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  • 1953-09-28T02:00:00Z on NBC
  • 45m
  • 1d 2h (26 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.

26 episodes

Season Premiere

1953-09-28T02:00:00Z

6x01 0 for 37

Season Premiere

6x01 0 for 37

  • 1953-09-28T02:00:00Z1h

A young ballplayer appreciates the value of home and family after a shaky start in professional baseball.

1953-10-12T02:00:00Z

6x02 The Bachelor Party

6x02 The Bachelor Party

  • 1953-10-12T02:00:00Z1h

Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.

6x03 The Girl With the Stopwatch

  • 1953-10-26T02:00:00Z1h

A woman of 30 is preoccupied with her work as a television script writer.

1953-11-09T02:00:00Z

6x04 The Train to Trouble

6x04 The Train to Trouble

  • 1953-11-09T02:00:00Z1h

A man must decide whether or not to expose the past of a candidate for the sheriff's office.

6x05 Up Above the World So High

  • 1953-11-23T02:00:00Z1h

A middle-aged woman seemingly has the gift of second sight.

1953-11-30T02:00:00Z

6x06 The Sixth Year

6x06 The Sixth Year

  • 1953-11-30T02:00:00Z1h

A wife becomes exasperated with her husband who seems to have lost the will to work. She takes their child and leaves. He finds a menial job and asks her to come home. She seeks advice on the situation from her mother and father

1953-12-14T02:00:00Z

6x07 The Midnight Caller

6x07 The Midnight Caller

  • 1953-12-14T02:00:00Z1h

Three unmarried women residing in a boarding house in a small town have watched life pass them by waiting for the right man to come into their lives. When a new stranger shows up and moves into the boarding house.

1954-01-11T02:00:00Z

6x09 The Hangman in the Fog

6x09 The Hangman in the Fog

  • 1954-01-11T02:00:00Z1h

An American newspaperman in London believes that he is being pursued by agents from across the Iron Curtain.

1954-01-25T02:00:00Z

6x10 Smoke Screen

6x10 Smoke Screen

  • 1954-01-25T02:00:00Z1h

A country boy gets a job in the city as a bookkeeper. He meets a beautiful model and gets mixed up in a murder.

1954-02-08T02:00:00Z

6x11 A Game of Hide and Seek

6x11 A Game of Hide and Seek

  • 1954-02-08T02:00:00Z1h

1954-02-22T02:00:00Z

6x12 Statute of Limitations

6x12 Statute of Limitations

  • 1954-02-22T02:00:00Z1h

The perpetrators of a million dollar robbery find themselves with five hours to go before the statute of limitations takes effect.

1954-03-08T02:00:00Z

6x13 The Dancers

6x13 The Dancers

  • 1954-03-08T02:00:00Z1h

A meek young boy, still shy and unsure of himself, visits his sister in a small town and is persuaded by her to ask the most popular girl in town for a date. He asks her to a school dance, but, as she is going steady, she refuses his invitation. Believing himself to be the butt of ridicule by the young population of the town because of his awkwardness, he withdraws into himself. He later meets a young girl who is as shy as he, is and, because of the mutual understanding between them, they give each other the confidence each lacks.

1954-03-22T02:00:00Z

6x14 The Broken Fist

6x14 The Broken Fist

  • 1954-03-22T02:00:00Z1h

The story of a middle-aged Frenchman in Algiers who decides to do something for his homeland during the Nazi occupation. He joins the underground and goes to the port of Marseilles to report on shipping.

1954-04-05T02:00:00Z

6x15 The Mother

6x15 The Mother

  • 1954-04-05T02:00:00Z1h

A widow tries not to be dependent on her children.

1954-04-19T02:00:00Z

6x16 The King and Mrs. Candle

6x16 The King and Mrs. Candle

  • 1954-04-19T02:00:00Z1h

The deposed King of Brandovia, whose inhabitants spend their time exporting bologna and repelling invasions by neighboring Carps and Gloats, finds his way to America, where he earns a living as a dancing instructor.

1954-05-03T01:00:00Z

6x17 The Joker

6x17 The Joker

  • 1954-05-03T01:00:00Z1h

Mike Galloway, a "nice guy", was an incurable practical joker--always passing out exploding cigars and perpetrating other silliness. His pranks made for a bad first impression on Dorie, but eventually they fell in love and married.

1954-05-17T01:00:00Z

6x18 And Crown Thy Good

6x18 And Crown Thy Good

  • 1954-05-17T01:00:00Z1h

In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.

6x19 The Shadow of Willie Greer

  • 1954-05-31T01:00:00Z1h

In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.

1954-06-14T01:00:00Z

6x20 Adapt or Die

6x20 Adapt or Die

  • 1954-06-14T01:00:00Z1h

An editor of the major magazine "Throb" finds that he must either adapt to the high pressure life of a New York magazine or be without a job.

1954-06-28T01:00:00Z

6x21 Friday the Thirteenth

6x21 Friday the Thirteenth

  • 1954-06-28T01:00:00Z1h

3 women have just attended their college reunion, and are returning together when their vehicle crashes through a fence and over a cliff. As their husbands wait anxiously above the accident scene, they learn that only two of the women have survived, and they relive memories of their lives together as they await word as to who lives and who died.

1954-07-12T01:00:00Z

6x22 Man Drowning

6x22 Man Drowning

  • 1954-07-12T01:00:00Z1h

A big man on the campus turns out to be somewhat of a dud.

1954-07-26T01:00:00Z

6x23 The Catamaran

6x23 The Catamaran

  • 1954-07-26T01:00:00Z1h

A husband's hobby threatens his marriage until he finds a suitable replacement, the wife that is.

A member of an architect's firm is torn by internal conflict. His partners need his compliance if they are to cash in on a deal they have made with a building contractor.

1954-08-23T01:00:00Z

6x25 Star in the Summer Night

6x25 Star in the Summer Night

  • 1954-08-23T01:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1954-09-06T01:00:00Z

6x26 Run Like a Thief

Season Finale

6x26 Run Like a Thief

  • 1954-09-06T01:00:00Z1h

Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his protege Rob, things go wrong when his wife Della finds an expensive bracelet lost by Pollard and begs to keep. The police are called and Alexander's dreams of his future begin to crumble.

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