The Philco Television Playhouse: Season 1
Episodes
Dinner at Eight
Oct 3, 1948 · 60 min
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
Rebecca
Oct 10, 1948 · 60 min
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
Counsellor-at-Law
Oct 17, 1948 · 60 min
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.
Angel in the Wings
Oct 24, 1948 · 60 min
An understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy takes over and brings down the house.
Street Scene
Oct 31, 1948 · 60 min
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
This Thing Called Love
Nov 7, 1948 · 60 min
A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or not. The husband tries to lure her with all kinds of excuses a
Camille
Nov 14, 1948 · 60 min
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
An Inspector Calls
Nov 21, 1948 · 60 min
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 ex
I Like It Here
Nov 28, 1948 · 60 min
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 interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in l
Suspect
Dec 5, 1948 · 60 min
20 years ago, a Scotswoman was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her s
Parlor Story
Dec 12, 1948 · 60 min
An ambitious professor wants to become President of his university. He is soon caught up in the political opportunism of the State Governor, the wiles of an unscrupulous newspaper
A Christmas Carol
Dec 19, 1948 · 60 min
The skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
Dec 26, 1948 · 60 min
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 fo
Ramshackle Inn
Jan 2, 1949 · 60 min
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
Cyrano de Bergerac
Jan 9, 1949 · 60 min
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
Papa Is All
Jan 16, 1949 · 60 min
Papa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel.
Pride and Prejudice
Jan 23, 1949 · 60 min
The trials of a woman trying to find husbands for her five daughters in 18th-century England.
Dark Hammock
Jan 30, 1949 · 60 min
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 in
The Late Christopher Bean
Feb 6, 1949 · 60 min
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 ultimate
The Story of Mary Surratt
Feb 13, 1949 · 60 min
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 u
Twelfth Night
Feb 20, 1949 · 60 min
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 her
St. Helena
Feb 27, 1949 · 60 min
On St. Helena, the exiled emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In his confinement he's suffering from a bad liver and a sulking mi
The Druid Circle
Mar 6, 1949 · 60 min
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
Quality Street
Mar 13, 1949 · 60 min
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 has
Dinner at Antoine's
Mar 20, 1949 · 60 min
The murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.
Becky Sharp
Mar 27, 1949 · 60 min
A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. However, fate never seems to give her an even break.
And Never Been Kissed
Apr 3, 1949 · 60 min
A sixteen-year-old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.
What Makes Sammy Run?
Apr 10, 1949 · 60 min
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
Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies
Apr 17, 1949 · 60 min
Only Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.
Burlesque
Apr 24, 1949 · 60 min
Vaudevillians Skid and Bonnie are partners onstage and off -- until success comes to Skip. He develops an oversized ego and a taste for booze, which alienates Bonnie. But his frien
Macbeth
May 1, 1949 · 60 min
Scottish nobleman who prompted by his own prophecy and ambitions, kills a king to wear his crown.
Romeo and Juliet
May 15, 1949 · 60 min
Star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the start by the hatred of their families.
This Time, Next Year
Jun 5, 1949 · 60 min
The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materialises every year at Grant's Tomb.
It Pays to Advertise
Jun 12, 1949 · 60 min
With the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously popular product and cant keep up with the demand.
Summer Formal
Jun 19, 1949 · 60 min
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 exaspera
Jenny Kissed Me
Jun 26, 1949 · 60 min
A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. The 18-year-old Jenny is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles an
Dark of the Moon
Jul 3, 1949 · 60 min
A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjure woman turn him into a human. The only condition of the spell is that Barbara
For Love or Money
Jul 10, 1949 · 60 min
A young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of a famous actor.
The Five Lives of Richard Gordon
Jul 17, 1949 · 60 min
Katie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife, has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. Her restless and bored spouse just keeps finding himself in hot
You Touched Me!
Jul 24, 1949 · 60 min
The adopted son of a drunken former sea captain returns to the household as an adult. He asks the old man for his eldest daughter's hand in marriage. Everyone believes it's an atte
The Fourth Wall
Jul 31, 1949 · 60 min
The life of a middle-aged couple has become to complacent and empty.
Enter Madame
Aug 7, 1949 · 60 min
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 receivi
A Murder Has Been Arranged
Aug 14, 1949 · 60 min
A ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.
Pretty Little Parlor
Aug 21, 1949 · 60 min
A little soirée is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.
Three Cornered Moon
Aug 28, 1949 · 60 min
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 th