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Studio One (CBS series)

Studio One
StudioOneScreen.jpg
Westinghouse Studio One title card
Genre Anthology drama
Written by Patrick Alexander
Sumner Locke Elliot
Horton Foote
Frank D. Gilroy
Mel Goldberg
Arthur Hailey
Ben Hecht
Robert Herridge
Ernest Kinoy
Joseph Liss
Loring Mandel
Don Mankiewicz
Abby Mann
Worthington Miner
Tad Mosel
Reginald Rose
Arnold Schulman
Rod Serling
William Templeton
Gore Vidal
Dale Wasserman
Directed by Yul Brynner
James B. Clark (director)
Vincent J. Donehue
John Frankenheimer
David Greene (director)
Buzz Kulik
Sidney Lumet
Fletcher Markle
Worthington Miner
Robert Mulligan
Ralph Nelson
Paul Nickell
Daniel Petrie
David Lowell Rich
Franklin Schaffner
Jack Smight
Lela Swift
Presented by Art Hannes (announcer)
John Cannon (announcer)
Narrated by John Cannon
Theme music composer Vic Oliver
Opening theme "Prelude to the Stars"
Ending theme same
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 10
No. of episodes 467 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Worthington Miner
Producer(s) Worthington Miner
Herbert Brodkin
Running time 48–50 minutes
Production company(s) CBS Productions
Distributor CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original network CBS
Picture format Black-and-white
Audio format Monaural
Original release November 7, 1948 (1948-11-07) – September 29, 1958 (1958-09-29)

Studio One is an American radio–television anthology drama series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC.

On April 29, 1947, Markle launched the 60-minute CBS radio series with an adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. Broadcast on Tuesdays, opposite Fibber McGee and Molly and The Bob Hope Show at 9:30 P.M., EST, the radio series continued until July 27, 1948, showcasing such adaptations as Dodsworth, Pride and Prejudice, The Red Badge of Courage and Ah, Wilderness. Top performers were heard on this series, including John Garfield, Walter Huston, Mercedes McCambridge, Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum.

In 1948, Markle made a leap from radio to television. Sponsored by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the television series was seen on CBS (which Westinghouse later owned between 1995 and 2000), from 1948 through 1958, under several variant titles: Studio One Summer Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Summer Theatre, Westinghouse Studio One and Westinghouse Summer Theatre. It was telecast in black-and-white only.

Offering a wide range of dramas, Studio One received Emmy nominations every year from 1950 to 1958. The series staged some notable and memorable teleplays among its 467 episodes. Some created such an impact they were adapted into theatrical films. William Templeton's 1953 adaptation of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, starring Eddie Albert as Winston Smith, led to the 1956 feature film version with Edmond O'Brien in the principal role. Reginald Rose's drama Twelve Angry Men, about the conflicts of jurors deciding a murder case, originated on Studio One on September 20, 1954; and the 1957 motion picture remake with Henry Fonda was nominated for three Academy Awards. Sal Mineo had the title role in the January 2, 1956 episode of Reginald Rose's Dino, and he reprised the role for the movie Dino (1957).


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