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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.
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Episode 1 - 0 for 37
Release Date: 1953-09-27A young ballplayer appreciates the value of home and family after a shaky start in professional baseball.
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Episode 2 - The Bachelor Party
Release Date: 1953-10-11Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
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Episode 3 - The Girl With the Stopwatch
Release Date: 1953-10-25A woman of 30 is preoccupied with her work as a television script writer.
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Episode 4 - The Train to Trouble
Release Date: 1953-11-08A man must decide whether or not to expose the past of a candidate for the sheriff's office.
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Episode 5 - Up Above the World So High
Release Date: 1953-11-22A middle-aged woman seemingly has the gift of second sight.
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Episode 6 - The Sixth Year
Release Date: 1953-11-29A wife becomes exasperated with her husband who seems to have lost the will to work. She takes their child and leaves. He finds a menial job and asks her to come home. She seeks advice on the situation from her mother and father
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Episode 7 - The Midnight Caller
Release Date: 1953-12-13Three unmarried women residing in a boarding house in a small town have watched life pass them by waiting for the right man to come into their lives. When a new stranger shows up and moves into the boarding house.
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Episode 8 - The Glorification of Al Toolum
Release Date: 1953-12-27 -
Episode 9 - The Hangman in the Fog
Release Date: 1954-01-10An American newspaperman in London believes that he is being pursued by agents from across the Iron Curtain.
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Episode 10 - Smoke Screen
Release Date: 1954-01-24A country boy gets a job in the city as a bookkeeper. He meets a beautiful model and gets mixed up in a murder.
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Episode 11 - A Game of Hide and Seek
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Episode 12 - Statute of Limitations
Release Date: 1954-02-21The perpetrators of a million dollar robbery find themselves with five hours to go before the statute of limitations takes effect.
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Episode 13 - The Dancers
Release Date: 1954-03-07A meek young boy, still shy and unsure of himself, visits his sister in a small town and is persuaded by her to ask the most popular girl in town for a date. He asks her to a school dance, but, as she is going steady, she refuses his invitation. Believing himself to be the butt of ridicule by the young population of the town because of his awkwardness, he withdraws into himself. He later meets a young girl who is as shy as he, is and, because of the mutual understanding between them, they give each other the confidence each lacks.
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Episode 14 - The Broken Fist
Release Date: 1954-03-21The story of a middle-aged Frenchman in Algiers who decides to do something for his homeland during the Nazi occupation. He joins the underground and goes to the port of Marseilles to report on shipping.
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Episode 15 - The Mother
Release Date: 1954-04-04A widow tries not to be dependent on her children.
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Episode 16 - The King and Mrs. Candle
Release Date: 1954-04-18The deposed King of Brandovia, whose inhabitants spend their time exporting bologna and repelling invasions by neighboring Carps and Gloats, finds his way to America, where he earns a living as a dancing instructor.
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Episode 17 - The Joker
Release Date: 1954-05-02Mike Galloway, a "nice guy", was an incurable practical joker--always passing out exploding cigars and perpetrating other silliness. His pranks made for a bad first impression on Dorie, but eventually they fell in love and married.
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Episode 18 - And Crown Thy Good
Release Date: 1954-05-16In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.
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Episode 19 - The Shadow of Willie Greer
Release Date: 1954-05-30In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.
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Episode 20 - Adapt or Die
Release Date: 1954-06-13An editor of the major magazine "Throb" finds that he must either adapt to the high pressure life of a New York magazine or be without a job.
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Episode 21 - Friday the Thirteenth
Release Date: 1954-06-273 women have just attended their college reunion, and are returning together when their vehicle crashes through a fence and over a cliff. As their husbands wait anxiously above the accident scene, they learn that only two of the women have survived, and they relive memories of their lives together as they await word as to who lives and who died.
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Episode 22 - Man Drowning
Release Date: 1954-07-11A big man on the campus turns out to be somewhat of a dud.
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Episode 23 - The Catamaran
Release Date: 1954-07-25A husband's hobby threatens his marriage until he finds a suitable replacement, the wife that is.
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Episode 24 - The Man in the Middle of the Ocean
Release Date: 1954-08-08A member of an architect's firm is torn by internal conflict. His partners need his compliance if they are to cash in on a deal they have made with a building contractor.
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Episode 25 - Star in the Summer Night
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Episode 26 - Run Like a Thief
Release Date: 1954-09-05Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his protege Rob, things go wrong when his wife Della finds an expensive bracelet lost by Pollard and begs to keep. The police are called and Alexander's dreams of his future begin to crumble.