The Philco Television Playhouse: Season 8
Season 8 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 7.
- 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 8 Progress Shield
The Miss America Story
Sep 4, 1955 · 60 min
The Philco Corporation and ABC network televised the first live Miss America broadcast on Saturday September 11, 1954. Twenty seven million viewers from coast to coast shared the t
The Outsiders
Sep 18, 1955 · 60 min
The work of US engineers in a South American country is disrupted by angry local people.
A Man is Ten Feet Tall
Oct 2, 1955 · 60 min
Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry.
The Mechanical Heart
Nov 6, 1955 · 60 min
A businessman commits an unpardonable breach of ethics in order to keep his business alive.
One Mummy Too Many
Nov 20, 1955 · 60 min
Three crates, one contains a mummy, one a dead body and one an air-conditioning unit that gets shunted around with utter confusion.
The Trees
Dec 4, 1955 · 60 min
A little girl returns from a fresh air camp to her slum district home and brings a sapling with her. The tree is planted in the parking. Ridicule of the family's efforts to keep it
Christmas 'Til Closing
Dec 18, 1955 · 60 min
A poor family tries to make the best out of Christmas with little income.
Rise Up and Walk
Jan 1, 1956 · 60 min
A polio victim's battle to conquer polio is a potent weapon for recovery.
Kyria Katina
Feb 12, 1956 · 60 min
The life of a widow is likely to change the day a gentleman suitor proposes to her. For the better?