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The Philco Television Playhouse(1948)

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First Air Date: 1948-10-03
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 6.6
Votes: 8
Seasons: 8
Episodes: 267

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.

Keywords

anthologyplayhouse

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 45
E01
Dinner at Eight

Air Date: 1948-10-03

1h 0m

Social-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hosp...

E02
Rebecca

Air Date: 1948-10-10

1h 0m

Brooding and moody Maxim deWinter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year...

E03
Counsellor-at-Law

Air Date: 1948-10-17

1h 0m

An upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to...

E04
Angel in the Wings

Air Date: 1948-10-24

1h 0m

An understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy t...

E05
Street Scene

Air Date: 1948-10-31

1h 0m

Abraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of...

E06
This Thing Called Love

Air Date: 1948-11-07

1h 0m

A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or...

E07
Camille

Air Date: 1948-11-14

1h 0m

Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship ...

E08
An Inspector Calls

Air Date: 1948-11-21

1h 0m

When Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter ...

E09
I Like It Here

Air Date: 1948-11-28

1h 0m

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...

E10
Suspect

Air Date: 1948-12-05

1h 0m

20 years ago, a Scotswoman was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Prove...

E11
Parlor Story

Air Date: 1948-12-12

1h 0m

An ambitious professor wants to become President of his university. He is soon caught up in the political opportunism...

E12
A Christmas Carol

Air Date: 1948-12-19

1h 0m

The skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

E13
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

Air Date: 1948-12-26

1h 0m

The basement flat of Mrs Dowey, a Scottish charwoman who lives and works in London, during World War I, and Mrs Dowey...

E14
Ramshackle Inn

Air Date: 1949-01-02

1h 0m

An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting pe...

E15
Cyrano de Bergerac

Air Date: 1949-01-09

1h 0m

The poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose, Cyrano uses the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit...

E16
Papa Is All

Air Date: 1949-01-16

1h 0m

Papa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel.

E17
Pride and Prejudice

Air Date: 1949-01-23

1h 0m

The trials of a woman trying to find husbands for her five daughters in 18th-century England.

E18
Dark Hammock

Air Date: 1949-01-30

1h 0m

In a remote part of Florida Coral Platt, a sinister woman has married a man considerably older than she. For reasons ...

E19
The Late Christopher Bean

Air Date: 1949-02-06

1h 0m

Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish,...

E20
The Story of Mary Surratt

Air Date: 1949-02-13

1h 0m

After the death of her husband Mary opened a boardinghouse to pay the debts owed by her husband. .. There she began a...

E21
Twelfth Night

Air Date: 1949-02-20

1h 0m

Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopeles...

E22
St. Helena

Air Date: 1949-02-27

1h 0m

On St. Helena, the exiled emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In h...

E23
The Druid Circle

Air Date: 1949-03-06

1h 0m

An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has...

E24
Quality Street

Air Date: 1949-03-13

1h 0m

Because she's nearly 30 and still unwed, Phoebe Throssel is regarded as an over-the-hill spinster. Thus, when offered...

E25
Dinner at Antoine's

Air Date: 1949-03-20

1h 0m

The murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.

E26
Becky Sharp

Air Date: 1949-03-27

1h 0m

A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. However, fate never seems to give her an e...

E27
And Never Been Kissed

Air Date: 1949-04-03

1h 0m

A sixteen-year-old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.

E28
What Makes Sammy Run?

Air Date: 1949-04-10

1h 0m

The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, thr...

E29
Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies

Air Date: 1949-04-17

1h 0m

Only Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.

E30
Burlesque

Air Date: 1949-04-24

1h 0m

Vaudevillians Skid and Bonnie are partners onstage and off -- until success comes to Skip. He develops an oversized e...

E31
Macbeth

Air Date: 1949-05-01

1h 0m

Scottish nobleman who prompted by his own prophecy and ambitions, kills a king to wear his crown.

E32
Romeo and Juliet

Air Date: 1949-05-15

1h 0m

Star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the start by the hatred of their families.

E33
This Time, Next Year

Air Date: 1949-06-05

1h 0m

The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materialises every year at Grant's Tomb.

E34
It Pays to Advertise

Air Date: 1949-06-12

1h 0m

With the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously popular product and cant keep up with the demand.

E35
Summer Formal

Air Date: 1949-06-19

1h 0m

A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the k...

E36
Jenny Kissed Me

Air Date: 1949-06-26

1h 0m

A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. The 18-year-old Jenny is the precise opposit...

E37
Dark of the Moon

Air Date: 1949-07-03

1h 0m

A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjure woman turn him...

E38
For Love or Money

Air Date: 1949-07-10

1h 0m

A young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of a famous actor.

E39
The Five Lives of Richard Gordon

Air Date: 1949-07-17

1h 0m

Katie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife, has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. ...

E40
You Touched Me!

Air Date: 1949-07-24

1h 0m

The adopted son of a drunken former sea captain returns to the household as an adult. He asks the old man for his eld...

E41
The Fourth Wall

Air Date: 1949-07-31

1h 0m

The life of a middle-aged couple has become to complacent and empty.

E42
Enter Madame

Air Date: 1949-08-07

1h 0m

A grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better ...

E43
A Murder Has Been Arranged

Air Date: 1949-08-14

1h 0m

A ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.

E44
Pretty Little Parlor

Air Date: 1949-08-21

1h 0m

A little soirée is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.

E45
Three Cornered Moon

Air Date: 1949-08-28

1h 0m

Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law s...

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