Bert Lytell
Host
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
Season 2
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.
Released Oct. 4, 1948
Episode 45 min
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Genres: Drama
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, imdb.four-word-title, imdb.company-sponsor-name-in-title, tmdb.playhouse, imdb.anthology-series, imdb.all-star-cast, imdb.ensemble-cast, awards.emmy-award-nominated
Production Companies: Showcase Productions
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - What Every Woman Knows
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.
Sept. 4, 1949, midnight
S2E2 - Pride's Castle
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.
Sept. 11, 1949, midnight
S2E3 - The Little Sister
A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.
Sept. 18, 1949, midnight
S2E4 - The Lonely
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.
Sept. 25, 1949, midnight
S2E5 - The Queen Bee
A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.
Oct. 2, 1949, midnight
S2E6 - Something's Got to Give
A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.
Oct. 9, 1949, midnight
S2E7 - The Last Tycoon
A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.
Oct. 16, 1949, midnight
S2E8 - Because of the Lockwoods
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.
Oct. 23, 1949, midnight
S2E9 - Damion's Daughter
A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.
Oct. 30, 1949, midnight
S2E10 - The House of Seven Gables
With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.
Nov. 6, 1949, midnight
S2E11 - The Promise
A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.
Nov. 13, 1949, midnight
S2E12 - Medical Meeting
Nov. 20, 1949, midnight
S2E13 - The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
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.
Nov. 27, 1949, midnight
S2E14 - Mist on the Waters
Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.
Dec. 4, 1949, midnight
S2E15 - The Beautiful Bequest
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.
Dec. 11, 1949, midnight
S2E16 - The Strange Christmas Dinner
A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.
Dec. 18, 1949, midnight
S2E17 - In Beauty Like the Night
A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.
Dec. 25, 1949, midnight
S2E18 - Little Boy Lost
An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.
Jan. 1, 1950, midnight
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S2E19 - Bethel Merriday
A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.
Jan. 8, 1950, midnight
S2E20 - Murder at the Stork Club
A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.
Jan. 15, 1950, midnight
S2E21 - The Marriages
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.
Jan. 22, 1950, midnight
S2E22 - Uncle Dynamite
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.
Jan. 29, 1950, midnight
S2E23 - The Sudden Guest
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.
Feb. 5, 1950, midnight
6.0
S2E24 - Ann Rutledge
The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed
away at age 22 of typhoid fever.
Feb. 12, 1950, midnight
S2E25 - A Letter to Mr. Priest
An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.
Feb. 19, 1950, midnight
S2E26 - Hometown
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.
Feb. 26, 1950, midnight
S2E27 - The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
The tragic life story of the tormented artist.
March 5, 1950, midnight
S2E28 - The Uncertain Molly Collicutt
A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.
March 12, 1950, midnight
S2E29 - The Trial of Steven Kent
A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.
March 19, 1950, midnight
S2E30 - The Second Oldest Profession
An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.
March 26, 1950, midnight
S2E31 - Nocturne
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.
April 2, 1950, midnight
S2E32 - Dirty Eddie
Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.
April 9, 1950, midnight
S2E33 - The End is Known
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.
April 16, 1950, midnight
S2E34 - The Man in the Black Hat
A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.
April 23, 1950, midnight
S2E35 - The American
An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.
April 30, 1950, midnight
S2E36 - The Feast
A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.
May 7, 1950, midnight
S2E37 - Brat Farrar
Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.
May 14, 1950, midnight
S2E38 - The Charmed Circle
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.
May 21, 1950, midnight
S2E39 - Semmelweis
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.
May 28, 1950, midnight
S2E40 - Sense and Sensibility
Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.
June 4, 1950, midnight
S2E41 - The Bump on Brannigan's Head
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.
June 11, 1950, midnight
S2E42 - Anything Can Happen
A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.
June 18, 1950, midnight
S2E43 - Hear My Heart Speak
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.
June 25, 1950, midnight
S2E44 - The Reluctant Landlord
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.
July 2, 1950, midnight
S2E45 - The Tentacles
A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.
July 9, 1950, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 45 min.
Released: Oct. 4, 1948
Last Air Date: Feb. 12, 1956, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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