The Philco Television Playhouse

Season 2

45 episodes · Sep 4, 1949

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  • S2E1

    What Every Woman Knows

    Sep 4, 194960m

    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.

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  • S2E2

    Pride's Castle

    Sep 11, 194960m

    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.

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  • S2E3

    The Little Sister

    Sep 18, 194960m

    A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.

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  • S2E4

    The Lonely

    Sep 25, 194960m

    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.

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  • S2E5

    The Queen Bee

    Oct 2, 194960m

    A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.

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  • S2E6

    Something's Got to Give

    Oct 9, 194960m

    A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.

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  • S2E7

    The Last Tycoon

    Oct 16, 194960m

    A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.

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  • S2E8

    Because of the Lockwoods

    Oct 23, 194960m

    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.

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  • S2E9

    Damion's Daughter

    Oct 30, 194960m

    A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.

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  • S2E10

    The House of Seven Gables

    Nov 6, 194960m

    With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.

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  • S2E11

    The Promise

    Nov 13, 194960m

    A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.

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  • S2E12

    Medical Meeting

    Nov 20, 194960m
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  • S2E13

    The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram

    Nov 27, 194960m

    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.

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  • S2E14

    Mist on the Waters

    Dec 4, 194960m

    Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.

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  • S2E15

    The Beautiful Bequest

    Dec 11, 194960m

    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.

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  • S2E16

    The Strange Christmas Dinner

    Dec 18, 194960m

    A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.

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  • S2E17

    In Beauty Like the Night

    Dec 25, 194960m

    A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.

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  • S2E18

    Little Boy Lost

    Jan 1, 195060m

    An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.

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  • S2E19

    Bethel Merriday

    Jan 8, 195060m

    A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.

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  • S2E20

    Murder at the Stork Club

    Jan 15, 195060m

    A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.

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  • S2E21

    The Marriages

    Jan 22, 195060m

    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.

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  • S2E22

    Uncle Dynamite

    Jan 29, 195060m

    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.

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  • S2E23

    The Sudden Guest

    Feb 5, 195060m

    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.

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  • Ann Rutledge
    S2E24

    Ann Rutledge

    Feb 12, 195060m

    The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.

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  • S2E25

    A Letter to Mr. Priest

    Feb 19, 195060m

    An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.

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  • S2E26

    Hometown

    Feb 26, 195060m

    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.

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  • S2E27

    The Life of Vincent Van Gogh

    Mar 5, 195060m

    The tragic life story of the tormented artist.

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  • S2E28

    The Uncertain Molly Collicutt

    Mar 12, 195060m

    A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.

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  • S2E29

    The Trial of Steven Kent

    Mar 19, 195060m

    A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.

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  • S2E30

    The Second Oldest Profession

    Mar 26, 195060m

    An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

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  • S2E31

    Nocturne

    Apr 2, 195060m

    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.

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  • S2E32

    Dirty Eddie

    Apr 9, 195060m

    Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.

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  • S2E33

    The End is Known

    Apr 16, 195060m

    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.

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  • The Man in the Black Hat
    S2E34

    The Man in the Black Hat

    Apr 23, 195060m

    A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.

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  • S2E35

    The American

    Apr 30, 195060m

    An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.

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  • S2E36

    The Feast

    May 7, 195060m

    A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.

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  • S2E37

    Brat Farrar

    May 14, 195060m

    Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.

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  • S2E38

    The Charmed Circle

    May 21, 195060m

    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.

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  • S2E39

    Semmelweis

    May 28, 195060m

    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.

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  • S2E40

    Sense and Sensibility

    Jun 4, 195060m

    Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.

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  • S2E41

    The Bump on Brannigan's Head

    Jun 11, 195060m

    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.

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  • S2E42

    Anything Can Happen

    Jun 18, 195060m

    A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.

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  • S2E43

    Hear My Heart Speak

    Jun 25, 195060m

    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.

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  • S2E44

    The Reluctant Landlord

    Jul 2, 195060m

    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.

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  • S2E45

    The Tentacles

    Jul 9, 195060m

    A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.

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