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  • 1950-09-11T01:00:00Z on NBC
  • 45m
  • 2d 8h (56 episodes)
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  • 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.

56 episodes

Season Premiere

1950-09-11T01:00:00Z

3x01 High Tor

Season Premiere

3x01 High Tor

  • 1950-09-11T01:00:00Z1h

Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountain, High Tor, for commercial use. When the group becomes trapped by a landslide, Van Dorn goes for help and encounters a Dutchwoman who's been haunting the mountain for two centuries.

1950-09-18T01:00:00Z

3x02 The Long Run

3x02 The Long Run

  • 1950-09-18T01:00:00Z1h

1950-09-25T02:00:00Z

3x03 Dear Guest and Ghost

3x03 Dear Guest and Ghost

  • 1950-09-25T02:00:00Z1h

A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.

1950-10-02T02:00:00Z

3x04 The Touch of a Stranger

3x04 The Touch of a Stranger

  • 1950-10-02T02:00:00Z1h

A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.

Seeds planted in a New York City backyard grow into a magical plant that brings happiness to those living near it. Formerly unpleasant neighbors turn into caring, warm-hearted individuals.

1950-10-16T02:00:00Z

3x06 A Husband for Mama

3x06 A Husband for Mama

  • 1950-10-16T02:00:00Z1h

The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.

1950-10-23T02:00:00Z

3x07 Portrait in Smoke

3x07 Portrait in Smoke

  • 1950-10-23T02:00:00Z1h

A debt collector searches for the woman who saved him from an armed holdup; he wants her to have a $1000 reward. As he talks with those who knew her, he learns that she was a siren with a couple of murders to her credit.

1950-10-30T02:00:00Z

3x08 The Gambler

3x08 The Gambler

  • 1950-10-30T02:00:00Z1h

A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Century, this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors.

1950-11-06T02:00:00Z

3x09 The Power Devil

3x09 The Power Devil

  • 1950-11-06T02:00:00Z1h

A young attorney involves himself in many shady deals as he pursues political ambitions. His wife speaks up and demands he clean up his act. The threat of disbarment also contributes to his final decision.

3x10 The Man Who Got Away With It

  • 1950-11-13T02:00:00Z1h

1950-11-20T02:00:00Z

3x11 I'm Still Alive

3x11 I'm Still Alive

  • 1950-11-20T02:00:00Z1h

A mousy teacher at a small school had written a swashbuckling story filled with international spies and adventure. Unbeknownst to him, the story is sold to a newspaper as a true account of his life. Suddenly, femme fatales and real gangsters are paying him visits.

1950-11-27T02:00:00Z

3x12 Torch for a Dark Journey

3x12 Torch for a Dark Journey

  • 1950-11-27T02:00:00Z1h

A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America.

1950-12-04T02:00:00Z

3x13 Wacky, the Small Boy

3x13 Wacky, the Small Boy

  • 1950-12-04T02:00:00Z1h

1950-12-11T02:00:00Z

3x14 Bonanza

3x14 Bonanza

  • 1950-12-11T02:00:00Z1h

The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.

1950-12-18T02:00:00Z

3x15 Decoy

3x15 Decoy

  • 1950-12-18T02:00:00Z1h

1950-12-25T02:00:00Z

3x16 The Pupil

3x16 The Pupil

  • 1950-12-25T02:00:00Z1h

A tutor hired to instruct an uncontrollable 10-year-old soon recognizes the child's problem: it's his parents. The boy has had never received any affection from his negligent mother and father.

1951-01-01T02:00:00Z

3x17 Leaf out of a Book

3x17 Leaf out of a Book

  • 1951-01-01T02:00:00Z1h

3x18 The Symbol: Jefferson Davis

  • 1951-01-08T02:00:00Z1h

Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.

1951-01-15T02:00:00Z

3x19 The Lost Diplomat

3x19 The Lost Diplomat

  • 1951-01-15T02:00:00Z1h

1951-01-22T02:00:00Z

3x20 Confession

3x20 Confession

  • 1951-01-22T02:00:00Z1h

The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.

1951-01-29T02:00:00Z

3x21 The Great Escape

3x21 The Great Escape

  • 1951-01-29T02:00:00Z1h

The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.

3x22 A Matter of Life and Death

  • 1951-02-05T02:00:00Z1h

1951-02-12T02:00:00Z

3x23 Kitty Doone

3x23 Kitty Doone

  • 1951-02-12T02:00:00Z1h

A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.

1951-02-19T02:00:00Z

3x24 Let Them Be Sea Captains

3x24 Let Them Be Sea Captains

  • 1951-02-19T02:00:00Z1h

Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century feminist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.

1951-02-26T02:00:00Z

3x25 The Man Who Bought a Town

3x25 The Man Who Bought a Town

  • 1951-02-26T02:00:00Z1h

A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.

1951-03-12T02:00:00Z

3x26 No Medals on Pop

3x26 No Medals on Pop

  • 1951-03-12T02:00:00Z1h

A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is heartbroken when he finds out the truth and how his father disgraced the family.

1951-03-19T02:00:00Z

3x27 The Dark Corridor

3x27 The Dark Corridor

  • 1951-03-19T02:00:00Z1h

The story of the Marr family which is made up of a dominant mother who bates everyone, the vacillating son, his wife, and the blind son. Then a new maid arrives, a maid who has served a term in prison as an accessory to a murder.

1951-03-26T02:00:00Z

3x28 Bulletin 120

3x28 Bulletin 120

  • 1951-03-26T02:00:00Z1h

In Mississippi in 1915, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection.

1951-04-02T02:00:00Z

3x29 Parnassus on Wheels

3x29 Parnassus on Wheels

  • 1951-04-02T02:00:00Z1h

In 1900's New England, Helen McGuill buys a horse-drawn, traveling bookstore, "Parnassus," from its owner, Roger McGuill. Roger travels with Helen in the beginning of her book-selling odyssey, and out of that comes adventure and romance.

1951-04-09T02:00:00Z

3x30 Routine Assignment

3x30 Routine Assignment

  • 1951-04-09T02:00:00Z1h

A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then deny his guilt in a complex twist of events.

1951-04-16T02:00:00Z

3x31 Hour of Destiny

3x31 Hour of Destiny

  • 1951-04-16T02:00:00Z1h

1951-04-23T02:00:00Z

3x32 The Birth of the Movies

3x32 The Birth of the Movies

  • 1951-04-23T02:00:00Z1h

Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks with Lillian Gish before and following the drama.

1951-04-30T01:00:00Z

3x33 Mr. Arcularis

3x33 Mr. Arcularis

  • 1951-04-30T01:00:00Z1h

After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.

1951-05-07T01:00:00Z

3x34 A Secret Island

3x34 A Secret Island

  • 1951-05-07T01:00:00Z1h

A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.

1951-05-14T01:00:00Z

3x35 The Visitors

3x35 The Visitors

  • 1951-05-14T01:00:00Z1h

A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.

1951-05-21T01:00:00Z

3x36 Justice and Mr. Pleznik

3x36 Justice and Mr. Pleznik

  • 1951-05-21T01:00:00Z1h

The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.

1951-05-28T01:00:00Z

3x37 Rescue

3x37 Rescue

  • 1951-05-28T01:00:00Z1h

3x38 The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

  • 1951-06-04T01:00:00Z1h

A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting adventures.

1951-06-11T01:00:00Z

3x39 The Fast Dollar

3x39 The Fast Dollar

  • 1951-06-11T01:00:00Z1h

A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.

1951-06-18T01:00:00Z

3x40 Operation: Airlift

3x40 Operation: Airlift

  • 1951-06-18T01:00:00Z1h

The story of the Berlin airlift, when the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The success of the airlift humiliated the Soviets claiming that such a thing would never work.

3x41 Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal

  • 1951-06-25T01:00:00Z1h

Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.

1951-07-02T01:00:00Z

3x42 The Plot

3x42 The Plot

  • 1951-07-02T01:00:00Z1h

Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.

1951-07-09T01:00:00Z

3x43 Case History

3x43 Case History

  • 1951-07-09T01:00:00Z1h

A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.

1951-07-16T01:00:00Z

3x44 I Want to March

3x44 I Want to March

  • 1951-07-16T01:00:00Z1h

The year is 1915 and the suffragettes cause a stir in the home of a zoology professor as his wife takes up the banner of "women's rights".

1951-07-23T01:00:00Z

3x45 Pretend I Am A Stranger

3x45 Pretend I Am A Stranger

  • 1951-07-23T01:00:00Z1h

The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.

1951-07-30T01:00:00Z

3x46 Television Story

3x46 Television Story

  • 1951-07-30T01:00:00Z1h

A covetous young actress' career means more to her than marriage to a middle-aged actor who turns to TV after a successful career in other facets of show business only to find that his wife influences his work there.

1951-08-06T01:00:00Z

3x47 The Return

3x47 The Return

  • 1951-08-06T01:00:00Z1h

An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fortune. When his so-called family greet him with reserve, however he gets busy to iron out the unreal problem.

3x48 Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands

  • 1951-08-13T01:00:00Z1h

Lawyer Tutt refuses to cross the street for a $5 million account, but goes clear to Pottsville to draw up a will for Jim Lawton, staying there until he successfully contests a claim to a woman's farm.

1951-08-20T01:00:00Z

3x49 Come Alive

3x49 Come Alive

  • 1951-08-20T01:00:00Z1h

An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.

1951-08-27T01:00:00Z

3x50 Night at the Vulcan

3x50 Night at the Vulcan

  • 1951-08-27T01:00:00Z1h

When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemies.

1951-09-03T01:00:00Z

3x51 This Time Next Year

3x51 This Time Next Year

  • 1951-09-03T01:00:00Z1h

The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.

1951-09-10T01:00:00Z

3x52 Women of Intrigue

3x52 Women of Intrigue

  • 1951-09-10T01:00:00Z1h

In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the foreign office disappears.

1951-09-17T01:00:00Z

3x53 The Wayward Season

3x53 The Wayward Season

  • 1951-09-17T01:00:00Z1h

A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.

1951-09-24T01:00:00Z

3x54 The Spur

3x54 The Spur

  • 1951-09-24T01:00:00Z1h

After the assassination of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leaped to the stage below, his spur became entangled in the American flag draping the balcony causing Booth to break his leg.

1951-10-01T02:00:00Z

3x55 By-Line for Murder

3x55 By-Line for Murder

  • 1951-10-01T02:00:00Z1h

A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.

Season Finale

1951-10-08T02:00:00Z

3x56 A Requiem for a Model

Season Finale

3x56 A Requiem for a Model

  • 1951-10-08T02:00:00Z1h

After buying a very used car, a writer uncovers some very unusual items under one of the seat cushions. The story of the vehicle's former owners is told via flashbacks.

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