Studio One Season 1, Episode 14: Shadow and Substance

1

The Storm

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

60 min

2

Let Me Do the Talking

A young agent in the publishing business wheels and deals his way up the ladder, stepping on a few too many toes along the way.

60 min

3

The Medium

Madame Flora conducts bogus seances to bilk grieving parents, but during one seance she feels hands around her neck and panics.

60 min

4

Not So Long Ago

An elderly woman remembers back to a time in her youth when she was pursued by two gentlemen.

60 min

5

The Outward Room

A story about psychological breakdown and recovery

60 min

6

Blind Alley

A psychopathic killer escapes from prison and comes under the care of a noted psychiatrist.

60 min

7

Holiday

The happy-go-lucky Johnny Case, a self-made man with the dream of making just enough money to retire on and then traveling around the world, proposes to the lovely Julia in Lake Placid but later discovers she's the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.

60 min

8

Julius Caesar

A modern dress adaptation of the classic play

60 min

9

Berkeley Square

When a young American inherits a house in London, he travels back in time to the Revolutionary War and encounters his ancestors.

60 min

10

Redemption

Victor Karenin is devastated when his fiancée Lisa leaves him for Fedya but is happily surprised when Fedya falls for a young reckless gypsy girl.

60 min

11

Moment of Truth

Five refugees vie for a seat on a flight to escape a Communist occupied Britain.

60 min

12

Julius Caesar

A modern dress adaptation of the classic play about Roman politics

60 min

13

The Glass Key

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.

60 min

14

Shadow and Substance

A true believer brings others, through the uncorrupted purity and simplicity of her own faith, back to first principles.

60 min

15

Flowers from a Stranger

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

60 min

16

The Dybbuk

A haunting tale about ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in a small Jewish town in Eastern Europe. The restless spirit of a dead man enters the body of the woman he was pledged to marry.

60 min

17

Boy Meets Girl

A pair of screenwriters are ordered to concoct a comeback screenplay for a cowboy star whose star is on the wane.

60 min

18

Smoke

"Smoke" is the story of European community roots and changes, reflected both in Russian politics and in the lives of two individuals who find philosophies diverging.

60 min

19

June Moon

A naive Schenectady shipping clerk comes to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a lyricist, befriends a one-hit wonder composer, and meets the girl of his dreams.

60 min

20

The Shadowy Third

A handsome doctor becomes the object of affection of several of his female patients, young and old alike.

60 min