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The Philco Television Playhouse

TV Show 1948 6.6/10 267 episodes
Drama

Synopsis

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.

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Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1 EP 1
What Every Woman Knows

A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a succes…

Episode 2 EP 2
Pride's Castle

Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for h…

Episode 3 EP 3
The Little Sister

A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.

Episode 4 EP 4
The Lonely

An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a female friend. Their understanding is that the trip will be p…

Episode 5 EP 5
The Queen Bee

A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.

Episode 6 EP 6
Something's Got to Give

A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.

Episode 7 EP 7
The Last Tycoon

A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.

Episode 8 EP 8
Because of the Lockwoods

The Lockwoods are patronising toward their former neighbours, the Hunters, who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters a…

Episode 9 EP 9
Damion's Daughter

A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.

Episode 10 EP 10
The House of Seven Gables

With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.

Episode 11 EP 11
The Promise

A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.

Episode 12 EP 12
Medical Meeting
Episode 13 EP 13
The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram

A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and…

Episode 14 EP 14
Mist on the Waters

Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.

Episode 15 EP 15
The Beautiful Bequest

The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by de…

Episode 16 EP 16
The Strange Christmas Dinner

A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.

Episode 17 EP 17
In Beauty Like the Night

A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.

Episode 18 EP 18
Little Boy Lost

An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.

Episode 19 EP 19
Bethel Merriday

A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.

Episode 20 EP 20
Murder at the Stork Club

A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.

Episode 21 EP 21
The Marriages

In England in the 1890s, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley…

Episode 22 EP 22
Uncle Dynamite

Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it off when Pongo ref…

Episode 23 EP 23
The Sudden Guest

A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resents the intrusion, e…

Episode 24 EP 24
Ann Rutledge

The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.

Episode 25 EP 25
A Letter to Mr. Priest

An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.

Episode 26 EP 26
Hometown

Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a publicity build-up for his book. He meets a glamorous woman, who intro…

Episode 27 EP 27
The Life of Vincent Van Gogh

The tragic life story of the tormented artist.

Episode 28 EP 28
The Uncertain Molly Collicutt

A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.

Episode 29 EP 29
The Trial of Steven Kent

A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.

Episode 30 EP 30
The Second Oldest Profession

An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

Episode 31 EP 31
Nocturne

In London in 1910, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support and care for their widowed, invalid father. Jenny, the younger, pret…

Episode 32 EP 32
Dirty Eddie

Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.

Episode 33 EP 33
The End is Known

A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He then learns the suicide jumped from his apartment. A mystery s…

Episode 34 EP 34
The Man in the Black Hat

A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.

Episode 35 EP 35
The American

An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.

Episode 36 EP 36
The Feast

A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy…

Episode 37 EP 37
Brat Farrar

Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.

Episode 38 EP 38
The Charmed Circle

A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers. He eventually falls in love with a rich girl and leads a…

Episode 39 EP 39
Semmelweis

Story of the great physician who saved millions of lives due to his discovery of the cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever) and eliminat…

Episode 40 EP 40
Sense and Sensibility

Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.

Episode 41 EP 41
The Bump on Brannigan's Head

A bonk on the head turns a grouchy hothead into the sweetest man in town. Brannigan runs for mayor of his small town--and wins--with his "l…

Episode 42 EP 42
Anything Can Happen

A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.

Episode 43 EP 43
Hear My Heart Speak

A shell-shocked WWI ex-soldier is unable to speak though doctors say the problem isn't physical. Tired of completing with his overbearing, …

Episode 44 EP 44
The Reluctant Landlord

Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia, experiences many difficulties as he tries to adapt to his adopted c…

Episode 45 EP 45
The Tentacles

A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.

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