The Classic TV Archive - US Dramatic Anthology Series

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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