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  • 1954-09-20T01:00:00Z on NBC
  • 45m
  • 1d 4h (28 episodes)
  • United States
  • 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.

28 episodes

Season Premiere

1954-09-20T01:00:00Z

7x01 Middle of the Night

Season Premiere

7x01 Middle of the Night

  • 1954-09-20T01:00:00Z1h

A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.

1954-10-04T02:00:00Z

7x02 Time Bomb

7x02 Time Bomb

  • 1954-10-04T02:00:00Z1h

A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.

1954-10-18T02:00:00Z

7x03 Man on the Mountain

7x03 Man on the Mountain

  • 1954-10-18T02:00:00Z1h

Horace Mann Borden is an adult former child prodigy who has been exploited by his father to advance his own theories about education. Horace feels that people view him as a freak and expect things out of him. Horace shuts out the world. Greta Blake is the woman who has fallen in love with Horace and shows him that the world is not out to get him.

1954-11-01T02:00:00Z

7x04 Time of Delivery

7x04 Time of Delivery

  • 1954-11-01T02:00:00Z1h

A 24-hour delay in mail delivery violently changes three lives. A postman collapses on his daily route and the delivery of his sack of mail is delayed for a day. In three dramatic situations which develop,

1954-11-15T02:00:00Z

7x05 Crime Without Motive

7x05 Crime Without Motive

  • 1954-11-15T02:00:00Z1h

The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.

1954-11-29T02:00:00Z

7x06 Beg, Borrow or Steal

7x06 Beg, Borrow or Steal

  • 1954-11-29T02:00:00Z1h

The story of a man who embezzles $18,000 from an estate in order to live up to the standards he likes and of the trap he finds himself in when another lawyer takes over the estate.

1954-12-13T02:00:00Z

7x07 Catch My Boy on Sunday

7x07 Catch My Boy on Sunday

  • 1954-12-13T02:00:00Z1h

A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.

1954-12-27T02:00:00Z

7x08 Run, Girl, Run

7x08 Run, Girl, Run

  • 1954-12-27T02:00:00Z1h

An aspiring young actress loses her big chance on Broadway and returns home. Her mother shows why she may have failed and inspires her to try again.

1955-01-10T02:00:00Z

7x09 Walk Into the Night

7x09 Walk Into the Night

  • 1955-01-10T02:00:00Z1h

A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.

1955-01-24T02:00:00Z

7x10 Anatomy of Fear

7x10 Anatomy of Fear

  • 1955-01-24T02:00:00Z1h

A man is implicated in a murder while vacationing with his wife at a summer resort. The man recognizes a murdered woman as the one in love with his business partner. He hides her purse in order to delay identification but his wife threatens to expose him,

1955-02-07T02:00:00Z

7x11 A Sense of Justice

7x11 A Sense of Justice

  • 1955-02-07T02:00:00Z1h

A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.

1955-02-21T02:00:00Z

7x12 The Assassin

7x12 The Assassin

  • 1955-02-21T02:00:00Z1h

The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.

7x13 Play Me Hearts and Flowers

  • 1955-03-07T02:00:00Z1h

A singer who has teamed up with a comedian realizes that he has become the comic's ""straight man"" both on and off the stage, and that somehow he must reassert his individuality.

1955-03-21T02:00:00Z

7x14 Shadow of the Champ

7x14 Shadow of the Champ

  • 1955-03-21T02:00:00Z1h

A lonely woman feels she has one last shot at romance with a man who's content with being a flunky to a boxing champion.

1955-04-04T02:00:00Z

7x15 Watch Me Die

7x15 Watch Me Die

  • 1955-04-04T02:00:00Z1h

He can't simply divorce his wife to marry a young starlet since he wants her money, too. So he begins his search for the ideal way to kill his unsuspecting spouse.

1955-04-18T02:00:00Z

7x16 The Bold and the Brave

7x16 The Bold and the Brave

  • 1955-04-18T02:00:00Z1h

The commander of a military prep school brings near disaster to himself and his son, a pupil at the school. He pushes the boy beyond endurance in his effort to make him a better student than he was.

1955-05-02T01:00:00Z

7x17 Letter of Recommendation

7x17 Letter of Recommendation

  • 1955-05-02T01:00:00Z1h

A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.

1955-05-16T01:00:00Z

7x18 The Pardon-Me Boy

7x18 The Pardon-Me Boy

  • 1955-05-16T01:00:00Z1h

A young man, held a failure by his father, is a juror in the murder trial of a gangland boss. When the trial is over, the son reveals that he held out for the acquittal of the defendant.

1955-05-30T01:00:00Z

7x19 The Ghost Writer

7x19 The Ghost Writer

  • 1955-05-30T01:00:00Z1h

The manager of a former actor now running for Congress wants to exploit the fact that the opposition candidate's daughter is working on their campaign. However, the actor and his ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred of her father to their advantage.

1955-06-13T01:00:00Z

7x20 Total Recall

7x20 Total Recall

  • 1955-06-13T01:00:00Z1h

A man who's stopped before committing suicide says he can remember nothing of his past. A police check reveals that he has a wife.

1955-06-27T01:00:00Z

7x21 Black Frost

7x21 Black Frost

  • 1955-06-27T01:00:00Z1h

A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.

1955-07-11T01:00:00Z

7x22 Incident in July

7x22 Incident in July

  • 1955-07-11T01:00:00Z1h

Daddy Tom, the camp director, is upset when he learns through the grapevine that one of his counselors, Mrs. Johnson, is infatuated with his 19-year-old office worker, Andy, and that she wants to give him $1,100 for his education. The first part of the rumour is not true but the second part is. She is unable to have children and thinks this is a constructive way to use the money they saved for a child. She and her husband squabble over this. Andy's parents are dead. Daddy Tom fires both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. He later re-hires them on the condition that she not mention...

7x23 The Death of Billy the Kid

  • 1955-07-25T01:00:00Z1h

How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.

1955-08-08T01:00:00Z

7x24 A Room in Paris

7x24 A Room in Paris

  • 1955-08-08T01:00:00Z1h

An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.

Season Finale

1955-08-22T01:00:00Z

7x25 Gretel

Season Finale

7x25 Gretel

  • 1955-08-22T01:00:00Z1h

Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.

1955-09-05T01:00:00Z

7x26 The Miss America Story

7x26 The Miss America Story

  • 1955-09-05T01:00:00Z1h

1955-09-19T01:00:00Z

7x27 The Outsiders

7x27 The Outsiders

  • 1955-09-19T01:00:00Z1h

1955-10-03T01:00:00Z

7x28 A Man is Ten Feet Tall

7x28 A Man is Ten Feet Tall

  • 1955-10-03T01:00:00Z1h

An AWOL soldier befriends a black waterfront worker, and together they battle hatred and oppression.

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