Studio One - Season 9
Season 9
Network
Episodes47
DatesSep 24, 1956 - Sep 2, 1957
Episodes
Season 9Episode 160 min
A Special Announcement
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.
Sep 24, 1956
Season 9Episode 260 min
A Man's World
A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.
Oct 1, 1956
Season 9Episode 360 min
The Open Door
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.
Oct 15, 1956
Season 9Episode 460 min
The Crimes of Peter Page
The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.
Oct 22, 1956
Season 9Episode 560 min
American Primitive
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.
Oct 29, 1956
Season 9Episode 660 min
The Pilot
This episode depicts the story of Sister Mary Aquinas, who was the first nun ever to become a licensed aeroplane pilot.
Nov 12, 1956
Season 9Episode 760 min
The Landlady's Daughter
When a smooth talking lawyer moves into the boarding house, tongues start wagging about the goings on with the landlady's daughter.
Nov 26, 1956
Season 9Episode 860 min
Portrait of a Citizen
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.
Dec 3, 1956
Season 9Episode 960 min
Rachel
Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.
Dec 10, 1956
Season 9Episode 1060 min
Career
A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.
Dec 17, 1956
Season 9Episode 1160 min
A Christmas Surprise
A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.
Dec 24, 1956
Season 9Episode 1260 min
Goodbye Piccadilly
A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.
Dec 31, 1956
Season 9Episode 1360 min
Love at Fourth Sight
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.
Jan 7, 1957
Season 9Episode 1460 min
The Dark Corner
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.
Jan 14, 1957
Season 9Episode 1560 min
The Five Dollar Bill
A sensitive young boy struggles to attain his own identity against the fumbling demands of his father and the solicitous affections of his mother.
Jan 21, 1957
Season 9Episode 1660 min
Dead of Noon
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.
Jan 28, 1957
Season 9Episode 1760 min
Tale of the Comet
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.
Feb 4, 1957
Season 9Episode 1860 min
A Walk in the Forest
A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.
Feb 11, 1957
Season 9Episode 1960 min
The Hollywood Complex
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.
Feb 18, 1957
Season 9Episode 2060 min
The Defender (Part 1)
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.
Feb 25, 1957
Season 9Episode 2160 min
The Defender (Part 2)
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.
Mar 4, 1957
Season 9Episode 2260 min
A Child is Waiting
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.
Mar 11, 1957
Season 9Episode 2360 min
Walk Down the Hill
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.
Mar 18, 1957
Season 9Episode 2460 min
A Member of the Family
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.
Mar 25, 1957
Season 9Episode 2560 min
The Years in Between
A boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door.
Apr 1, 1957
Season 9Episode 2660 min
The Playwright and the Stars
A Broadway producer signs a forgotten destitute one-time star in a pivotal role in his new play.
Apr 8, 1957
Season 9Episode 2760 min
The Rice Sprout Song
A Chinese peasant family's struggle for survival under Communist rule as obstacles and tragedy unfold.
Apr 15, 1957
Season 9Episode 2860 min
The Traveling Lady
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.
Apr 22, 1957
Season 9Episode 2960 min
Eight Feet to Midnight
A story about the outlawed Irish Republican Army
Apr 29, 1957
Season 9Episode 3060 min
The Out-of-Towners
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.
May 6, 1957
Season 9Episode 3160 min
Babe in the Woods
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.
May 13, 1957
Season 9Episode 3260 min
The Man Who Wasn't Himself
Peter Hendon impersonated men in various professions as a surgeon, college professor and lawyer without any previous training in these fields.
May 20, 1957
Season 9Episode 3360 min
The Weston Strain
A young writer must decide if his first responsibility is to his family or his creative gift.
May 27, 1957
Season 9Episode 3460 min
The Furlough
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.
Jun 3, 1957
Season 9Episode 3560 min
The Mother Bit
A driven domineering career woman and her attempt to make a home in the country for her teen-age daughter. Kitty Sharpe is a popular television singer. Upon the death of her ex-husband, Kitty faces the problem of setting up housekeeping for the first time with her only child, Joy, a shy, attractive girl of seventeen.
Jun 10, 1957
Season 9Episode 3660 min
The Staring Match
Set in a small ranch town that is suffering from drought, townspeople gather to pray for rain in the schoolhouse. There is a knock at the door and a man dressed all in white greets everyone by name. He says that his name is Mr. White and that he has been sent to help them find a well. Then another knock at the door reveals a man dressed all in black, who claims that his name is Mr. Black and that he is an angel of the Lord sent to help them also. Not knowing which man to trust, the dilemma is resolved by a ""staring match"" between the two men. In the end, the angel is revealed and water is discovered.
Jun 17, 1957
Season 9Episode 3760 min
The Goodwill Ambassadors
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.
Jun 24, 1957
Season 9Episode 3860 min
Death and Taxes
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.
Jul 1, 1957
Season 9Episode 3960 min
A Matter of Guilt
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.
Jul 8, 1957
Season 9Episode 4060 min
Love Me to Pieces
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.
Jul 15, 1957
Season 9Episode 4160 min
In Love with a Stranger
Phyllis, a girl in her 20's, 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's 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 their initial greeting, Phyllis tells them she intends to marry the young musician. They are shocked at the news and refuse to believe there can be anything to it.
Jul 22, 1957
Season 9Episode 4260 min
The Human Barrier
A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia, and guilt after he crashes a new jet.
Jul 29, 1957
Season 9Episode 4360 min
My Mother and How She Undid Me
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.
Aug 5, 1957
Season 9Episode 4460 min
The Unmentionable Blues
A businessman feels life is all too soon passing him by. He seeks companionship from a young girl.
Aug 12, 1957
Season 9Episode 4560 min
Rudy
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.
Aug 19, 1957
Season 9Episode 4660 min
Guitar
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.
Aug 26, 1957
Season 9Episode 4760 min
The Dark Intruder
A music critic is mysteriously attacked in his Manhattan penthouse and thinks that a new composer whom he has panned is responsible.
Sep 2, 1957
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