The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 1

The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes44
DatesOct 3, 1948 - Aug 28, 1949
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Episodes

Dinner at Eight
Season 1Episode 160 min

Dinner at Eight

Social-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hospitality for a visiting British aristocratic couple by arranging a small dinner party. The guests are chosen both to impress--a faded stage star, a well-known if over-the-hill alcoholic actor --and to meet certain social obligations. This means the necessary inclusion of a philandering doctor and his wife, and a gauche, nouveau-riche couple who are loathed but powerful.

Oct 3, 1948
Rebecca
Season 1Episode 260 min

Rebecca

Brooding and moody Maxim de Winter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year after the tragic death of hi first wife, Rebecca. The staff of Manderley, his country home, including Mrs Danvers the housekeeper who rules over the house, are still devoted to their former mistress, the socialite Rebecca and they find it difficult to accept the new, shy Mrs deWinter who is inexperienced running a large home.

Oct 10, 1948
Counsellor-at-Law
Season 1Episode 360 min

Counsellor-at-Law

An upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to help the working-class Jews from his old neighborhood.

Oct 17, 1948
Angel in the Wings
Season 1Episode 460 min

Angel in the Wings

A understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy takes over and brings down the house.

Oct 24, 1948
Street Scene
Season 1Episode 560 min

Street Scene

Abraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of poverty. Kaplan's revolutionary, socialist views grate against some of his neighbors.

Oct 31, 1948
This Thing Called Love
Season 1Episode 660 min

This Thing Called Love

A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or not. The husband tries to lure her with all kinds of excuses and tricks to the marital bed.

Nov 7, 1948
Camille
Season 1Episode 760 min

Camille

Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship jeopardizes his career and prevents the marriage of his sister into a "respectable" family, if Duval marries Camille. Camille becomes ill and dies.

Nov 14, 1948
An Inspector Calls
Season 1Episode 860 min

An Inspector Calls

When Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter the very foundations of their lives, but challenge us all to examine our consciences.

Nov 21, 1948
I Like It Here
Season 1Episode 960 min

I Like It Here

Willie is a refugee, he works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable character even when he's interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in love with Brad a young lawyer and of course Willie sees fit to give Brad all kinds of advice.

Nov 28, 1948
Suspect
Season 1Episode 1060 min

Suspect

A Scotswoman some 20 years ago was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her son becomes engaged, his fiancee's godfather spots the mother and recognizes her. In his efforts to trap her, and hers not to be trapped trouble arises.

Dec 5, 1948
Parlor Story
Season 1Episode 1160 min

Parlor Story

An ambitious professor wants to become President of his University. He soon is so caught up in the political opportunism of the State Governor, the wiles of an unscrupulous newspaper publisher and the parlor tricks of his own meddling wife.

Dec 12, 1948
A Christmas Carol
Season 1Episode 1260 min

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens introduces the story of Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge and Bob Cratchit are working in Scrooge's office. "Silent Night" sung by Bing Crosby and the Mitchell Boys Choir.

Dec 19, 1948
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
Season 1Episode 1360 min

The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

The basement flat of Mrs Dowey, a Scottish charwoman who lives and works in London, during World War I, and Mrs Dowey and her guests - three other charwomen whom she has invited for tea - are discussing the tactics of trench warfare with the confidence of people who have never been near the Front.

Dec 26, 1948
Ramshackle Inn
Season 1Episode 1460 min

Ramshackle Inn

An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting people. She purchases a strange rundown place near the ocean and gets what she bargains for.

Jan 2, 1949
Cyrano de Bergerac
Season 1Episode 1560 min

Cyrano de Bergerac

The poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose, Cyrano uses the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit for his feelings, the ugly but eloquent Cyrano pours his heart out to the lovely Roxanne. And she, wooed by the beauty of the words, falls in love with Christian, not realizing that it is Cyrano whose voice has aroused her passion.

Jan 9, 1949
Papa is All
Season 1Episode 1660 min

Papa is All

Papa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel.

Jan 16, 1949
Pride and Prejudice
Season 1Episode 1760 min

Pride and Prejudice

The trials of a woman trying to find husbands for her five daughters in 18th-century England.

Jan 23, 1949
Dark Hammock
Season 1Episode 1860 min

Dark Hammock

In a remote part of Florida, Coral Platt, a sinister woman has married a man considerably older than she. For reasons sufficient to her, she wants him out of the way and plans an ingenious though slow murder by poison. She has succeeded in making it seem that Marvin is dying through natural causes. However, she is forced unexpectedly to play hostess to two women who have come to Florida. The women stay longer than they planned because they have begun to suspect what Coral is up to. In a series of exciting scenes they discover just what is going on and prevent Marvin's death.

Jan 30, 1949
The Late Christopher Bean
Season 1Episode 1960 min

The Late Christopher Bean

Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish, and ill-tempered. It is Abby, the family servant, who ultimately holds them all in her power; she has one of the greatest paintings, which she cannot be persuaded into selling or giving away. She is the only one who really understood the artist -- besides, she had been married to him!

Feb 6, 1949
The Story of Mary Surratt
Season 1Episode 2060 min

The Story of Mary Surratt

After the death of her husband Mary opened a boardinghouse to pay the debts owed by her husband. .. There she began a respectable boardinghouse business and met the man who would ultimately lead to her inglorious place in history - John Wilkes Booth.

Feb 13, 1949
Twelfth Night
Season 1Episode 2160 min

Twelfth Night

Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. But Orsino thinks she's a man, and her predicament worsens when she realizes that Olivia has fallen in love with her.

Feb 20, 1949
St. Helena
Season 1Episode 2260 min

St. Helena

The story unfolds around the last years of Napoleon Bonaparte's life on the rocky island of St. Helena. The exiled emperor is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In his confinement he's suffering from a bad liver and a sulking mistress all this begins to weigh heavy on him as he continues to be haunted by spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would have had 12,000 more men. The imperial manners gradually give way to those of a lonely and embittered country squire. Feeling death upon him at last, he hears that a comet has appeared in the sky

Feb 27, 1949
The Druid Circle
Season 1Episode 2360 min

The Druid Circle

An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by the boy to the girl. The professor uses this to humiliate the young people, unconsciously venting upon them his own perverse cruelty for the disappointment suffered in his own life.

Mar 6, 1949
Quality Street
Season 1Episode 2460 min

Quality Street

Phoebe Throssel is nearly 30 and still unwed, this is regarded as an over-the-hill spinster. She and her sister decide to open up a school for genteel children. Things become complicated when Phoebe is offered the opportunity for a reunion with Captain Brown, whom she hasn't seen in years. Phoebe desperately wants to rekindle his affections.

Mar 13, 1949
Dinner at Antoine's
Season 1Episode 2560 min

Dinner at Antoine's

The murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.

Mar 20, 1949
Becky Sharpe
Season 1Episode 2660 min

Becky Sharpe

A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. However, fate never seems to give her an even break.

Mar 27, 1949
And Never Been Kissed
Season 1Episode 2760 min

And Never Been Kissed

A sixteen year old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.

Apr 3, 1949
What Makes Sammy Run?
Season 1Episode 2860 min

What Makes Sammy Run?

The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic-his congenital incapacity for friendship.

Apr 10, 1949
Mr. Mergenthwicker's Lobblies
Season 1Episode 2960 min

Mr. Mergenthwicker's Lobblies

Only Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.

Apr 17, 1949
Burlesque
Season 1Episode 3060 min

Burlesque

This program tells the story of Skid, a song and dance man on Broadway.

Apr 24, 1949
Macbeth
Season 1Episode 3160 min

Macbeth

Scottish nobleman who prompted by his own prophecy and ambitions, kills a king to wear his crown.

May 1, 1949
Romeo and Juliet
Season 1Episode 3260 min

Romeo and Juliet

Star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the start by the hatred of their families.

May 15, 1949
This Time, Next Year
Season 1Episode 3360 min

This Time, Next Year

The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at Grant's Tomb.

Jun 5, 1949
It Pays to Advertise
Season 1Episode 3460 min

It Pays to Advertise

With the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously popular product and cant keep up with the demand.

Jun 12, 1949
Summer Formal
Season 1Episode 3560 min

Summer Formal

A woman becomes enamored with a married man at a summer formal.

Jun 19, 1949
Jenny Kissed Me
Season 1Episode 3660 min

Jenny Kissed Me

A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The plot is concerned with the priest's clumsy endeavors to make Jenny attractive to the boys.

Jun 26, 1949
Dark of the Moon
Season 1Episode 3760 min

Dark of the Moon

A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjur woman turn him into a human. The only condition of the spell is that Barbara must remain faithful to John for one full year after they are married. If Barbara is not faithful, then John will turn back into a witch boy.

Jul 3, 1949
For Love or Money
Season 1Episode 3860 min

For Love or Money

A young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of an over forty famous actor.

Jul 10, 1949
The Five Lives of Richard Gordon
Season 1Episode 3960 min

The Five Lives of Richard Gordon

Katie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. Her restless and bored spouse just keeps finding himself in hot water.

Jul 17, 1949
You Touched Me!
Season 1Episode 4060 min

You Touched Me!

Two spinster sisters, quietly nursing their dying father in their family home, find their lives disrupted by the reappearance of a former charity boy, now a young soldier, whom their father had raised as a son.

Jul 24, 1949
The Fourth Wall
Season 1Episode 4160 min

The Fourth Wall

The life of a middle-aged couple has become to complacent and empty.

Jul 31, 1949
Enter Madame
Season 1Episode 4260 min

Enter Madame

A grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better half. While the pampered pet of a suite of servants and receiving the homage of operatic mad foreigners, she believes he is sitting at home in Boston immersed in his work. Instead he has fallen for a designing widow and has about decided to divorce his songbird wife.

Aug 7, 1949
A Murder Has Been Arranged
Season 1Episode 4360 min

A Murder Has Been Arranged

A ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.

Aug 14, 1949
Pretty Little Parlor
Season 1Episode 4460 min

Pretty Little Parlor

A little soire is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.

Aug 21, 1949
Three Cornered Moon
Season 1Episode 4560 min

Three Cornered Moon

Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law student Kenneth, and Eddie, a would-be actor) after they lose their fortune in the stock-market crash. While Elizabeth works in a shoe factory and tries to help her brothers find jobs, she falls in love with a melancholy writer, but marries a wealthy doctor.

Aug 28, 1949

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