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The Classic TV Archive - US Dramatic Anthology Series

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### PHILCO TELEVISION PLAYHOUSE ###

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Episode Guide
version 10.0 March 2008

(Ep 2.6, 5.30, 7.14)
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Stage/2950/

with contributions by:

Tom Alger
Rina Fox
references:
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive

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PHILCO TELEVISION PLAYHOUSE

aka TV Playhouse

NBC Sundays 9:00-10:00

Live dramatic anthology

Oct 3, 1948 until Oct 2, 1955

The Philco Television Playhouse was one of the most distinguished of the many

"live" anthology dramas which aired during the so-called "Golden Age" of

television. The first episode of the Philco program was broadcast over

NBC on Sunday evening 3 October 1948 between 9:00 and 10:00 P.M.

It remained on the air for just over seven seasons until 1955.

At the beginning of its fourth season in 1951, The Philco Television Playhouse

acquired an alternating sponsor, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

From 1951 until it went off the air, the program shared its Sunday night slot

with The Goodyear Theatre.

For a short period between 28 August 1955 and 12 February 1956,

the Philco Television Playhouse alternated with The Alcoa Hour

in addition to The Goodyear Theatre. Following the end of

The Philco Television Playhouse in 1955, The Alcoa Hour

and The Goodyear Theatre continued in alternation with

broadcasts of one hour live dramas until 29 September 1957.

Theme song: "Salute to Industry" by Morris Mamorsky

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1.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DINNER AT EIGHT

03Oct48

play by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber

directed by Fred Coe

starring

Royal Beal

Mary Boland

Matt Briggs

Vicki Cummings

Dennis King

Judson Laire

Philip Loeb

Jane Seymour

Joyce Van Patten

Peggy Wood

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: REBECCA

10Oct48

story by Daphne du Maurier

starring

Mary Anderson ........ Rebecca

Bramwell Fletcher ........ Maxim deWinter

Florence Reed ........ Mrs. Danvers

Synopsis:

Brooding and moody Maxim deWinter 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. [RF]

1.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW

17Oct48

play by Elmer Rice

starring

Paul Muni ........ George Simon (his TV debut)

Olive Deering

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.04 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ANGEL IN THE WINGS

24Oct48

starring

Grace Hartman

Paul Hartman

Hank Ladd

*Note: Paul Hartman won the first Best Actor Tony musical

Broadway performance of "Angel in the Wings".

1.05 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: STREET SCENE

31Oct48

story by Elmer Rice

starring

Betty Field

Erin O'Brien-Moore

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.06 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THIS THING CALLED LOVE

07Nov48

starring

Ralph Bellamy (TV debut)

Peggy Conklin

1.07 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: CAMILLE

14Nov48

story by Alexander Dumas

starring

Florence Eldridge

Judith Evelyn

Rex O'Malley

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.08 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: AN INSPECTOR CALLS

21Nov48

story by JB Priestley

starring

Walter Abel

George Coulouris

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.09 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: I LIKE IT HERE

28Nov48

starring

Oscar Karlweis

Bert Lytell

1.10 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: SUSPECT

05Dec48

starring

Ruth Chatterton

Bramwell Fletcher

1.11 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PARLOR STORY

12Dec48

starring

Edith Atwater

Dean Jagger

1.12 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

19Dec48

Producer Fred Coe
Adapted by Samuel Taylor

Based on the story by Charles Dickens

Directed by Fred Coe

starring

Dennis King Jr. ...... Ebenezer Scrooge

Frank M. Thomas ...... Marley's Ghost

James MacColl ....... Bob Cratchit
Harry Sothern ....... Ghost of Christmas Past
Loring Smith ........ Ghost of Christmas Present
Valerie Cossart ..... Mrs. Cratchit
Judson Rees ......... Ghost of Christmas Things to Come
Synopsis:
Charles Dickens introduces the story of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Scrooge and Bob Cratchit are working in Scrooge’s office.
*NOTE: "Silent Night" sung by Bing Crosby and the Mitchell Boys Choir.

1.13 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS

26Dec48

story by James M. Barrie

starring

Cameron Mitchell

Lucile Watson ........ Mrs. Dowey

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.14 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: RAMSHACKLE INN

02Jan49

story by George Baston

starring

Joe Downing

Zasu Pitts

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.15 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

09Jan49

play by Edmund Rostand

starring

José Ferrer ........ Cyrano de Bergerac

Ernest Graves ........ Christian de Neuvillette

Frances Reid ........ Roxanne

Robert Carroll

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.16 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PAPA IS ALL

16Jan49

written by Patterson Greene

starring

Mady Christians

Carl Benton Reid

Synopsis:

Papa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious

Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel. [RF]

1.17 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

23Jan49

written by Samuel Taylor

novel by Jane Austen

directed by Fred Coe

starring

Madge Evans ........ Elizabeth Bennet

John Baragrey ......... Fitzwilliam Darcy

Viola Roache

Louise Hector

Synopsis:

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

1.18 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DARK HAMMOCK

30Jan49

written by Mary Orr & Reginald Denham

starring

Sidney Blackmer

Mary Orr

Mary Wickes

Peggy Wood

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.19 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN

06Feb49

story by Sidney Howard

starring

Lillian Gish

Bert Lytell

Synopsis:

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! [RF]

1.20 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE STORY OF MARY SURRATT

13Feb49

starring

Dorothy Gish ........ Mary Surratt

Kent Smith

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

*Note: Mary Surratt was the first woman executed in the U.S

1.21 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TWELFTH NIGHT

20Feb49

story by William Shakespeare

starring

John Carradine ........ Malvolio

Richard Goode ........ Sir Toby Belch

Marsha Hunt ........ Viola

Vaughn Taylor ........ Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.22 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ST. HELENA

27Feb49

starring

Dennis King

Neva Patterson

Frances Tannehill .... Madame de Montholon

1.23 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE DRUID CIRCLE

06Mar49

written by John Van Druten

starring

Leo G. Carroll

Ethel Griffies

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.24 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: QUALITY STREET

13Mar49

story by James M. Barrie

starring

Marsha Hunt ....... Phoebe Throssel

Alfred Drake ....... Capt. Brown

Synopsis:

Because she's nearly 30 and still unwed, Phoebe Throssel is regarded as an

over-the-hill spinster. Thus, when offered the opportunity for a reunion with

Captain Brown, whom she hasn't seen in years, Phoebe desperately wants

to rekindle his affections. [RF]

1.25 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DINNER AT ANTOINE'S

20Mar49

story by Frances Parkinson Keyes

starring

Janet Blair

William Eythe

1.26 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BECKY SHARPE

27Mar49

story by William Makepeace Thackeray

starring

Francis Bethencourt

Claire Luce

Synopsis:

A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society.

However, fate never seems to give her an even break. [RF]

1.27 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: AND NEVER BEEN KISSED

03Apr49

starring

Patricia Kirkland

William Redfield

1.28 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN?

10Apr49

Story by Bud Schulberg

Directed by Fred Coe

starring

José Ferrer ........ Sammy Glick

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.29 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MR. MERGENTHWICKER'S LOBBLIES

17Apr49

starring

Vaughn Taylor

1.30 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BURLESQUE

24Apr49

starring

Vicki Cummings

Bert Lahr

1.31 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MACBETH

01May49

play by William Shakespeare

starring

Walter Hampden ........ Macbeth

Joyce Redman ......... Lady Macbeth

Leo G. Carroll ...... Duncan
Walter Abel

Synopsis:

Scottish nobleman who prompted by his own prophecy and ambitions,

kills a king to wear his crown. [RF]

1.32 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ROMEO AND JULIET

15May49

play by William Shakespeare

starring

Patricia Breslin ........ Juliet

Kevin McCarthy ........ Romeo

Synopsis:

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

1.33 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THIS TIME, NEXT YEAR

05Jun49

starring

Dennis King

1.34 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE

12Jun49

written by Walter C. Hackett

starring

Frank Albertson

Jean Sincere

Synopsis:

With the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously

popular product and cant keep up with the demand. [RF]

1.35 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: JENNY KISSED ME

26Jun49

story by Jean Kerr

starring

Leo G. Carroll ........ Father Moynihan

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.37 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DARK OF THE MOON

03Jul49

starring

Richard Hart

Carol Stone

1.38 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: FOR LOVE OR MONEY

10Jul49

starring

William Post Jr.

1.39 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE FIVE LIVES OF RICHARD GORDON

17Jul49

starring

Melvyn Douglas ....... Richard Gordon

1.40 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: YOU TOUCHED ME!

24Jul49

starring

Dennis King

William Prince

1.41 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE FOURTH WALL

31Jul49

story by A.R. Gurney

starring

Douglas Clarke-Smith

Frances Reid

Philip Tonge

Synopsis:

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

1.42 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ENTER MADAME

07Aug49

story by Dolly Byrne

starring

Philip Bourneuf

Carol Goodner

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

1.43 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A MURDER HAS BEEN ARRANGED

14Aug49

story by Emlyn Williams

starring

Donald Cook

Louisa Horton

Nancy Sheridan

William Terry

Synopsis:

A ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on

stage and reveal the identity of a murderer. [RF]

1.44 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PRETTY LITTLE PARLOR

21Aug49

Written by Ethel Frank
Story by Claiborne Foster
Directed by Garry Simpson
starring
William Windom
Peggy McCay
Alexander Campbell
Marta Linden
Charles mcClelland
Betty Furness
Homer Smith
Paul Parks

1.45 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THREE CORNERED MOON

28Aug49

story by Gertrude Tonkonogy

starring

Nina Foch

Lilia Skala

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

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2.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS

04Sep49

story by James M. Barrie

starring

Wesley Addy

Margaret Phillips

Horace Graham
Paula Laurence
Rex Evans

Synopsis:

A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine

wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a successful political career. He rises

to a parliamentary seat, never quite realizing that he hasn't done it alone. [RF]

2.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PRIDE'S CASTLE

11Sep49

Written by Samuel Carter
Story by Frank Yerby (1949)
Directed by Gordon Duff
starring

Anthony Quinn

Louise Allbritton

Catherine McLeod

Jack Lemmon
Bethel Leslie

Patrick Malone
Clyde Waddell
Loring Smith
Boyd Crawford

2.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LITTLE SISTER

18Sep49

Written by Samuel Carter
Story by Raymond Chandler
Directed by Albert McCleery
starring
Patricia Breslin
Jean Carson
William Eythe
Lola Montes
Arthur O'Connell
Calvin Thomas
Synopsis:
A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.

2.04 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LONELY

25Sep49

Hosted by Bert Lytell
starring
Kim Hunter
William Prince
James Daly
John Marriott
John Stephen
Peter Pagan
Jock McGraw
Walter Greasa
Regina Wallace
Synopsis:
An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough

and falls in love with a Scottish lass, now torn he returns to the

States and breaks the news to his fiancee and her family.

2.05 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE QUEEN BEE

02Oct49

story by Edna L. Lee

starring

Claire Luce

Paul McGrath

Margaret Phillips

Nelson Case
William Post Jr.
Sara Anderson
Ruth Saville
Margaret Baker
Sigrid Olsen
Stefan Olsen
Alex March

Synopsis:

A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives

of those around her with tragic results. [RF]

2.06 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE

09Oct49

starring

John Beal

Haila Stoddard

Loring Smith
Judy Parrish
George Keane
Synopsis:
Two freelance writers relocate their families to the country to

escape the pressures of the city and their wives talk them

into hosting their own radio show instead.

2.07 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LAST TYCOON

16Oct49

written by Joseph Liss

novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

directed by Fred Coe

staged by Delbert Mann

starring

John Baragrey ........ Monroe Stahr

Alfreda Wallace

Leueen MacGrath

John McQuade

Harold J. Stone

Leslie Barrett

Synopsis:

A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story

behind the Hollywood Dream Factory. [RF]

* This story was loosely based on Irving Thalberg's career.

2.08 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BECAUSE OF THE LOCKWOODS

23Oct49

story by Dorothy Whipple

starring

Bramwell Fletcher

Marjorie Gateson

2.09 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DAMION'S DAUGHTER

30Oct49

written by David Shaw

story by Edwin Gilbert

staged by Delbert Mann

directed by Fred Coe

starring

Sidney Blackmer

John McQuade

Hildy Parks

Maurice Burke

Ruth Matteson

Philip Foster

2.10 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES

06Nov49

story by Nathaniel Hawthorne

starring

Joan Chandler

Peter Cookson

Synopsis:

With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake,

a man frames his brother for murder. [RF]

2.11 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE PROMISE

13Nov49

starring

William Eythe

Kim Hunter

Synopsis:

A marriage begins to falter when the couple decide

they have different goals in their lives.

2.12 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MEDICAL MEETING

20Nov49

starring

Philip Bourneuf

Frances Reid

2.13 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE WONDERFUL MRS. INGRAM

27Nov49

written by David Shaw

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Stephen Courtleigh

Carol Goodner

Bernard Randall

Nydia Westman

Ben Lackland

Nicholas Saunders

2.14 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MIST ON THE WATERS

04Dec49

starring

Dan Morgan

Margaret Phillips

Torin Thatcher

2.15 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BEAUTIFUL BEQUEST

11Dec49

written by Sam Taylor

story by Eric Hatch

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Eli Wallach

Joan Castle

Loring Smith

Paul Larson

Fay Roope

Leslie Barrett

2.16 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE STRANGE CHRISTMAS DINNER

18Dec49

starring

Melvyn Douglas

Vaughn Taylor

Synopsis:
A modern-day Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas day.

2.17 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: IN BEAUTY LIKE THE NIGHT

25Dec49

written by Lawrence Dugan & Virginia Dugan

novel by Lewis Arnold

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Alfred Ryder

Cathleen Cordell

Mercer McLeod

Mary Alice Moore

Bram Nessen

Synopsis:
A Pilot who lost his sight during the War fights to

overcome everyday problems caused by the injury.

2.18 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: LITTLE BOY LOST

01Jan50

starring

Maurice Cavell

John Newland

Synopsis:

A poet searched for the son he's never met.

2.19 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BETHEL MERRIDAY

08Jan50

written by William Kendall Clarke

novel by Sinclair Lewis

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Grace Kelly ........ Bethel Merriday

Oliver Thorndike

Warren Stevens

Mary K. Wells

Frank Stephens

Katherine Meskill

Mary Patton

Synopsis:

A small-town girl determined to become an actress. [TA]

2.20 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MURDER AT THE STORK CLUB

15Jan50

starring

Franchot Tone

Sherman Billingsley

Valerie Cossart

Ruth Matteson

Mary Orr

Haila Stoddard

2.21 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MARRIAGES

22Jan50

written by Hoffman R. Hays

story by Henry James

directed by Fred Coe

starring

Henry Daniell ....... Colonel Chart

Margaret Phillips ........ Adela Chart

Carol Goodner ........ Mrs. Churchley

Chester Stratton ....... Godfrey Chart

Sally Gracie ........ Godfrey's wife

Diana Marlowe

Sandra Ann Wigginton

Jean Bates

Florence Luriea

Synopsis:

In 1890's England, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with

a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley, but his 27-year-old

spinster daughter Adela contrives to ruin the relationship. She also turns

two of the other three children against their intended stepmother and spoils

the widow's plans to help Adela's brother Godfrey out of an unpleasant situation. [RF]

2.22 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: UNCLE DYNAMITE

29Jan50

story by P.G. Wodehouse

starring

Arthur Treacher

2.23 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE SUDDEN GUEST

05Feb50

written by Joseph Liss

novel by Christopher LaFarge

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

John Baragrey

Jean Muir

Florence Reed

Tonio Selwart

Helen Carew

Frances Waller

2.24 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ANN RUTLEDGE

12Feb50

starring

Stephen Courtleigh ....... Abraham Lincoln

Grace Kelly ....... Ann Rutledge

Synopsis:

The story of the courtship of Lincoln and Rutledge.

2.25 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A LETTER TO MR. PRIEST

19Feb50

written by Nelson Olmsted

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Nelson Olmsted

Leora Dana

Larry Blyden

Melville Ruick

Henry Calvin

Alan Manson

John Marley

Synopsis:

The account of the life of a lawyer chosen "most likely to succeed" by his college class.

2.26 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: HOMETOWN

26Feb50

written by William Kendall Clarke

directed by Fred Coe

starring

Barry Nelson ......... Mitchell Hickok

Betty Caulfield ........ Eileen

Vinton Hayworth ....... Mr. Devereux

Faye Emerson ....... Glamour girl

Eileen Heckart

Larry Fuller

Leona Powere

Larry Fletcher

Philippa Bevans

Bill Greene

Ann Lincoln

Synopsis:

Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a

publicity build-up for his book. He meets a glamorous woman, who

introduces him to the nightlife of Manhattan. He soon tires of cafes, cocktail

parties, and publicity gags, and returns to his simple way of living in the

country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart. [RF]

2.27 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LIFE OF VINCENT VAN GOGH

05Mar50

written by Hoffman R. Hays (sometimes credited as H.R. Hays)

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Jeff Morrow

Everett Sloane

Chester Stratton

Mercer McLeod

Patricia White

John D. Seymour

2.28 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE UNCERTAIN MOLLY COLLICUTT

12Mar50

starring

Lilli Palmer ....... Molly Collicutt

Philip Bourneuf

Ben Lackland

2.29 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE TRIAL OF STEVEN KENT

19Mar50

written by Nelson Olmsted

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

John Newland ....... Steven Kent

Richard Frazier

Richard Sanders

Nelson Olmsted

Alfreda Wallace

Dan Morgan

Riza Royce

John D. Seymour

2.30 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE SECOND OLDEST PROFESSION

26Mar50

starring

Victor Jory

William Prince

2.31 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: NOCTURNE

02Apr50

written by William Kendall Clarke

directed by Fred Coe

starring

Leora Dana ....... Emmy Blanchard

Cloris Leachman ....... Jenny Blanchard

Vaughn Taylor ....... Pa Blanchard

E.G. Marshall ...... Alf Rylett

Richard Fraser ...... Keith Reddington

Alex March ....... Chauffeur

Richard Sanders

Synopsis:

In 1910 London, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support

and care for their widowed, invalid father. Jenny, the younger, pretty sister,

seeks to escape from the depressing reality of her poverty-stricken home,

while Emmy, the older, plain sister, finds comfort and eventual happiness by

serving their ailing father. At the end, both are engaged; Jenny will marry

Keith Reddington and Emmy will wed Alf Rylett. [RF]

2.32 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DIRTY EDDIE

09Apr50

story by Ludwig Bemelmans

starring

Joseph Buloff

Vinton Hayworth

Judy Parrish

Synopsis:

Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract,

and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.

2.33 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE END IS KNOWN

16Apr50

written by Joseph Liss

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Jack Warden

Kent Smith

Warren Stevens

Cara Williams

Anna Minot

Adelaide Klein

2.34 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MAN IN THE BLACK HAT

23Apr50

starring

Virginia Gilmore

John McQuade

Les Tremayne

2.35 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE AMERICAN

30Apr50

starring

John Newland

Leopoldine Konstantin as Countess

Alfred Ryder

Tonio Selwart

Irene Worth

2.36 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE FEAST

07May50

written by Hoffman R. Hays

novel by Margaret Kennedy

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Margaret Wycherly

Mildred Natwick

Colin Keith-Johnston

Ernest Graves

Bertha Belmore

Laura Weber

Barbara Joyce

2.38 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE CHARMED CIRCLE

21May50

written by William Kendall Clarke

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Betsy Blair

Alfred Ryder

Larry Blyden

Joanne Paul

Herb Evers

Helen Carew

2.39 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: SEMMELWEIS

28May50

starring

Everett Sloane ....... Dr. Ignatius Semmelweis

Guy Spaull ....... Dr. Doanth

E.G. Marshall

Synopsis:

Story of the great physician who saved millions of lives due to his discovery

of the cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever) and eliminated its danger

by prescribing the absolute sterlization of all instruments and the cleanliness

of all persons coming in contact with the mother.

* Maternal mortality dropped eighty per cent after his discovery,

earning for Semmelweis the title, "The Mothers' Savior." [RF]

2.40 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

04Jun50

written by Hoffman R. Hays

novel by Jane Austen

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Madge Evans ....... Elinor Dashwood

John Baragrey ...... Colonel Dashwood

Cloris Leachman ....... Marianne Dashwood

Chester Stratton ...... Edward Ferrars

Lawrence Hugo ...... John Willoughby

Josephine Brown ....... Mrs. Fenner

Dora Clement ....... Mrs. Dashwood

John Stephens ...... John Dashwood

Patricia Hosley ...... Lucy Steele

Cherry Hardy ....... Mrs. Ferrars

Frank Sutton

Jean Bates

Synopsis:

The story of the Dashwood sisters quest to find suitable husbands

after the loss of their family estate. [RF]

2.41 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BUMP ON BRANNIGAN'S HEAD

11Jun50

story by Myles Connolly

starring

Vinton Hayworth

J. Pat O'Malley

Leona Powers

2.42 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

18Jun50

written by William Kendall Clarke

story by George Papashvily

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Joseph Buloff

Catherine Lyon

George Renavent

Barbara Bulgakov

Enid Pulver

Ethel Remy

Boris Marshalov

Synopsis:

Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia,

experiences many difficulties as he tries to adapt to his adopted country.

He works hard to make a place for himself in America, all the while fighting

with the English language and the strange customs of an alien people. [RF]

2.43 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: HEAR MY HEART SPEAK

25Jun50

starring

Olive Deering

Charlton Heston

2.44 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE RELUCTANT LANDLORD

02Jul50

producer Fred Coe

written by Joseph Liss

story by Scott Corbett

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Hume Cronyn

Haila Stoddard

Billy M. Greene

Sandra Ann Wigginton

Isabelle Bonner

John Marley

Synopsis:

Scott an aspiring writer buys an apartment house for him and his wife.

To help keep them financially solvent, unfortunately the everyday problems

and troubles from the tenants make this almost impossible. [RF]

2.45 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE TENTACLES

09Jul50

starring

E.G. Marshall

John D. Seymour

Warren Stevens

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###########season 3 1950-51###############

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3.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: HIGH TOR

10Sep50

written by Fred Coe

play by Maxwell Anderson

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Alfred Ryder

Felicia Montealegre

Vinton Hayworth

Edgar Stehli

Leo Penn

Maurice Manson

Edward Cullen

Synopsis:

A man torn between his fiancee and his love for a mountain he owns, which

he refuses to sell to some shady real estate agents. After an avalanche, he

is stuck with the realtors in a cave, where he sees a Dutch ghost and a young

woman who offers her opinion about his decision. [RF]

3.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LONG RUN

17Sep50

starring

Vicki Cummings

Francis Lederer

3.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DEAR GUEST AND GHOST

24Sep50

starring

Josephine Hull

Barry Nelson

3.04 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE TOUCH OF A STRANGER

01Oct50

written by Joseph Liss

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Olive Deering

E.G. Marshall

Leslie Nielsen

Jack Warden

Gloria Stroock

Leo Penn

Synopsis:
A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes

out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.

3.05 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE VINE THAT GREW ON FIFTIETH STREET

08Oct50

starring

William Farnum

Florida Friebus

Bethel Leslie

Frank Maxwell

Dorothy Sands

3.06 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A HUSBAND FOR MAMA

15Oct50

written by David Shaw

novel by Louis Paul

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Betty Caulfield

Vinton Hayworth

Muriel Kirkland

Conrad Janis

Biff McGuire

3.07 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PORTRAIT IN SMOKE

22Oct50

starring

Olive Deering

Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis:

Rising out of the shabbiness of the Lower East Side, Kathy ruthlessly climbs

the social and financial ladder by using and then abandoning

a series of gullible older men. [RF[

3.08 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE GAMBLER

29Oct50

written by Joseph Liss

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Anne Crawford ....... Theresa

Alfred Ryder ........ Philip

Philip Coolidge ...... the General

Ethel Griffies ....... Grandmother

Maurice Burke

Muriel Hutchinson

Synopsis:

A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th-century,

this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career

for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable

greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny

is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in

marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who

chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors. [TA]

3.09 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE POWER DEVIL

05Nov50

starring

Augusta Dabney

Kevin McCarthy

3.10 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MAN WHO GOT AWAY WITH IT

12Nov50

written by Alexander Kirkland

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Fred Beir

Margaret Hayes

Barbara Robbins

Francis X. Sullivan

Richard Sanders

Donald Woods

Bernard Nedell

3.11 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: I'M STILL ALIVE

19Nov50

starring

Walter Brooke

Burgess Meredith

Howard Smith

Haila Stoddard

3.12 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TORCH FOR A DARK JOURNEY

26Nov50

written by Max Wilk

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Bramwell Fletcher

Loring Smith

Felicia Montealegre

Edgar Stehli

Richard Webb

Robert H. Harris

Louis Sorin

Jon Dawson

Al Thaler

Walter Black

Millicent Brower

Frank Sutton

Alfred Leberfeld

Bob Goldman

Frank Baxter

Synopsis:

A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist,

who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a

former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must

return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must

decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America. [RF]

3.13 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WACKY, THE SMALL BOY

03Dec50

starring

Bill Goodwin

Aline MacMahon

3.14 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BONANZA

10Dec50

written by Stephen de Baun

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Stanley Ridges

Dan Morgan

Alfreda Wallace

William Kemp

Frank Tweddell

Ann Ives

3.15 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DECOY

17Dec50

starring

Dulcy Jordan

Will Lee

John McQuade

3.16 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE PUPIL

24Dec50

written by Stephen de Baun

story by Henry James

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

John Newland

Judson Rees

Viola Roache

Ann Summers

Neil Fitzgerald

Elizabeth Eustis

3.17 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: LEAF OUT OF A BOOK

31Dec50

starring

Grace Kelly

Vicki Cummings

Lauren Gilbert

Claudia Morgan

3.18 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE SYMBOL: JEFFERSON DAVIS

07Jan51

written by William Kendall Clarke

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

John Baragrey

Lesley Woods

E.G. Marshall

Ellen Cobb-Hill

Victor Sutherland

John D. Seymour

3.19 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LOST DIPLOMAT

14Jan51

starring

Scott McKay

Frances Reid

3.20 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: CONFESSION

21Jan51

written by David Shaw

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

John Ireland

Neva Patterson

Nelson Olmsted

James Van Dyk

Ann Ives

Ken Rockefeller

3.21 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE GREAT ESCAPE

28Jan51

starring

E.G. Marshall

Everett Sloane

Horace Braham

Kurt Katch

3.22 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

04Feb51

written by Abram S. Ginnes

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Cloris Leachman

J. Pat O'Malley

John Ericson

Marian Winters

Tom Reynolds

Herbert Nelson

3.23 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: KITTY DOONE

11Feb51

written by Joan Crowley

story by Aben Kandel

starring

Valerie Bettis as Kitty Doone

Edmon Ryan

Harry Worth

Russell Dennis

Brandon Peters

Viola Roache

David White

Nina Varela

Irving Winter

Carl Green

3.24 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: LET THEM BE SEA CAPTAINS

18Feb51

written by Hoffman R. Hays

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Anne Crawford as Margaret Fuller

Florida Friebus as Mary Greeley

E.G. Marshall as Horace Greeley

David Brisbane as Albert Brisbane

Harold McGee as Thurlow Weed

Charles Taylor

Nicholas Saunders

Ken Rockerfeller

Ruth Hope

Nancy Graves

Julie Follansbee

Katherine Gregg

Margaret Higgins

David Lewis

Synopsis:

Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller,

the mid-19th century femninist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.

The show also deals with Whig opposition to the Revolutionary North American Phalanx

of Albert Brisbane, a cooperative social group living in Red Bank, New Jersey. [RF]

3.25 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MAN WHO BOUGHT A TOWN

25Feb51

starring

Oscar Homolka

Katherine Balfour as Elizabeth Bush

Raymond Bramley as Henry Locke

Bert Conway as Pete

Joan Croydon as Mrs. Dennis

Vinton Hayworth as H.L. Potter

Dorothy Sands as Mrs. Bush

Bobby Santon as Jimmy

Sam Schwartz as The Auctioneer

Elliott Sullivan as Lou McCabe

3.26 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: NO MEDALS ON POP

11Mar51

written by Henry K. Moritz

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Rod Steiger

Frederic de Wilde

Ellen Cobb-Hill

Brandon de Wilde

Alice Yourman

Hal Currier

3.27 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE DARK CORRIDOR

18Mar51

starring

Wesley Addy

Stella Andrew

Viola Roache

3.28 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BULLETIN 120

25Mar51

written by Joseph Liss

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Stephen Courtleigh as Dr. Joseph Goldberger

Robert Quarry as Dr. Wheeler

Elinor Randel as Mrs. Wheeler

John Randolph as Hotstuff

Dan Reed as Lucius

Jack Bittner as Broadway

Alan Shayne as Kid

Eddie Lyans

Leslie Barrett

Synopsis:

The story for this program is taken from the files of the U.S. Public Health Service.

In 1915 in Mississippi, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts

and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection. [RF]

3.29 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PARNASSUS ON WHEELS

01Apr51

starring

Russell Hardie

Muriel Kirkland

Una O'Connor

William Post Jr.

3.30 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ROUTINE ASSIGNMENT

08Apr51

written by David Swift

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Stephen Elliott

Billy M. Greene

Frank Maxwell

James Westerfield

Emily Lawrence

Thomas Heaphy

James Van Dyk

3.31 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: HOUR OF DESTINY

15Apr51

starring

Anne Burr

Phyllis Love

Dorothy Peterson

3.32 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BIRTH OF THE MOVIES

22Apr51

written by Hoffman R. Hays & Robert Alan Aurthur

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Lillian Gish as Narrator

John Newland

Jean Pearson

Paul Mann

Bruce Gordon

Robert F. Simon

Ben Lackland

Brandon Peters

Gordon Peters

Richard Abbott

Ken Rockefeller

Philip Rhodes

Frank Sutton

George McCoy

Eden Bitzer

Synopsis:

Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks

with Lillian Gish before and following the drama. [RF]

3.33 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MR. ARCULARIS

29Apr51

written by Conrad Aiken

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Nelson Olmsted as Mr. Arcularis

Leora Dana as Clarice

Edward Andrews

Stuart MacIntosh

Frank Marth

Herbert Nelson

Joe Bassett

John C. Becher

Helen Wagner

Theresa Hayden

Synopsis:

This drama based on the supernatural revolves around the expansion and

contraction on an anesthesia rebreathing bag as Mr. Arcularis' life hangs in

the balance on the operating table. While he is unconscious, he dreams that he

has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However death

follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens.

The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love,

forces him back to reality. At the end, Mr. Arcularis regains consciousness to find

Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right. [RF]

3.34 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A SECRET ISLAND

06May51

written by Paul Peters

story by Honore de Balzac

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Mildred Natwick

Edgar Stehli

Chris White

Cliff Robertson

Harry Sheppard

Phoebe Mackay

3.35 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE VISITORS

13May51

starring

Romney Brent

Sylvia Field

Anne Ives

Don Murray

3.36 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: JUSTICE AND MR. PLEZNIK

20May51

written by Thomas Phipps

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Joseph Buloff

Leo Penn

Naomi Riordan

Barbara Bulgakov

Ben Lackland

Charles Campbell

3.37 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: RESCUE

27May51

starring

John Randolph

Elliott Sullivan

James Westerfield

3.38 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE ADVENTURES OF HIRAM HOLLIDAY

03Jun51

written by Alexander Kirkland

story by Paul Gallico

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

E.G. Marshall

Stella Andrew

Adia Kuznetzoff

Henry Calvin

Ivan Simpson

Miriam Goldina

Synopsis:

Hiram Holliday is a copy-writer for a major newspaper. One day, he saves

his paper a fortune in a libel case, because of his meticulous work. [RF]

3.39 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE FAST DOLLAR

10Jun51

starring

J. Pat O'Malley

Judy Parrish

Vaughn Taylor

3.40 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: OPERATION: AIRLIFT

17Jun51

written by David Swift & George Giroux

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Ernest Borgnine

John D. Seymour

Lauren Gilbert

Russell Hardie

Frank Maxwell

David Swift

Paul Lipson

3.41 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DR. HUDSON'S SECRET JOURNAL

24Jun51

starring

Colin Keith-Johnston

Shepperd Strudwick

3.42 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE PLOT

01Jul51

starring

Donald Buka

Edgar Stehli

3.43 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: CASE HISTORY

08Jul51

starring

Robert Pastene

Jane Seymour

Peggy Allenby

Barbara Joyce

Nydia Westman

Leslie Woods

3.44 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: I WANT TO MARCH

15Jul51

starring

John Hoyt

Enid Markey

Katherine Meskill

3.45 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PRETEND I AM A STRANGER

22Jul51

written by David Shaw

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Henry Beckman

Olive Deering

Richard Newton

William Prince

Mariane Maricle

Michael McAloney

Peter Von Zerneck

3.46 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TELEVISION STORY

29Jul51

starring

Sidney Blackmer

Walter Brooke

Gaby Rodgers

3.47 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE RETURN

05Aug51

written by Stephen de Baun

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Robert F. Simon

Therese Hunter

Biff Elliott

Jill Kraft

Daniel Reed

Alonzo Bosan

3.48 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: EPHRAIM TUTT'S CLEAN HANDS

12Aug51

written by David Swift

directed by Gordon Duff

starring

Parker Fennelly

Muriel Kirkland

3.49 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: COME ALIVE

19Aug51

written by William Kendall Clarke

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Valerie Bettis

Lauren Gilbert

Leora Dana

Richard Coogan

Alfreda Wallace

Donald Curtis

3.50 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: NIGHT AT THE VULCAN

26Aug51

starring

Jerome Cowan

William Prince

Polly Rowles

3.51 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THIS TIME NEXT YEAR

02Sep51

written by Fred Coe

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Nelson Olmsted

Edgar Stehli

Barbara Bolton

Leona Powers

Hugh Reilly

Paul Ford

Frank Sutton

3.52 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WOMEN OF INTRIGUE

09Sep51

starring

Madeleine Carroll

Robin Craven

Anthony Dawson

Philip Friend

Murray Matheson

3.53 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE WAYWARD SEASON

16Sep51

written by David Shaw

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Carol Goodner

Kent Smith

Margaret Wycherly

Peggy McKay

Bethel Leslie

Ruth McDevitt

3.54 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE SPUR

23Sep51

starring

Wesley Addy

Alfred Ryder

3.55 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BY-LINE FOR MURDER

30Sep51

written by Walter Bernstein

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

E.G. Marshall

Hugh Reilly

Barbara Joyce

Vinton Hayworth

Irene Moore

Addison Powell

Robert H. Harris

3.56 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A REQUIEM FOR A MODEL

07Oct51

starring

Dortha Duckworth

Mike Lewin

Edmon Ryan

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###########season 4 1951-52###############

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**Format changed Philco Playhouse was on every other week alternating with Goodyear TV Playhouse.

4.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MARCIA AKERS

21Oct51

starring

Olive Deering as Marcia Akers

James Daly

Kendall Clark

James Gregory

4.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE EDUCATION OF A FULLBACK

04Nov51

starring

Joseph Buloff

Vinton Hayworth

4.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

18Nov51

starring

Paul McGrath

Neva Patterson

4.04 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: INCIDENT AT GOLDEN'S CREEK

02Dec51

starring

Michael Gorrin

4.05 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PERSPECTIVE

16Dec51

starring

Augusta Dabney

Everett Sloane

4.06 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE SISTERS

30Dec51

starring

Leslie Nielsen

Dorothy Peterson

Natalie Schafer

4.07 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR

13Jan52

written by Hoffman R. Hays

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Ernest Borgnine

Philip Coolidge

E.G. Marshall

Murvyn Vye

Madeleine Sherwood

Elliott Sullivan

Synopsis:

Dramatization of the story of famed corrupt politico Boss Tweed.

4.08 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: SEGMENT

27Jan52

written by David Swift

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Eileen Heckart

Mercer McLeod

Deidre Owens

Joseph Anthony

Addison Powell

William Lally

Synopsis:

A shrewish wife drives her husband insane. [TA]

4.09 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE RICH BOY

10Feb52

written by Walter Bernstein

story by F. Scott Fitzgerald

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Grace Kelly as Paula

Robert Pastene

Gene Lyons as Anson Hunter

Phyllis Kirk as Dolly

Kathleen Comegys as Mrs. Legendie

David White as Cary Sloane

Mary Jackson as Aunt Edna

Tom Pedi as Joe

Geoffrey Lumb as Uncle Robert

Henry Hart

Robert McQueeney

Eric Sinclair

Elinor Randall

Stratton Walling

Synopsis:

A rich playboy realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allowing

the one woman he truly loved to slip out of his grasp. [RF]

4.10 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TENDER AGE

24Feb52

starring

Stella Andrew

Anthony Ross

4.11 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DUSTY PORTRAIT

09Mar52

written by Sumner Locke Elliott

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

John Newland

Audra Lindley

Rita Vale

John McLiam

Elizabeth Eustis

Victor Beecroft

Anita Bolster

4.12 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BEST LAID SCHEMES

23Mar52

written by Joseph Liss

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Joseph Buloff

Eileen Heckart

Wolfe Barzell

Joe Maross

Andrew Duggan

Elizabeth Watts

4.13 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

05Apr52

starring

Gene Lyons

Arthur Treacher

4.14 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BASKET WEAVER

19Apr52

starring

Robert Keith

Walter Matthau

4.15 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WE WERE CHILDREN

04May52

starring

Polly Rowles

4.16 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A COWBOY FOR CHRIS

18May52

starring

Buster Crabbe

Brandon De Wilde

4.17 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A MAN'S GAME

01Jun52

written by David Swift

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Patricia Benoit

Vinton Hayworth

Synopsis:

A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans,

but signs Evans’s fireball pitching sister instead. [RF]

4.18 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: FLIGHT INTO DARKNESS

15Jun52

starring

Robert Pastene

Alfred Ryder

4.19 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MONUMENT

29Jun52

written by William Kendall Clarke

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

John Forsythe

E.G. Marshall

Vanessa Brown

4.20 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A LETTER TO MR. PRIEST

13Jul52

starring

Leora Dana

Audra Lindley

Nelson Olmsted

4.21 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BRAT FARRAR

27Jul52

starring

Richard Derr

John Baragrey

John Newland

Robert Pastene

4.22 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE FIVE FATHERS OF PEPI

10Aug52

written by Ira L. Avery

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

José Pérez

James Daly

James Gregory

Lesley Woods

Dino Terranova

Silvio Minciotti

4.23 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THREE SUNDAYS

24Aug52

written by Jane Hinton

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Walter Matthau

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Malcolm Keen

Murray Matheson

Reginald Mason

Frederick Worlock

Dermot McNamara

4.24 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LAST HOUR

07Sep52

written by Lionel Shapiro

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Maria Riva

Tod Andrews

Marian Seldes

Michael Gorrin

Vinton Hayworth

Anatole Winogradoff

4.25 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: HOLIDAY SONG

14Sep52

written by Paddy Chayefsky

directed by Gordon Duff

producer Fred Coe

starring

Joseph Buloff

Herbert Berghof

Frances Chaney

Dora Weissman

David Opatoshu

David Kerman

Werner Klemperer

Irja Jensen

Martin Green

Ann Dere

Synopsis:

The night before Rosh Hashonah, a cantor suffers a spiritual crisis. That same night,

he is sent by someone to see a rabbi out in Brooklyn, A mysterious train station

attendant gives him directions after which he stops a woman from committing

suicide because she is despondent over the death of her husband in the war. On

his way home, the cantor meets up with the husband. He thought his wife had died.

The cantor reunites them. After trying to find the station guard, the cantor learns that

no one has ever worked there fitting the man's description. thus the cantor realizes

that some sort of 'celestial conductor' must have had a hand in the matter. His faith

restored, the cantor is able to resume his life's work. [RF]

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#######Philco Television Playhouse########

###########season 5 1952-53###############

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alternating with Goodyear TV Playhouse

5.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE THIN AIR

21Sep52

written by Ben Starr

starring

Scott Forbes

Joan Lorring

Jo Van Fleet

[--] 28Sep52 - Goodyear Playhouse: "The Room"

5.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BLACK SHEEP

05Oct52

starring

Jeffrey Lynn

5.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: UNCERTAIN HERITAGE

19Oct52

starring

Peter Brandon

Margalo Gillmore

5.04 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE WINTER OF THE DOG

02Nov52

starring

John Forsythe

5.05 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PAROLE CHIEF

16Nov52

written by Richard Sanders

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Sidney Poitier

Harry Townes

Terry Becker

Perry Wilson

Leo Penn

Mario Gallo

Anna Minot

5.06 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE GIFT

30Nov52

starring

Johnny Johnston

5.07 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TEMPEST OF TICK CREEK

14Dec52

starring

Crahan Denton

Mildred Natwick

Edgar Stehli

5.08 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MAGIC MORNING

28Dec52

starring

Edna Best

Paul McGrath

5.09 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DOUBLE JEOPARDY

04Jan53

written by David Shaw

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Vivien Blaine

Kevin McCarthy

Mary Beth Hughes

Olive Blakeney

Addison Richards

Howard St. John

5.10 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PRIDE'S WAY

11Jan53

starring

Shepperd Strudwick

5.11 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TWO FOR ONE

18Jan53

starring

Valerie Cossart

Murray Hamilton

Cyril Ritchard

5.12 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ELEGY

25Jan53

written by Sumner Locke Elliott

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Charlton Heston

Marian Seldes

Constance Ford

William Prince

Lydia Clarke

5.13 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE RELUCTANT CITIZEN

08Feb53

written by Paddy Chayefsky

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Joseph Buloff

James Daly

Werner Klemperer

David Opatoshu

Irja Jensen

Mary Morris

5.14 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MR. PETTENGILL HERE

15Feb53

starring

Arthur Treacher

5.16 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL

01Mar53

written by Horton Foote

directed by Vincent J. Donehue

starring

Lillian Gish

Eva Marie Saint

John Beal

Eileen Heckart

William Hansen

Will Hare

Frank Overton

Dennis Cross

5.18 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE VELVET MITTEN

22Mar53

starring

Edward Everett Horton

Ernest Truex

5.19 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A YOUNG LADY OF PROPERTY

05Apr53

written by Horton Foote

directed by Vincent J. Donehue

producer Fred Coe

starring

Joanne Woodward

Kim Stanley

Robert Donley

James Gregory

Margaret Barker

William Hansen

Fred Marshall

Vivian Nathan

Dorothy Sands

5.20 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE RECLUSE

19Apr53

written by David Shaw

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Dane Clark

Constance Ford

Jack Klugman

Frank Albertson

Paul Ford

Joseph Foley

5.22 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A LITTLE SOMETHING IN RESERVE

10May53

written by Harry M. Nuheim

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Tony Randall

Geoffrey Lumb

Kendall Clarke

Bartlett Robinson

Barbara Bolton

Jerome Kitty

Maxine Stuart

5.23 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MARTY

24May53

written by Paddy Chayefsky

directed by Delbert Mann

guest stars

Rod Steiger as Marty Pilletti

Nancy Marchand as Clara

Nehemiah Persoff

Lee Philips

Augusta Ciolli

Joe Mantell

Esther Minciotti

Betsy Palmer

Synopsis:

Marty, a lonely homely butcher from the Bronx is in search of a wife.

He finally meets a lonely girl in a dance hall with whom he can communicate. [RF]

5.24 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE WAY OF THE EAGLE

07Jun53

starring

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Grace Kelly

5.25 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BABY AND ME

14Jun53

written by Frank Gabrielson

Synopsis:

Comedy about a family whose members are all individualists. Mother,

a former actress, Father, a breezy fellow who doesn't care much; a

ten-year-old son whose life revolves around the Cub Scouts; and a

five-year-old daughter who is a Prima Donna. [RF]

5.26 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: EXPECTANT RELATIONS

21Jun53

written by Horton Foote

starring

Lily Cahill

Florida Freibus

Kathleen Comegys

Wright King

Synopsis:

The struggle of a middle-aged woman who tries to win an inheritance from a rich uncle. [RF]

5.27 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE HOUSE IN ATHENS

(aka Incident in Athens)

05Jul53

written by N. Richard Nash

starring

Gaby Rodgers

Lydia St. Clair

Ray Rizzo

Synopsis:

Three people are thrown together by the death of a man. [RF]

5.28 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BIG DEAL

19Jul53

written by Paddy Chayefsky

starring

Anne Jackson

David Opatoshu

Joanna Roos

5.29 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE CIPHER

02Aug53

written by Irving Gaynor Neiman

starring

Ed Binns

Ross Martin

Walter Matthau

Ernest Truex

5.30 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ERNIE BARGER IS 50

09Aug53

Producer David Susskind

Written by Tad Mosel

Directed by Gordon Duff

starring

Ed Begley ....... Ernie Barger

Carmen Mathews ....... Mariella Barger

Howard St. John ...... Abbot

John Connel ..... Roy Barger

Joseph Sweeny ..... Father Barger

Addison Powell .... Chester Wilson

Richard Davalos ..... Tom Bates

Patricia Fay ....... Louise

with (uncredited)

Al Thaler

Norton Bloom

Robert Baird

Marilyn Mohr

Gladys Klark

*
Announcer Jay Jackson
Settings by Wm. C. Molyneux
Costumes by Rose Bogdanoff
Lighting by Leo Farrenkopf
Video by Ray Barrett
Audio by John Rice
Technical Direction by O. Tamburri
Synopsis:

Ernie Barger, who at 50 makes the frightening discovery

that he is no longer needed by anyone. [TA]

5.31 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE RAINMAKER

16Aug53

starring

Darren McGavin

Joan Potter

Cameron Prud'homme

5.32 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: OTHELLO

06Sep53

written by Steven de Baun

play by William Shakespeare

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Torin Thatcher as Othello

Olive Deering as Desdemona

Gene Lyons as Cassio

Jack Manning as Roderigo

Walter Matthau as Iago

Marian Seldes as Emelia

Basil Langton as Montano

Synopsis:

The Moor Othello is driven by the ambitious and jealous Iago to believe that

his wife Desdemona is guilty of adultery. Othello becomes mad with despair

and jealousy and slays her, only to learn afterward that Iago's accusations

are false and that she has never been unfaithful to him. [RF]

5.33 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: HOLIDAY SONG

20Sep53

written by Paddy Chayefsky

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Joseph Buloff

Anne Heigira

Dora Weissman

Herbert Berghof

David Opatoshu

Werner Klemperer

Irja Jensen

Michael Sivy

Leo Bayard

Minnette Barrett

Synopsis:

A cantor finds a renewal of his spiritual faith. [RF]

*Note this is a restaging of the Philco presentation of

September 14, 1952 and not a rebroadcast.

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#######Philco Television Playhouse########

###########season 6 1953-54###############

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6.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: 0 FOR 37

27Sep53

written by David Shaw

directed by William Corrigan

starring

Eva Marie Saint

James Broderick

Arthur O'Connell

Billy M. Green

Moultrie Patton

Bobby Vail

Brian Walsh

Dan Frazer

Synopsis:

A young ballplayer appreciates the value of home and family

after a shaky start in professional baseball. [RF]

6.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BACHELOR PARTY

11Oct53

written by Paddy Chayefsky

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Eddie Albert

Kathleen Maguire

Joe Mantell

Robert Emmett

Douglas Gordon

Anna Minot

6.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE GIRL WITH THE STOP WATCH

25Oct53

written by Sumner Locke Elliott

starring

Philip Abbott

Betty Miller

Lois Wilson

6.04 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE TRAIN TO TROUBLE

08Nov53

written by Harry M. Nuheim

starring

Hugh Marlowe

Maria Riva

6.05 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: UP ABOVE THE WORLD SO HIGH

22Nov53

written by Greer Johnson

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Enid Markey

Edgar Stehli

Deirdre Owens

Betty Sinclair

Murray Hamilton

Ruth McDevitt

6.06 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE SIXTH YEAR

29Nov53

written by Paddy Chayefsky

starring

Kathleen Comegys

Kim Stanley

Warren Stevens

6.07 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MDINIGHT CALLER

13Dec53

written by Horton Foote

starring

Catherine Doucet

Betty Miller

6.08 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE GLORIFICATION OF AL TOOLUM

27Dec53

written by David Shaw

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Murray Hamilton

Walter Matthau

Betsy Palmer

Maxine Stuart

6.09 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: HANGMAN IN THE FOG

10Jan54

written by Lionel Shapiro

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Dane Clark

Maureen Hurley

Werner Klemperer

Michael Gorrin

Neil Fitzgerald

Francis Compton

Synopsis:
An American newspaperman in London believes he is being pursued

by agents from across the Iron Curtain. [RF]

6.10 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: SMOKE SCREEN

24Jan54

written by Mann Rubin

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Rod Steiger

Ed Prentiss

Anne Hegira

William Hanson

Freida Altman

Jay Jostyn

6.11 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK

07Feb54

written by J.P. Miller

starring

Mildred Dunnock

Betty Field

6.12 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

21Feb54

written by A.J. Russell

starring

Martin Balsam

Barbara Baxley

Larry Gates

Anne Jackson

Synopsis:
The perpetrators of a million dollar robbery find themselves with five hours

to go before the statute of limitations takes effect. [RF]

6.13 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE DANCERS

07Mar54

written by Horton Foote

directed by Vincent J. Donehue

producer Fred Coe

starring

Joanne Woodward ....... Emily

James Broderick ........ Horace

Janet De Gore ......... Mary Catherine

Helen Wagner ......... Inez

Frank Overton ......... Mr. Davis

Mary Lou Taylor ......... Waitress

William Erwin ......... Herman

Glorie Jones ......... Vivenne

Mary Haynsworth ......... Mrs. Davis
Synopsis:

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 and unconfident as he, and, because of the mutual

understanding between them, they give each other the confidence each lacks. [RF]

6.14 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BROKEN FIST

21Mar54

starring

Claude Dauphin

6.15 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MOTHER

04Apr54

written by Paddy Chayefsky

directed by Delbert Mann

producer Fred Coe

starring

Maureen Stapleton ........ Daughter

George L. Smith ........ Son-in-Law

Cathleen Nesbitt ........ Mother

David Opatoshu ........ Boss

Anna Berger

Estelle Hemsley

Dora Weissman

Perry Wilson

Katherine Hynes

Violet Diaz
Synopsis:

A widow tries not to be dependent on her children. [RF]

6.16 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE KING AND MRS. CANDLE

18Apr54

written by Sumner Locke Elliott

starring

Joan Greenwood

Cyril Ritchard

6.17 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE JOKER

02May54

starring

Martin Balsam

Eva Marie Saint

6.18 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: AND CROWN THY GOOD

16May54

written by Stewart Stern

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Anna Berger

Voytek Dolinski

Alice Mann

Nehemiah Persoff

Dina Peskin

Don Dubbins

Peg Hillias

6.19 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE SHADOW OF WILLIE GREER

30May54

starring

Dorothy Gish

William Hansen

Wright King

6.20 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ADAPT OR DIE

13Jun54

written by Harry Nuheim

directed by Arthur Penn

producer Fred Coe

starring

Walter Matthau ......... Stuart Benson

John Qualen ......... Gus Gruntle

Hildy Parks ......... Penny Benson

Geoffrey Lumb ......... B.S.

Rita Vale ......... K.D.

Guy Raymond ......... Mr. Burnside

Marcel Hillaire ......... Dr. Gustave Riker

Stefan Gierasch

Will West

William Hawley

Claude Traverse
Synopsis:

An editor of that smart magazine Throb and tense finds that he must either become

adapt to the high-tension life of a New York magazine or be without a job. [RF]

6.21 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH

27Jun54

starring

Philip Abbott

Mark Roberts

Bartlett Robinson

6.22 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MAN DROWNING

11Jul54

written by F.W. Durkee

starring

Barbara Joyce

William Smithers

6.23 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE CATAMARAN

25Jul54

written by J.P. Miller

starring

Cloris Leachman

Patrick O'Neal

Barbara O'Neil

6.24 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN

08Aug54

written by Tad Mosel

based on a New Yorker story by Daniel Fuchs

directed by Delbert Mann

producer David Susskind

starring

Larry Gates ......... Darcy

Perry Wilson ......... Natalie

James Gregory ......... Angus

David Opatoshu ......... Colie

Kevin Coughlin ......... Gary

Barbara Nichols
Synopsis:

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. [RF]

6.25 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: STAR IN THE SUMMER NIGHT

22Aug54

starring

Lili Darvas

Peter Mark Richman

6.26 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: RUN LIKE A THIEF

05Sep54

written by Sam Hall

directed by Jeffrey Hayden

starring

James Dean ......... Rob
Kurt Kasznar ....... Ingles
Barbara O'Neil ..... Mme. Pollard
Gusti Huber ........ Dell
Ward Costello ...... the Investigator
Arny Walton ........ the Busboy
Eugene Wood ........ Mr. Howard
Synopsis 1:
A bracelet found by a waiter is given to the waiter's wife. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
When a valuable bracelet is lost at a resort hotel, suspicion points

to a young waiter. The boy is the protege of a man to whom

the waiting profession is a "sacred trust". [RF]

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######## Philco Television Playhouse #########

############ season 7 1954-55 ###############

##########################################

7.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

19Sep54

written by Paddy Chayefsky

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Eva Marie Saint ....... Betty

E.G. Marshall ....... Jerry

Steven Hill ....... George

Peter Mark Richman ...... Jack

Peg Hillias ...... Mrs. Preiss

Betty Lou Keim ...... Phyllis

Ann Shoemaker ...... Millie

Lee Meriwether

Patricia Crowley

Bess Myerson

Anna Berger

7.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TIME BOMB

03Oct54

written by Sumner Locke Elliott

starring

John Ireland

Nancy Kelly

7.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MAN ON THE MOUNTAINTOP

17Oct54

starring

Steven Hill

Loretta Leversee

Anne Meara

Peter Mark Richman

Sidney Armus

Gordon B. Clarke

Anthony Ross

7.04 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TIME OF DELIVERY

31Oct54

written by David Shaw

starring

Robert Mulligan

James Broderick

Martin E. Brooks

7.05 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: CRIME WITHOUT MOTIVE

14Nov54

written by Marc Brandel

starring

Burt Brinckerhoff

George Chandler

William Lundmark

Mark Rydell

7.06 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BEG, BORROW OR STEAL

28Nov54

directed by Arthur Penn

starring

Anthony Ross

Bess Myerson

7.07 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: CATCH MY BOY ON SUNDAY

12Dec54

written by Paddy Chayefsky

starring

Sylvia Sidney

7.08 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: RUN, GIRL, RUN

26Dec54

starring

Mary Astor

Lin McCarthy

Lee Meriwether

Ann Shoemaker

Robert F. Simon

Margot Stevenson

7.09 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WALK INTO THE NIGHT

09Jan55

starring

Walter Matthau

Neva Patterson

7.10 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ANATOMY OF FEAR

23Jan55

written by F.W. Durkee Jr.

directed by Delbert Mann

starring

Rod Steiger

Perry Wilson

Geoffrey Horne

Katherine Marshall

7.11 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A SENSE OF JUSTICE

06Feb55

written by Gore Vidal

starring

E.G. Marshall

John Hudson

Synopsis:
A young man determines to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss. [RF]

7.12 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE ASSASSIN

20Feb55

starring

Jacob Ben-Ami

Nehemiah Persoff

Gaby Rodgers

Jo Van Fleet

7.13 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PLAY ME HEARTS AND FLOWERS

06Mar55

written by David Shaw

directed by Delbert Mann

producer, Gordon Duff

starring

Joey Adams ......... Bill Dix

Johnny Desmond .........Nick Mercer

Luis Van Rooten ......... Harry Shelton

Kay Medford ......... Betty Winston

Ellen Cobb-Hill ......... Phyllis Mercer

Allan Nourse ......... Joe Preger

Milo Boulton ......... Ed Fuller

Synopsis:

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. Somehow,

he must reassert his individuality! [RF]

7.14 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: SHADOW OF THE CHAMP

20Mar55

written by Robert Alan Aurthur

starring

Eli Wallach

Lee Grant

Jack Warden

Tony Canzoneri

Synopsis:
On a transatlantic voyage, the disenchanted sister of a sportswriter, is thrown

together with the boyhood chum and adult hanger-on of the heavyweight champion

of the world, and slowly draws him away from his lifelong shadow-like attachment to the champ.

7.15 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WATCH ME DIE

03Apr55

written by F.W. Durkee Jr.

starring

John Baragrey

7.16 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE

17Apr55

written by Calder Willingham

starring

John Kerr ......... George Avery

Peter Mark Richman ........ Tinian

Tom Tully ........ Major Avery

Jack Weston ......... Lumpkin

Don Fellows ......... Lanier

Oliver Berg ........ Jack Avery

Nan McFarland ....... Mrs. Avery

Lonnie Chapman ........ Cadet O.D.

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

Goodyear TV Playhouse: Do It Yourself

24Apr55

7.17 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

(aka The Governess)

01May55

written by Jerome Ross

starring

Ross Martin

Augusta Dabney

Betty Sue Albert

Maureen Hurley

Miko Oscard

Goodyear TV Playhouse: Visit to a Small Planet

08May55

7.18 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE PARDON-ME BOY

15May55

written by J.P. Miller

starring

Jackie Cooper ........ Bubbo

Peggy Maurer ........ Phyllis

Harry Bellaver ........ Joe

Joanne Roos ........ Mary

Carlos Montalban ........ Saguro

Synopsis:

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. [RF]

Goodyear TV Playhouse: The Catered Affair

22May55

7.19 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE GHOST WRITER

29May55

written by Bernard Wolfe

directed by Jack Smight

starring

Philip Abbott ......... David Lomak

Betsy Palmer ........... Janice Gans

Shepperd Strudwick ......... Lincoln Venner

Bert Freed .......... Al Rago

Nehemiah Persoff ......... Ed Kagan

Margot Stevenson ........... Mary Venner

Chris Gampel .......... Diego

Rod Winchell ........... Harold

Milo Boulton ........... Moderator

Eleanor Baron ....... Mambo girl

Rawn Harding ........ Mambo girl

Synopsis:

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.

But the actor and his ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred

of her father to their advantage. [RF]

Goodyear TV Playhouse: Mr. Dorothy Allen

05Jun55

7.20 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TOTAL RECALL

12Jun55

written by David Shaw

starring

Robert Ellenstein

Arthur Franz

Loretta Leversee

Lois Wheeler

Goodyear TV Playhouse: End of the Mission
19Jun55

7.21 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BLACK FROST

26Jun55

written by Steve Hill

starring

Lonny Chapman

Bert Freed

Pat Hingle

Lenka Peterson

Logan Ramsey

Goodyear TV Playhouse: The Prizewinner
03Jul55

7.22 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: INCIDENT IN JULY

(aka Dogwood Blossoms)

10Jul55

producer Gordon Duff

written by Calder Willingham

directed by Jack Smight

starring

Dick York ....... Andy

Charles Dingle ....... Daddy Tom

Peggy Maurer ........ Madeleine

Maureen Stapleton .......... Mrs. Johnson

Will West ........ Ham Ector

Ethel Remey ........ Mrs. Mulberry

Fred Eisley ........ Jimmy

Allen Nourse ...... Mr. Johnson

Synopsis:

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 rumor 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 re-hires them on the condition she not mention

the money until the last day of camp. She does wait, but Andy wants to work his way

through college. She is reconciled with Mr. Johnson, and they decide to adopt a child. [RF]

Goodyear TV Playhouse: Man on Spikes
17Jul55

7.23 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID

24Jul55

written by Gore Vidal

starring

Paul Newman ........ Billy the Kid

Jason Robards

Michael Conrad

Frank Overton

Michael Strong

Goodyear TV Playhouse: Tangled Web
31Jul55

7.24 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A ROOM IN PARIS

07Aug55

starring

John Cassavetes

Kathleen Maguire

Al Markim

Goodyear TV Playhouse: The Takers
14Aug55

7.25 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: GRETEL

21Aug55

written by Vance Bourjaily

starring

Geoffrey Horne

Edmon Ryan

Eva Stern

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########## Philco Television Playhouse ##########

############ season 8 1955-56 ################

##########################################

8.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MISS AMERICA STORY

04Sep55

written by Roger O. Hirson

starring

Johnny Desmond

Lee Meriwether

Charlotte Rae

Goodyear TV Playhouse: Suit Yourself
11Sep55

8.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE OUTSIDERS

18Sep55

written by Bernard Wolfe

starring

Jason Robards

Eli Wallach ....... Nacho

Pat Henning ....... Claessens

Arthur O'Connell ....... Grant

Jo Rabb ....... Christina

Synopsis:

A group of disgruntled South American peasants tries to sabotage the work

on an American engineering team. The natives feel that the outsiders are

interfering with their way of life. [RF]

Goodyear TV Playhouse: The Merry-Go-Round
25Sep55

8.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A MAN IS TEN FEET TALL

02Oct55

written by Robert Alan Aurthur

directed by Robert Mulligan

producer Gordon Duff

starring

Sidney Poitier ......... Tommy Tyler

Martin Balsam ......... Charlie Malick

Don Murray ......... Alex Nordman

Kathleen Murray ......... Katherine

Hilda Simms ....... Lucy Tyler

Michael Strong .......... Lloyd Mills

Johanna Douglas

Meg Wyllie

Florence Anglin

Ed Walsh

Betty McDonald

Joe Comadore

Synopsis:

Drama about waterfront workers. An AWOL soldier befriends a

black worker; together they battle against hatred and oppression. [RF]

Goodyear TV Playhouse: The Expendable House
09Oct55