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  • 1951-10-22T02:00:00Z on NBC
  • 45m
  • 1d (24 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.

24 episodes

Season Premiere

1951-10-22T02:00:00Z

4x01 Marcia Akers

Season Premiere

4x01 Marcia Akers

  • 1951-10-22T02:00:00Z1h

A young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladder and stepping on people along the way. She's set to marry a wealthy man--just what's always wanted--when she finds herself in love with a "regular guy".

4x02 The Education of a Fullback

  • 1951-11-05T02:00:00Z1h

A comedy on the foibles of campus activities about a professor who can't understand why a football hero shouldn't be given an unsatisfactory grade especially when he slept thru the classes.

1951-11-19T02:00:00Z

4x03 A Little Night Music

4x03 A Little Night Music

  • 1951-11-19T02:00:00Z1h

Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.

4x04 Incident at Golden's Creek

  • 1951-12-03T02:00:00Z1h

An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.

1951-12-17T02:00:00Z

4x05 Perspective

4x05 Perspective

  • 1951-12-17T02:00:00Z1h

The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.

1951-12-31T02:00:00Z

4x06 The Sisters

4x06 The Sisters

  • 1951-12-31T02:00:00Z1h

The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.

1952-01-14T02:00:00Z

4x07 Without Fear or Favor

4x07 Without Fear or Favor

  • 1952-01-14T02:00:00Z1h

Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, where the New York Times crusades against the crooks in City Hall headed by Boss Tweed and his thieving cronies, which included judges, police officials and even the Mayor.

1952-01-28T02:00:00Z

4x08 Segment

4x08 Segment

  • 1952-01-28T02:00:00Z1h

During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. The wife nagging pushes the man over the edge and he is determined to kill her after he makes her listen to his list of reasons she's been cruel to him. Meanwhile police try to talk him out of it, and watch him with a television camera across the street.

1952-02-11T02:00:00Z

4x09 Rich Boy

4x09 Rich Boy

  • 1952-02-11T02:00:00Z1h

This well-received adaptation of the 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story starred Gene Lyons as rich playboy Anson Hunter, who realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allowing the one woman he truly loved (Kelly) to slip out of his grasp.

1952-02-25T02:00:00Z

4x10 Tender Age

4x10 Tender Age

  • 1952-02-25T02:00:00Z1h

The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.

1952-03-10T02:00:00Z

4x11 Dusty Portrait

4x11 Dusty Portrait

  • 1952-03-10T02:00:00Z1h

A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

1952-03-24T02:00:00Z

4x12 The Best Laid Schemes

4x12 The Best Laid Schemes

  • 1952-03-24T02:00:00Z1h

Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.

1952-04-06T02:00:00Z

4x13 The Room Next Door

4x13 The Room Next Door

  • 1952-04-06T02:00:00Z1h

A social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined daughter. She however prefers an unstable piano player over an established member of the tea and crumpet set, things build up with a tragic ending.

1952-04-20T02:00:00Z

4x14 The Basket Weaver

4x14 The Basket Weaver

  • 1952-04-20T02:00:00Z1h

The story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased by a personal crisis.

1952-05-05T01:00:00Z

4x15 We Were Children

4x15 We Were Children

  • 1952-05-05T01:00:00Z1h

A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.

1952-05-19T01:00:00Z

4x16 A Cowboy for Chris

4x16 A Cowboy for Chris

  • 1952-05-19T01:00:00Z1h

A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.

1952-06-02T01:00:00Z

4x17 A Man's Game

4x17 A Man's Game

  • 1952-06-02T01:00:00Z1h

A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.

1952-06-16T01:00:00Z

4x18 Flight into Darkness

4x18 Flight into Darkness

  • 1952-06-16T01:00:00Z1h

A psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is going insane and later that his brother, a doctor is going to murder him.

1952-06-30T01:00:00Z

4x19 The Monument

4x19 The Monument

  • 1952-06-30T01:00:00Z1h

A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.

1952-07-14T01:00:00Z

4x20 A Letter to Mr. Priest

4x20 A Letter to Mr. Priest

  • 1952-07-14T01:00:00Z1h

The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.

1952-07-28T01:00:00Z

4x21 Brat Farrar

4x21 Brat Farrar

  • 1952-07-28T01:00:00Z1h

No Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13.

1952-08-11T01:00:00Z

4x22 The Five Fathers of Pepi

4x22 The Five Fathers of Pepi

  • 1952-08-11T01:00:00Z1h

A young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American couple who will adopt Pepi and give him a proper upbringing. When the time comes to give the tyke up.

1952-08-25T01:00:00Z

4x23 Three Sundays

4x23 Three Sundays

  • 1952-08-25T01:00:00Z1h

A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for creating the affair and absolves the dead man.

1952-09-08T01:00:00Z

4x24 The Last Hour

4x24 The Last Hour

  • 1952-09-08T01:00:00Z1h

A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.

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