25 episodes

The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 4

First aired Oct 21, 1951Season 4

Browse all 25 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Marcia Akers

NR
Oct 21, 195160 min

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".

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Episode 2

The Education of a Fullback

NR
Nov 4, 195160 min

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.

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Episode 3

A Little Night Music

NR
Nov 18, 195160 min

Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.

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Episode 4

Incident at Golden's Creek

NR
Dec 2, 195160 min

An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.

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Episode 5

Perspective

NR
Dec 16, 195160 min

The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.

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Episode 6

The Sisters

6.0
Dec 30, 195160 min1 votes

The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.

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Episode 7

Without Fear or Favor

NR
Jan 13, 195260 min

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.

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Episode 8

Segment

NR
Jan 27, 195260 min

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.

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Episode 9

Rich Boy

6.0
Feb 10, 195260 min1 votes

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.

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Episode 10

Tender Age

NR
Feb 24, 195260 min

The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.

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Episode 11

Dusty Portrait

NR
Mar 9, 195260 min

A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

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Episode 12

The Best Laid Schemes

NR
Mar 23, 195260 min

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.

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Episode 13

The Room Next Door

NR
Apr 5, 195260 min

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.

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Episode 14

The Basket Weaver

NR
Apr 19, 195260 min

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.

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Episode 15

We Were Children

NR
May 4, 195260 min

A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.

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Episode 16

A Cowboy for Chris

NR
May 18, 195260 min

A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.

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Episode 17

A Man's Game

NR
Jun 1, 195260 min

A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.

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Episode 18

Flight into Darkness

NR
Jun 15, 195260 min

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.

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Episode 19

The Monument

NR
Jun 29, 195260 min

A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.

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Episode 20

A Letter to Mr. Priest

NR
Jul 13, 195260 min

The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.

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Episode 21

Bratt Farrar

NR
Jul 27, 195260 min

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.

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Episode 22

The Five Fathers of Pepi

NR
Aug 10, 195260 min

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.

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Episode 23

Three Sundays

NR
Aug 24, 195260 min

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.

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Episode 24

The Last Hour

NR
Sep 7, 195260 min

A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.

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Episode 25

Holiday Song

NR
Sep 14, 195260 min

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.