The Philco Television Playhouse
The Philco Television Playhouse

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948 8 Seasons 267 Episodes ⭐ 6.6 Drama

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

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

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Dinner at Eight

Social-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hospita

EP 2

Rebecca

Brooding and moody Maxim deWinter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year af

EP 3

Counsellor-at-Law

An upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to he

EP 4

Angel in the Wings

An understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy take

EP 5

Street Scene

Abraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of po

EP 6

This Thing Called Love

A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or no

EP 7

Camille

Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship je

EP 8

An Inspector Calls

When Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter the

EP 9

I Like It Here

Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable man even when he's interferi

EP 10

Suspect

20 years ago, a Scotswoman was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Proven.

EP 11

Parlor Story

An ambitious professor wants to become President of his university. He is soon caught up in the political opportunism of

EP 12

A Christmas Carol

The skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

EP 13

The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

The basement flat of Mrs Dowey, a Scottish charwoman who lives and works in London, during World War I, and Mrs Dowey an

EP 14

Ramshackle Inn

An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting peopl

EP 15

Cyrano de Bergerac

The poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose, Cyrano uses the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit fo

EP 16

Papa Is All

Papa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel.

EP 17

Pride and Prejudice

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

EP 18

Dark Hammock

In a remote part of Florida Coral Platt, a sinister woman has married a man considerably older than she. For reasons suf

EP 19

The Late Christopher Bean

Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish, an

EP 20

The Story of Mary Surratt

After the death of her husband Mary opened a boardinghouse to pay the debts owed by her husband. .. There she began a re

EP 21

Twelfth Night

Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly

EP 22

St. Helena

On St. Helena, the exiled emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In his

EP 23

The Druid Circle

An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has be

EP 24

Quality Street

Because she's nearly 30 and still unwed, Phoebe Throssel is regarded as an over-the-hill spinster. Thus, when offered th

EP 25

Dinner at Antoine's

The murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.

EP 26

Becky Sharp

A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. However, fate never seems to give her an even

EP 27

And Never Been Kissed

A sixteen-year-old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.

EP 28

What Makes Sammy Run?

The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, throug

EP 29

Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies

Only Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.

EP 30

Burlesque

Vaudevillians Skid and Bonnie are partners onstage and off -- until success comes to Skip. He develops an oversized ego

EP 31

Macbeth

Scottish nobleman who prompted by his own prophecy and ambitions, kills a king to wear his crown.

EP 32

Romeo and Juliet

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

EP 33

This Time, Next Year

The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materialises every year at Grant's Tomb.

EP 34

It Pays to Advertise

With the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously popular product and cant keep up with the demand.

EP 35

Summer Formal

A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the kind

EP 36

Jenny Kissed Me

A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. The 18-year-old Jenny is the precise opposite o

EP 37

Dark of the Moon

A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjure woman turn him in

EP 38

For Love or Money

A young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of a famous actor.

EP 39

The Five Lives of Richard Gordon

Katie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife, has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. Her

EP 40

You Touched Me!

The adopted son of a drunken former sea captain returns to the household as an adult. He asks the old man for his eldest

EP 41

The Fourth Wall

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

EP 42

Enter Madame

A grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better hal

EP 43

A Murder Has Been Arranged

A ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.

EP 44

Pretty Little Parlor

A little soirée is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.

EP 45

Three Cornered Moon

Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law stud

EP 1

What Every Woman Knows

A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous hu

EP 2

Pride's Castle

Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women.

EP 3

The Little Sister

A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.

EP 4

The Lonely

An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a female friend. Their understanding is that

EP 5

The Queen Bee

A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.

EP 6

Something's Got to Give

A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.

EP 7

The Last Tycoon

A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.

EP 8

Because of the Lockwoods

The Lockwoods are patronising toward their former neighbours, the Hunters, who are now living in the poorer district in

EP 9

Damion's Daughter

A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backs

EP 10

The House of Seven Gables

With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.

EP 11

The Promise

A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.

EP 12

Medical Meeting

EP 13

The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram

A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novel

EP 14

Mist on the Waters

Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.

EP 15

The Beautiful Bequest

The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable an

EP 16

The Strange Christmas Dinner

A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.

EP 17

In Beauty Like the Night

A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.

EP 18

Little Boy Lost

An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed b

EP 19

Bethel Merriday

A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.

EP 20

Murder at the Stork Club

A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.

EP 21

The Marriages

In England in the 1890s, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American wi

EP 22

Uncle Dynamite

Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it

EP 23

The Sudden Guest

A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resen

EP 24

Ann Rutledge

The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.

EP 25

A Letter to Mr. Priest

An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.

EP 26

Hometown

Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a publicity build-up for his book. He meets a glamoro

EP 27

The Life of Vincent Van Gogh

The tragic life story of the tormented artist.

EP 28

The Uncertain Molly Collicutt

A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.

EP 29

The Trial of Steven Kent

A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.

EP 30

The Second Oldest Profession

An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

EP 31

Nocturne

In London in 1910, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support and care for their widowed, invalid father. Jenny

EP 32

Dirty Eddie

Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.

EP 33

The End is Known

A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He then learns the suicide jumped from his apa

EP 34

The Man in the Black Hat

A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.

EP 35

The American

An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.

EP 36

The Feast

A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, chil

EP 37

Brat Farrar

Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.

EP 38

The Charmed Circle

A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers. He eventually falls in love with a ri

EP 39

Semmelweis

Story of the great physician who saved millions of lives due to his discovery of the cause of childbed fever (puerperal

EP 40

Sense and Sensibility

Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.

EP 41

The Bump on Brannigan's Head

A bonk on the head turns a grouchy hothead into the sweetest man in town. Brannigan runs for mayor of his small town--an

EP 42

Anything Can Happen

A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his n

EP 43

Hear My Heart Speak

A shell-shocked WWI ex-soldier is unable to speak though doctors say the problem isn't physical. Tired of completing wit

EP 44

The Reluctant Landlord

Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia, experiences many difficulties as he tries to ada

EP 45

The Tentacles

A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.

EP 1

High Tor

Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountain, High Tor, for commercial use. When the g

EP 2

The Long Run

EP 3

Dear Guest and Ghost

A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.

EP 4

The Touch of a Stranger

A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implic

EP 5

The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street

Seeds planted in a New York City backyard grow into a magical plant that brings happiness to those living near it. Forme

EP 6

A Husband for Mama

The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doc

EP 7

Portrait in Smoke

A debt collector searches for the woman who saved him from an armed holdup; he wants her to have a $1000 reward. As he t

EP 8

The Gambler

A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Century, this story relates how Philip, a young m

EP 9

The Power Devil

A young attorney involves himself in many shady deals as he pursues political ambitions. His wife speaks up and demands

EP 10

The Man Who Got Away With It

EP 11

I'm Still Alive

A mousy teacher at a small school had written a swashbuckling story filled with international spies and adventure. Unbek

EP 12

Torch for a Dark Journey

A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal

EP 13

Wacky, the Small Boy

EP 14

Bonanza

The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.

EP 15

Decoy

EP 16

The Pupil

A tutor hired to instruct an uncontrollable 10-year-old soon recognizes the child's problem: it's his parents. The boy h

EP 17

Leaf out of a Book

EP 18

The Symbol: Jefferson Davis

Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daught

EP 19

The Lost Diplomat

EP 20

Confession

The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.

EP 21

The Great Escape

The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.

EP 22

A Matter of Life and Death

EP 23

Kitty Doone

A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.

EP 24

Let Them Be Sea Captains

Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century feminist and first wo

EP 25

The Man Who Bought a Town

A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.

EP 26

No Medals on Pop

A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is heartbroken when he finds out the truth and

EP 27

The Dark Corridor

The story of the Marr family which is made up of a dominant mother who bates everyone, the vacillating son, his wife, an

EP 28

Bulletin 120

In Mississippi in 1915, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts and discovers that pellagra is caused

EP 29

Parnassus on Wheels

In 1900's New England, Helen McGuill buys a horse-drawn, traveling bookstore, "Parnassus," from its owner, Roger McGuill

EP 30

Routine Assignment

A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then deny his guilt in a complex twist of events

EP 31

Hour of Destiny

EP 32

The Birth of the Movies

Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks with Lillian Gish before and following the drama.

EP 33

Mr. Arcularis

After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.

EP 34

A Secret Island

A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.

EP 35

The Visitors

A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.

EP 36

Justice and Mr. Pleznik

The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.

EP 37

Rescue

EP 38

The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting a

EP 39

The Fast Dollar

A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.

EP 40

Operation: Airlift

The story of the Berlin airlift, when the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in

EP 41

Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal

Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book

EP 42

The Plot

Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book

EP 43

Case History

A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.

EP 44

I Want to March

The year is 1915 and the suffragettes cause a stir in the home of a zoology professor as his wife takes up the banner of

EP 45

Pretend I Am A Stranger

The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.

EP 46

Television Story

A covetous young actress' career means more to her than marriage to a middle-aged actor who turns to TV after a successf

EP 47

The Return

An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fortune. When his so-called family greet him wi

EP 48

Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands

Lawyer Tutt refuses to cross the street for a $5 million account, but goes clear to Pottsville to draw up a will for Jim

EP 49

Come Alive

An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who come

EP 50

Night at the Vulcan

When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemi

EP 51

This Time Next Year

The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.

EP 52

Women of Intrigue

In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the foreign office disappears.

EP 53

The Wayward Season

A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.

EP 54

The Spur

After the assassination of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leaped to the stage below, his spur became entangled in

EP 55

By-Line for Murder

A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over y

EP 56

Requiem for a Model A

After buying a very used car, a writer uncovers some very unusual items under one of the seat cushions. The story of the

EP 1

Marcia Akers

A young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladder and stepping on people along the way. She

EP 2

The Education of a Fullback

A comedy on the foibles of campus activities about a professor who can't understand why a football hero shouldn't be giv

EP 3

A Little Night Music

Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.

EP 4

Incident at Golden's Creek

An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.

EP 5

Perspective

The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.

EP 6

The Sisters

The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.

EP 7

Without Fear or Favor

Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, whe

EP 8

Segment

During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. Th

EP 9

Rich Boy

This well-received adaptation of the 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story starred Gene Lyons as rich playboy Anson Hunte

EP 10

Tender Age

The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.

EP 11

Dusty Portrait

A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

EP 12

The Best Laid Schemes

Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits N

EP 13

The Room Next Door

A social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined daughter. She however prefers an unstable p

EP 14

The Basket Weaver

The story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased

EP 15

We Were Children

A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.

EP 16

A Cowboy for Chris

A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child

EP 17

A Man's Game

A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.

EP 18

Flight into Darkness

A psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is going insane and later that his brother, a do

EP 19

The Monument

A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run

EP 20

A Letter to Mr. Priest

The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted

EP 21

Bratt Farrar

No Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fo

EP 22

The Five Fathers of Pepi

A young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American co

EP 23

Three Sundays

A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for c

EP 24

The Last Hour

A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.

EP 25

Holiday Song

The night before Rosh Hashonah, a cantor suffers a spiritual crisis. That same night, he is sent by someone to see a rab

EP 1

The Thin Air

A young girl's disappearance on the night of her engagement party leads investigators and her fiancee on a long perplexi

EP 2

The Black Sheep

A reformed playboy has quite a time explaining his escapades to the mother of the girl he decides to marry.

EP 3

Uncertain Heritage

The story of a young man struggling against his father's domination after his father has been dead for several years.

EP 4

The Winter of the Dog

This plot revolves around American troops stationed in China after WWII.

EP 5

Parole Chief

The case histories of several parolees and events that shaped the career of the parole director is told.

EP 6

The Gift

A child has been given an exceptional gift by her fairy godmother, the gift of finding lost articles

EP 7

Tempest of Tick Creek

The story of two brothers and a missing uncle who returns suddenly bringing with him a chest which the brothers assume c

EP 8

Magic Morning

A woman seeks success in her marriage as she had gained in her career.

EP 9

Double Jeopardy

A jury finds a woman not guilty of the murder of her husband, but some still believe her to be guilty of the crime.

EP 10

Pride's Way

The story from incidents in the life of Benedict Arnold and how Arnold's family suffers by his traitorous acts against h

EP 11

Two for One

EP 12

Elegy

A young writer hears that his friend has died so he writes an "Elegy - A Tribute to Larry" that brings him fame and fort

EP 13

The Reluctant Citizen

A 67-year-old refugee deals with his fears and conflicted feelings as he's about to become an American citizen.

EP 14

Mr. Pettengill Here

A dancer becomes so eager for success that her ambition nearly ruins her career.

EP 15

Wings on My Feet

DANCE- DANCE- DANCE- The struggle is real for this young dancer.

EP 16

The Trip to Bountiful

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daug

EP 17

The Gesture

Misaligned plot twists for this lost episode.

EP 18

The Velvet Mitten

A man becomes entangled with a flighty woman during a convention.

EP 19

A Young Lady of Property

Wilma a 15-year-old girl has dreams of becoming a movie star but after her mother's death she is sent to live with her a

EP 20

The Recluse

Classic definition of a recluse when an older man withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude. W

EP 21

Printer's Measure

An old typesetter in a printing works fears the new machinery which will make him redundant - and perhaps render his who

EP 22

A Little Something in Reserve

EP 23

Marty

Marty Pilletti is a 36 year-old butcher who lives with his mother. His brothers and sisters are all married and his dear

EP 24

The Way of an Eagle

The story of John J. Audobon and his wife Lucy.

EP 25

Baby and Me

In a family of eccentrics the five year old daughter stands out for her diva like behavior. Her mother, a retired actres

EP 26

Expectant Relations

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

EP 27

The House in Athens

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

EP 28

The Big Deal

EP 29

The Cipher

EP 30

Ernie Barger is 50

Ernie Barger has a startling revelation when he turns 50. The discovery that he is no longer needed by anyone sends him

EP 31

The Rainmaker

Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't m

EP 32

Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice, is manipulated into believing his loving wife an adulteress.

EP 33

Holiday Song

A cantor's faith is renewed.

EP 1

0 for 37

A young ballplayer appreciates the value of home and family after a shaky start in professional baseball.

EP 2

The Bachelor Party

Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night w

EP 3

The Girl With the Stopwatch

A woman of 30 is preoccupied with her work as a television script writer.

EP 4

The Train to Trouble

A man must decide whether or not to expose the past of a candidate for the sheriff's office.

EP 5

Up Above the World So High

A middle-aged woman seemingly has the gift of second sight.

EP 6

The Sixth Year

A wife becomes exasperated with her husband who seems to have lost the will to work. She takes their child and leaves. H

EP 7

The Midnight Caller

Three unmarried women residing in a boarding house in a small town have watched life pass them by waiting for the right

EP 8

The Glorification of Al Toolum

EP 9

The Hangman in the Fog

An American newspaperman in London believes that he is being pursued by agents from across the Iron Curtain.

EP 10

Smoke Screen

A country boy gets a job in the city as a bookkeeper. He meets a beautiful model and gets mixed up in a murder.

EP 11

A Game of Hide and Seek

EP 12

Statute of Limitations

The perpetrators of a million dollar robbery find themselves with five hours to go before the statute of limitations tak

EP 13

The Dancers

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

EP 14

The Broken Fist

The story of a middle-aged Frenchman in Algiers who decides to do something for his homeland during the Nazi occupation.

EP 15

The Mother

A widow tries not to be dependent on her children.

EP 16

The King and Mrs. Candle

The deposed King of Brandovia, whose inhabitants spend their time exporting bologna and repelling invasions by neighbori

EP 17

The Joker

Mike Galloway, a "nice guy", was an incurable practical joker--always passing out exploding cigars and perpetrating othe

EP 18

And Crown Thy Good

In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas far

EP 19

The Shadow of Willie Greer

In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas far

EP 20

Adapt or Die

An editor of the major magazine "Throb" finds that he must either adapt to the high pressure life of a New York magazine

EP 21

Friday the Thirteenth

3 women have just attended their college reunion, and are returning together when their vehicle crashes through a fence

EP 22

Man Drowning

A big man on the campus turns out to be somewhat of a dud.

EP 23

The Catamaran

A husband's hobby threatens his marriage until he finds a suitable replacement, the wife that is.

EP 24

The Man in the Middle of the Ocean

A member of an architect's firm is torn by internal conflict. His partners need his compliance if they are to cash in on

EP 25

Star in the Summer Night

EP 26

Run Like a Thief

Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his prot

EP 1

Middle of the Night

A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.

EP 2

Time Bomb

A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempt

EP 3

Man on the Mountaintop

Horace Mann Borden is an adult former child prodigy who has been exploited by his father to advance his own theories abo

EP 4

Time of Delivery

A 24-hour delay in mail delivery violently changes three lives. A postman collapses on his daily route and the delivery

EP 5

Crime Without Motive

The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.

EP 6

Beg, Borrow or Steal

The story of a man who embezzles $18,000 from an estate in order to live up to the standards he likes and of the trap he

EP 7

Catch My Boy on Sunday

A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.

EP 8

Run, Girl, Run

An aspiring young actress loses her big chance on Broadway and returns home. Her mother shows why she may have failed an

EP 9

Walk Into the Night

A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.

EP 10

Anatomy of Fear

A man is implicated in a murder while vacationing with his wife at a summer resort. The man recognizes a murdered woman

EP 11

A Sense of Justice

A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.

EP 12

The Assassin

The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalin

EP 13

Play Me Hearts and Flowers

A singer who has teamed up with a comedian realizes that he has become the comic's ""straight man"" both on and off the

EP 14

Shadow of the Champ

A lonely woman feels she has one last shot at romance with a man who's content with being a flunky to a boxing champion.

EP 15

Watch Me Die

He can't simply divorce his wife to marry a young starlet since he wants her money, too. So he begins his search for the

EP 16

The Bold and the Brave

The commander of a military prep school brings near disaster to himself and his son, a pupil at the school. He pushes th

EP 17

Letter of Recommendation

A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.

EP 18

The Pardon-Me Boy

A young man, held a failure by his father, is a juror in the murder trial of a gangland boss. When the trial is over, th

EP 19

The Ghost Writer

The manager of a former actor now running for Congress wants to exploit the fact that the opposition candidate's daughte

EP 20

Total Recall

A man who's stopped before committing suicide says he can remember nothing of his past. A police check reveals that he h

EP 21

Black Frost

A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.

EP 22

Incident in July

Daddy Tom, the camp director, is upset when he learns through the grapevine that one of his counselors, Mrs. Johnson, is

EP 23

The Death of Billy the Kid

How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.

EP 24

A Room in Paris

An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.

EP 25

Gretel

Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.

EP 1

The Miss America Story

The Philco Corporation and ABC network televised the first live Miss America broadcast on Saturday September 11, 1954. T

EP 2

The Outsiders

The work of US engineers in a South American country is disrupted by angry local people.

EP 3

A Man is Ten Feet Tall

Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry.

EP 4

A Business Proposition

EP 5

The Mechanical Heart

A businessman commits an unpardonable breach of ethics in order to keep his business alive.

EP 6

One Mummy Too Many

Three crates, one contains a mummy, one a dead body and one an air-conditioning unit that gets shunted around with utter

EP 7

The Trees

A little girl returns from a fresh air camp to her slum district home and brings a sapling with her. The tree is planted

EP 8

Christmas 'Til Closing

A poor family tries to make the best out of Christmas with little income.

EP 9

Rise Up and Walk

A polio victim's battle to conquer polio is a potent weapon for recovery.

EP 10

This Land is Mine

EP 11

The Starlet

EP 12

Kyria Katina

The life of a widow is likely to change the day a gentleman suitor proposes to her. For the better?

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