The Philco Television Playhouse
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV ShowEnded

The Philco Television Playhouse

6.3 / 10
1948
8 seasons
267 episodes
Drama

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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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Dinner at Eight

    03-10-194860m

    Social-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hospitality for a visiting British aristocratic couple by arranging...

  • Ep 2

    2.Rebecca

    10-10-194860m

    Brooding and moody Maxim deWinter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year after the tragic death of hi first wife, Rebecca. The staff of...

  • Ep 3

    3.Counsellor-at-Law

    17-10-194860m

    An upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to help the working-class Jews from his old neighborhood.

  • Ep 4

    4.Angel in the Wings

    24-10-194860m

    An understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy takes over and brings down the house.

  • Ep 5

    5.Street Scene

    31-10-194860m

    Abraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of poverty. Kaplan's revolutionary, socialist views grate against...

  • Ep 6

    6.This Thing Called Love

    07-11-194860m

    A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or not. The husband tries to lure her with all kinds of excuses a...

  • Ep 7

    7.Camille

    14-11-194860m

    Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship jeopardizes his career and prevents the marriage of his sister...

  • Ep 8

    8.An Inspector Calls

    21-11-194860m

    When Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter the very foundations of their lives, but challenge us all to ex...

  • Ep 9

    9.I Like It Here

    28-11-194860m

    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 interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in l...

  • Ep 10

    10.Suspect

    05-12-194860m

    20 years ago, a Scotswoman was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her s...

  • Ep 11

    11.Parlor Story

    12-12-194860m

    An ambitious professor wants to become President of his university. He is soon caught up in the political opportunism of the State Governor, the wiles of an unscrupulous newspaper...

  • Ep 12

    12.A Christmas Carol

    19-12-194860m

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

  • Ep 13

    13.The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

    26-12-194860m

    The basement flat of Mrs Dowey, a Scottish charwoman who lives and works in London, during World War I, and Mrs Dowey and her guests - three other charwomen whom she has invited fo...

  • Ep 14

    14.Ramshackle Inn

    02-01-194960m

    An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting people. She purchases a strange rundown place near the ocean and...

  • Ep 15

    15.Cyrano de Bergerac

    09-01-194960m

    The poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose, Cyrano uses the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit for his feelings, the ugly but eloquent Cyrano pours his heart...

  • Ep 16

    16.Papa Is All

    16-01-194960m

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

  • Ep 17

    17.Pride and Prejudice

    23-01-194960m

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

  • Ep 18

    18.Dark Hammock

    30-01-194960m

    In a remote part of Florida Coral Platt, a sinister woman has married a man considerably older than she. For reasons sufficient to her, she wants him out of the way and plans an in...

  • Ep 19

    19.The Late Christopher Bean

    06-02-194960m

    Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish, and ill-tempered. It is Abby, the family servant, who ultimate...

  • Ep 20

    20.The Story of Mary Surratt

    13-02-194960m

    After the death of her husband Mary opened a boardinghouse to pay the debts owed by her husband. .. There she began a respectable boardinghouse business and met the man who would u...

  • Ep 21

    21.Twelfth Night

    20-02-194960m

    Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds her...

  • Ep 22

    22.St. Helena

    27-02-194960m

    On St. Helena, the exiled emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In his confinement he's suffering from a bad liver and a sulking mi...

  • Ep 23

    23.The Druid Circle

    06-03-194960m

    An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by...

  • Ep 24

    24.Quality Street

    13-03-194960m

    Because she's nearly 30 and still unwed, Phoebe Throssel is regarded as an over-the-hill spinster. Thus, when offered the opportunity for a reunion with Captain Brown, whom she has...

  • Ep 25

    25.Dinner at Antoine's

    20-03-194960m

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

  • Ep 26

    26.Becky Sharp

    27-03-194960m

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

  • Ep 27

    27.And Never Been Kissed

    03-04-194960m

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

  • What Makes Sammy Run?

    28.What Makes Sammy Run?

    10-04-194960m

    The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in...

  • Ep 29

    29.Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies

    17-04-194960m

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

  • Ep 30

    30.Burlesque

    24-04-194960m

    Vaudevillians Skid and Bonnie are partners onstage and off -- until success comes to Skip. He develops an oversized ego and a taste for booze, which alienates Bonnie. But his frien...

  • Ep 31

    31.Macbeth

    01-05-194960m

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

  • Ep 32

    32.Romeo and Juliet

    15-05-194960m

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

  • Ep 33

    33.This Time, Next Year

    05-06-194960m

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

  • Ep 34

    34.It Pays to Advertise

    12-06-194960m

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

  • Ep 35

    35.Summer Formal

    19-06-194960m

    A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exaspera...

  • Ep 36

    36.Jenny Kissed Me

    26-06-194960m

    A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. The 18-year-old Jenny is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles an...

  • Ep 37

    37.Dark of the Moon

    03-07-194960m

    A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjure woman turn him into a human. The only condition of the spell is that Barbara...

  • Ep 38

    38.For Love or Money

    10-07-194960m

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

  • Ep 39

    39.The Five Lives of Richard Gordon

    17-07-194960m

    Katie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife, has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. Her restless and bored spouse just keeps finding himself in hot...

  • Ep 40

    40.You Touched Me!

    24-07-194960m

    The adopted son of a drunken former sea captain returns to the household as an adult. He asks the old man for his eldest daughter's hand in marriage. Everyone believes it's an atte...

  • Ep 41

    41.The Fourth Wall

    31-07-194960m

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

  • Ep 42

    42.Enter Madame

    07-08-194960m

    A grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better half. While the pampered pet of a suite of servants and receivi...

  • Ep 43

    43.A Murder Has Been Arranged

    14-08-194960m

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

  • Ep 44

    44.Pretty Little Parlor

    21-08-194960m

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

  • Ep 45

    45.Three Cornered Moon

    28-08-194960m

    Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law student Kenneth, and Eddie, a would-be actor) after they lose th...

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