Studio One - "The Thirty Nine Steps" (03-23-48)

Studio One - The Thirty Nine Steps (Aired March 23, 1948)

Studio One received Emmy nominations every year from 1950 to 1958. The series staged some notable and memorable teleplays among its 466 episodes. Some created such an impact they were adapted into theatrical films. Reginald Rose's drama Twelve Angry Men, about the conflicts of jurors deciding a murder case, originated on Studio One on 20 September 1954, and the 1957 motion picture remake with Henry Fonda was nominated for three Academy Awards. Sal Mineo had the title role in the 2 January 1956 episode of Reginald Rose's Dino , and he reprised the role for the movie Dino (1957). In 1954, "Crime at Blossoms", scripted by Jerome Ross, was given an Edgar Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. Nathaniel Hawthorne's granddaughter received a plaque in recognition of her grandfather's writing achievements, during the 3 April 1950 telecast of The Scarlet Letter.

 

THIS EPISODE:

 
March 23, 1948. CBS network. "The Thirty Nine Steps". Sustaining. An excellent and exciting spy cops/robbers story. The basis for the classic Hitchcock movie. Glenn Ford, Cathleen Cordell, Mercedes McCambridge, Everett Sloane, Miriam Wolfe, John Stanley. 1 hour. The 39 Steps (1935) thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the adventure novel The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan. In 2004, Total Film named it the 21st greatest British movie of all time. 1:00:43. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.