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The Philco Television Playhouse
The Philco Television Playhouse

Season 3

September 10, 1950

56 Episodes

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Episodes

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E1

High Tor

September 10, 1950

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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The Long Run

September 17, 1950

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Dear Guest and Ghost

September 24, 1950

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

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The Touch of a Stranger

October 1, 1950

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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The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street

October 8, 1950

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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A Husband for Mama

October 15, 1950

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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Portrait in Smoke

October 22, 1950

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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The Gambler

October 29, 1950

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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The Power Devil

November 5, 1950

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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The Man Who Got Away With It

November 12, 1950

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I'm Still Alive

November 19, 1950

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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Torch for a Dark Journey

November 26, 1950

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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Wacky, the Small Boy

December 3, 1950

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Bonanza

December 10, 1950

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

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Decoy

December 17, 1950

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The Pupil

December 24, 1950

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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Leaf out of a Book

December 31, 1950

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The Symbol: Jefferson Davis

January 7, 1951

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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The Lost Diplomat

January 14, 1951

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Confession

January 21, 1951

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

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The Great Escape

January 28, 1951

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

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A Matter of Life and Death

February 4, 1951

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Kitty Doone

February 11, 1951

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

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Let Them Be Sea Captains

February 18, 1951

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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The Man Who Bought a Town

February 25, 1951

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

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No Medals on Pop

March 11, 1951

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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The Dark Corridor

March 18, 1951

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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Bulletin 120

March 25, 1951

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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Parnassus on Wheels

April 1, 1951

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

April 8, 1951

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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Hour of Destiny

April 15, 1951

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E32

The Birth of the Movies

April 22, 1951

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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E33

Mr. Arcularis

April 29, 1951

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

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E34

A Secret Island

May 6, 1951

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

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The Visitors

May 13, 1951

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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Justice and Mr. Pleznik

May 20, 1951

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

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Rescue

May 27, 1951

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The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

June 3, 1951

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

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The Fast Dollar

June 10, 1951

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

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Operation: Airlift

June 17, 1951

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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E41

Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal

June 24, 1951

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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The Plot

July 1, 1951

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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Case History

July 8, 1951

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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I Want to March

July 15, 1951

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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Pretend I Am A Stranger

July 22, 1951

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

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Television Story

July 29, 1951

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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The Return

August 5, 1951

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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Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands

August 12, 1951

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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Come Alive

August 19, 1951

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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Night at the Vulcan

August 26, 1951

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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E51

This Time Next Year

September 2, 1951

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

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Women of Intrigue

September 9, 1951

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

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E53

The Wayward Season

September 16, 1951

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

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E54

The Spur

September 23, 1951

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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By-Line for Murder

September 30, 1951

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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Requiem for a Model A

October 7, 1951

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.