The Philco Television Playhouse

Oct 03, 1948 (en) Drama [60] Min
  • First Air Date
    Oct 03, 1948
  • Production
    Showcase Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    56%
  • Original title
    The Philco Television Playhouse
  • Release
    Oct 03, 1948
  • en
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Overview

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Robert Alan Aurthur

    Producer

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Casts

  1. Bert Lytell

    Self - Host

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 1 / Crews : 2

Season 1 ( 1948-10-03)

Dinner at Eight

Episode: 1

Rebecca

Episode: 2

Counsellor-at-Law

Episode: 3

Angel in the Wings

Episode: 4

Street Scene

Episode: 5

This Thing Called Love

Episode: 6

Camille

Episode: 7

An Inspector Calls

Episode: 8

I Like It Here

Episode: 9

Suspect

Episode: 10

Parlor Story

Episode: 11

A Christmas Carol

Episode: 12

The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

Episode: 13

Ramshackle Inn

Episode: 14

Cyrano de Bergerac

Episode: 15

Papa Is All

Episode: 16

Pride and Prejudice

Episode: 17

Dark Hammock

Episode: 18

The Late Christopher Bean

Episode: 19

The Story of Mary Surratt

Episode: 20

Twelfth Night

Episode: 21

St. Helena

Episode: 22

The Druid Circle

Episode: 23

Quality Street

Episode: 24

Dinner at Antoine's

Episode: 25

Becky Sharp

Episode: 26

And Never Been Kissed

Episode: 27

What Makes Sammy Run?

Episode: 28

Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies

Episode: 29

Burlesque

Episode: 30

Macbeth

Episode: 31

Romeo and Juliet

Episode: 32

This Time, Next Year

Episode: 33

It Pays to Advertise

Episode: 34

Summer Formal

Episode: 35

Jenny Kissed Me

Episode: 36

Dark of the Moon

Episode: 37

For Love or Money

Episode: 38

The Five Lives of Richard Gordon

Episode: 39

You Touched Me!

Episode: 40

The Fourth Wall

Episode: 41

Enter Madame

Episode: 42

A Murder Has Been Arranged

Episode: 43

Pretty Little Parlor

Episode: 44

Three Cornered Moon

Episode: 45

Season 2 ( 1949-09-04)

What Every Woman Knows

Episode: 1

Pride's Castle

Episode: 2

The Little Sister

Episode: 3

The Lonely

Episode: 4

The Queen Bee

Episode: 5

Something's Got to Give

Episode: 6

The Last Tycoon

Episode: 7

Because of the Lockwoods

Episode: 8

Damion's Daughter

Episode: 9

The House of Seven Gables

Episode: 10

The Promise

Episode: 11

Medical Meeting

Episode: 12

The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram

Episode: 13

Mist on the Waters

Episode: 14

The Beautiful Bequest

Episode: 15

The Strange Christmas Dinner

Episode: 16

In Beauty Like the Night

Episode: 17

Little Boy Lost

Episode: 18

Bethel Merriday

Episode: 19

Murder at the Stork Club

Episode: 20

The Marriages

Episode: 21

Uncle Dynamite

Episode: 22

The Sudden Guest

Episode: 23

Ann Rutledge

Episode: 24

A Letter to Mr. Priest

Episode: 25

Hometown

Episode: 26

The Life of Vincent Van Gogh

Episode: 27

The Uncertain Molly Collicutt

Episode: 28

The Trial of Steven Kent

Episode: 29

The Second Oldest Profession

Episode: 30

Nocturne

Episode: 31

Dirty Eddie

Episode: 32

The End is Known

Episode: 33

The Man in the Black Hat

Episode: 34

The American

Episode: 35

The Feast

Episode: 36

Brat Farrar

Episode: 37

The Charmed Circle

Episode: 38

Semmelweis

Episode: 39

Sense and Sensibility

Episode: 40

The Bump on Brannigan's Head

Episode: 41

Anything Can Happen

Episode: 42

Hear My Heart Speak

Episode: 43

The Reluctant Landlord

Episode: 44

The Tentacles

Episode: 45

Season 3 ( 1950-09-10)

High Tor

Episode: 1

The Long Run

Episode: 2

Dear Guest and Ghost

Episode: 3

The Touch of a Stranger

Episode: 4

The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street

Episode: 5

A Husband for Mama

Episode: 6

Portrait in Smoke

Episode: 7

The Gambler

Episode: 8

The Power Devil

Episode: 9

The Man Who Got Away With It

Episode: 10

I'm Still Alive

Episode: 11

Torch for a Dark Journey

Episode: 12

Wacky, the Small Boy

Episode: 13

Bonanza

Episode: 14

Decoy

Episode: 15

The Pupil

Episode: 16

Leaf out of a Book

Episode: 17

The Symbol: Jefferson Davis

Episode: 18

The Lost Diplomat

Episode: 19

Confession

Episode: 20

The Great Escape

Episode: 21

A Matter of Life and Death

Episode: 22

Kitty Doone

Episode: 23

Let Them Be Sea Captains

Episode: 24

The Man Who Bought a Town

Episode: 25

No Medals on Pop

Episode: 26

The Dark Corridor

Episode: 27

Bulletin 120

Episode: 28

Parnassus on Wheels

Episode: 29

Routine Assignment

Episode: 30

Hour of Destiny

Episode: 31

The Birth of the Movies

Episode: 32

Mr. Arcularis

Episode: 33

A Secret Island

Episode: 34

The Visitors

Episode: 35

Justice and Mr. Pleznik

Episode: 36

Rescue

Episode: 37

The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

Episode: 38

The Fast Dollar

Episode: 39

Operation: Airlift

Episode: 40

Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal

Episode: 41

The Plot

Episode: 42

Case History

Episode: 43

I Want to March

Episode: 44

Pretend I Am A Stranger

Episode: 45

Television Story

Episode: 46

The Return

Episode: 47

Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands

Episode: 48

Come Alive

Episode: 49

Night at the Vulcan

Episode: 50

This Time Next Year

Episode: 51

Women of Intrigue

Episode: 52

The Wayward Season

Episode: 53

The Spur

Episode: 54

By-Line for Murder

Episode: 55

Requiem for a Model A

Episode: 56

Season 4 ( 1951-10-21)

Marcia Akers

Episode: 1

The Education of a Fullback

Episode: 2

A Little Night Music

Episode: 3

Incident at Golden's Creek

Episode: 4

Perspective

Episode: 5

The Sisters

Episode: 6

Without Fear or Favor

Episode: 7

Segment

Episode: 8

Rich Boy

Episode: 9

Tender Age

Episode: 10

Dusty Portrait

Episode: 11

The Best Laid Schemes

Episode: 12

The Room Next Door

Episode: 13

The Basket Weaver

Episode: 14

We Were Children

Episode: 15

A Cowboy for Chris

Episode: 16

A Man's Game

Episode: 17

Flight into Darkness

Episode: 18

The Monument

Episode: 19

A Letter to Mr. Priest

Episode: 20

Bratt Farrar

Episode: 21

The Five Fathers of Pepi

Episode: 22

Three Sundays

Episode: 23

The Last Hour

Episode: 24

Holiday Song

Episode: 25

Season 5 ( 1952-09-21)

The Thin Air

Episode: 1

The Black Sheep

Episode: 2

Uncertain Heritage

Episode: 3

The Winter of the Dog

Episode: 4

Parole Chief

Episode: 5

The Gift

Episode: 6

Tempest of Tick Creek

Episode: 7

Magic Morning

Episode: 8

Double Jeopardy

Episode: 9

Pride's Way

Episode: 10

Two for One

Episode: 11

Elegy

Episode: 12

The Reluctant Citizen

Episode: 13

Mr. Pettengill Here

Episode: 14

Wings on My Feet

Episode: 15

The Trip to Bountiful

Episode: 16

The Gesture

Episode: 17

The Velvet Mitten

Episode: 18

A Young Lady of Property

Episode: 19

The Recluse

Episode: 20

Printer's Measure

Episode: 21

A Little Something in Reserve

Episode: 22

Marty

Episode: 23

The Way of an Eagle

Episode: 24

Baby and Me

Episode: 25

Expectant Relations

Episode: 26

The House in Athens

Episode: 27

The Big Deal

Episode: 28

The Cipher

Episode: 29

Ernie Barger is 50

Episode: 30

The Rainmaker

Episode: 31

Othello

Episode: 32

Holiday Song

Episode: 33

Season 6 ( 1953-09-27)

0 for 37

Episode: 1

The Bachelor Party

Episode: 2

The Girl With the Stopwatch

Episode: 3

The Train to Trouble

Episode: 4

Up Above the World So High

Episode: 5

The Sixth Year

Episode: 6

The Midnight Caller

Episode: 7

The Glorification of Al Toolum

Episode: 8

The Hangman in the Fog

Episode: 9

Smoke Screen

Episode: 10

A Game of Hide and Seek

Episode: 11

Statute of Limitations

Episode: 12

The Dancers

Episode: 13

The Broken Fist

Episode: 14

The Mother

Episode: 15

The King and Mrs. Candle

Episode: 16

The Joker

Episode: 17

And Crown Thy Good

Episode: 18

The Shadow of Willie Greer

Episode: 19

Adapt or Die

Episode: 20

Friday the Thirteenth

Episode: 21

Man Drowning

Episode: 22

The Catamaran

Episode: 23

The Man in the Middle of the Ocean

Episode: 24

Star in the Summer Night

Episode: 25

Run Like a Thief

Episode: 26

Season 7 ( 1954-09-19)

Middle of the Night

Episode: 1

Time Bomb

Episode: 2

Man on the Mountaintop

Episode: 3

Time of Delivery

Episode: 4

Crime Without Motive

Episode: 5

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Episode: 6

Catch My Boy on Sunday

Episode: 7

Run, Girl, Run

Episode: 8

Walk Into the Night

Episode: 9

Anatomy of Fear

Episode: 10

A Sense of Justice

Episode: 11

The Assassin

Episode: 12

Play Me Hearts and Flowers

Episode: 13

Shadow of the Champ

Episode: 14

Watch Me Die

Episode: 15

The Bold and the Brave

Episode: 16

Letter of Recommendation

Episode: 17

The Pardon-Me Boy

Episode: 18

The Ghost Writer

Episode: 19

Total Recall

Episode: 20

Black Frost

Episode: 21

Incident in July

Episode: 22

The Death of Billy the Kid

Episode: 23

A Room in Paris

Episode: 24

Gretel

Episode: 25

Season 8 ( 1955-09-04)

The Miss America Story

Episode: 1

The Outsiders

Episode: 2

A Man is Ten Feet Tall

Episode: 3

A Business Proposition

Episode: 4

The Mechanical Heart

Episode: 5

One Mummy Too Many

Episode: 6

The Trees

Episode: 7

Christmas 'Til Closing

Episode: 8

Rise Up and Walk

Episode: 9

This Land is Mine

Episode: 10

The Starlet

Episode: 11

Kyria Katina

Episode: 12
Oct 03, 1948 (en)
Drama
[60] Min
  • First Air Date Oct 03, 1948
  • Production
    Showcase Productions
  • Rotten tomato 56%
Original Title The Philco Television Playhouse
en

Overview

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Robert Alan Aurthur

    Producer