Delbert Mann
Director
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
Season 7
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. 3, 1948
Episode 60 min
None+
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
S7E1 - Middle of the Night
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
Sept. 19, 1954, midnight
S7E2 - Time Bomb
A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.
Oct. 3, 1954, midnight
S7E3 - Man on the Mountaintop
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 and expect things out of him. Horace shuts out the world. Greta Blake is the woman who has fallen in love with Horace and shows him that the world is not out to get him.
Oct. 17, 1954, midnight
S7E4 - Time of Delivery
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 situations which develop,
Oct. 31, 1954, midnight
S7E5 - Crime Without Motive
The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.
Nov. 14, 1954, midnight
S7E6 - Beg, Borrow or Steal
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.
Nov. 28, 1954, midnight
S7E7 - Catch My Boy on Sunday
A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.
Dec. 12, 1954, midnight
S7E8 - Run, Girl, Run
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.
Dec. 26, 1954, midnight
S7E9 - Walk Into the Night
A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.
Jan. 9, 1955, midnight
S7E10 - Anatomy of Fear
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 purse in order to delay identification but his wife threatens to expose him,
Jan. 23, 1955, midnight
S7E11 - A Sense of Justice
A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
Feb. 6, 1955, midnight
S7E12 - The Assassin
The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.
Feb. 20, 1955, midnight
S7E13 - Play Me Hearts and Flowers
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.
March 6, 1955, midnight
S7E14 - Shadow of the Champ
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.
March 20, 1955, midnight
S7E15 - Watch Me Die
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.
April 3, 1955, midnight
S7E16 - The Bold and the Brave
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 student than he was.
April 17, 1955, midnight
S7E17 - Letter of Recommendation
A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.
May 1, 1955, midnight
S7E18 - The Pardon-Me Boy
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 defendant.
May 15, 1955, midnight
S7E19 - The Ghost Writer
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 ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred of her father to their advantage.
May 29, 1955, midnight
S7E20 - Total Recall
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.
June 12, 1955, midnight
S7E21 - Black Frost
A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.
June 26, 1955, midnight
S7E22 - Incident in July
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 that she wants to give him $1,100 for his education. The first part of the rumour is not true but the second part is. She is unable to have children and thinks this is a constructive way to use the money they saved for a child. She and her husband squabble over this. Andy's parents are dead. Daddy Tom fires both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. He later re-hires them on the condition that she not mention...
July 10, 1955, midnight
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S7E23 - The Death of Billy the Kid
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
July 24, 1955, midnight
S7E24 - A Room in Paris
An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.
Aug. 7, 1955, midnight
S7E25 - Gretel
Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.
Aug. 21, 1955, midnight
NBC
60 min/ep
16020 min
Oct. 3, 1948
Feb. 12, 1956, midnight
Ended
NR
Action
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