The Philco Television Playhouse (1948) — Watch, Cast & Overview

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Country: United States · Type: Scripted

Genres: Drama

Years: 1948 - 1955

Seasons: 7 · Status: Ended

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Welcome to The Philco Television Playhouse guide at TV Tome. This live dramatic anthology series featured top name actors and actresses in original TV plays and adaptations of novels, short stories and plays. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (photo with Madge Evans and John Baragrey in the roles) and Sense and Sensibility were brought to the small screen. Perhaps the most elaborate production during the first season was "Cyrano de Bergerac" with Jose Ferrer and seven sets to recreate 17th cent…

Seasons (7)

Season 1

3 Oct 1948 – 28 Aug 1949 · 45 episodes

1Dinner at Eight3 Oct 1948
2Rebecca10 Oct 1948
3Counsellor-at-Law17 Oct 1948
4Angel in the Wings24 Oct 1948
5Street Scene31 Oct 1948
6This Thing Called Love7 Nov 1948
7Camille14 Nov 1948
8An Inspector Calls21 Nov 1948
9I Like It Here28 Nov 1948
10Suspect5 Dec 1948
11Parlor Story12 Dec 1948
12A Christmas Carol19 Dec 1948
13The Old Lady Shows Her Medals26 Dec 1948
14Ramshackle Inn2 Jan 1949
15Cyrano de Bergerac9 Jan 1949
16Papa is All16 Jan 1949
17Pride and Prejudice23 Jan 1949
18Dark Hammock30 Jan 1949
19The Late Christopher Bean6 Feb 1949
20The Story of Mary Surratt13 Feb 1949
21Twelfth Night20 Feb 1949
22St. Helena27 Feb 1949
23The Druid Circle6 Mar 1949
24Quality Street13 Mar 1949
25Dinner at Antoine's20 Mar 1949
26Becky Sharpe27 Mar 1949
27And Never Been Kissed3 Apr 1949
28What Makes Sammy Run?10 Apr 1949
29Mr. Mergenthwicker's Lobblies17 Apr 1949
30Burlesque24 Apr 1949
31Macbeth1 May 1949
32Romeo and Juliet15 May 1949
33This Time, Next Year5 Jun 1949
34It Pays to Advertise12 Jun 1949
35Summer Formal19 Jun 1949
36Jenny Kissed Me26 Jun 1949
37Dark of the Moon3 Jul 1949
38For Love or Money10 Jul 1949
39The Five Lives of Richard Gordon17 Jul 1949
40You Touched Me!24 Jul 1949
41The Fourth Wall31 Jul 1949
42Enter Madame7 Aug 1949
43A Murder Has Been Arranged14 Aug 1949
44Pretty Little Parlor21 Aug 1949
45Three Cornered Moon28 Aug 1949

Season 2

4 Sep 1949 – 9 Jul 1950 · 45 episodes

1What Every Woman Knows4 Sep 1949
2Pride's Castle11 Sep 1949
3The Little Sister18 Sep 1949
4The Lonely25 Sep 1949
5The Queen Bee2 Oct 1949
6Something's Got to Give9 Oct 1949
7The Last Tycoon16 Oct 1949
8Because of the Lockwoods23 Oct 1949
9Damion's Daughter30 Oct 1949
10The House of Seven Gables6 Nov 1949
11The Promise13 Nov 1949
12Medical Meeting20 Nov 1949
13The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram27 Nov 1949
14Mist on the Waters4 Dec 1949
15The Beautiful Bequest11 Dec 1949
16The Strange Christmas Dinner18 Dec 1949
17In Beauty Like the Night25 Dec 1949
18Little Boy Lost1 Jan 1950
19Bethel Merriday8 Jan 1950
20Murder at the Stork Club15 Jan 1950
21The Marriages22 Jan 1950
22Uncle Dynamite29 Jan 1950
23The Sudden Guest5 Feb 1950
24Ann Rutledge12 Feb 1950
25A Letter to Mr. Priest19 Feb 1950
26Hometown26 Feb 1950
27The Life of Vincent Van Gogh5 Mar 1950
28The Uncertain Molly Collicutt12 Mar 1950
29The Trial of Steven Kent19 Mar 1950
30The Second Oldest Profession26 Mar 1950
31Nocturne2 Apr 1950
32Dirty Eddie9 Apr 1950
33The End is Known16 Apr 1950
34The Man in the Black Hat23 Apr 1950
35The American30 Apr 1950
36The Feast7 May 1950
37Brat Farrar14 May 1950
38The Charmed Circle21 May 1950
39Semmelweis28 May 1950
40Sense and Sensibility4 Jun 1950
41The Bump on Brannigan's Head11 Jun 1950
42Anything Can Happen18 Jun 1950
43Hear My Heart Speak25 Jun 1950
44The Reluctant Landlord2 Jul 1950
45The Tentacles9 Jul 1950

Season 3

10 Sep 1950 – 7 Oct 1951 · 56 episodes

1High Tor10 Sep 1950
2The Long Run17 Sep 1950
3Dear Guest and Ghost24 Sep 1950
4The Touch of a Stranger1 Oct 1950
5The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street8 Oct 1950
6A Husband for Mama15 Oct 1950
7Portrait in Smoke22 Oct 1950
8The Gambler29 Oct 1950
9The Power Devil5 Nov 1950
10The Man Who Got Away with It12 Nov 1950
11I'm Still Alive19 Nov 1950
12Torch for a Dark Journey26 Nov 1950
13Wacky, the Small Boy3 Dec 1950
14Bonanza10 Dec 1950
15Decoy17 Dec 1950
16The Pupil24 Dec 1950
17Leaf out of a Book31 Dec 1950
18The Symbol: Jefferson Davis7 Jan 1951
19The Lost Diplomat14 Jan 1951
20Confession21 Jan 1951
21The Great Escape28 Jan 1951
22A Matter of Life and Death4 Feb 1951
23Kitty Doone11 Feb 1951
24Let Them Be Sea Captains18 Feb 1951
25The Man Who Bought a Town25 Feb 1951
26No Medals on Pop11 Mar 1951
27The Dark Corridor18 Mar 1951
28Bulletin 12025 Mar 1951
29Parnassus on Wheels1 Apr 1951
30Routine Assignment8 Apr 1951
31Hour of Destiny15 Apr 1951
32The Birth of the Movies22 Apr 1951
33Mr. Arcularis29 Apr 1951
34A Secret Island6 May 1951
35The Visitors13 May 1951
36Justice and Mr. Pleznik20 May 1951
37Rescue27 May 1951
38The Adventures of Hiram Holliday3 Jun 1951
39The Fast Dollar10 Jun 1951
40Operation: Airlift17 Jun 1951
41Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal24 Jun 1951
42The Plot1 Jul 1951
43Case History8 Jul 1951
44I Want to March15 Jul 1951
45Pretend I Am a Stranger22 Jul 1951
46Television Story29 Jul 1951
47The Return5 Aug 1951
48Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands12 Aug 1951
49Come Alive19 Aug 1951
50Night at the Vulcan26 Aug 1951
51This Time Next Year2 Sep 1951
52Women of Intrigue9 Sep 1951
53The Wayward Season16 Sep 1951
54The Spur23 Sep 1951
55By-Line for Murder30 Sep 1951
56A Requiem for a Model7 Oct 1951

Season 4

21 Oct 1951 – 14 Sep 1952 · 25 episodes

1Marcia Akers21 Oct 1951
2The Education of a Fullback4 Nov 1951
3A Little Night Music18 Nov 1951
4Incident at Golden's Creek2 Dec 1951
5Perspective16 Dec 1951
6The Sisters30 Dec 1951
7Without Fear or Favor13 Jan 1952
8Segment27 Jan 1952
9Rich Boy10 Feb 1952
10Tender Age24 Feb 1952
11Dusty Portrait9 Mar 1952
12The Best Laid Schemes23 Mar 1952
13The Room Next Door5 Apr 1952
14The Basket Weaver19 Apr 1952
15We Were Children4 May 1952
16A Cowboy for Chris18 May 1952
17A Man's Game1 Jun 1952
18Flight Into Darkness15 Jun 1952
19The Monument29 Jun 1952
20A Letter to Mr. Priest13 Jul 1952
21Brat Farrar27 Jul 1952
22The Five Fathers of Pepi10 Aug 1952
23Three Sundays24 Aug 1952
24The Last Hour7 Sep 1952
25Holiday Song14 Sep 1952

Season 5

21 Sep 1952 – 13 Sep 1953 · 31 episodes

1The Thin Air21 Sep 1952
2The Black Sheep5 Oct 1952
3Uncertain Heritage19 Oct 1952
4The Winter of the Dog2 Nov 1952
5Parole Chief16 Nov 1952
6The Gift30 Nov 1952
7Tempest of Tick Creek14 Dec 1952
8Magic Morning28 Dec 1952
9Double Jeopardy4 Jan 1953
10Pride's Way11 Jan 1953
11Two for One18 Jan 1953
12Elegy25 Jan 1953
13The Reluctant Citizen8 Feb 1953
14Mr. Pettengill Here15 Feb 1953
15Wings on My Feet22 Feb 1953
16The Trip to Bountiful1 Mar 1953
17The Gesture15 Mar 1953
18The Velvet Mitten22 Mar 1953
19A Young Lady of Property5 Apr 1953
20The Recluse12 Apr 1953
21Printer's Measure26 Apr 1953
22A Little Something in Reserve10 May 1953
23Marty24 May 1953
24The Way of the Eagle7 Jun 1953
25Expectant Relations21 Jun 1953
26The House in Athens5 Jul 1953
27The Big Deal19 Jul 1953
28The Rainmaker16 Aug 1953
29Holiday Song20 Sep 1953
30Othello6 Sep 1953
31The Baby13 Sep 1953

Season 6

27 Sep 1953 – 5 Sep 1954 · 26 episodes

10 for 3727 Sep 1953
2The Bachelor Party11 Oct 1953
3The Girl with the Stopwatch25 Oct 1953
4The Train to Trouble8 Nov 1953
5Up Above the World So High22 Nov 1953
6The Sixth Year29 Nov 1953
7The Midnight Caller13 Dec 1953
8The Glorification of Al Toolum27 Dec 1953
9The Hangman in the Fog10 Jan 1954
10Smoke Screen24 Jan 1954
11A Game of Hide and Seek7 Feb 1954
12Statute of Limitations21 Feb 1954
13The Dancers7 Mar 1954
14The Broken Fist21 Mar 1954
15The Mother4 Apr 1954
16The King and Mrs. Candle18 Apr 1954
17The Joker2 May 1954
18And Crown Thy Good16 May 1954
19The Shadow of Willie Greer30 May 1954
20Adapt or Die13 Jun 1954
21Friday the Thirteenth27 Jun 1954
22Man Drowning11 Jul 1954
23The Catamaran25 Jul 1954
24The Man in the Middle of the Ocean8 Aug 1954
25Star in the Summer Night22 Aug 1954
26Run Like a Thief5 Sep 1954

Season 7

19 Sep 1954 – 2 Oct 1955 · 28 episodes

1Middle of the Night19 Sep 1954
2Time Bomb3 Oct 1954
3Man on the Mountain17 Oct 1954
4Time of Delivery31 Oct 1954
5Crime Without Motive14 Nov 1954
6Beg, Borrow or Steal28 Nov 1954
7Catch My Boy on Sunday12 Dec 1954
8Run, Girl, Run26 Dec 1954
9Walk Into the Night9 Jan 1955
10Anatomy of Fear23 Jan 1955
11A Sense of Justice6 Feb 1955
12The Assassin20 Feb 1955
13Play Me Hearts and Flowers6 Mar 1955
14Shadow of the Champ20 Mar 1955
15Watch Me Die3 Apr 1955
16The Bold and the Brave17 Apr 1955
17Letter of Recommendation1 May 1955
18The Pardon-Me Boy15 May 1955
19The Ghost Writer29 May 1955
20Total Recall12 Jun 1955
21Black Frost26 Jun 1955
22Incident in July10 Jul 1955
23The Death of Billy the Kid24 Jul 1955
24A Room in Paris7 Aug 1955
25Gretel21 Aug 1955
26The Miss America Story4 Sep 1955
27The Outsiders18 Sep 1955
28A Man is Ten Feet Tall2 Oct 1955

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