S T U D I O O N E ----------- ----- 1947 - 1948 First Show: Apr 29, 1947 Last Show: Jul 27, 1948 Number Shows: 63 Audition Show: none known Series Description: The post-war 1940's was a time of experimentation and expansion in radio. One such show from this era was STUDIO ONE, a drama anthology, which first aired Tuesday, April 29, 1947, at 9:00 over CBS stations. It brought hour-long presentations of books and plays to radio, many of which had not been attempted before. Fletcher Markle, a CBC radio veteran, produced, hosted and occasionally acted in the series. Initially, he was supported by a troupe of seasoned radio actors, because he felt the actor's name was not as important as the play. The works selected were adapted to be as true as possible to the original, a tough job considering the shows were to air only an hour. It was directed by Robert Landry and was written by Vincent McConnor. Half way through the season, ratings were not as expected, possibly because the series didn't air on the West Coast. Big name actors were brought in to help improve ratings. The sustained series still left the air after only one season. STUDIO ONE ran until July 27, 1948, when it was replaced by ROOFTOPS OF THE CITY. However, the standards it set led to a TV series of the same name which ran for nine seasons. Interestingly, when THE FORD THEATER moved from NBC to CBS in 1948, Fletcher Markle became producer for it and brought his troupe of STUDIO ONE radio actors with him. THE FORD THEATER followed the same formula as STUDIO ONE, using Hollywood screen actors in the lead, supported by a cast of radio actors. Overshadowed by longer running or better knows one-hour series, like LUX RADIO THEATER or MERCURY THEATER ON THE AIR, STUDIO ONE seems to be a forgotten gem. If you like high drama, these shows should not be overlooked. Log Comments: According to Jay Hickerson's Guide (see "References" below) all shows are available. Some catalogs listed rehearsals. A single-character column is provided, labeled "R" to indicate availability of such. An asterisk in this column indicates the rehearsal is available. All radio shows were one hour in length, except #21 and #45. Where known, the author is listed below the title. Actor's names are listed in a separate column. Repeat shows are labeled "(dup)" after the title. "(dup)" does not mean the show was simply re-broadcast. In fact, these shows are most likely to be remade versions of the first broadcast, using Hollywood actors in place of radio actors. Chronological Log: Date Num Title Star R -------- --- ------------------------------ ----------------------- - 04-29-47 1 "Under The Volcano" Everett Sloane, * by Malcolm Lowry Anne Burr, Joe DiSantis 05-06-47 2 "Topaz" Fletcher Markle, by Marcel Pagnol Everett Sloane, Hester Sondergaard, Sebastian Cabot, Anne Burr, Harold Dryanforth 05-13-47 3 "Enemy of the People" Fletcher Markle, by Henrik Ibsen Hester Sondergaard, Paul McGrath, Ian MacAllaster, Maver Moore, Frank Behrens 05-20-47 4 "Alibi Ike" Everett Sloane, by Ring Lardner Anne Burr, Ruth Gilbert, Joe Di Santis, Howard Smith, William Woodson 05-27-47 5 "Dodsworth" Santos Ortega * by Sinclair Lewis 06-03-47 6 "Hay Fever" Evelyn Varden, by Noel Coward William Woodson, Everett Sloane, Anne Burr 06-10-47 7 "Red Badge of Courage" Everett Sloane, by Stephen Crane John Sylvester, Joe Di Santis, Anne Burr, Hester Sondergaard, 06-17-47 8 "Mysterious Mickey Finn" by Elliot Paul 06-24-47 9 "Romantic Comedy" Everett Sloane, by Ellen Glasgow Anne Burr, Hester Sondergaard, 07-01-47 10 "Baby Cyclone" Everett Sloane, by George M. Cohen Anne Burr, Leon Janney, Pert Kelton 07-08-47 11 "Payment Deferred" Agnes Moorehead by Jeffrey Dell 07-15-47 12 "Ah, Wilderness" Don Harron * by Eugene O'Neill Fletcher Markle, Everett Sloane 07-22-47 13 "Holiday" Fletcher Markle, by Philip Barry Anne Burr, Ed Begley, Everett Sloane, Joan Alexander, Leon Janney, 07-29-47 14 "A Bill of Divorcement" Anne Burr, * by Clememce Dane Everett Sloane 08-05-47 15 "Carmen" D. Harron 08-12-47 16 "Pride and Prejustice" Everett Sloane, by Jane Austen Cathleen Cordell, Sarah Burton, Abby Lewis, Hedley Rennie, Anne Burr, Ivor Francis, Gregory Morton 08-19-47 17 "Laburnam Grove" Everett Sloane, by J. B. Priestly Anne Burr, Lou Merrill, Leon Janney, 08-26-47 18 "The Hunted" Everett Sloane, by Booth Tarkington Sidney Smith, Anne Burr, Miriam Wolfe, Gregory Morton 09-02-47 19 "Thunder Rock" Fletcher Markle, by Robert Audrey Robert Dryden Stefan Schnabel, Clarence Durwin, Hester Sondergaard 09-09-47 20 "The Barretts of Wimpole Fletcher Markle, Street" Anne Burr, by Rudolph Bessier Cathleen Cordell 09-16-47 21 "An Act of Faith" Fletcher Markle, by Irwin Shaw Robert Dryden, (30 minutes long, followed Anne Burr, by 30-minute U.N. special Martin Wilson, written by Norman Corwin.) Lamont Johnson, Mercedes McCambridge, Frank Behrens, Miriam Wolfe 09-23-47 22 "Gentle Julia" Fletcher Markle, by Booth Tarkington Anne Burr, Michael Dreyfus, Rosemary Rice, Edwin Bruce, Joyce Van Patten, Robert Dryden, 09-30-47 23 "Wuthering Heights" Fletcher Markle, by Emily Bronte Miriam Wolfe, Gregory Morton, Hester Sondergaard, Anne Burr, 10-07-47 24 "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" Charlotte Holland, by Betty Smith Cliff Carpenter, Leon Janney Rosemary Rice, Frank Readick, Betty Garde, 10-14-47 25 "Anthony Adverse" Clayton Collier, by Herbie Allen Miriam Wolfe, Joseph Conway, Robert Dryden Bud Collyer, Mercedes McCambridge 10-21-47 26 "Singing Guns" Myron McCormick by Max Brand Gary Merrill 10-28-47 pre-empted for "Fear Begins At 40" 11-04-47 27 "Kitty Foyle" Mercedes McCambridge, by Christopher Morley John McGovern, Gertrude Warner, Robert Dryden, Ivor Francis, Fletcher Markle, Elspeth Eric 11-11-47 28 "Let Me Do The Talking" John Garfield, Mercedes McCambridge, Raymond Edward Johnson, Everett Sloane, Hedley Renny, Robert Dryden 11-18-47 29 "Young Men Of Manhattan" Robert Mitchum, Mercedes McCambridge, Joe Di Santis 11-25-47 30 "Payment Deferred" (dup) Charles Laughton, Hester Sondergaard, Ruth York, Horace Braham, Robert Dryden 12-02-47 31 "Earth and High Heaven" Geraldine Fitzgerald, * Raymond Edward Johnson, Mercedes McCambridge, Frank Richards, Anne Seymour, Everett Sloane 12-09-47 32 "To Mary, With Love" Gene Kelly, * Mercedes McCambridge, Everett Sloane 12-16-47 33 "Experiment Perilous" Ralph Bellamy, * Everett Sloane, Gertrude Warner, Hester Sondergaard 12-23-47 34 "Painted Veils" James Mason, * Eileen Farrell, Everett Sloane, Mercedes McCambridge, Cathleen Cordell 12-30-47 35 "So Big" Joan Blondell, Everett Sloane, Gertrude Warner, Edna Ferber 01-06-48 36 "Confidential Agent" Edward G. Robinson, * by Graham Greene Raymond Massey, Mercedes McCambridge 01-13-48 37 "Wednesday's Child" Bonita Granville, * Richard Arlen 01-20-48 38 "The Amazing Dr. G. Sanders Clitterhouse" Paul Muni, Everett Sloane, Charles Irving, Claire Niesen, Elsbeth Eric 01-27-48 39 "Great Impersonation" Luise Rainer, by E. Phillips Oppenheim Walter Slezak, Miriam Wolfe, Vivi Janniss, Fletcher Markle, Luise Rainer, Beverly Roberts, Fletcher Markle, Everett Sloane, Robert Dryden 02-03-48 40 "Dodsworth" (dup) Walter Huston by Sinclair Lewis 02-10-48 41 "Golden Boy" Dane Clark 02-17-48 42 "Farewell To Arms" Madeline Carroll by Ernest Hemingway Everett Sloane, Robert Dryden, Hester Sondergaard, Joe DiSantis, Miriam Wolfe 02-24-48 43 "King's Row" Robert Young Mercedes McCambridge, Leon Janney, Everett Sloane, Robert Dryden, Kathy MacGregor, Miriam Wolfe 03-02-48 44 "Uncle Harry" Michael Redgrave, Judith Evelyn, Gertrude Warner, Everett Sloane, Brenda Forbes 03-09-48 45 "Sometime Every Summertime" Burgess Meredith, (30 minutes long) Patricia Chowdry 03-16-48 46 "One More Spring" Susan Peters by Robert Nathan Fletcher Markle, Everett Sloane, Glen Anders 03-23-48 47 "The Thirty-Nine Steps" Glen Ford, by John Buchan Cathleen Cordell, Mercedes McCambridge, Everett Sloane, Miriam Wolfe, John Stanley 03-30-48 48 "Babbitt" Walter Huston, by Sinclair Lewis Hester Sondergaard, Mercedes McCambridge 04-06-48 49 "The Kimballs" Franchot Tone Mercedes McCambridge, Everett Sloane, Miriam Wolfe 04-13-48 50 "The Glass Key" Elissa Landi, by Dashiell Hammett Alan Baxter, Everett Sloane, Charles Irving, Robert Dryden, Joe Di Santis, Kathy MacGregor 04-20-48 51 "Pride and Prejustice" (dup) Geraldine Fitzgerald by Jane Austin 04-27-48 52 "South Riding" Charles Laughton Hester Sondergaard Everett Sloane 05-04-48 53 "Private Worlds" Madeleine Carroll Mercedes McCambridge, Michael Fitzmaurice, Fletcher Markle, Claire Niesen 05-11-48 54 "Wine of the Country" Robert Mitchum, Mercedes McCambridge, Everett Sloane 05-18-48 55 "The Last Tycoon" Betty Fields, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Mercedes McCambridge, Everett Sloane, Fletcher Markle 05-25-48 56 "Angelic Avengers" Ann Blythe Margaret Phillips, Everett Sloane, Joe Di Santis 06-01-48 57 "One Foot in Heaven" Franchot Tone Rosemary De Camp, Everett Sloane, Miriam Wolfe, Fletcher Markle 06-08-48 58 "Let Me Do The Talking" (dup) Michael Doughas 06-15-48 59 "Return of the Native" Michael Redgrave by Thomas Hardy Hedley Rennie, Everett Sloane 06-22-48 pre-empted for political convention coverage 06-29-48 60 "Arabesque" Marlene Dietriech Gary Merrill, Fletcher Markle, Joe Di Santis 07-06-48 61 "Topaz" (dup) Claud Rains 07-13-48 pre-empted for political convention coverage 07-20-48 62 "Spanish Bayonet" Burgess Meredith Mercedes McCambridge, Everett Sloane, Gertrude Warner, Ian MacAllaster 07-27-48 63 "Constant Nymph" Rosemary Rice, Cathleen Cordell, Hedley Rennie Alphebetical List: Title Date Num ------------------------------- --------- --- Act of Faith, An 09-16-47 21 Ah, Wilderness 07-15-47 12 Alibi Ike 05-20-47 4 Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, The 01-20-48 38 Angelic Avengers 05-25-48 56 Anthony Adverse 10-14-47 25 Arabesque 06-29-48 60 Babbitt 03-30-48 48 Baby Cyclone 07-01-47 10 Barretts of Wimpole Street, The 09-09-47 20 Bill of Divorcement, A 07-29-47 14 Carmen 08-05-47 15 Confidential Agent 01-06-48 36 Constant Nymph 07-27-48 63 Dodsworth 02-03-48 40 Dodsworth 05-27-47 5 Earth and High Heaven 12-02-47 31 Enemy of the People 05-13-47 3 Experiment Perilous 12-16-47 33 Farewell To Arms 02-17-48 42 Gentle Julia 09-23-47 22 Glass Key, The 04-13-48 50 Golden Boy 02-10-48 41 Great Impersonation 01-27-48 39 Hay Fever 06-03-47 6 Holiday 07-22-47 13 Hunted, The 08-26-47 18 Kimballs, The 04-06-48 49 King's Row 02-24-48 43 Kitty Foyle 11-04-47 27 Laburnam Grove 08-19-47 17 Last Tycoon, The 05-18-48 55 Let Me Do The Talking 11-11-47, 28 06-08-48 58 Mysterious Mickey Finn 06-17-47 8 One Foot in Heaven 06-01-48 57 One More Spring 03-16-48 46 Painted Veils 12-23-47 34 Payment Deferred 07-08-47, 11 11-25-47 30 Pride and Prejustice 04-20-48, 51 08-12-47 16 Private Worlds 05-04-48 53 Red Badge of Courage 06-10-47 7 Return of the Native 06-15-48 59 Romantic Comedy 06-24-47 9 Singing Guns 10-21-47 26 So Big 12-30-47 35 Sometime Every Summertime 03-09-48 45 South Riding 04-27-48 52 Spanish Bayonet 07-20-48 62 Thirty-Nine Steps, The 03-23-48 47 Thunder Rock 09-02-47 19 To Mary, With Love 12-09-47 32 Topaz 05-06-47, 2 07-06-48 61 Tree Grows In Brooklyn, A 10-07-47 24 Uncle Harry 03-02-48 44 Under The Volcano 04-29-47 1 Wednesday's Child 01-13-48 37 Wine of the Country 05-11-48 54 Wuthering Heights 09-30-47 23 Young Men Of Manhattan 11-18-47 29 References: * "The Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide To All Circulating Shows", by Jay Hickerson, Box 4321, Hamden, CT 06514 * OTR club and vendor catalogs or web sites: * AVPRO, Don Aston, PO Box 1392, Lake Elsinore, CA 92531-1392 * Edward J. Carr, 216 Shaner Street, Boyertown, PA 19512 * Great American Radio, Gary Kramer, PO Box 504, Genesee, MI 48437 * Radio Showcase, Steve Kelez, PO Box 4357, Santa Rosa, CA 95402 * North American Radio Archives, 134 Vincewood Dr., Nicolasville, KY 40356 * Radio Historical Association of Colorado, PO Box 1908, Englewood, CO 80150 * Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety And Comedy, PO Box 7177, Van Nuys, CA 91409-7177 * Jerry Haendiges Productions, Jerry Haendiges, 13808 Sunset Dr., Whittier, CA 90602 * Memories Of Radio, Dick Judge, PO Box 67800, Rochester NY 14617 Other Logs or Books: * STUDIO ONE log, Jerry Haendiges Productions, 13808 Sunset Dr., Whittier, CA 90602 (http://www.otrsite.com) Last Update: May 20, 2004 This log is informational only. It does not imply that I or my references have these shows for trade or sale. The shows may still be protected under copyright law and should be obtained only from authorized dealers. 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