Studio One - Season 2

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Kyra Zelas

1 - Kyra Zelas

Air Date: September 12, 1949

Kyra Zelas is a very unusual girl, the doctor diagnoses her as being in the final stages of tuberculosis, when young Dr. Scott gives her an untested injection which miraculously heals her, leaving everyone surprised.

The Rival Dummy

2 - The Rival Dummy

Air Date: September 19, 1949

The murder of a ventriloquist's dummy

The Outward Room

3 - The Outward Room

Air Date: September 26, 1949

A mentally disturbed woman tries to lead a normal life.

Mrs. Moonlight

4 - Mrs. Moonlight

Air Date: October 3, 1949

A bride makes a wish on her wedding day to never look a day older than she does at that moment. Her wish becomes a curse as everyone and everything around her ages and she stays as youthful as ever.

The Light That Failed

5 - The Light That Failed

Air Date: October 10, 1949

A war artist, Dick Helder, follows the British army into battle and experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.

The Storm

6 - The Storm

Air Date: October 17, 1949

During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.

Battleship Bismarck

7 - Battleship Bismarck

Air Date: October 24, 1949

Two weeks after its maiden voyage on May 13, 1941, the battleship Bismarck was spotted, torpedoed and sunk by the British in the North Atlantic. This was a crucial point in World War II for the Germans, taking more than 2,000 lives.

Concerning a Woman of Sin

8 - Concerning a Woman of Sin

Air Date: October 31, 1949

A literary agent seeks to represent the author of a sensational new screenplay and is surprised to find out that the author is only nine years old.

The Husband

9 - The Husband

Air Date: November 7, 1949

A woman fears her late husband Connor has returned to haunt her.

Two Sharp Knives

10 - Two Sharp Knives

Air Date: November 14, 1949

A murderer is found dead and his killer is sought.

Of Human Bondage

11 - Of Human Bondage

Air Date: November 21, 1949

Story of a crippled medical student's romance with a heartless waitress in 1910 Paris.

At Mrs. Beam's

12 - At Mrs. Beam's

Air Date: November 28, 1949

At the height of the Bluebeard panic, a mysterious young couple from Paris raise fears at a London boarding house.

Henry IV

13 - Henry IV

Air Date: December 5, 1949

A wealthy eccentric Italian gentleman believes himself to be 11th-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.

Jane Eyre

14 - Jane Eyre

Air Date: December 12, 1949

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.

Mary Poppins

15 - Mary Poppins

Air Date: December 19, 1949

A nanny of special talents is hired by George Banks, an old-fashioned London banker who is trying to raise his two naughty children.

The Inner Light

16 - The Inner Light

Air Date: December 26, 1949

An English home for the blind is disrupted by a visiting scientist who supposedly has a miracle discovery for curing specific cases of blindness.

Riviera

17 - Riviera

Air Date: January 2, 1950

Set in the French Riviera, this romantic love triangle occurs when the daughter of a wealthy Parisian widower vacations at the villa.

Beyond Reason

18 - Beyond Reason

Air Date: January 9, 1950

A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.

Give Us Our Dream

19 - Give Us Our Dream

Air Date: January 16, 1950

A widow named Mrs. Marsan lives in an apartment complex and pries into her neighbors' personal affairs. She is happiest when unsuspecting lovers argue and she can focus her opera glasses on them. Her innocently disingenuous nosiness helps to bring about a marriage between two cripples, a therapeutic romance for a depressed war widow, a happy ending in a sordid triangle affair. Even her death from heart trouble helps a friend, radical and fanatic, somehow learns a lesson in elementary humanity.

The Rockingham Tea Set

20 - The Rockingham Tea Set

Air Date: January 23, 1950

A young nurse's romance is blighted by a spirit. An early appearance by Grace Kelly.

Father and the Angels

21 - Father and the Angels

Air Date: January 30, 1950

The story of a minister whose church is sandwiched between a firehouse and a brewery and who desires to build a new house of worship in a better place.

The Loud Red Patrick

22 - The Loud Red Patrick

Air Date: February 6, 1950

A widower bringing up four daughters must deal with their eventual rebellion.

Flowers from a Stranger

23 - Flowers from a Stranger

Air Date: February 13, 1950

A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.

The Wisdom Tooth

24 - The Wisdom Tooth

Air Date: February 20, 1950

A clerk fantasizes himself as a young freckled faced vital boy unlike his present persona, a pale and pulseless man and has the boy in him stir to life the courage to tell his boss off and ask his girl to marry him.

The Willow Cabin

25 - The Willow Cabin

Air Date: February 27, 1950

An American surgeon falls in love with a flighty British actress.

The Dreams of Jasper Hornby

26 - The Dreams of Jasper Hornby

Air Date: March 6, 1950

A wounded robber hands his loot to Jasper Hornby before dying. The rest of his gang begins a door-to-door search for the money.

The Dusty Godmother

27 - The Dusty Godmother

Air Date: March 13, 1950

A reporter for a major newspaper and his wife divorce. The court awards custody of their child to the wife.

The Survivors

28 - The Survivors

Air Date: March 20, 1950

Peter Decker returns from the American Civil War with a grudge against his neighbor, an army brigade troop leader. The showdown takes place according to the rules of the Wild West, where guns settled all conflicts but those rules are slowly being replace by civilization, and the rule of law.

Passenger to Bali

29 - Passenger to Bali

Air Date: March 27, 1950

A freighter captain agrees to take on an innocent looking passenger who proves to be a fountain of evil and impossible to get rid of.

The Scarlet Letter

30 - The Scarlet Letter

Air Date: April 3, 1950

Classic tale of adultery and betrayal.

Walk the Dark Streets

31 - Walk the Dark Streets

Air Date: April 10, 1950

Janice Morel is an aging actress who works in a run-down nightclub. One night she's discovered naked in her hotel room, knifed to death.

Torrents of Spring

32 - Torrents of Spring

Air Date: April 17, 1950

A man falls in lust with another, abandoning his beloved Gemma in favor of a fling. Unhappy and unfulfilled with his decision he seeks out his beloved Gemma once again.

The Horse's Mouth

33 - The Horse's Mouth

Air Date: April 24, 1950

Gulley Jimson, a poor antisocial painter just out of jail, tries to convince people to pay him for paintings they didn't actually commission.

Miracle in the Rain

34 - Miracle in the Rain

Air Date: May 1, 1950

Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.

A Wreath of Roses

35 - A Wreath of Roses

Air Date: May 8, 1950

Camilla feels lonely and insecure that her husband is more interested in painting than spending time with her. Camilla steps into an unlikely affair with Richard Elton, a dangerous liar.

The Ambassadors

36 - The Ambassadors

Air Date: May 15, 1950

A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.

The Room Upstairs

37 - The Room Upstairs

Air Date: May 22, 1950

A hard-boiled private eye receives a call from a small-town policeman who suspects an auto accident which involves the daughter of a prominent citizen is connected with the finding of the body of a young girl in the river.

The Man Who Had Influence

38 - The Man Who Had Influence

Air Date: May 29, 1950

The spoiled son of a politician learns a lesson when he is accused of murder.

The Taming of the Shrew

39 - The Taming of the Shrew

Air Date: June 5, 1950

A modern dress version of the Shakespeare classic

Zone Four

40 - Zone Four

Air Date: June 12, 1950

A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."

There Was a Crooked Man

41 - There Was a Crooked Man

Air Date: June 19, 1950

The murder of a boarding house lodger is investigated.

My Granny Van

42 - My Granny Van

Air Date: June 26, 1950

Orphaned at a young age, George, one of twelve siblings went to live with his grandmother, a woman with tremendous spirit and natural dignity in the wild west, which inspired George to become a writer of those less fortunate.