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Season
1 (CBS) (1948-49)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
references:
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########## Westinghouse Studio One ###########
############## season 1 1948-49 ##############
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CBS Sundays 7:30-8:30pm Eastern
Alternating with
Ford Theatre
1.01[--] Studio One: THE STORM
07-Nov-1948
Producer Worthington Miner
Written by & Directed by Worthington Miner
Based on a story by McNight Malmar
starring
Dean Jagger .......... Ben Willsom
Margaret Sullavan .... Janet Willsom
John Forsythe
Ross Martin
Synopsis:
A woman finds a dead body in her basement. [RF]
1.02 [--] Studio One: LET ME DO THE TALKING
26-Nov-1948 Friday
Producer Worthington Miner
Written & Directed by Worthington Miner
Based on a story by by Richard Mealand
Set designer Richard Rychtarik
starring
John Conte
1.03 [--] Studio One: THE MEDIUM
12-Dec-1948
Producer Worthington Miner
Written by Worthington Miner
Story by Gian Carlo Menotti
Directed by Paul Nickell
starring
Marie Powers ........ Baba/Madame Flora
Beverly Dame ........ Mrs. Gobineau
Donald Morgan ....... Mr. Gobineau
Anna Maria Alberghetti .... Monica
Belva Kibler ........ Mrs. Nolan
Leo Coleman ......... Toby
Synopsis:
Madame Flora makes a living throwing bogus seances and
bilking grieving clients. During one seance she panics when
she feels hands around her neck. [RF]
1.04 [--] Studio One: NOT SO LONG AGO
26-Dec-1948
Producer Worthington Miner
Written & Directed by Worthington Miner
Based on a story by Joseph Liss
starring
Katharine Bard
Jerome Thor
Karl Weber
1.05 [--] Studio One: THE OUTWARD ROOM
09-Jan-1949 (restaged 26Sep49)
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Joseph Liss
Based on a story by Millen Brand
starring
Charlton Heston
Bramwell Fletcher
Ruth Ford
John Forsythe
Synopsis:
A mentally disturbed woman begins a normal life.
1.06 [--] Studio One: BLIND ALLEY
30-Jan-1949
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Worthington Miner
Story by James Warwick
Directed by Paul Nickell
starring
Bramwell Fletcher
Jerome Thor
Synopsis:
A psychopathic killer escapes from prison and comes
under the care of a noted psychiatrist. [RF]
1.07 [--] Studio One: HOLIDAY
20-Feb-1949
Producer Worthington Miner
Written & Directed by Worthington Miner
Story by Philip Barry
starring
Valerie Bettis ........ Julia
Synopsis:
The happy-go-lucky Johnny Case, a self-made man with a dream
in his heart of making just enough money to retire on and then traveling
around the world. Johnny proposes to the lovely Julia in Lake Placid,
but it isn't until he comes to pay her a visit in New York
that he discovers she's the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. [RF]
1.08 [--] Studio One: JULIUS CAESAR
06-Mar-1949
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Worthington Miner
Play by William Shakespeare
Directed by Paul Nickell
starring
William Post Jr. ....... Julius Caesar
Philip Bourneuf ....... Marc Antony
Ruth Ford ....... Calpurnia
Robert Keith ....... Brutus
Joseph Silver ....... Decius
Vaughn Taylor ....... Casca
Synopsis:
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play about Roman politics.
*Note:
Due to budget problems the play was performed in modern dress,
but in the 1955 for the third restaging it was done in traditional period costumes.
1.09 [--] Studio One: BERKELEY SQUARE
20-Mar-1949 Sunday
Producer Worthington Miner
Written & Directed by Worthington Miner
Based on a story by Henry James
starring
Leueen MacGrath ..... Helen Pettigrew
William Prince ...... Peter Standish
Leslie Woods ....... Tom Pettigrew
Synopsis:
An American meets his British relatives.
1.10 [--] Studio One: REDEMPTION
30-Apr-1949 Sat (should this be 3Apr49 CBS Sun)
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Sylvia Berger
Based on by Leo Tostoy's "The Living Corpse"
Directed by Paul Nickell
starring
Richard Hart ........ Fedya
Joan Wetmore ........ Lisa
Synopsis:
Fedya wins the lovely Lisa away from her fiance Victor Karenin.
But after they are wed he becomes enamored of a
beautiful Gypsy girl. [RF]
1.11 [--] Studio One: MOMENT OF TRUTH
17-Apr-1949 Sunday
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Joseph Liss
Based on a story by Storm Jamison
starring
Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
A study of the relationships among members of a group of
refugees vying for the five seats available to fly them from a Britain
conquered by the Russians. One of them turns out to be a Communist spy,
but he is set free as a gesture toward maintaining civilized ideals.
The atomic war which devastated Europe is
mentioned only in passing.
1.12 [--] Studio One: JULIUS CAESAR
04-May-1949 (restaged) Wed
Producer Worthington Miner
Based on the play by William Shakespeare
Directed by Paul Nickell
starring
Richard Hart ....... Marc Antony
Robert Keith ....... Brutus
William Post Jr. ....... Julius Caesar
Charlton Heston ..... in a minor role
*Note: Second modern dress restaging.
1.13 [--] Studio One: THE GLASS KEY
11-May-1949 Wed
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Worthington Miner
Based on a story by Dashiell Hammett
starring
Don Briggs
Jean Carson
Lawrence Fletcher
Synopsis:
When his boss, a corrupt politician, is accused of murder,
a man hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from
his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way. [RF]
1.14 [--] Studio One: SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE
18-May-1949 Wed
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Worthington Miner
Story by Paul Vincent Carroll
Directed by Paul Nickell
starring
Leo G. Carroll
Margaret Phillips
Synopsis:
A true, steadfast, innocent, and unselfish believer, a young girl,
brings the contentious others, through the uncorrupted purity and simplicity
of her own faith, back to first principles. [RF]
1.15 [--] Studio One: FLOWERS FROM A STRANGER
25-May-1949 Wed
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Worthington Miner
Story by Dorothee Carousso
Directed by George Zachary
starring
Yul Brynner ......... Dr. Nestri
Felicia Montealegre .. Lorna
Robert Duke ......... Kim
John Conte
Lois Nettleton
Synopsis:
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she
receives a box of flowers from a stranger. [RF]
1.16 [--] Studio One: THE DYBBUK
01-Jun-1949 Wed
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Joseph Liss
Story by Sholom Ansky
Directed by Paul Nickell
starring
Mary Sinclair
James Lamphier
Arnold Moss
Synopsis:
A haunting tale about ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in a small
Jewish town in Eastern Europe. [RF]
1.17 [--] Studio One: BOY MEETS GIRL
08-Jun-1949 Wed
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by by Walter Hart
Based on the play by Bella Spewack & Samuel Spewack
Directed by George Zachary
starring
Edward Andrews ...... C. Elliot Friday
Hume Cronyn ......... Ben Hecht
Michael Harvey ...... Charlie McArthur
Francis Compton ..... Larry Toms
?...... Susie
Synopsis:
A pair of screenwriters are ordered to concoct a comeback screenplay
for a cowboy star whose star is on the wane.
1.18 [--] Studio One: SMOKE
15-Jun-1949 Wed
(aka Turgenev's Smoke)
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Worthington Miner & Edward Mabley
Based on the story by Ivan Turgenev
Directed by Paul Nickell
starring
Charlton Heston
Josephine Brown
Mary Sinclair
Guy Spaull
Leueen MacGrath
Ferdi Hoffman
Synopsis:
Smoke, is the story of a European community and the
changes reflected both in Russian politics and in the lives of two individuals.
1.19 [--] Studio One: JUNE MOON
22-Jun-1949 Wed
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Gerald Goode
Based on a story by Ring Lardner & George S. Kaufman
Directed by Walter Hart
starring
Eva Marie Saint
Jack Lemmon
Jean Carson
Glenda Farrell
Synopsis:
The story concerns a naive Schenectady shipping clerk named Fred who
comes to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a lyricist, and how he befriends
a one-hit wonder composer and meets the girl of his dreams. [RF]
1.20 [--] Studio One: THE SHADOWY THIRD
29-Jun-1949 Wed
Producer Worthington Miner
Adapted by Worthington Miner
Based on a story by Ellen Glasgow
Directed by Paul Nickell
starring
Helmut Dantine ...... Dr. Roland Maradick
Frances Fuller ...... Mrs. Maradick
Margaret Phillips ... Margaret Randolph
Sandra Ann Wigginton ...... Miss Hemphill
Synopsis:
A doctor's female patient is obsessed to the point where it's deadly.
########## Westinghouse Studio One
###########
############## end of season 1 ###############
##############################################
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