Bert Lytell
Host
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
Season 3
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
S3E1 - High Tor
Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountain, High Tor, for commercial use. When the group becomes trapped by a landslide, Van Dorn goes for help and encounters a Dutchwoman who's been haunting the mountain for two centuries.
Sept. 10, 1950, midnight
S3E2 - The Long Run
Sept. 17, 1950, midnight
S3E3 - Dear Guest and Ghost
A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.
Sept. 24, 1950, midnight
S3E4 - The Touch of a Stranger
A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.
Oct. 1, 1950, midnight
S3E5 - The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street
Seeds planted in a New York City backyard grow into a magical plant that brings happiness to those living near it. Formerly unpleasant neighbors turn into caring, warm-hearted individuals.
Oct. 8, 1950, midnight
S3E6 - A Husband for Mama
The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.
Oct. 15, 1950, midnight
S3E7 - Portrait in Smoke
A debt collector searches for the woman who saved him from an armed holdup; he wants her to have a $1000 reward. As he talks with those who knew her, he learns that she was a siren with a couple of murders to her credit.
Oct. 22, 1950, midnight
S3E8 - The Gambler
A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Century, this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors.
Oct. 29, 1950, midnight
S3E9 - The Power Devil
A young attorney involves himself in many shady deals as he pursues political ambitions. His wife speaks up and demands he clean up his act. The threat of disbarment also contributes to his final decision.
Nov. 5, 1950, midnight
S3E10 - The Man Who Got Away With It
Nov. 12, 1950, midnight
S3E11 - I'm Still Alive
A mousy teacher at a small school had written a swashbuckling story filled with international spies and adventure. Unbeknownst to him, the story is sold to a newspaper as a true account of his life. Suddenly, femme fatales and real gangsters are paying him visits.
Nov. 19, 1950, midnight
S3E12 - Torch for a Dark Journey
A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America.
Nov. 26, 1950, midnight
S3E13 - Wacky, the Small Boy
Dec. 3, 1950, midnight
S3E14 - Bonanza
The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.
Dec. 10, 1950, midnight
S3E15 - Decoy
Dec. 17, 1950, midnight
S3E16 - The Pupil
A tutor hired to instruct an uncontrollable 10-year-old soon recognizes the child's problem: it's his parents. The boy has had never received any affection from his negligent mother and father.
Dec. 24, 1950, midnight
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S3E17 - Leaf out of a Book
Dec. 31, 1950, midnight
S3E18 - The Symbol: Jefferson Davis
Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.
Jan. 7, 1951, midnight
S3E19 - The Lost Diplomat
Jan. 14, 1951, midnight
S3E20 - Confession
The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.
Jan. 21, 1951, midnight
S3E21 - The Great Escape
The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.
Jan. 28, 1951, midnight
S3E22 - A Matter of Life and Death
Feb. 4, 1951, midnight
S3E23 - Kitty Doone
A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.
Feb. 11, 1951, midnight
S3E24 - Let Them Be Sea Captains
Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century feminist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.
Feb. 18, 1951, midnight
S3E25 - The Man Who Bought a Town
A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.
Feb. 25, 1951, midnight
S3E26 - No Medals on Pop
A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is heartbroken when he finds out the truth and how his father disgraced the family.
March 11, 1951, midnight
S3E27 - The Dark Corridor
The story of the Marr family which is made up of a dominant mother who bates everyone, the vacillating son, his wife, and the blind son. Then a new maid arrives, a maid who has served a term in prison as an accessory to a murder.
March 18, 1951, midnight
S3E28 - Bulletin 120
In Mississippi in 1915, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection.
March 25, 1951, midnight
S3E29 - Parnassus on Wheels
In 1900's New England, Helen McGuill buys a horse-drawn, traveling bookstore, "Parnassus," from its owner, Roger McGuill. Roger travels with Helen in the beginning of her book-selling odyssey, and out of that comes adventure and romance.
April 1, 1951, midnight
S3E30 - Routine Assignment
A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then deny his guilt in a complex twist of events.
April 8, 1951, midnight
S3E31 - Hour of Destiny
April 15, 1951, midnight
S3E32 - The Birth of the Movies
Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks with Lillian Gish before and following the drama.
April 22, 1951, midnight
S3E33 - Mr. Arcularis
After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.
April 29, 1951, midnight
S3E34 - A Secret Island
A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.
May 6, 1951, midnight
S3E35 - The Visitors
A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.
May 13, 1951, midnight
S3E36 - Justice and Mr. Pleznik
The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.
May 20, 1951, midnight
S3E37 - Rescue
May 27, 1951, midnight
S3E38 - The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting adventures.
June 3, 1951, midnight
S3E39 - The Fast Dollar
A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.
June 10, 1951, midnight
S3E40 - Operation: Airlift
The story of the Berlin airlift, when the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The success of the airlift humiliated the Soviets claiming that such a thing would never work.
June 17, 1951, midnight
S3E41 - Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.
June 24, 1951, midnight
S3E42 - The Plot
Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.
July 1, 1951, midnight
S3E43 - Case History
A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.
July 8, 1951, midnight
S3E44 - I Want to March
The year is 1915 and the suffragettes cause a stir in the home of a zoology professor as his wife takes up the banner of "women's rights".
July 15, 1951, midnight
S3E45 - Pretend I Am A Stranger
The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.
July 22, 1951, midnight
S3E46 - Television Story
A covetous young actress' career means more to her than marriage to a middle-aged actor who turns to TV after a successful career in other facets of show business only to find that his wife influences his work there.
July 29, 1951, midnight
S3E47 - The Return
An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fortune. When his so-called family greet him with reserve, however he gets busy to iron out the unreal problem.
Aug. 5, 1951, midnight
S3E48 - Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands
Lawyer Tutt refuses to cross the street for a $5 million account, but goes clear to Pottsville to draw up a will for Jim Lawton, staying there until he successfully contests a claim to a woman's farm.
Aug. 12, 1951, midnight
S3E49 - Come Alive
An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.
Aug. 19, 1951, midnight
S3E50 - Night at the Vulcan
When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemies.
Aug. 26, 1951, midnight
S3E51 - This Time Next Year
The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.
Sept. 2, 1951, midnight
S3E52 - Women of Intrigue
In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the foreign office disappears.
Sept. 9, 1951, midnight
S3E53 - The Wayward Season
A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.
Sept. 16, 1951, midnight
S3E54 - The Spur
After the assassination of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leaped to the stage below, his spur became entangled in the American flag draping the balcony causing Booth to break his leg.
Sept. 23, 1951, midnight
S3E55 - By-Line for Murder
A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.
Sept. 30, 1951, midnight
S3E56 - Requiem for a Model A
After buying a very used car, a writer uncovers some very unusual items under one of the seat cushions. The story of the vehicle's former owners is told via flashbacks.
Oct. 7, 1951, 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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