The Philco Television Playhouse: Season 7
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 6.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
Middle of the Night
Sep 19, 1954 · 60 min
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
Time Bomb
Oct 3, 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.
Man on the Mountaintop
Oct 17, 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 a
Time of Delivery
Oct 31, 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
Crime Without Motive
Nov 14, 1954 · 60 min
The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Nov 28, 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.
Catch My Boy on Sunday
Dec 12, 1954 · 60 min
A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.
Run, Girl, Run
Dec 26, 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.
Walk Into the Night
Jan 9, 1955 · 60 min
A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.
Anatomy of Fear
Jan 23, 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 p
A Sense of Justice
Feb 6, 1955 · 60 min
A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
The Assassin
Feb 20, 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.
Play Me Hearts and Flowers
Mar 6, 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.
Shadow of the Champ
Mar 20, 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.
Watch Me Die
Apr 3, 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.
The Bold and the Brave
Apr 17, 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 st
Letter of Recommendation
May 1, 1955 · 60 min
A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.
The Pardon-Me Boy
May 15, 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 defe
The Ghost Writer
May 29, 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 g
Total Recall
Jun 12, 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.
Black Frost
Jun 26, 1955 · 60 min
A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.
Incident in July
Jul 10, 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 th
The Death of Billy the Kid
Jul 24, 1955 · 60 min
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
A Room in Paris
Aug 7, 1955 · 60 min
An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.
Gretel
Aug 21, 1955 · 60 min
Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.