The Philco Television Playhouse

Season 3

56 episodes · Sep 10, 1950

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  • S3E1

    High Tor

    Sep 10, 195060m

    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.

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  • S3E2

    The Long Run

    Sep 17, 195060m
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  • S3E3

    Dear Guest and Ghost

    Sep 24, 195060m

    A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.

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  • S3E4

    The Touch of a Stranger

    Oct 1, 195060m

    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.

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  • S3E5

    The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street

    Oct 8, 195060m

    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.

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  • S3E6

    A Husband for Mama

    Oct 15, 195060m

    The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.

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  • S3E7

    Portrait in Smoke

    Oct 22, 195060m

    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.

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  • S3E8

    The Gambler

    Oct 29, 195060m

    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.

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  • S3E9

    The Power Devil

    Nov 5, 195060m

    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.

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  • S3E10

    The Man Who Got Away With It

    Nov 12, 195060m
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  • S3E11

    I'm Still Alive

    Nov 19, 195060m

    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.

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  • S3E12

    Torch for a Dark Journey

    Nov 26, 195060m

    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.

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  • S3E13

    Wacky, the Small Boy

    Dec 3, 195060m
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  • S3E14

    Bonanza

    Dec 10, 195060m

    The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.

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  • S3E15

    Decoy

    Dec 17, 195060m
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  • S3E16

    The Pupil

    Dec 24, 195060m

    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.

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  • S3E17

    Leaf out of a Book

    Dec 31, 195060m
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  • S3E18

    The Symbol: Jefferson Davis

    Jan 7, 195160m

    Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.

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  • S3E19

    The Lost Diplomat

    Jan 14, 195160m
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  • S3E20

    Confession

    Jan 21, 195160m

    The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.

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  • S3E21

    The Great Escape

    Jan 28, 195160m

    The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.

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  • S3E22

    A Matter of Life and Death

    Feb 4, 195160m
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  • S3E23

    Kitty Doone

    Feb 11, 195160m

    A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.

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  • S3E24

    Let Them Be Sea Captains

    Feb 18, 195160m

    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.

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  • S3E25

    The Man Who Bought a Town

    Feb 25, 195160m

    A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.

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  • S3E26

    No Medals on Pop

    Mar 11, 195160m

    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.

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  • S3E27

    The Dark Corridor

    Mar 18, 195160m

    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.

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  • S3E28

    Bulletin 120

    Mar 25, 195160m

    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.

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  • S3E29

    Parnassus on Wheels

    Apr 1, 195160m

    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.

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  • Routine Assignment
    S3E30

    Routine Assignment

    Apr 8, 195160m

    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.

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  • S3E31

    Hour of Destiny

    Apr 15, 195160m
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  • S3E32

    The Birth of the Movies

    Apr 22, 195160m

    Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks with Lillian Gish before and following the drama.

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  • S3E33

    Mr. Arcularis

    Apr 29, 195160m

    After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.

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  • S3E34

    A Secret Island

    May 6, 195160m

    A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.

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  • S3E35

    The Visitors

    May 13, 195160m

    A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.

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  • S3E36

    Justice and Mr. Pleznik

    May 20, 195160m

    The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.

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  • S3E37

    Rescue

    May 27, 195160m
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  • S3E38

    The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

    Jun 3, 195160m

    A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting adventures.

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  • S3E39

    The Fast Dollar

    Jun 10, 195160m

    A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.

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  • S3E40

    Operation: Airlift

    Jun 17, 195160m

    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.

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  • S3E41

    Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal

    Jun 24, 195160m

    Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.

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  • S3E42

    The Plot

    Jul 1, 195160m

    Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.

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  • S3E43

    Case History

    Jul 8, 195160m

    A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.

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  • S3E44

    I Want to March

    Jul 15, 195160m

    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".

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  • S3E45

    Pretend I Am A Stranger

    Jul 22, 195160m

    The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.

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  • S3E46

    Television Story

    Jul 29, 195160m

    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.

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  • S3E47

    The Return

    Aug 5, 195160m

    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.

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  • S3E48

    Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands

    Aug 12, 195160m

    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.

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  • S3E49

    Come Alive

    Aug 19, 195160m

    An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.

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  • S3E50

    Night at the Vulcan

    Aug 26, 195160m

    When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemies.

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  • S3E51

    This Time Next Year

    Sep 2, 195160m

    The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.

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  • S3E52

    Women of Intrigue

    Sep 9, 195160m

    In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the foreign office disappears.

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  • S3E53

    The Wayward Season

    Sep 16, 195160m

    A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.

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  • S3E54

    The Spur

    Sep 23, 195160m

    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.

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  • S3E55

    By-Line for Murder

    Sep 30, 195160m

    A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.

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  • S3E56

    Requiem for a Model A

    Oct 7, 195160m

    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.

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