The Philco Television Playhouse
Season 2
194945 episodes
Episode 1
What Every Woman Knows
Sep 4, 19491h
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.
Episode 2
Pride's Castle
Sep 11, 19491h
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.
Episode 3
The Little Sister
Sep 18, 19491h
A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.
Episode 4
The Lonely
Sep 25, 19491h
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.
Episode 5
The Queen Bee
Oct 2, 19491h
A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.
Episode 6
Something's Got to Give
Oct 9, 19491h
A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.
Episode 7
The Last Tycoon
Oct 16, 19491h
A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.
Episode 8
Because of the Lockwoods
Oct 23, 19491h
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.
Episode 9
Damion's Daughter
Oct 30, 19491h
A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.
Episode 10
The House of Seven Gables
Nov 6, 19491h
With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.
Episode 11
The Promise
Nov 13, 19491h
A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.
Episode 12
Medical Meeting
Nov 20, 19491h
Episode 13
The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
Nov 27, 19491h
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.
Episode 14
Mist on the Waters
Dec 4, 19491h
Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.
Episode 15
The Beautiful Bequest
Dec 11, 19491h
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.
Episode 16
The Strange Christmas Dinner
Dec 18, 19491h
A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.
Episode 17
In Beauty Like the Night
Dec 25, 19491h
A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.
Episode 18
Little Boy Lost
Jan 1, 19501h
An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.
Episode 19
Bethel Merriday
Jan 8, 19501h
TMDB rating 6.0TMDB
A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.
Episode 20
Murder at the Stork Club
Jan 15, 19501h
A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.
Episode 21
The Marriages
Jan 22, 19501h
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.
Episode 22
Uncle Dynamite
Jan 29, 19501h
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.
Episode 23
The Sudden Guest
Feb 5, 19501h
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.
Episode 24
Ann Rutledge
Feb 12, 19501h
TMDB rating 6.0TMDB
The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.
Episode 25
A Letter to Mr. Priest
Feb 19, 19501h
An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.
Episode 26
Hometown
Feb 26, 19501h
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.
Episode 27
The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
Mar 5, 19501h
The tragic life story of the tormented artist.
Episode 28
The Uncertain Molly Collicutt
Mar 12, 19501h
A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.
Episode 29
The Trial of Steven Kent
Mar 19, 19501h
A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.
Episode 30
The Second Oldest Profession
Mar 26, 19501h
An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.
Episode 31
Nocturne
Apr 2, 19501h
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.
Episode 32
Dirty Eddie
Apr 9, 19501h
Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.
Episode 33
The End is Known
Apr 16, 19501h
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.
Episode 34
The Man in the Black Hat
Apr 23, 19501h
A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.
Episode 35
The American
Apr 30, 19501h
An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.
Episode 36
The Feast
May 7, 19501h
A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.
Episode 37
Brat Farrar
May 14, 19501h
Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.
Episode 38
The Charmed Circle
May 21, 19501h
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.
Episode 39
Semmelweis
May 28, 19501h
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.
Episode 40
Sense and Sensibility
Jun 4, 19501h
Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.
Episode 41
The Bump on Brannigan's Head
Jun 11, 19501h
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.
Episode 42
Anything Can Happen
Jun 18, 19501h
A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.
Episode 43
Hear My Heart Speak
Jun 25, 19501h
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.
Episode 44
The Reluctant Landlord
Jul 2, 19501h
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.
Episode 45
The Tentacles
Jul 9, 19501h
A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.