The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 7
Season 7
Network
Episodes28
DatesSep 19, 1954 - Oct 2, 1955
Episodes
Season 7Episode 160 min
Middle of the Night
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
Sep 19, 1954
Season 7Episode 260 min
Time Bomb
A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.
Oct 3, 1954
Season 7Episode 360 min
Man on the Mountain
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.
Oct 17, 1954
Season 7Episode 460 min
Time of Delivery
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,
Oct 31, 1954
Season 7Episode 560 min
Crime Without Motive
The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.
Nov 14, 1954
Season 7Episode 660 min
Beg, Borrow or Steal
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.
Nov 28, 1954
Season 7Episode 760 min
Catch My Boy on Sunday
A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.
Dec 12, 1954
Season 7Episode 860 min
Run, Girl, Run
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.
Dec 26, 1954
Season 7Episode 960 min
Walk Into the Night
A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.
Jan 9, 1955
Season 7Episode 1060 min
Anatomy of Fear
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,
Jan 23, 1955
Season 7Episode 1160 min
A Sense of Justice
A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
Feb 6, 1955
Season 7Episode 1260 min
The Assassin
The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.
Feb 20, 1955
Season 7Episode 1360 min
Play Me Hearts and Flowers
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.
Mar 6, 1955
Season 7Episode 1460 min
Shadow of the Champ
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.
Mar 20, 1955
Season 7Episode 1560 min
Watch Me Die
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.
Apr 3, 1955
Season 7Episode 1660 min
The Bold and the Brave
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.
Apr 17, 1955
Season 7Episode 1760 min
Letter of Recommendation
A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.
May 1, 1955
Season 7Episode 1860 min
The Pardon-Me Boy
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.
May 15, 1955
Season 7Episode 1960 min
The Ghost Writer
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.
May 29, 1955
Season 7Episode 2060 min
Total Recall
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.
Jun 12, 1955
Season 7Episode 2160 min
Black Frost
A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.
Jun 26, 1955
Season 7Episode 2260 min
Incident in July
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...
Jul 10, 1955
Season 7Episode 2360 min
The Death of Billy the Kid
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
Jul 24, 1955
Season 7Episode 2460 min
A Room in Paris
An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.
Aug 7, 1955
Season 7Episode 2560 min
Gretel
Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.
Aug 21, 1955
Season 7Episode 2660 min
The Miss America Story
Sep 4, 1955
Season 7Episode 2760 min
The Outsiders
Sep 18, 1955
Season 7Episode 2860 min
A Man is Ten Feet Tall
An AWOL soldier befriends a black waterfront worker, and together they battle hatred and oppression.
Oct 2, 1955
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