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  • 1952-09-22T01:00:00Z on NBC
  • 45m
  • 1d 7h (31 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.

31 episodes

Season Premiere

1952-09-22T01:00:00Z

5x01 The Thin Air

Season Premiere

5x01 The Thin Air

  • 1952-09-22T01:00:00Z1h

A young girl's disappearance on the night of her engagement party leads investigators and her fiancee on a long perplexing case that ends in a London pub 24 years later.

1952-10-06T02:00:00Z

5x02 The Black Sheep

5x02 The Black Sheep

  • 1952-10-06T02:00:00Z1h

A reformed playboy has quite a time explaining his escapades to the mother of the girl he decides to marry.

1952-10-20T02:00:00Z

5x03 Uncertain Heritage

5x03 Uncertain Heritage

  • 1952-10-20T02:00:00Z1h

The story of a young man struggling against his father's domination after his father has been dead for several years.

1952-11-03T02:00:00Z

5x04 The Winter of the Dog

5x04 The Winter of the Dog

  • 1952-11-03T02:00:00Z1h

This plot revolves around American troops stationed in China after WWII.

1952-11-17T02:00:00Z

5x05 Parole Chief

5x05 Parole Chief

  • 1952-11-17T02:00:00Z1h

The case histories of several parolees and events that shaped the career of the parole director is told.

1952-12-01T02:00:00Z

5x06 The Gift

5x06 The Gift

  • 1952-12-01T02:00:00Z1h

A child has been given an exceptional gift by her fairy godmother, the gift of finding lost articles

1952-12-15T02:00:00Z

5x07 Tempest of Tick Creek

5x07 Tempest of Tick Creek

  • 1952-12-15T02:00:00Z1h

The story of two brothers and a missing uncle who returns suddenly bringing with him a chest which the brothers assume contains gold. The brothers want their share but so does the uncle's jilted bride and son.

1952-12-29T02:00:00Z

5x08 Magic Morning

5x08 Magic Morning

  • 1952-12-29T02:00:00Z1h

A woman seeks success in her marriage as she had gained in her career.

1953-01-05T02:00:00Z

5x09 Double Jeopardy

5x09 Double Jeopardy

  • 1953-01-05T02:00:00Z1h

A jury finds a woman not guilty of the murder of her husband, but some still believe her to be guilty of the crime.

1953-01-12T02:00:00Z

5x10 Pride's Way

5x10 Pride's Way

  • 1953-01-12T02:00:00Z1h

The story from incidents in the life of Benedict Arnold and how Arnold's family suffers by his traitorous acts against his country.

1953-01-19T02:00:00Z

5x11 Two for One

5x11 Two for One

  • 1953-01-19T02:00:00Z1h

1953-01-26T02:00:00Z

5x12 Elegy

5x12 Elegy

  • 1953-01-26T02:00:00Z1h

A young writer hears that his friend has died so he writes an "Elegy - A Tribute to Larry" that brings him fame and fortune. A year later his friend turns up very much alive and with plans for blackmail.

1953-02-09T02:00:00Z

5x13 The Reluctant Citizen

5x13 The Reluctant Citizen

  • 1953-02-09T02:00:00Z1h

A 67-year-old refugee deals with his fears and conflicted feelings as he's about to become an American citizen.

1953-02-16T02:00:00Z

5x14 Mr. Pettengill Here

5x14 Mr. Pettengill Here

  • 1953-02-16T02:00:00Z1h

A dancer becomes so eager for success that her ambition nearly ruins her career.

1953-02-23T02:00:00Z

5x15 Wings on My Feet

5x15 Wings on My Feet

  • 1953-02-23T02:00:00Z1h

DANCE- DANCE- DANCE- The struggle is real for this young dancer.

1953-03-02T02:00:00Z

5x16 The Trip to Bountiful

5x16 The Trip to Bountiful

  • 1953-03-02T02:00:00Z1h

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home." The trouble is her son, Ludie, is too concerned for her health to allow her to travel alone and her petty daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae, insists they don't have money to squander on bus tickets. This prompts "escape" attempts each month which coincide with the arrival of Mrs. ...

1953-03-16T02:00:00Z

5x17 The Gesture

5x17 The Gesture

  • 1953-03-16T02:00:00Z1h

Misaligned plot twists for this lost episode.

1953-03-23T02:00:00Z

5x18 The Velvet Mitten

5x18 The Velvet Mitten

  • 1953-03-23T02:00:00Z1h

A man becomes entangled with a flighty woman during a convention.

1953-04-06T02:00:00Z

5x19 A Young Lady of Property

5x19 A Young Lady of Property

  • 1953-04-06T02:00:00Z1h

Wilma a 15-year-old girl has dreams of becoming a movie star but after her mother's death she is sent to live with her aunt, her father is too weak and unreliable. She wishes to be back at her home with her father.

1953-04-13T02:00:00Z

5x20 The Recluse

5x20 The Recluse

  • 1953-04-13T02:00:00Z1h

Classic definition of a recluse when an older man withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude. Withdrawn from the world; due to heavy trauma in his life.

1953-04-27T01:00:00Z

5x21 Printer's Measure

5x21 Printer's Measure

  • 1953-04-27T01:00:00Z1h

An old typesetter in a printing works fears the new machinery which will make him redundant - and perhaps render his whole working life pointless.

5x22 A Little Something in Reserve

  • 1953-05-11T01:00:00Z1h

1953-05-25T01:00:00Z

5x23 Marty

5x23 Marty

  • 1953-05-25T01:00:00Z1h

Marty Pilletti is a 36 year-old butcher who lives with his mother. His brothers and sisters are all married and his dear mother - along with several other of her friends - is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better. He has very low self-esteem however and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. At one of those dances he meets ...

1953-06-08T01:00:00Z

5x24 The Way of the Eagle

5x24 The Way of the Eagle

  • 1953-06-08T01:00:00Z1h

The story of John J. Audobon and his wife Lucy.

1953-06-22T01:00:00Z

5x25 Expectant Relations

5x25 Expectant Relations

  • 1953-06-22T01:00:00Z1h

In a family of eccentrics the five year old daughter stands out for her diva like behavior. Her mother, a retired actress, and her happy go lucky father accept her behavior while her older brother cares only about scouting.

1953-07-06T01:00:00Z

5x26 The House in Athens

5x26 The House in Athens

  • 1953-07-06T01:00:00Z1h

The struggle of a middle-aged woman who tries to win an inheritance from a rich uncle.

1953-07-20T01:00:00Z

5x27 The Big Deal

5x27 The Big Deal

  • 1953-07-20T01:00:00Z1h

Three people are thrown together by the death of a man.

1953-08-17T01:00:00Z

5x28 The Rainmaker

5x28 The Rainmaker

  • 1953-08-17T01:00:00Z1h

1953-09-21T01:00:00Z

5x29 Holiday Song

5x29 Holiday Song

  • 1953-09-21T01:00:00Z1h

1953-09-07T01:00:00Z

5x30 Othello

5x30 Othello

  • 1953-09-07T01:00:00Z1h

Ernie Barger has a startling revelation when he turns 50. The discovery that he is no longer needed by anyone sends him over the edge.

1953-09-14T01:00:00Z

5x31 The Baby

5x31 The Baby

  • 1953-09-14T01:00:00Z1h

Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secret yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!

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