The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.

The Philco Television Playhouse

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Season 6

Season 6

Season 7

Season 7

Season 8

Season 8

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Dinner at eight

  • 1x2

    Rebecca

  • 1x3

    Counsellor-at-law

  • 1x4

    Angel in the wings

  • 1x5

    Street scene

  • 1x6

    This thing called love

  • 1x7

    Camille

  • 1x8

    An inspector calls

  • 1x9

    I like it here

  • 1x10

    Suspect

  • 1x11

    Parlor story

  • 1x12

    A christmas carol

  • 1x13

    The old lady shows her medals

  • 1x14

    Ramshackle inn

  • 1x15

    Cyrano de bergerac

  • 1x16

    Papa is all

  • 1x17

    Pride and prejudice

  • 1x18

    Dark hammock

  • 1x19

    The late christopher bean

  • 1x20

    The story of mary surratt

  • 1x21

    Twelfth night

  • 1x22

    St. helena

  • 1x23

    The druid circle

  • 1x24

    Quality street

  • 1x25

    Dinner at antoine's

  • 1x26

    Becky sharp

  • 1x27

    And never been kissed

  • 1x28

    What makes sammy run?

  • 1x29

    Mr. mergenthwirker's lobblies

  • 1x30

    Burlesque

  • 1x31

    Macbeth

  • 1x32

    Romeo and juliet

  • 1x33

    This time, next year

  • 1x34

    It pays to advertise

  • 1x35

    Summer formal

  • 1x36

    Jenny kissed me

  • 1x37

    Dark of the moon

  • 1x38

    For love or money

  • 1x39

    The five lives of richard gordon

  • 1x40

    You touched me!

  • 1x41

    The fourth wall

  • 1x42

    Enter madame

  • 1x43

    A murder has been arranged

  • 1x44

    Pretty little parlor

  • 1x45

    Three cornered moon

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    What every woman knows

  • 2x2

    Pride's castle

  • 2x3

    The little sister

  • 2x4

    The lonely

  • 2x5

    The queen bee

  • 2x6

    Something's got to give

  • 2x7

    The last tycoon

  • 2x8

    Because of the lockwoods

  • 2x9

    Damion's daughter

  • 2x10

    The house of seven gables

  • 2x11

    The promise

  • 2x12

    Medical meeting

  • 2x13

    The wonderful mrs. ingram

  • 2x14

    Mist on the waters

  • 2x15

    The beautiful bequest

  • 2x16

    The strange christmas dinner

  • 2x17

    In beauty like the night

  • 2x18

    Little boy lost

  • 2x19

    Bethel merriday

  • 2x20

    Murder at the stork club

  • 2x21

    The marriages

  • 2x22

    Uncle dynamite

  • 2x23

    The sudden guest

  • 2x24

    Ann rutledge

  • 2x25

    A letter to mr. priest

  • 2x26

    Hometown

  • 2x27

    The life of vincent van gogh

  • 2x28

    The uncertain molly collicutt

  • 2x29

    The trial of steven kent

  • 2x30

    The second oldest profession

  • 2x31

    Nocturne

  • 2x32

    Dirty eddie

  • 2x33

    The end is known

  • 2x34

    The man in the black hat

  • 2x35

    The american

  • 2x36

    The feast

  • 2x37

    Brat farrar

  • 2x38

    The charmed circle

  • 2x39

    Semmelweis

  • 2x40

    Sense and sensibility

  • 2x41

    The bump on brannigan's head

  • 2x42

    Anything can happen

  • 2x43

    Hear my heart speak

  • 2x44

    The reluctant landlord

  • 2x45

    The tentacles

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    High tor

  • 3x2

    The long run

  • 3x3

    Dear guest and ghost

  • 3x4

    The touch of a stranger

  • 3x5

    The vine that grew on fiftieth street

  • 3x6

    A husband for mama

  • 3x7

    Portrait in smoke

  • 3x8

    The gambler

  • 3x9

    The power devil

  • 3x10

    The man who got away with it

  • 3x11

    I'm still alive

  • 3x12

    Torch for a dark journey

  • 3x13

    Wacky, the small boy

  • 3x14

    Bonanza

  • 3x15

    Decoy

  • 3x16

    The pupil

  • 3x17

    Leaf out of a book

  • 3x18

    The symbol: jefferson davis

  • 3x19

    The lost diplomat

  • 3x20

    Confession

  • 3x21

    The great escape

  • 3x22

    A matter of life and death

  • 3x23

    Kitty doone

  • 3x24

    Let them be sea captains

  • 3x25

    The man who bought a town

  • 3x26

    No medals on pop

  • 3x27

    The dark corridor

  • 3x28

    Bulletin 120

  • 3x29

    Parnassus on wheels

  • 3x30

    Routine assignment

  • 3x31

    Hour of destiny

  • 3x32

    The birth of the movies

  • 3x33

    Mr. arcularis

  • 3x34

    A secret island

  • 3x35

    The visitors

  • 3x36

    Justice and mr. pleznik

  • 3x37

    Rescue

  • 3x38

    The adventures of hiram holliday

  • 3x39

    The fast dollar

  • 3x40

    Operation: airlift

  • 3x41

    Dr. hudson's secret journal

  • 3x42

    The plot

  • 3x43

    Case history

  • 3x44

    I want to march

  • 3x45

    Pretend i am a stranger

  • 3x46

    Television story

  • 3x47

    The return

  • 3x48

    Ephraim tutt's clean hands

  • 3x49

    Come alive

  • 3x50

    Night at the vulcan

  • 3x51

    This time next year

  • 3x52

    Women of intrigue

  • 3x53

    The wayward season

  • 3x54

    The spur

  • 3x55

    By-line for murder

  • 3x56

    Requiem for a model a

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    Marcia akers

  • 4x2

    The education of a fullback

  • 4x3

    A little night music

  • 4x4

    Incident at golden's creek

  • 4x5

    Perspective

  • 4x6

    The sisters

  • 4x7

    Without fear or favor

  • 4x8

    Segment

  • 4x9

    Rich boy

  • 4x10

    Tender age

  • 4x11

    Dusty portrait

  • 4x12

    The best laid schemes

  • 4x13

    The room next door

  • 4x14

    The basket weaver

  • 4x15

    We were children

  • 4x16

    A cowboy for chris

  • 4x17

    A man's game

  • 4x18

    Flight into darkness

  • 4x19

    The monument

  • 4x20

    A letter to mr. priest

  • 4x21

    Bratt farrar

  • 4x22

    The five fathers of pepi

  • 4x23

    Three sundays

  • 4x24

    The last hour

  • 4x25

    Holiday song

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    The thin air

  • 5x2

    The black sheep

  • 5x3

    Uncertain heritage

  • 5x4

    The winter of the dog

  • 5x5

    Parole chief

  • 5x6

    The gift

  • 5x7

    Tempest of tick creek

  • 5x8

    Magic morning

  • 5x9

    Double jeopardy

  • 5x10

    Pride's way

  • 5x11

    Two for one

  • 5x12

    Elegy

  • 5x13

    The reluctant citizen

  • 5x14

    Mr. pettengill here

  • 5x15

    Wings on my feet

  • 5x16

    The trip to bountiful

  • 5x17

    The gesture

  • 5x18

    The velvet mitten

  • 5x19

    A young lady of property

  • 5x20

    The recluse

  • 5x21

    Printer's measure

  • 5x22

    A little something in reserve

  • 5x23

    Marty

  • 5x24

    The way of an eagle

  • 5x25

    Baby and me

  • 5x26

    Expectant relations

  • 5x27

    The house in athens

  • 5x28

    The big deal

  • 5x29

    The cipher

  • 5x30

    Ernie barger is 50

  • 5x31

    The rainmaker

  • 5x32

    Othello

  • 5x33

    Holiday song

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    0 for 37

  • 6x2

    The bachelor party

  • 6x3

    The girl with the stopwatch

  • 6x4

    The train to trouble

  • 6x5

    Up above the world so high

  • 6x6

    The sixth year

  • 6x7

    The midnight caller

  • 6x8

    The glorification of al toolum

  • 6x9

    The hangman in the fog

  • 6x10

    Smoke screen

  • 6x11

    A game of hide and seek

  • 6x12

    Statute of limitations

  • 6x13

    The dancers

  • 6x14

    The broken fist

  • 6x15

    The mother

  • 6x16

    The king and mrs. candle

  • 6x17

    The joker

  • 6x18

    And crown thy good

  • 6x19

    The shadow of willie greer

  • 6x20

    Adapt or die

  • 6x21

    Friday the thirteenth

  • 6x22

    Man drowning

  • 6x23

    The catamaran

  • 6x24

    The man in the middle of the ocean

  • 6x25

    Star in the summer night

  • 6x26

    Run like a thief

Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    Middle of the night

  • 7x2

    Time bomb

  • 7x3

    Man on the mountaintop

  • 7x4

    Time of delivery

  • 7x5

    Crime without motive

  • 7x6

    Beg, borrow or steal

  • 7x7

    Catch my boy on sunday

  • 7x8

    Run, girl, run

  • 7x9

    Walk into the night

  • 7x10

    Anatomy of fear

  • 7x11

    A sense of justice

  • 7x12

    The assassin

  • 7x13

    Play me hearts and flowers

  • 7x14

    Shadow of the champ

  • 7x15

    Watch me die

  • 7x16

    The bold and the brave

  • 7x17

    Letter of recommendation

  • 7x18

    The pardon-me boy

  • 7x19

    The ghost writer

  • 7x20

    Total recall

  • 7x21

    Black frost

  • 7x22

    Incident in july

  • 7x23

    The death of billy the kid

  • 7x24

    A room in paris

  • 7x25

    Gretel

Episodes season 8

  • 8x1

    The miss america story

  • 8x2

    The outsiders

  • 8x3

    A man is ten feet tall

  • 8x4

    A business proposition

  • 8x5

    The mechanical heart

  • 8x6

    One mummy too many

  • 8x7

    The trees

  • 8x8

    Christmas 'til closing

  • 8x9

    Rise up and walk

  • 8x10

    This land is mine

  • 8x11

    The starlet

  • 8x12

    Kyria katina

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