The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 4

The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 4

Season 4

Network
Episodes24
Datesoct. 21, 1951 - sept. 14, 1952
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Episodes

Marcia Akers
Season 4Episode 160 min

Marcia Akers

A young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladder and stepping on people along the way. She's set to marry a wealthy man--just what's always wanted--when she finds herself in love with a "regular guy".
oct. 21, 1951
The Education of a Fullback
Season 4Episode 260 min

The Education of a Fullback

A comedy on the foibles of campus activities about a professor who can't understand why a football hero shouldn't be given an unsatisfactory grade especially when he slept thru the classes.
nov. 4, 1951
A Little Night Music
Season 4Episode 360 min

A Little Night Music

Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.
nov. 18, 1951
Incident at Golden's Creek
Season 4Episode 460 min

Incident at Golden's Creek

An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.
déc. 2, 1951
Perspective
Season 4Episode 560 min

Perspective

The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.
déc. 16, 1951
The Sisters
Season 4Episode 660 min

The Sisters

The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.
déc. 30, 1951
Without Fear or Favor
Season 4Episode 760 min

Without Fear or Favor

Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, where the New York Times crusades against the crooks in City Hall headed by Boss Tweed and his thieving cronies, which included judges, police officials and even the Mayor.
janv. 13, 1952
Segment
Season 4Episode 860 min

Segment

During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. The wife nagging pushes the man over the edge and he is determined to kill her after he makes her listen to his list of reasons she's been cruel to him. Meanwhile police try to talk him out of it, and watch him with a television camera across the street.
janv. 27, 1952
Rich Boy
Season 4Episode 960 min

Rich Boy

This well-received adaptation of the 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story starred Gene Lyons as rich playboy Anson Hunter, who realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allowing the one woman he truly loved (Kelly) to slip out of his grasp.
févr. 10, 1952
Tender Age
Season 4Episode 1060 min

Tender Age

The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.
févr. 24, 1952
Dusty Portrait
Season 4Episode 1160 min

Dusty Portrait

A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.
mars 9, 1952
The Best Laid Schemes
Season 4Episode 1260 min

The Best Laid Schemes

Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.
mars 23, 1952
The Room Next Door
Season 4Episode 1360 min

The Room Next Door

A social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined daughter. She however prefers an unstable piano player over an established member of the tea and crumpet set, things build up with a tragic ending.
avr. 5, 1952
The Basket Weaver
Season 4Episode 1460 min

The Basket Weaver

The story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased by a personal crisis.
avr. 19, 1952
We Were Children
Season 4Episode 1560 min

We Were Children

A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.
mai 4, 1952
A Cowboy for Chris
Season 4Episode 1660 min

A Cowboy for Chris

A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.
mai 18, 1952
A Man's Game
Season 4Episode 1760 min

A Man's Game

A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.
juin 1, 1952
Flight Into Darkness
Season 4Episode 1860 min

Flight Into Darkness

A psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is going insane and later that his brother, a doctor is going to murder him.
juin 15, 1952
The Monument
Season 4Episode 1960 min

The Monument

A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.
juin 29, 1952
A Letter to Mr. Priest
Season 4Episode 2060 min

A Letter to Mr. Priest

The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.
juil. 13, 1952
Brat Farrar
Season 4Episode 2160 min

Brat Farrar

No Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13.
juil. 27, 1952
The Five Fathers of Pepi
Season 4Episode 2260 min

The Five Fathers of Pepi

A young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American couple who will adopt Pepi and give him a proper upbringing. When the time comes to give the tyke up.
août 10, 1952
Three Sundays
Season 4Episode 2360 min

Three Sundays

A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for creating the affair and absolves the dead man.
août 24, 1952
The Last Hour
Season 4Episode 2460 min

The Last Hour

A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.
sept. 7, 1952
Holiday Song
Season 4Episode 2560 min

Holiday Song

The night before Rosh Hashonah, a cantor suffers a spiritual crisis. That same night, he is sent by someone to see a rabbi out in Brooklyn, A mysterious train station attendant gives him directions after which he stops a woman from committing suicide because she is despondent over the death of her husband in the war. On his way home, the cantor meets up with the husband. He thought his wife had died. The cantor reunites them. After trying to find the station guard, the cantor learns that no one has ever worked there fitting the man's description. thus the cantor realizes that some sort of 'celestial conductor' must have had a hand in the matter. His faith restored, the cantor is able to resume his life's work.
sept. 14, 1952

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