aging, lonely widow buys a young man's love. When she is found dead, questions are asked. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?
Mar 2, 1953
Season 5Episode 2460 min
The Garretson Chronicle
The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.
Mar 9, 1953
Season 5Episode 2560 min
A Breath of Air
After being thrown off course and landing on the island of Terraqueous, a man falls in love with the island's magical qualities as well as the people that inhabit the place.
Mar 16, 1953
Season 5Episode 2660 min
The Edge of Evil
A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.
Mar 23, 1953
Season 5Episode 2760 min
At Midnight on the Thirty-First of March
A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
Mar 30, 1953
Season 5Episode 2860 min
Shadow of the Devil
Julia Winston is left penniless and in debt in Rome when her young artist husband is killed in an accident. Desperate, she allows herself to be influenced by an evil woman.
Apr 6, 1953
Season 5Episode 2960 min
The Magic Lantern
A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
Apr 13, 1953
Season 5Episode 3060 min
The Fathers
An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.
Apr 20, 1953
Season 5Episode 3160 min
Along Came a Spider
A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
Apr 27, 1953
Season 5Episode 3260 min
Birthright
A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
May 4, 1953
Season 5Episode 3360 min
King Coffin
A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
May 11, 1953
Season 5Episode 3460 min
The Laugh Maker
Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.
May 18, 1953
Season 5Episode 3560 min
Fly with the Hawk
A young woman's car breaks down in front of an abandoned garage which is used as headquarters for a band of crooks. Her sudden appearance on the scene causes some unforeseen complications in the gang's plans and she unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a planned robbery.
May 24, 1953
Season 5Episode 3660 min
Rendezvous
A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer-protege and meets a woman he had known many years before.
Jun 1, 1953
Season 5Episode 3760 min
Conflict
A prisoner of war returns home after being declared dead and finds that his money and property have been left by his father to his childhood sweetheart, who refuses to return it.
Jun 8, 1953
Season 5Episode 3860 min
The Paris Feeling
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
Jun 22, 1953
Season 5Episode 3960 min
Greed
An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.
Jun 29, 1953
Season 5Episode 4060 min
Beyond Reason
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
Jul 6, 1953
Season 5Episode 4160 min
End of the Honeymoon
An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.
Jul 13, 1953
Season 5Episode 4260 min
The Shadow of a Man
After the death of his mother, a young man begins his journey to maturity. His grief opens his eyes not only to himself but to his stepfather whom he's always disliked.
Jul 20, 1953
Season 5Episode 4360 min
The King in Yellow
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
Jul 27, 1953
Season 5Episode 4460 min
The Roman Kid
Tommy Thompson, a streetwise New York sportswriter, falls in love with beautiful, demure Carla, a receptionist and tour guide at a museum in Rome. Carla's father, the museum's curator, and her fiance, his associate, both oppose Tommy's attentions to Carla. Although the odds are against him, Tommy wins the girl by saving Carla's father from disgrace and ruin.
Aug 3, 1953
Season 5Episode 4560 min
Flowers from a Stranger
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
Aug 10, 1953
Season 5Episode 4660 min
Sentence of Death
A woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his execution date, she sees the real killer, but the police are reluctant to reopen the case.
Aug 17, 1953
Season 5Episode 4760 min
The Gathering Night
The story of a lonely child, Dick Heldar, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army into battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.
Aug 24, 1953
Season 5Episode 4860 min
Letter from Cairo
The mysterious disappearance of intelligence officer Steve Spence, after writing a letter to his wife in New York asking for a divorce comes under suspicion from his wife. She doesn't believe that he wrote the letter and a search for the agent is started.
Aug 31, 1953
Season 5Episode 4960 min
Look Homeward, Hayseed
A city-bred radio announcer begins to believe his own publicity when he finds himself a success as a crack-of-dawn rural broadcaster. He gets a rude awakening, but not from a mere rooster.
Sep 4, 1953
Season 5Episode 5060 min
The Storm
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
Sep 14, 1953
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