The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 2

Season 2

Episodes

What Every Woman Knows
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.

Pride's Castle
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.

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

The Lonely
An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland. Their understanding is that the trip will be purely platonic;instead, they fall maly in love. At his first opportunity, the lieutenant flies back to America to break the news to his fiance and family.

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

Something's Got to Give
Two freelance writers relocate their families to the country to escape the pressures of the city and their wives talk them into hosting their own radio show instead.

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

Because of the Lockwoods
The Lockwoods' are patronising toward their former neighbors, 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. It is a gripping story of a girl's lost inheritance, and of how she regains it after years of poverty.

Damion's Daughter
The story concerns the daughter of Blackmer who grows up amidst the production world of his theater. She discovers he is evil and has gained his success by cheapness, and the ending has impact.

The House of Seven Gables
With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder, many believe there is a curse imposed upon the family and the people who come to the House of Seven Gables

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

Medical Meeting
A deathly ill woman falls for her doctor.

The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
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.

Mist on the Waters
Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.

The Beautiful Bequest
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.

The Strange Christmas Dinner
A modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas day.

In Beauty Like the Night
A British flyer who lost his sight during the war deals with the problems caused by the injury.

Little Boy Lost
A British poet searches for the child he's never seen. The boy vanished after his foster mother was taken away by the German Gestapo.

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

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

The Marriages
In 1890's England, 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.

Uncle Dynamite
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 jewellry into America for a friend of hers.

The Sudden Guest
A New England spinster disregards her neighbors cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. Miss Leckton resents the intrusion, especially if the intruders happen to be Jews.

Ann Rutledge
Ann Mayes Rutledge was born on January 7, 1813, near Henderson, Kentucky. She was Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.

A Letter to Mr. Priest
A dramatized account of the life of a lawyer chosen "most likely to suceed" by his college class.

Hometown
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 cafes, cocktail parties, and publicity gags, and returns to his simple way of living in the country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart.

The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
A portrait the tortured life of painter Vincent Van Gogh, his relationship with his troubled brother, Theo, and his struggle with painter Paul Gauguin.

The Uncertain Molly Collicutt
A flirt has a difficult time settling down to her marriage responsibilities.

The Trial of Steven Kent
A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.

The Second Oldest Profession
An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

Nocturne
In 1910 London, 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.

Dirty Eddie
Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract, and Hollywood isnt too happy about it.

The End is Known
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.

The Man in the Black Hat
A gambler has nothing too lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.

The American
An American traveling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures. The American culture born with intellect and drive versus the aristocratic Parisian society of laid back snobbery.

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

Brat Farrar
Tale concerns identical twins and an attempt at fraud to collect some insurance and a nice big fortune.

The Charmed Circle
A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers and finally falls in love with a rich girl, and leads a revolt against the President of the Fraternity house.

Semmelweis
The biography of the great Austrian doctor who discovered that fever in childbed was caused by the unwashed hands of the doctors themselves.

Sense and Sensibility
The story of the Dashwood sisters quest to find suitable husbands after the loss of their family estate.

The Bump on Brannigan's Head
When Mr. Brannigan gets a bump on his head he turns into the nicest friendliest man you could ever meet, but that's not the real Brassy Brannigan.

Anything Can Happen
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.

Hear My Heart Speak
After returning from war, a farmer returns mute and finds that not only has he lost his voice, but his sweetheart as well.

The Reluctant Landlord
Scott an aspiring writer buys an apartment house for him and his wife. To help keep them financially solvent, unfortunately the everyday problems and troubles from the tenants make this almost impossible.

The Tentacles
The story of a wife's efforts to free her husband from the evil influence of his father.
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