Season
- Season 2 1949-09-28
- Season 1 1948-09-26
Episode
- Episode 1: The Canterville Ghost
- Episode 2: Terror in the Streets
- Episode 3: It's a Free Country
- Episode 4: We'll Never Have a Nickel
- Episode 5: Clarissa
- Episode 6: The Return to Kansas City
- Episode 7: O'Halloran's Luck
- Episode 8: The Frame-Up
- Episode 9: The Three Strangers
- Episode 10: The Thousand Dollar Bill [restaged]
- Episode 11: The Man with the Heart in the Highlands
- Episode 12: The Midway
- Episode 13: A Child Is Born
- Episode 14: Counry Full of Sweden
- Episode 15: Hannah
- Episode 16: An Ingenue of the Sierras
- Episode 17: The Little Wife [restaged]
- Episode 18: The Timid Guy
- Episode 19: Joe McSween's Atomic Machine [restaged]
- Episode 20: Telas, the King
- Episode 21: Mr. Mummery's Suspicion
- Episode 22: The Apple Tree
- Episode 23: The Pink Hussar
- Episode 24: The Salt of the Earth
- Episode 25: Sanctuary in Paris
- Episode 26: Screwball
- Episode 27: Alison's House
- Episode 28: The Token
- Episode 29: The Swan
- Episode 30: The Good Companions
Actors Studio Season 2 The Good Companions
6/10 users Actors Studio is an American TV show which aired for 65 episodes, from September 26, 1948 to October 26 on the fledgling ABC Television Network; then from November 1, 1949 to June 23, 1950 on CBS Television. It was hosted by Mark Connelly.
The series showcased short pieces of adapted, classic and original drama, performed and produced live each week. Among some of the known authors were William Saroyan, James Thurber, Ring Lardner, Edgar Allan Poe, Irwin Shaw and Budd Schulberg. Featured actors included Martin Balsam, Richard Boone, Marlon Brando, Hume Cronyn, Julie Harris, Jean Muir and Jessica Tandy. Recurring performers included Jocelyn Brando, Tom Ewell, Steven Hill, Kim Hunter and Cloris Leachman.
In February 1950, the series moved to Friday nights and was expanded to one hour, alternating every other week with broadcasts of Ford Theatre. In March, the name of the show was changed to The Play's the Thing.
The series received a Peabody Award in 1948 for pioneering in the field of televised drama.
