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  • 1949-09-05T01:00:00Z on NBC
  • 45m
  • 1d 20h (44 episodes)
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  • English
  • Drama
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 century Paris. From 1951 till the show finished in 1955 Philco Television Playhouse alternated weekly with Goodyear Television Playhouse.

44 episodes

Season Premiere

1949-09-05T01:00:00Z

2x01 What Every Woman Knows

Season Premiere

2x01 What Every Woman Knows

  • 1949-09-05T01:00:00Z1h

A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a successful political career. He rises to a parliamentary seat, never quite realizing that he hasn't done it alone.

1949-09-12T01:00:00Z

2x02 Pride's Castle

2x02 Pride's Castle

  • 1949-09-12T01:00:00Z1h

Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for human decency or moral restraint left him ruthless and corrupt. He falls for Sharon O'Neill who is a woman filled with so much goodness in her soul, as much as he has evil in his.

1949-09-19T01:00:00Z

2x03 The Little Sister

2x03 The Little Sister

  • 1949-09-19T01:00:00Z1h

A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.

1949-09-26T02:00:00Z

2x04 The Lonely

2x04 The Lonely

  • 1949-09-26T02:00:00Z1h

An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a female friend. Their understanding is that the trip will be purely platonic; instead, they fall madly in love. At his first opportunity, the lieutenant flies back to America to break the news to his fiancé and family.

1949-10-03T02:00:00Z

2x05 The Queen Bee

2x05 The Queen Bee

  • 1949-10-03T02:00:00Z1h

A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.

1949-10-10T02:00:00Z

2x06 Something's Got to Give

2x06 Something's Got to Give

  • 1949-10-10T02:00:00Z1h

A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.

1949-10-17T02:00:00Z

2x07 The Last Tycoon

2x07 The Last Tycoon

  • 1949-10-17T02:00:00Z1h

A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.

1949-10-24T02:00:00Z

2x08 Because of the Lockwoods

2x08 Because of the Lockwoods

  • 1949-10-24T02:00:00Z1h

The Lockwoods are patronising toward their former neighbours, the Hunters, who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters are saved from despair from the help of a young junk dealer named Oliver Read, who teaches the Lockwoods a lesson in humanity.

1949-10-31T02:00:00Z

2x09 Damion's Daughter

2x09 Damion's Daughter

  • 1949-10-31T02:00:00Z1h

A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.

1949-11-07T02:00:00Z

2x10 The House of Seven Gables

2x10 The House of Seven Gables

  • 1949-11-07T02:00:00Z1h

With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.

1949-11-14T02:00:00Z

2x11 The Promise

2x11 The Promise

  • 1949-11-14T02:00:00Z1h

A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.

1949-11-21T02:00:00Z

2x12 Medical Meeting

2x12 Medical Meeting

  • 1949-11-21T02:00:00Z1h

1949-11-28T02:00:00Z

2x13 The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram

2x13 The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram

  • 1949-11-28T02:00:00Z1h

A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and vanity are causes of the trouble.

1949-12-05T02:00:00Z

2x14 Mist on the Waters

2x14 Mist on the Waters

  • 1949-12-05T02:00:00Z1h

Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.

1949-12-12T02:00:00Z

2x15 The Beautiful Bequest

2x15 The Beautiful Bequest

  • 1949-12-12T02:00:00Z1h

The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher.

2x16 The Strange Christmas Dinner

  • 1949-12-19T02:00:00Z1h

A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.

1949-12-26T02:00:00Z

2x17 In Beauty Like the Night

2x17 In Beauty Like the Night

  • 1949-12-26T02:00:00Z1h

A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.

1950-01-02T02:00:00Z

2x18 Little Boy Lost

2x18 Little Boy Lost

  • 1950-01-02T02:00:00Z1h

An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.

1950-01-09T02:00:00Z

2x19 Bethel Merriday

2x19 Bethel Merriday

  • 1950-01-09T02:00:00Z1h

A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.

1950-01-16T02:00:00Z

2x20 Murder at the Stork Club

2x20 Murder at the Stork Club

  • 1950-01-16T02:00:00Z1h

A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.

1950-01-23T02:00:00Z

2x21 The Marriages

2x21 The Marriages

  • 1950-01-23T02:00:00Z1h

In England in the 1890s, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley, but his 27-year-old spinster daughter Adela contrives to ruin the relationship. She also turns two of the other three children against their intended stepmother and spoils the widow's plans to help Adela's brother Godfrey out of an unpleasant situation.

1950-01-30T02:00:00Z

2x22 Uncle Dynamite

2x22 Uncle Dynamite

  • 1950-01-30T02:00:00Z1h

Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers.

1950-02-06T02:00:00Z

2x23 The Sudden Guest

2x23 The Sudden Guest

  • 1950-02-06T02:00:00Z1h

A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resents the intrusion, especially since her neighbours happen to be Jews.

1950-02-13T02:00:00Z

2x24 Ann Rutledge

2x24 Ann Rutledge

  • 1950-02-13T02:00:00Z1h

The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed

away at age 22 of typhoid fever.

1950-02-20T02:00:00Z

2x25 A Letter to Mr. Priest

2x25 A Letter to Mr. Priest

  • 1950-02-20T02:00:00Z1h

An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.

1950-02-27T02:00:00Z

2x26 Hometown

2x26 Hometown

  • 1950-02-27T02:00:00Z1h

Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a publicity build-up for his book. He meets a glamorous woman, who introduces him to the nightlife of Manhattan. He soon tires of cafés, cocktail parties, and public appearances, and returns to his simple way of living in the country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart.

2x27 The Life of Vincent Van Gogh

  • 1950-03-06T02:00:00Z1h

The tragic life story of the tormented artist.

2x28 The Uncertain Molly Collicutt

  • 1950-03-13T02:00:00Z1h

A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.

1950-03-20T02:00:00Z

2x29 The Trial of Steven Kent

2x29 The Trial of Steven Kent

  • 1950-03-20T02:00:00Z1h

A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.

2x30 The Second Oldest Profession

  • 1950-03-27T02:00:00Z1h

An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

1950-04-03T02:00:00Z

2x31 Nocturne

2x31 Nocturne

  • 1950-04-03T02:00:00Z1h

In London in 1910, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support and care for their widowed, invalid father. Jenny, the younger, pretty sister, seeks to escape from the depressing reality of her poverty-stricken home, while Emmy, the older, plain sister, finds comfort and eventual happiness by serving their ailing father. At the end, both are engaged: Jenny will marry Keith Reddington and Emmy will wed Alf Rylett.

1950-04-10T02:00:00Z

2x32 Dirty Eddie

2x32 Dirty Eddie

  • 1950-04-10T02:00:00Z1h

Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.

1950-04-17T02:00:00Z

2x33 The End is Known

2x33 The End is Known

  • 1950-04-17T02:00:00Z1h

A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He then learns the suicide jumped from his apartment. A mystery surrounds a suicide.

1950-04-24T02:00:00Z

2x34 The Man in the Black Hat

2x34 The Man in the Black Hat

  • 1950-04-24T02:00:00Z1h

A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.

1950-05-01T01:00:00Z

2x35 The American

2x35 The American

  • 1950-05-01T01:00:00Z1h

An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.

1950-05-08T01:00:00Z

2x36 The Feast

2x36 The Feast

  • 1950-05-08T01:00:00Z1h

A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.

1950-05-22T01:00:00Z

2x37 The Charmed Circle

2x37 The Charmed Circle

  • 1950-05-22T01:00:00Z1h

Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.

1950-05-29T01:00:00Z

2x38 Semmelweis

2x38 Semmelweis

  • 1950-05-29T01:00:00Z1h

Story of the great physician who saved millions of lives due to his discovery of the cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever) and eliminated its danger by prescribing the absolute sterlization of all instruments and the cleanliness of all persons coming in contact with the mother.

1950-06-05T01:00:00Z

2x39 Sense and Sensibility

2x39 Sense and Sensibility

  • 1950-06-05T01:00:00Z1h

Story of the great physician who saved millions of lives due to his discovery of the cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever) and eliminated its danger by prescribing the absolute sterlization of all instruments and the cleanliness of all persons coming in contact with the mother.

2x40 The Bump on Brannigan's Head

  • 1950-06-12T01:00:00Z1h

Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.

1950-06-19T01:00:00Z

2x41 Anything Can Happen

2x41 Anything Can Happen

  • 1950-06-19T01:00:00Z1h

A bonk on the head turns a grouchy hothead into the sweetest man in town. Brannigan runs for mayor of his small town--and wins--with his "love everybody" campaign. He even wins over the crooked newspaper publisher.

1950-06-26T01:00:00Z

2x42 Hear My Heart Speak

2x42 Hear My Heart Speak

  • 1950-06-26T01:00:00Z1h

A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.

1950-07-03T01:00:00Z

2x43 The Reluctant Landlord

2x43 The Reluctant Landlord

  • 1950-07-03T01:00:00Z1h

A shell-shocked WWI ex-soldier is unable to speak though doctors say the problem isn't physical. Tired of completing with his overbearing, doting mother, the woman he loves begins to withdraw from his life. It's then that he regains his ability to talk.

1950-07-10T01:00:00Z

2x44 The Tentacles

2x44 The Tentacles

  • 1950-07-10T01:00:00Z1h

Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia, experiences many difficulties as he tries to adapt to his adopted country. He works hard to make a place for himself in America, all the while fighting with the English language and the strange customs of an alien people.

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