The Philco Television Playhouse
Season 3
195056 episodes
Episode 1
High Tor
Sep 10, 19501h
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.
Episode 2
The Long Run
Sep 17, 19501h
Episode 3
Dear Guest and Ghost
Sep 24, 19501h
A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.
Episode 4
The Touch of a Stranger
Oct 1, 19501h
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.
Episode 5
The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street
Oct 8, 19501h
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.
Episode 6
A Husband for Mama
Oct 15, 19501h
The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.
Episode 7
Portrait in Smoke
Oct 22, 19501h
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.
Episode 8
The Gambler
Oct 29, 19501h
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.
Episode 9
The Power Devil
Nov 5, 19501h
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.
Episode 10
The Man Who Got Away With It
Nov 12, 19501h
Episode 11
I'm Still Alive
Nov 19, 19501h
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.
Episode 12
Torch for a Dark Journey
Nov 26, 19501h
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.
Episode 13
Wacky, the Small Boy
Dec 3, 19501h
Episode 14
Bonanza
Dec 10, 19501h
The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.
Episode 15
Decoy
Dec 17, 19501h
Episode 16
The Pupil
Dec 24, 19501h
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.
Episode 17
Leaf out of a Book
Dec 31, 19501h
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Episode 18
The Symbol: Jefferson Davis
Jan 7, 19511h
Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.
Episode 19
The Lost Diplomat
Jan 14, 19511h
Episode 20
Confession
Jan 21, 19511h
The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.
Episode 21
The Great Escape
Jan 28, 19511h
The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.
Episode 22
A Matter of Life and Death
Feb 4, 19511h
Episode 23
Kitty Doone
Feb 11, 19511h
A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.
Episode 24
Let Them Be Sea Captains
Feb 18, 19511h
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.
Episode 25
The Man Who Bought a Town
Feb 25, 19511h
A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.
Episode 26
No Medals on Pop
Mar 11, 19511h
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.
Episode 27
The Dark Corridor
Mar 18, 19511h
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.
Episode 28
Bulletin 120
Mar 25, 19511h
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.
Episode 29
Parnassus on Wheels
Apr 1, 19511h
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.
Episode 30
Routine Assignment
Apr 8, 19511h
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.
Episode 31
Hour of Destiny
Apr 15, 19511h
Episode 32
The Birth of the Movies
Apr 22, 19511h
Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks with Lillian Gish before and following the drama.
Episode 33
Mr. Arcularis
Apr 29, 19511h
After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.
Episode 34
A Secret Island
May 6, 19511h
A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.
Episode 35
The Visitors
May 13, 19511h
A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.
Episode 36
Justice and Mr. Pleznik
May 20, 19511h
The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.
Episode 37
Rescue
May 27, 19511h
Episode 38
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
Jun 3, 19511h
A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting adventures.
Episode 39
The Fast Dollar
Jun 10, 19511h
A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.
Episode 40
Operation: Airlift
Jun 17, 19511h
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.
Episode 41
Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
Jun 24, 19511h
Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.
Episode 42
The Plot
Jul 1, 19511h
Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.
Episode 43
Case History
Jul 8, 19511h
A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.
Episode 44
I Want to March
Jul 15, 19511h
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".
Episode 45
Pretend I Am A Stranger
Jul 22, 19511h
The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.
Episode 46
Television Story
Jul 29, 19511h
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.
Episode 47
The Return
Aug 5, 19511h
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.
Episode 48
Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands
Aug 12, 19511h
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.
Episode 49
Come Alive
Aug 19, 19511h
An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.
Episode 50
Night at the Vulcan
Aug 26, 19511h
When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemies.
Episode 51
This Time Next Year
Sep 2, 19511h
The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.
Episode 52
Women of Intrigue
Sep 9, 19511h
In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the foreign office disappears.
Episode 53
The Wayward Season
Sep 16, 19511h
A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.
Episode 54
The Spur
Sep 23, 19511h
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.
Episode 55
By-Line for Murder
Sep 30, 19511h
A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.
Episode 56
Requiem for a Model A
Oct 7, 19511h
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.