
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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Air Date: 1948-10-03
Social-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hosp...
Air Date: 1948-10-10
Brooding and moody Maxim deWinter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year...
Air Date: 1948-10-17
An upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to...
Air Date: 1948-10-24
An understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy t...
Air Date: 1948-10-31
Abraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of...
Air Date: 1948-11-07
A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or...
Air Date: 1948-11-14
Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship ...
Air Date: 1948-11-21
When Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter ...
Air Date: 1948-11-28
Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable man even when he's interf...
Air Date: 1948-12-05
20 years ago, a Scotswoman was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Prove...
Air Date: 1948-12-12
An ambitious professor wants to become President of his university. He is soon caught up in the political opportunism...
Air Date: 1948-12-19
The skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
Air Date: 1948-12-26
The basement flat of Mrs Dowey, a Scottish charwoman who lives and works in London, during World War I, and Mrs Dowey...
Air Date: 1949-01-02
An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting pe...
Air Date: 1949-01-09
The poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose, Cyrano uses the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit...
Air Date: 1949-01-16
Papa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel.
Air Date: 1949-01-23
The trials of a woman trying to find husbands for her five daughters in 18th-century England.
Air Date: 1949-01-30
In a remote part of Florida Coral Platt, a sinister woman has married a man considerably older than she. For reasons ...
Air Date: 1949-02-06
Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish,...
Air Date: 1949-02-13
After the death of her husband Mary opened a boardinghouse to pay the debts owed by her husband. .. There she began a...
Air Date: 1949-02-20
Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopeles...
Air Date: 1949-02-27
On St. Helena, the exiled emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In h...
Air Date: 1949-03-06
An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has...
Air Date: 1949-03-13
Because she's nearly 30 and still unwed, Phoebe Throssel is regarded as an over-the-hill spinster. Thus, when offered...
Air Date: 1949-03-20
The murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.
Air Date: 1949-03-27
A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. However, fate never seems to give her an e...
Air Date: 1949-04-03
A sixteen-year-old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.
Air Date: 1949-04-10
The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, thr...
Air Date: 1949-04-17
Only Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.
Air Date: 1949-04-24
Vaudevillians Skid and Bonnie are partners onstage and off -- until success comes to Skip. He develops an oversized e...
Air Date: 1949-05-01
Scottish nobleman who prompted by his own prophecy and ambitions, kills a king to wear his crown.
Air Date: 1949-05-15
Star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the start by the hatred of their families.
Air Date: 1949-06-05
The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materialises every year at Grant's Tomb.
Air Date: 1949-06-12
With the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously popular product and cant keep up with the demand.
Air Date: 1949-06-19
A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the k...
Air Date: 1949-06-26
A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. The 18-year-old Jenny is the precise opposit...
Air Date: 1949-07-03
A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjure woman turn him...
Air Date: 1949-07-10
A young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of a famous actor.
Air Date: 1949-07-17
Katie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife, has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. ...
Air Date: 1949-07-24
The adopted son of a drunken former sea captain returns to the household as an adult. He asks the old man for his eld...
Air Date: 1949-07-31
The life of a middle-aged couple has become to complacent and empty.
Air Date: 1949-08-07
A grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better ...
Air Date: 1949-08-14
A ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.
Air Date: 1949-08-21
A little soirée is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.
Air Date: 1949-08-28
Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law s...