Theater of the Mind

Studio One

54 episodes · 1947–1948 · CBS · Drama

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Fletcher Markle produced, directed and often acted in these hour-long CBS adaptations of novels and plays in 1947-48, with a regular company that included Everett Sloane, Anne Burr and Hester Sondergaard.

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Episodes

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194732 episodes

Under the Volcano April 29, 1947 · 62 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
Topaz May 6, 1947 · CBS · 57 min
A French comedy: a timid schoolteacher is fired and becomes a hugely successful crook.
An Enemy of the People May 13, 1947 · CBS · 57 min
Ibsen's play about one man who tells the truth and the whole town that turns on him.
Alibi Ike May 20, 1947 · CBS · 58 min
Ring Lardner's ballplayer who has an excuse for everything.
Dodsworth (1947) May 27, 1947 · 63 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
Hay Fever June 3, 1947 · CBS · 60 min
Noel Coward's comedy about an arty theatrical family and their guests' wild weekend.
The Red Badge of Courage June 10, 1947 · CBS · 59 min
Stephen Crane's Civil War soldier, afraid he'll turn coward under fire.
The Romantic Comedians June 24, 1947 · CBS · 57 min
A May-December romance among the old families of the modern South.
Baby Cyclone July 1, 1947 · CBS · 58 min
A farce about three couples fighting over a Pekingese.
Ah, Wilderness July 15, 1947 · 61 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
Holiday July 22, 1947 · 55 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
A Bill of Divorcement July 29, 1947 · 55 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
Carmen August 5, 1947 · CBS · 57 min
A young soldier gives up the army for a life of crime, all for love of Carmen. The story, not the opera.
Pride and Prejudice August 12, 1947 · CBS · 55 min
Jane Austen's five sisters, in a full hour.
Laburum Grove August 19, 1947 · 66 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
The Hunted August 26, 1947 · CBS · 58 min
During the Reign of Terror, three nobles disguised as commoners try to escape France with a spy on their trail.
Thunder Rock September 2, 1947 · CBS · 58 min
A lighthouse keeper imagines that six people drowned in a wreck 90 years ago are alive again.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street September 9, 1947 · CBS · 60 min
Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning and her tyrannical father.
Act of Faith September 16, 1947 · CBS · 30 min
A Jewish soldier in occupied Germany and a German Luger. A half-hour show this week.
Gentle Julia September 23, 1947 · CBS · 59 min
Youth and love in a small town long ago.
Wuthering Heights September 30, 1947 · CBS · 57 min
Emily Bronte's dark love story on the moors.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn October 7, 1947 · CBS · 60 min
Poverty and first love in a Brooklyn tenement at the turn of the century.
Anthony Adverse October 14, 1947 · CBS · 63 min
An adventurer's swashbuckling life, from Italy to the slave trade in Cuba.
Singing Guns October 21, 1947 · CBS · 60 min
A Western: an outlaw comes down from his mountain hideout and becomes a successful farmer.
Kitty Foyle November 4, 1947 · CBS · 60 min
A headstrong girl from the wrong side of the tracks and her society sweetheart.
Let Me Do the Talking November 11, 1947 · CBS · 59 min
A behind-the-scenes look at the book business.
Payment Deferred November 25, 1947 · CBS · 61 min
A poor man kills for money to pay his debts, then a Frenchwoman sees a chance for blackmail.
Earth and High Heaven December 2, 1947 · 64 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
To Mary with Love December 9, 1947 · 63 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
Experiment Perilous December 16, 1947 · 53 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
Painted Veils December 23, 1947 · 63 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
So Big December 30, 1947 · 75 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.

194822 episodes

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse January 20, 1948 · CBS · 59 min
A mild professor tests his own theories about crime, with shocking results.
The Great Impersonation January 27, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
A World War I spy story with a twist at the end.
Dodsworth (1948) February 3, 1948 · 57 min
Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
A Farewell to Arms February 17, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
Hemingway's World War I love story.
King's Row February 24, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
Love and hate in a small town.
Uncle Harry March 2, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
A Victorian murder melodrama.
Sometime, Every Summertime March 9, 1948 · CBS · 30 min
A love story of a different kind. A half-hour show this week.
One More Spring March 16, 1948 · CBS · 61 min
A band of down-and-outers make a home in a Central Park tool shed.
The Thirty-Nine Steps March 23, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
An innocent man is chased across Scotland by police and spies.
Babbitt March 30, 1948 · CBS · 61 min
Sinclair Lewis's businessman George Babbitt and small-town life in the 1920s.
The Kimballs April 6, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
A man goes back to his childhood home and learns a terrible secret about himself.
The Glass Key April 13, 1948 · CBS · 61 min
Crooked politics and murder in the 1920s.
South Riding April 27, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
Love and hate in the English countryside.
Private Worlds May 4, 1948 · CBS · 61 min
A love story set in a mental hospital.
Wine of the Country May 11, 1948 · CBS · 61 min
Love, jealousy and doubt in the South.
The Last Tycoon May 18, 1948 · CBS · 62 min
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Hollywood story.
Angelic Avengers May 25, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
A kindly minister takes in young women, and they disappear.
One Foot in Heaven June 1, 1948 · CBS · 61 min
A small-town preacher looks for new worlds to conquer.
The Return of the Native June 15, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
Thomas Hardy's story of love and hate on the English heath.
Arabesque June 29, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
Wartime intrigue in Beirut. Marlene Dietrich sings a new song.
Spanish Bayonet July 20, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
A New Yorker in colonial Florida during the Revolution finds slavery, cruelty and love.
The Constant Nymph July 27, 1948 · CBS · 60 min
The last radio Studio One: a musical family and the one member with no talent but a great heart.