Studio One - Season 8
Season 8
Network
Episodes50
DatesFeb 13, 1955 - Sep 17, 1956
Episodes
Season 8Episode 160 min
Like Father, Like Son
An ex-football hero who's now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.
Sep 19, 1955
Season 8Episode 260 min
Three Empty Rooms
Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.
Sep 26, 1955
Season 8Episode 360 min
A Likely Story
A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.
Oct 3, 1955
Season 8Episode 460 min
Uncle Ed and Circumstances
Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""
Oct 10, 1955
Season 8Episode 560 min
A Most Contagious Game
In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.
Oct 17, 1955
Season 8Episode 660 min
Private History
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.
Oct 24, 1955
Season 8Episode 760 min
Split Level
Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Though 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.
Oct 31, 1955
Season 8Episode 860 min
Shakedown Cruise
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.
Nov 7, 1955
Season 8Episode 960 min
The Judge and the Hangman
In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.
Nov 14, 1955
Season 8Episode 1060 min
Julie
A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.
Nov 21, 1955
Season 8Episode 1160 min
The Man Who Caught the Ball at Coogan's Bluff
A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.
Nov 28, 1955
Season 8Episode 1260 min
Blow Up at Cortland
The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.
Dec 5, 1955
Season 8Episode 1360 min
The Strongbox
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?
Dec 12, 1955
Season 8Episode 1460 min
Miracle at Potter's Farm
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.
Dec 19, 1955
Season 8Episode 1560 min
Fair Play
A young army officer (Dewey Martin) waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier (James Gregory) 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.
Dec 26, 1955
Season 8Episode 1660 min
Dino
Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors, but he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring kid brother will be with him.
Jan 2, 1956
Season 8Episode 1760 min
The Talented Mr. Ripley
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.
Jan 9, 1956
Season 8Episode 1860 min
Johnny August
Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.
Jan 16, 1956
Season 8Episode 1960 min
A Public Figure
A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.
Jan 23, 1956
Season 8Episode 2060 min
My Son Johnny
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.
Jan 30, 1956
Season 8Episode 2160 min
The Silent Gun
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.
Feb 6, 1956
Season 8Episode 2260 min
Manhattan Duet
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.
Feb 13, 1955
Season 8Episode 2360 min
Circle of Guilt
A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.
Feb 20, 1956
Season 8Episode 2460 min
Always Welcome
A widow takes in orphans and unwanted children with loving care. She finds her latest recruit is a little more troublesome than the others.
Feb 27, 1956
Season 8Episode 2560 min
A Favor for Sam
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.
Mar 5, 1956
Season 8Episode 2660 min
Flower of Pride
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.
Mar 12, 1956
Season 8Episode 2760 min
The Laughter of Giants
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.
Mar 19, 1956
Season 8Episode 2860 min
The Tale of St. Emergency
An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.
Mar 26, 1956
Season 8Episode 2960 min
This Will Do Nicely
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.
Apr 2, 1956
Season 8Episode 3060 min
The Arena
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.
Apr 9, 1956
Season 8Episode 3160 min
Regarding File Number 4356
A social worker is being forced to deprive a childless couple of a baby they have cared for and want to adopt.
Apr 16, 1956
Season 8Episode 3260 min
I Do
A young couple elope and try to hide in New York from their disappointed parents.
Apr 30, 1956
Season 8Episode 3360 min
The Drop of a Hat
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?
May 7, 1956
Season 8Episode 3460 min
The Genie of Sutton Place
In New York City, a 13-year-old boy discovers the magic words that set a wish-granting genie free.
May 14, 1956
Season 8Episode 3560 min
The Star-Spangled Soldier
A not too sharp commandant of a military academy gets into some hilarious situations when he mistakes his father's invention for a war missile.
May 21, 1956
Season 8Episode 3660 min
Family Protection
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.
May 28, 1956
Season 8Episode 3760 min
The Power
A young professor must discover which of his colleagues possesses the diabolical ability to control the minds of others.
Jun 4, 1956
Season 8Episode 3860 min
Flight
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.
Jun 11, 1956
Season 8Episode 3960 min
Snap Your Fingers
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.
Jun 18, 1956
Season 8Episode 4060 min
Mr. Arcularis
While a man lies unconscious on the operating table, he dreams that he has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However, death follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens. The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love, forces him back to reality, at which point, he regains consciousness to find Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right.
Jun 25, 1956
Season 8Episode 4160 min
The Luck of Luke McTigger
Luke McTrigger, 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, and that's a lot of money in the Wyoming of 1880!
Jul 2, 1956
Season 8Episode 4260 min
Song for a Summer Night
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.
Jul 9, 1956
Season 8Episode 4360 min
Emmaline
A best selling novel leads everyone to wonder about who the author is.
Jul 16, 1956
Season 8Episode 4460 min
An Incident of Love
A young housewife befriends a withdrawn blind neighbor with beneficial results.
Jul 23, 1956
Season 8Episode 4560 min
The Ballad of Yermo Red
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.
Jul 30, 1956
Season 8Episode 4660 min
Something Ventured
A savage businessman is so hated by his employees that they band together and plan their own competing company.
Aug 6, 1956
Season 8Episode 4760 min
Giulio
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.
Aug 27, 1956
Season 8Episode 4860 min
A Day Before Battle
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.
Sep 3, 1956
Season 8Episode 4960 min
Cauliflower Heart
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.
Sep 10, 1956
Season 8Episode 5060 min
Dark Morning
A lumber baron is bent on revenge and intends to hang a man whom he believes responsible for his brother's death.
Sep 17, 1956
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