The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
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.
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Episode 1 - Middle of the Night
Release Date: 1954-09-19A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
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Episode 2 - Time Bomb
Release Date: 1954-10-03A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.
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Episode 3 - Man on the Mountaintop
Release Date: 1954-10-17Horace 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.
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Episode 4 - Time of Delivery
Release Date: 1954-10-31A 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,
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Episode 5 - Crime Without Motive
Release Date: 1954-11-14The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.
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Episode 6 - Beg, Borrow or Steal
Release Date: 1954-11-28The 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.
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Episode 7 - Catch My Boy on Sunday
Release Date: 1954-12-12A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.
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Episode 8 - Run, Girl, Run
Release Date: 1954-12-26An 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.
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Episode 9 - Walk Into the Night
Release Date: 1955-01-09A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.
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Episode 10 - Anatomy of Fear
Release Date: 1955-01-23A 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,
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Episode 11 - A Sense of Justice
Release Date: 1955-02-06A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
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Episode 12 - The Assassin
Release Date: 1955-02-20The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.
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Episode 13 - Play Me Hearts and Flowers
Release Date: 1955-03-06A 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.
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Episode 14 - Shadow of the Champ
Release Date: 1955-03-20A lonely woman feels she has one last shot at romance with a man who's content with being a flunky to a boxing champion.
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Episode 15 - Watch Me Die
Release Date: 1955-04-03He 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.
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Episode 16 - The Bold and the Brave
Release Date: 1955-04-17The 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.
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Episode 17 - Letter of Recommendation
Release Date: 1955-05-01A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.
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Episode 18 - The Pardon-Me Boy
Release Date: 1955-05-15A 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.
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Episode 19 - The Ghost Writer
Release Date: 1955-05-29The 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.
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Episode 20 - Total Recall
Release Date: 1955-06-12A man who's stopped before committing suicide says he can remember nothing of his past. A police check reveals that he has a wife.
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Episode 21 - Black Frost
Release Date: 1955-06-26A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.
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Episode 22 - Incident in July
Release Date: 1955-07-10Daddy 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...
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Episode 23 - The Death of Billy the Kid
Release Date: 1955-07-24How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
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Episode 24 - A Room in Paris
Release Date: 1955-08-07An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.
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Episode 25 - Gretel
Release Date: 1955-08-21Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.
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Episode 26 - The Miss America Story
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Episode 27 - The Outsiders
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Episode 28 - A Man is Ten Feet Tall
Release Date: 1955-10-02An AWOL soldier befriends a black waterfront worker, and together they battle hatred and oppression.