The Philco Television Playhouse — Season 2

Aired 4 September 1949 • 60 min

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.

Aired 11 September 1949 • 60 min

Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for human decency or moral restraint left him ruthless and corrupt. He falls for Sharon O'Neill who is a woman filled with so much goodness in her soul, as much as he has evil in his.

Aired 18 September 1949 • 60 min

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

Aired 25 September 1949 • 60 min

An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a female friend. Their understanding is that the trip will be purely platonic; instead, they fall madly in love. At his first opportunity, the lieutenant flies back to America to break the news to his fiancé and family.

Aired 2 October 1949 • 60 min

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

Aired 9 October 1949 • 60 min

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

Aired 16 October 1949 • 60 min

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

Aired 23 October 1949 • 60 min

The Lockwoods are patronising toward their former neighbours, the Hunters, who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters are saved from despair from the help of a young junk dealer named Oliver Read, who teaches the Lockwoods a lesson in humanity.

Aired 30 October 1949 • 60 min

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

Aired 6 November 1949 • 60 min

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

Aired 13 November 1949 • 60 min

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

Aired 20 November 1949 • 60 min

Aired 27 November 1949 • 60 min

A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and vanity are causes of the trouble.

Aired 4 December 1949 • 60 min

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

Aired 11 December 1949 • 60 min

The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher.

Aired 18 December 1949 • 60 min

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

Aired 25 December 1949 • 60 min

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

Aired 1 January 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 8 January 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 15 January 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 22 January 1950 • 60 min

In England in the 1890s, 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.

Aired 29 January 1950 • 60 min

Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers.

Aired 5 February 1950 • 60 min

A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resents the intrusion, especially since her neighbours happen to be Jews.

Aired 12 February 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 19 February 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 26 February 1950 • 60 min

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 cafés, cocktail parties, and public appearances, and returns to his simple way of living in the country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart.

Aired 5 March 1950 • 60 min

The tragic life story of the tormented artist.

Aired 12 March 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 19 March 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 26 March 1950 • 60 min

An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

Aired 2 April 1950 • 60 min

In London in 1910, 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.

Aired 9 April 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 16 April 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 23 April 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 30 April 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 7 May 1950 • 60 min

A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.

Aired 14 May 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 21 May 1950 • 60 min

A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers. He eventually falls in love with a rich girl and leads a revolt against the President of the fraternity house.

Aired 28 May 1950 • 60 min

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.

Aired 4 June 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 11 June 1950 • 60 min

A bonk on the head turns a grouchy hothead into the sweetest man in town. Brannigan runs for mayor of his small town--and wins--with his "love everybody" campaign. He even wins over the crooked newspaper publisher.

Aired 18 June 1950 • 60 min

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

Aired 25 June 1950 • 60 min

A shell-shocked WWI ex-soldier is unable to speak though doctors say the problem isn't physical. Tired of completing with his overbearing, doting mother, the woman he loves begins to withdraw from his life. It's then that he regains his ability to talk.

Aired 2 July 1950 • 60 min

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.

Aired 9 July 1950 • 60 min

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