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The Philco Television Playhouse — Season 1
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0160mDinner at EightSocial-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hospitality for a visiting British aristocratic couple by arranging a small dinner party. The guests are chosen both to impress--a faded stage star, a well-known if over-the-hill alcoholic actor--and to meet certain social obligations. This means the necessary inclusion of a philandering doctor and his wife, and a gauche, nouveau-riche couple who are loathed but powerful.Oct 3, 1948Oct 3, 194860m0260mRebeccaBrooding and moody Maxim deWinter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year after the tragic death of hi first wife, Rebecca. The staff of Manderley, his country home, including Mrs Danvers the housekeeper who rules over the house, are still devoted to their former mistress, the socialite Rebecca and they find it difficult to accept the new, shy Mrs deWinter who is inexperienced running a large home.Oct 10, 1948Oct 10, 194860m0360mCounsellor-at-LawAn upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to help the working-class Jews from his old neighborhood.Oct 17, 1948Oct 17, 194860m0460mAngel in the WingsAn understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy takes over and brings down the house.Oct 24, 1948Oct 24, 194860m0560mStreet SceneAbraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of poverty. Kaplan's revolutionary, socialist views grate against some of his neighbors.Oct 31, 1948Oct 31, 194860m0660mThis Thing Called LoveA professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or not. The husband tries to lure her with all kinds of excuses and tricks to the marital bed.Nov 7, 1948Nov 7, 194860m0760mCamilleCamille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship jeopardizes his career and prevents the marriage of his sister into a ""respectable"" family, if Duval marries Camille. Camille becomes ill and dies.Nov 14, 1948Nov 14, 194860m0860mAn Inspector CallsWhen Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter the very foundations of their lives, but challenge us all to examine our consciences.Nov 21, 1948Nov 21, 194860m0960mI Like It HereWillie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable man even when he's interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in love with Brad, a young lawyer. Of course, Willie sees fit to give Brad all kinds of advice.Nov 28, 1948Nov 28, 194860m1060mSuspect20 years ago, a Scotswoman was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her son becomes engaged, his fiancée's godfather spots the mother and recognizes her. In his efforts to trap her, and hers not to be trapped trouble arises.Dec 5, 1948Dec 5, 194860m1160mParlor StoryAn ambitious professor wants to become President of his university. He is soon caught up in the political opportunism of the State Governor, the wiles of an unscrupulous newspaper publisher and the parlor tricks of his own meddling wife.Dec 12, 1948Dec 12, 194860m1260mA Christmas CarolThe skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.Dec 19, 1948Dec 19, 194860m1360mThe Old Lady Shows Her MedalsThe basement flat of Mrs Dowey, a Scottish charwoman who lives and works in London, during World War I, and Mrs Dowey and her guests - three other charwomen whom she has invited for tea - are discussing the tactics of trench warfare with the confidence of people who have never been near the Front.Dec 26, 1948Dec 26, 194860m1460mRamshackle InnAn old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting people. She purchases a strange rundown place near the ocean and gets what she bargains for.Jan 2, 1949Jan 2, 194960m1560mCyrano de BergeracThe poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose, Cyrano uses the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit for his feelings, the ugly but eloquent Cyrano pours his heart out to the lovely Roxanne. And she, wooed by the beauty of the words, falls in love with Christian, not realizing that it is Cyrano whose voice has aroused her passion.Jan 9, 1949Jan 9, 194960m1660mPapa Is AllPapa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel.Jan 16, 1949Jan 16, 194960m1760mPride and PrejudiceThe trials of a woman trying to find husbands for her five daughters in 18th-century England.Jan 23, 1949Jan 23, 194960m1860mDark HammockIn a remote part of Florida Coral Platt, a sinister woman has married a man considerably older than she. For reasons sufficient to her, she wants him out of the way and plans an ingenious though slow murder by poison. She has succeeded in making it seem that Marvin is dying through natural causes. However, she is forced unexpectedly to play hostess to two women who have come to Florida. The women stay longer than they planned because they have begun to suspect what Coral is up to. In a series of exciting scenes they discover just what is going on and prevent Marvin's death.Jan 30, 1949Jan 30, 194960m1960mThe Late Christopher BeanDr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish, and ill-tempered. It is Abby, the family servant, who ultimately holds them all in her power; she has one of the greatest paintings, which she cannot be persuaded into selling or giving away. She is the only one who really understood the artist -- besides, she had been married to him!Feb 6, 1949Feb 6, 194960m2060mThe Story of Mary SurrattAfter the death of her husband Mary opened a boardinghouse to pay the debts owed by her husband. .. There she began a respectable boardinghouse business and met the man who would ultimately lead to her inglorious place in history - John Wilkes Booth.Feb 13, 1949Feb 13, 194960m2160mTwelfth NightViola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. But Orsino thinks she's a man, and her predicament worsens when she realizes that Olivia has fallen in love with her.Feb 20, 1949Feb 20, 194960m2260mSt. HelenaOn St. Helena, the exiled emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In his confinement he's suffering from a bad liver and a sulking mistress all this begins to weigh heavy on him as he continues to be haunted by spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would have had 12,000 more men. The imperial manners gradually give way to those of a lonely and embittered country squire. Feeling death upon him at last, he hears that a comet has appeared in the sky.Feb 27, 1949Feb 27, 194960m2360mThe Druid CircleAn embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by the boy to the girl. The professor uses this to humiliate the young people, unconsciously venting upon them his own perverse cruelty for the disappointment suffered in his own life.Mar 6, 1949Mar 6, 194960m2460mQuality StreetBecause she's nearly 30 and still unwed, Phoebe Throssel is regarded as an over-the-hill spinster. Thus, when offered the opportunity for a reunion with Captain Brown, whom she hasn't seen in years, Phoebe desperately wants to rekindle his affections.Mar 13, 1949Mar 13, 194960m2560mDinner at Antoine'sThe murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.Mar 20, 1949Mar 20, 194960m2660mBecky SharpA scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. However, fate never seems to give her an even break.Mar 27, 1949Mar 27, 194960m2760mAnd Never Been KissedA sixteen-year-old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.Apr 3, 1949Apr 3, 194960m28
60mWhat Makes Sammy Run?The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic-his congenital incapacity for friendship.Apr 10, 1949Apr 10, 194960m2960mMr. Mergenthwirker's LobbliesOnly Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.Apr 17, 1949Apr 17, 194960m3060mBurlesqueVaudevillians Skid and Bonnie are partners onstage and off -- until success comes to Skip. He develops an oversized ego and a taste for booze, which alienates Bonnie. But his friends struggle to help him redeem himself.Apr 24, 1949Apr 24, 194960m3160mMacbethScottish nobleman who prompted by his own prophecy and ambitions, kills a king to wear his crown.May 1, 1949May 1, 194960m3260mRomeo and JulietStar crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the start by the hatred of their families.May 15, 1949May 15, 194960m3360mThis Time, Next YearThe ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materialises every year at Grant's Tomb.Jun 5, 1949Jun 5, 194960m3460mIt Pays to AdvertiseWith the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously popular product and cant keep up with the demand.Jun 12, 1949Jun 12, 194960m3560mSummer FormalA charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The plot is concerned with the priest's clumsy endeavors to make Jenny attractive to the boys.Jun 19, 1949Jun 19, 194960m3660mJenny Kissed MeA charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. The 18-year-old Jenny is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The priest makes clumsy endeavours to make Jenny attractive to the boys.Jun 26, 1949Jun 26, 194960m3760mDark of the MoonA witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjure woman turn him into a human. The only condition of the spell is that Barbara must remain faithful to John for one full year after they are married. If Barbara is not faithful, then John will turn back into a witch boy.Jul 3, 1949Jul 3, 194960m3860mFor Love or MoneyA young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of a famous actor.Jul 10, 1949Jul 10, 194960m3960mThe Five Lives of Richard GordonKatie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife, has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. Her restless and bored spouse just keeps finding himself in hot water.Jul 17, 1949Jul 17, 194960m4060mYou Touched Me!The adopted son of a drunken former sea captain returns to the household as an adult. He asks the old man for his eldest daughter's hand in marriage. Everyone believes it's an attempt to secure an inheritance.Jul 24, 1949Jul 24, 194960m4160mThe Fourth WallThe life of a middle-aged couple has become to complacent and empty.Jul 31, 1949Jul 31, 194960m4260mEnter MadameA grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better half. While the pampered pet of a suite of servants and receiving the homage of operatic mad foreigners, she believes he is sitting at home in Boston immersed in his work. Instead he has fallen for a designing widow and has about decided to divorce his songbird wife.Aug 7, 1949Aug 7, 194960m4360mA Murder Has Been ArrangedA ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.Aug 14, 1949Aug 14, 194960m4460mPretty Little ParlorA little soirée is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.Aug 21, 1949Aug 21, 194960m4560mThree Cornered MoonNellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law student Kenneth, and Eddie, a would-be actor) after they lose their fortune in the stock-market crash. While Elizabeth works in a shoe factory and tries to help her brothers find jobs, she falls in love with a melancholy writer, but marries a wealthy doctor.Aug 28, 1949Aug 28, 194960m
