The Philco Television Playhouse

(1948)•

6.3

Comeback King

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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

267

Episodes

Ended

Status

October 3, 1948

First Aired

Season Ratings

5.5→7.3

IMDb

Networks: NBC

Genres: Drama

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Season 1

45 episodes • 1948

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Dinner at Eight	Oct 3, 1948
2	Rebecca	Oct 10, 1948
3	Counsellor-at-Law	Oct 17, 1948
4	Angel in the Wings	Oct 24, 1948
5	Street Scene	Oct 31, 1948
6	This Thing Called Love	Nov 7, 1948
7	Camille	Nov 14, 1948
8	An Inspector Calls	Nov 21, 1948
9	I Like It Here	Nov 28, 1948
10	Suspect	Dec 5, 1948
11	Parlor Story	Dec 12, 1948
12	A Christmas Carol	Dec 19, 1948
13	The Old Lady Shows Her Medals	Dec 26, 1948
14	Ramshackle Inn	Jan 2, 1949
15	Cyrano de Bergerac	Jan 9, 1949
16	Papa Is All	Jan 16, 1949
17	Pride and Prejudice	Jan 23, 1949
18	Dark Hammock	Jan 30, 1949
19	The Late Christopher Bean	Feb 6, 1949
20	The Story of Mary Surratt	Feb 13, 1949
21	Twelfth Night	Feb 20, 1949
22	St. Helena	Feb 27, 1949
23	The Druid Circle	Mar 6, 1949
24	Quality Street	Mar 13, 1949
25	Dinner at Antoine's	Mar 20, 1949
26	Becky Sharp	Mar 27, 1949
27	And Never Been Kissed	Apr 3, 1949
28	What Makes Sammy Run?	Apr 10, 1949
29	Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies	Apr 17, 1949
30	Burlesque	Apr 24, 1949
31	Macbeth	May 1, 1949
32	Romeo and Juliet	May 15, 1949
33	This Time, Next Year	Jun 5, 1949
34	It Pays to Advertise	Jun 12, 1949
35	Summer Formal	Jun 19, 1949
36	Jenny Kissed Me	Jun 26, 1949
37	Dark of the Moon	Jul 3, 1949
38	For Love or Money	Jul 10, 1949
39	The Five Lives of Richard Gordon	Jul 17, 1949
40	You Touched Me!	Jul 24, 1949
41	The Fourth Wall	Jul 31, 1949
42	Enter Madame	Aug 7, 1949
43	A Murder Has Been Arranged	Aug 14, 1949
44	Pretty Little Parlor	Aug 21, 1949
45	Three Cornered Moon	Aug 28, 1949

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Season 2

45 episodes • 1949Avg: 6.0Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	What Every Woman Knows	Sep 4, 1949	0.0
2	Pride's Castle	Sep 11, 1949	0.0
3	The Little Sister	Sep 18, 1949	0.0
4	The Lonely	Sep 25, 1949	0.0
5	The Queen Bee	Oct 2, 1949	0.0
6	Something's Got to Give	Oct 9, 1949	0.0
7	The Last Tycoon	Oct 16, 1949	0.0
8	Because of the Lockwoods	Oct 23, 1949	0.0
9	Damion's Daughter	Oct 30, 1949	0.0
10	The House of Seven Gables	Nov 6, 1949	0.0
11	The Promise	Nov 13, 1949	0.0
12	Medical Meeting	Nov 20, 1949	0.0
13	The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram	Nov 27, 1949	0.0
14	Mist on the Waters	Dec 4, 1949	0.0
15	The Beautiful Bequest	Dec 11, 1949	0.0
16	The Strange Christmas Dinner	Dec 18, 1949	0.0
17	In Beauty Like the Night	Dec 25, 1949	0.0
18	Little Boy Lost	Jan 1, 1950	0.0
19	Bethel Merriday	Jan 8, 1950	6.0
20	Murder at the Stork Club	Jan 15, 1950	0.0
21	The Marriages	Jan 22, 1950	0.0
22	Uncle Dynamite	Jan 29, 1950	0.0
23	The Sudden Guest	Feb 5, 1950	0.0
24	Ann Rutledge	Feb 12, 1950	6.0
25	A Letter to Mr. Priest	Feb 19, 1950	0.0
26	Hometown	Feb 26, 1950	0.0
27	The Life of Vincent Van Gogh	Mar 5, 1950	0.0
28	The Uncertain Molly Collicutt	Mar 12, 1950	0.0
29	The Trial of Steven Kent	Mar 19, 1950	0.0
30	The Second Oldest Profession	Mar 26, 1950	0.0
31	Nocturne	Apr 2, 1950	0.0
32	Dirty Eddie	Apr 9, 1950	0.0
33	The End is Known	Apr 16, 1950	0.0
34	The Man in the Black Hat	Apr 23, 1950	0.0
35	The American	Apr 30, 1950	0.0
36	The Feast	May 7, 1950	0.0
37	Brat Farrar	May 14, 1950	0.0
38	The Charmed Circle	May 21, 1950	0.0
39	Semmelweis	May 28, 1950	0.0
40	Sense and Sensibility	Jun 4, 1950	0.0
41	The Bump on Brannigan's Head	Jun 11, 1950	0.0
42	Anything Can Happen	Jun 18, 1950	0.0
43	Hear My Heart Speak	Jun 25, 1950	0.0
44	The Reluctant Landlord	Jul 2, 1950	0.0
45	The Tentacles	Jul 9, 1950	0.0

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Season 3

56 episodes • 1950Avg: 6.0

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	High Tor	Sep 10, 1950	0.0
2	The Long Run	Sep 17, 1950	0.0
3	Dear Guest and Ghost	Sep 24, 1950	0.0
4	The Touch of a Stranger	Oct 1, 1950	0.0
5	The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street	Oct 8, 1950	0.0
6	A Husband for Mama	Oct 15, 1950	0.0
7	Portrait in Smoke	Oct 22, 1950	0.0
8	The Gambler	Oct 29, 1950	0.0
9	The Power Devil	Nov 5, 1950	0.0
10	The Man Who Got Away With It	Nov 12, 1950	0.0
11	I'm Still Alive	Nov 19, 1950	0.0
12	Torch for a Dark Journey	Nov 26, 1950	0.0
13	Wacky, the Small Boy	Dec 3, 1950	0.0
14	Bonanza	Dec 10, 1950	0.0
15	Decoy	Dec 17, 1950	0.0
16	The Pupil	Dec 24, 1950	0.0
17	Leaf out of a Book	Dec 31, 1950	6.0
18	The Symbol: Jefferson Davis	Jan 7, 1951	0.0
19	The Lost Diplomat	Jan 14, 1951	0.0
20	Confession	Jan 21, 1951	0.0
21	The Great Escape	Jan 28, 1951	0.0
22	A Matter of Life and Death	Feb 4, 1951	0.0
23	Kitty Doone	Feb 11, 1951	0.0
24	Let Them Be Sea Captains	Feb 18, 1951	0.0
25	The Man Who Bought a Town	Feb 25, 1951	0.0
26	No Medals on Pop	Mar 11, 1951	0.0
27	The Dark Corridor	Mar 18, 1951	0.0
28	Bulletin 120	Mar 25, 1951	0.0
29	Parnassus on Wheels	Apr 1, 1951	0.0
30	Routine Assignment	Apr 8, 1951	0.0
31	Hour of Destiny	Apr 15, 1951	0.0
32	The Birth of the Movies	Apr 22, 1951	0.0
33	Mr. Arcularis	Apr 29, 1951	0.0
34	A Secret Island	May 6, 1951	0.0
35	The Visitors	May 13, 1951	0.0
36	Justice and Mr. Pleznik	May 20, 1951	0.0
37	Rescue	May 27, 1951	0.0
38	The Adventures of Hiram Holliday	Jun 3, 1951	0.0
39	The Fast Dollar	Jun 10, 1951	0.0
40	Operation: Airlift	Jun 17, 1951	0.0
41	Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal	Jun 24, 1951	0.0
42	The Plot	Jul 1, 1951	0.0
43	Case History	Jul 8, 1951	0.0
44	I Want to March	Jul 15, 1951	0.0
45	Pretend I Am A Stranger	Jul 22, 1951	0.0
46	Television Story	Jul 29, 1951	0.0
47	The Return	Aug 5, 1951	0.0
48	Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands	Aug 12, 1951	0.0
49	Come Alive	Aug 19, 1951	0.0
50	Night at the Vulcan	Aug 26, 1951	0.0
51	This Time Next Year	Sep 2, 1951	0.0
52	Women of Intrigue	Sep 9, 1951	0.0
53	The Wayward Season	Sep 16, 1951	0.0
54	The Spur	Sep 23, 1951	0.0
55	By-Line for Murder	Sep 30, 1951	0.0
56	Requiem for a Model A	Oct 7, 1951	0.0

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Season 4

25 episodes • 1951Avg: 6.0

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Marcia Akers	Oct 21, 1951	0.0
2	The Education of a Fullback	Nov 4, 1951	0.0
3	A Little Night Music	Nov 18, 1951	0.0
4	Incident at Golden's Creek	Dec 2, 1951	0.0
5	Perspective	Dec 16, 1951	0.0
6	The Sisters	Dec 30, 1951	6.0
7	Without Fear or Favor	Jan 13, 1952	0.0
8	Segment	Jan 27, 1952	0.0
9	Rich Boy	Feb 10, 1952	6.0
10	Tender Age	Feb 24, 1952	0.0
11	Dusty Portrait	Mar 9, 1952	0.0
12	The Best Laid Schemes	Mar 23, 1952	0.0
13	The Room Next Door	Apr 5, 1952	0.0
14	The Basket Weaver	Apr 19, 1952	0.0
15	We Were Children	May 4, 1952	0.0
16	A Cowboy for Chris	May 18, 1952	0.0
17	A Man's Game	Jun 1, 1952	0.0
18	Flight into Darkness	Jun 15, 1952	0.0
19	The Monument	Jun 29, 1952	0.0
20	A Letter to Mr. Priest	Jul 13, 1952	0.0
21	Bratt Farrar	Jul 27, 1952	0.0
22	The Five Fathers of Pepi	Aug 10, 1952	0.0
23	Three Sundays	Aug 24, 1952	0.0
24	The Last Hour	Sep 7, 1952	0.0
25	Holiday Song	Sep 14, 1952	0.0

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Season 5

33 episodes • 1952Avg: 7.3

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	The Thin Air	Sep 21, 1952	0.0
2	The Black Sheep	Oct 5, 1952	0.0
3	Uncertain Heritage	Oct 19, 1952	0.0
4	The Winter of the Dog	Nov 2, 1952	0.0
5	Parole Chief	Nov 16, 1952	0.0
6	The Gift	Nov 30, 1952	0.0
7	Tempest of Tick Creek	Dec 14, 1952	0.0
8	Magic Morning	Dec 28, 1952	0.0
9	Double Jeopardy	Jan 4, 1953	0.0
10	Pride's Way	Jan 11, 1953	0.0
11	Two for One	Jan 18, 1953	0.0
12	Elegy	Jan 25, 1953	0.0
13	The Reluctant Citizen	Feb 8, 1953	0.0
14	Mr. Pettengill Here	Feb 15, 1953	0.0
15	Wings on My Feet	Feb 22, 1953	0.0
16	The Trip to Bountiful	Mar 1, 1953	0.0
17	The Gesture	Mar 15, 1953	0.0
18	The Velvet Mitten	Mar 22, 1953	0.0
19	A Young Lady of Property	Apr 5, 1953	0.0
20	The Recluse	Apr 19, 1953	0.0
21	Printer's Measure	Apr 26, 1953	0.0
22	A Little Something in Reserve	May 10, 1953	0.0
23	Marty	May 24, 1953	0.0
24	The Way of an Eagle	Jun 7, 1953	0.0
25	Baby and Me	Jun 14, 1953	0.0
26	Expectant Relations	Jun 21, 1953	0.0
27	The House in Athens	Jul 5, 1953	7.3
28	The Big Deal	Jul 19, 1953	0.0
29	The Cipher	Aug 2, 1953	0.0
30	Ernie Barger is 50	Aug 9, 1953	0.0
31	The Rainmaker	Aug 16, 1953	0.0
32	Othello	Sep 6, 1953	0.0
33	Holiday Song	Sep 20, 1953	0.0

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Season 6

26 episodes • 1953Avg: 5.5Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	0 for 37	Sep 27, 1953	0.0
2	The Bachelor Party	Oct 11, 1953	0.0
3	The Girl With the Stopwatch	Oct 25, 1953	0.0
4	The Train to Trouble	Nov 8, 1953	0.0
5	Up Above the World So High	Nov 22, 1953	0.0
6	The Sixth Year	Nov 29, 1953	0.0
7	The Midnight Caller	Dec 13, 1953	0.0
8	The Glorification of Al Toolum	Dec 27, 1953	0.0
9	The Hangman in the Fog	Jan 10, 1954	0.0
10	Smoke Screen	Jan 24, 1954	0.0
11	A Game of Hide and Seek	Feb 7, 1954	0.0
12	Statute of Limitations	Feb 21, 1954	0.0
13	The Dancers	Mar 7, 1954	0.0
14	The Broken Fist	Mar 21, 1954	0.0
15	The Mother	Apr 4, 1954	0.0
16	The King and Mrs. Candle	Apr 18, 1954	0.0
17	The Joker	May 2, 1954	0.0
18	And Crown Thy Good	May 16, 1954	0.0
19	The Shadow of Willie Greer	May 30, 1954	0.0
20	Adapt or Die	Jun 13, 1954	0.0
21	Friday the Thirteenth	Jun 27, 1954	0.0
22	Man Drowning	Jul 11, 1954	0.0
23	The Catamaran	Jul 25, 1954	0.0
24	The Man in the Middle of the Ocean	Aug 8, 1954	0.0
25	Star in the Summer Night	Aug 22, 1954	0.0
26	Run Like a Thief	Sep 5, 1954	5.5

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Season 7

25 episodes • 1954Avg: 6.0

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Middle of the Night	Sep 19, 1954	0.0
2	Time Bomb	Oct 3, 1954	0.0
3	Man on the Mountaintop	Oct 17, 1954	0.0
4	Time of Delivery	Oct 31, 1954	0.0
5	Crime Without Motive	Nov 14, 1954	0.0
6	Beg, Borrow or Steal	Nov 28, 1954	0.0
7	Catch My Boy on Sunday	Dec 12, 1954	0.0
8	Run, Girl, Run	Dec 26, 1954	0.0
9	Walk Into the Night	Jan 9, 1955	0.0
10	Anatomy of Fear	Jan 23, 1955	0.0
11	A Sense of Justice	Feb 6, 1955	0.0
12	The Assassin	Feb 20, 1955	0.0
13	Play Me Hearts and Flowers	Mar 6, 1955	0.0
14	Shadow of the Champ	Mar 20, 1955	0.0
15	Watch Me Die	Apr 3, 1955	0.0
16	The Bold and the Brave	Apr 17, 1955	0.0
17	Letter of Recommendation	May 1, 1955	0.0
18	The Pardon-Me Boy	May 15, 1955	0.0
19	The Ghost Writer	May 29, 1955	0.0
20	Total Recall	Jun 12, 1955	0.0
21	Black Frost	Jun 26, 1955	0.0
22	Incident in July	Jul 10, 1955	0.0
23	The Death of Billy the Kid	Jul 24, 1955	6.0
24	A Room in Paris	Aug 7, 1955	0.0
25	Gretel	Aug 21, 1955	0.0

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Season 8

12 episodes • 1955

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Miss America Story	Sep 4, 1955
2	The Outsiders	Sep 18, 1955
3	A Man is Ten Feet Tall	Oct 2, 1955
4	A Business Proposition	Oct 23, 1955
5	The Mechanical Heart	Nov 6, 1955
6	One Mummy Too Many	Nov 20, 1955
7	The Trees	Dec 4, 1955
8	Christmas 'Til Closing	Dec 18, 1955
9	Rise Up and Walk	Jan 1, 1956
10	This Land is Mine	Jan 15, 1956
11	The Starlet	Jan 29, 1956
12	Kyria Katina	Feb 12, 1956

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