The Philco Television Playhouse — Season 7
About this season
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.
Episodes (25)
1. Middle of the Night
Aired 19 September 1954 • 60 min
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
2. Time Bomb
Aired 3 October 1954 • 60 min
A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.
3. Man on the Mountaintop
Aired 17 October 1954 • 60 min
Horace Mann Borden is an adult former child prodigy who has been exploited by his father to advance his own theories about education. Horace feels that people view him as a freak and expect things out of him. Horace shuts out the world. Greta Blake is the woman who has fallen in love with Horace and shows him that the world is not out to get him.
4. Time of Delivery
Aired 31 October 1954 • 60 min
A 24-hour delay in mail delivery violently changes three lives. A postman collapses on his daily route and the delivery of his sack of mail is delayed for a day. In three dramatic situations which develop,
5. Crime Without Motive
Aired 14 November 1954 • 60 min
The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.
6. Beg, Borrow or Steal
Aired 28 November 1954 • 60 min
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 finds himself in when another lawyer takes over the estate.
7. Catch My Boy on Sunday
Aired 12 December 1954 • 60 min
A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.
8. Run, Girl, Run
Aired 26 December 1954 • 60 min
An aspiring young actress loses her big chance on Broadway and returns home. Her mother shows why she may have failed and inspires her to try again.
9. Walk Into the Night
Aired 9 January 1955 • 60 min
A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.
10. Anatomy of Fear
Aired 23 January 1955 • 60 min
A man is implicated in a murder while vacationing with his wife at a summer resort. The man recognizes a murdered woman as the one in love with his business partner. He hides her purse in order to delay identification but his wife threatens to expose him,
11. A Sense of Justice
Aired 6 February 1955 • 60 min
A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
12. The Assassin
Aired 20 February 1955 • 60 min
The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.
13. Play Me Hearts and Flowers
Aired 6 March 1955 • 60 min
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, and that somehow he must reassert his individuality.
14. Shadow of the Champ
Aired 20 March 1955 • 60 min
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.
15. Watch Me Die
Aired 3 April 1955 • 60 min
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 ideal way to kill his unsuspecting spouse.
16. The Bold and the Brave
Aired 17 April 1955 • 60 min
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.
17. Letter of Recommendation
Aired 1 May 1955 • 60 min
A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.
18. The Pardon-Me Boy
Aired 15 May 1955 • 60 min
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.
19. The Ghost Writer
Aired 29 May 1955 • 60 min
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. However, the actor and his ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred of her father to their advantage.
20. Total Recall
Aired 12 June 1955 • 60 min
A man who's stopped before committing suicide says he can remember nothing of his past. A police check reveals that he has a wife.
21. Black Frost
Aired 26 June 1955 • 60 min
A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.
22. Incident in July
Aired 10 July 1955 • 60 min
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 rumour 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 later re-hires them on the condition that she not mention...
23. The Death of Billy the Kid
6.0Aired 24 July 1955 • 60 min
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
24. A Room in Paris
Aired 7 August 1955 • 60 min
An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.
25. Gretel
Aired 21 August 1955 • 60 min
Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.