The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 2

The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 2

Season 2

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Episodes44
DatesSep 4, 1949 - Jul 9, 1950
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Episodes

What Every Woman Knows
Season 2Episode 160 min

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.

Sep 4, 1949
Pride's Castle
Season 2Episode 260 min

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.

Sep 11, 1949
The Little Sister
Season 2Episode 360 min

The Little Sister

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

Sep 18, 1949
The Lonely
Season 2Episode 460 min

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.

Sep 25, 1949
The Queen Bee
Season 2Episode 560 min

The Queen Bee

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

Oct 2, 1949
Something's Got to Give
Season 2Episode 660 min

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.

Oct 9, 1949
The Last Tycoon
Season 2Episode 760 min

The Last Tycoon

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

Oct 16, 1949
Because of the Lockwoods
Season 2Episode 860 min

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.

Oct 23, 1949
Damion's Daughter
Season 2Episode 960 min

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.

Oct 30, 1949
The House of Seven Gables
Season 2Episode 1060 min

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

Nov 6, 1949
The Promise
Season 2Episode 1160 min

The Promise

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

Nov 13, 1949
Medical Meeting
Season 2Episode 1260 min

Medical Meeting

A deathly ill woman falls for her doctor.

Nov 20, 1949
The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
Season 2Episode 1360 min

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.

Nov 27, 1949
Mist on the Waters
Season 2Episode 1460 min

Mist on the Waters

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

Dec 4, 1949
The Beautiful Bequest
Season 2Episode 1560 min

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.

Dec 11, 1949
The Strange Christmas Dinner
Season 2Episode 1660 min

The Strange Christmas Dinner

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

Dec 18, 1949
In Beauty Like the Night
Season 2Episode 1760 min

In Beauty Like the Night

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

Dec 25, 1949
Little Boy Lost
Season 2Episode 1860 min

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.

Jan 1, 1950
Bethel Merriday
Season 2Episode 1960 min

Bethel Merriday

A small-town girl determined to become an actress.

Jan 8, 1950
Murder at the Stork Club
Season 2Episode 2060 min

Murder at the Stork Club

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

Jan 15, 1950
The Marriages
Season 2Episode 2160 min

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.

Jan 22, 1950
Uncle Dynamite
Season 2Episode 2260 min

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.

Jan 29, 1950
The Sudden Guest
Season 2Episode 2360 min

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.

Feb 5, 1950
Ann Rutledge
Season 2Episode 2460 min

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.

Feb 12, 1950
A Letter to Mr. Priest
Season 2Episode 2560 min

A Letter to Mr. Priest

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

Feb 19, 1950
Hometown
Season 2Episode 2660 min

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.

Feb 26, 1950
The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
Season 2Episode 2760 min

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.

Mar 5, 1950
The Uncertain Molly Collicutt
Season 2Episode 2860 min

The Uncertain Molly Collicutt

A flirt has a difficult time settling down to her marriage responsibilities.

Mar 12, 1950
The Trial of Steven Kent
Season 2Episode 2960 min

The Trial of Steven Kent

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

Mar 19, 1950
The Second Oldest Profession
Season 2Episode 3060 min

The Second Oldest Profession

An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

Mar 26, 1950
Nocturne
Season 2Episode 3160 min

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.

Apr 2, 1950
Dirty Eddie
Season 2Episode 3260 min

Dirty Eddie

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

Apr 9, 1950
The End is Known
Season 2Episode 3360 min

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.

Apr 16, 1950
The Man in the Black Hat
Season 2Episode 3460 min

The Man in the Black Hat

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

Apr 23, 1950
The American
Season 2Episode 3560 min

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.

Apr 30, 1950
The Feast
Season 2Episode 3660 min

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.

May 7, 1950
Brat Farrar
Season 2Episode 3760 min

Brat Farrar

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

May 14, 1950
The Charmed Circle
Season 2Episode 3860 min

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.

May 21, 1950
Semmelweis
Season 2Episode 3960 min

Semmelweis

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

May 28, 1950
Sense and Sensibility
Season 2Episode 4060 min

Sense and Sensibility

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

Jun 4, 1950
The Bump on Brannigan's Head
Season 2Episode 4160 min

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.

Jun 11, 1950
Anything Can Happen
Season 2Episode 4260 min

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.

Jun 18, 1950
Hear My Heart Speak
Season 2Episode 4360 min

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.

Jun 25, 1950
The Reluctant Landlord
Season 2Episode 4460 min

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.

Jul 2, 1950
The Tentacles
Season 2Episode 4560 min

The Tentacles

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

Jul 9, 1950

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