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The Philco Television Playhouse — Season 4
#Episode nameAir dateRuntimeRating
0160mMarcia AkersA 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, 1951Oct 21, 195160m0260mThe Education of a FullbackA 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, 1951Nov 4, 195160m0360mA Little Night MusicElizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.Nov 18, 1951Nov 18, 195160m0460mIncident at Golden's CreekAn Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.Dec 2, 1951Dec 2, 195160m0560mPerspectiveThe play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.Dec 16, 1951Dec 16, 195160m0660mThe SistersThe lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.Dec 30, 19516.0Dec 30, 195160m6.00760mWithout Fear or FavorModern 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.Jan 13, 1952Jan 13, 195260m0860mSegmentDuring 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.Jan 27, 1952Jan 27, 195260m0960mRich BoyThis 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.Feb 10, 19526.0Feb 10, 195260m6.01060mTender AgeThe tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.Feb 24, 1952Feb 24, 195260m1160mDusty PortraitA tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.Mar 9, 1952Mar 9, 195260m1260mThe Best Laid SchemesBoy 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.Mar 23, 1952Mar 23, 195260m1360mThe Room Next DoorA 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.Apr 5, 1952Apr 5, 195260m14
60mThe Basket WeaverThe story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased by a personal crisis.Apr 19, 1952Apr 19, 195260m1560mWe Were ChildrenA close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.May 4, 1952May 4, 195260m1660mA Cowboy for ChrisA little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.May 18, 1952May 18, 195260m1760mA Man's GameA big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.Jun 1, 1952Jun 1, 195260m1860mFlight into DarknessA 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.Jun 15, 1952Jun 15, 195260m1960mThe MonumentA reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.Jun 29, 1952Jun 29, 195260m2060mA Letter to Mr. PriestThe camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.Jul 13, 1952Jul 13, 195260m2160mBratt FarrarNo 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.Jul 27, 1952Jul 27, 195260m2260mThe Five Fathers of PepiA 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.Aug 10, 1952Aug 10, 195260m2360mThree SundaysA 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.Aug 24, 1952Aug 24, 195260m24
60mThe Last HourA woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.Sep 7, 1952Sep 7, 195260m2560mHoliday SongThe 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.Sep 14, 1952Sep 14, 195260m
