25 episodes

The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 7

First aired Sep 19, 1954Season 7

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

Middle of the Night

NR
Sep 19, 195460 min

A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.

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Episode 2

Time Bomb

NR
Oct 3, 195460 min

A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.

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Episode 3

Man on the Mountaintop

NR
Oct 17, 195460 min

Horace Mann Borden is an adult former child prodigy who has been exploited by his father to advance his own theories about education. Horace feels that people view him as a freak and expect things out of him. Horace shuts out the world. Greta Blake is the woman who has fallen in love with Horace and shows him that the world is not out to get him.

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Episode 4

Time of Delivery

NR
Oct 31, 195460 min

A 24-hour delay in mail delivery violently changes three lives. A postman collapses on his daily route and the delivery of his sack of mail is delayed for a day. In three dramatic situations which develop,

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Episode 5

Crime Without Motive

NR
Nov 14, 195460 min

The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.

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Episode 6

Beg, Borrow or Steal

NR
Nov 28, 195460 min

The story of a man who embezzles $18,000 from an estate in order to live up to the standards he likes and of the trap he finds himself in when another lawyer takes over the estate.

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Episode 7

Catch My Boy on Sunday

NR
Dec 12, 195460 min

A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.

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Episode 8

Run, Girl, Run

NR
Dec 26, 195460 min

An aspiring young actress loses her big chance on Broadway and returns home. Her mother shows why she may have failed and inspires her to try again.

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Episode 9

Walk Into the Night

NR
Jan 9, 195560 min

A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.

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Episode 10

Anatomy of Fear

NR
Jan 23, 195560 min

A man is implicated in a murder while vacationing with his wife at a summer resort. The man recognizes a murdered woman as the one in love with his business partner. He hides her purse in order to delay identification but his wife threatens to expose him,

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Episode 11

A Sense of Justice

NR
Feb 6, 195560 min

A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.

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Episode 12

The Assassin

NR
Feb 20, 195560 min

The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.

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Episode 13

Play Me Hearts and Flowers

NR
Mar 6, 195560 min

A singer who has teamed up with a comedian realizes that he has become the comic's ""straight man"" both on and off the stage, and that somehow he must reassert his individuality.

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Episode 14

Shadow of the Champ

NR
Mar 20, 195560 min

A lonely woman feels she has one last shot at romance with a man who's content with being a flunky to a boxing champion.

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Episode 15

Watch Me Die

NR
Apr 3, 195560 min

He can't simply divorce his wife to marry a young starlet since he wants her money, too. So he begins his search for the ideal way to kill his unsuspecting spouse.

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Episode 16

The Bold and the Brave

NR
Apr 17, 195560 min

The commander of a military prep school brings near disaster to himself and his son, a pupil at the school. He pushes the boy beyond endurance in his effort to make him a better student than he was.

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Episode 17

Letter of Recommendation

NR
May 1, 195560 min

A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.

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Episode 18

The Pardon-Me Boy

NR
May 15, 195560 min

A young man, held a failure by his father, is a juror in the murder trial of a gangland boss. When the trial is over, the son reveals that he held out for the acquittal of the defendant.

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Episode 19

The Ghost Writer

NR
May 29, 195560 min

The manager of a former actor now running for Congress wants to exploit the fact that the opposition candidate's daughter is working on their campaign. However, the actor and his ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred of her father to their advantage.

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Episode 20

Total Recall

NR
Jun 12, 195560 min

A man who's stopped before committing suicide says he can remember nothing of his past. A police check reveals that he has a wife.

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Episode 21

Black Frost

NR
Jun 26, 195560 min

A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.

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Episode 22

Incident in July

NR
Jul 10, 195560 min

Daddy Tom, the camp director, is upset when he learns through the grapevine that one of his counselors, Mrs. Johnson, is infatuated with his 19-year-old office worker, Andy, and that she wants to give him $1,100 for his education. The first part of the rumour is not true but the second part is. She is unable to have children and thinks this is a constructive way to use the money they saved for a child. She and her husband squabble over this. Andy's parents are dead. Daddy Tom fires both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. He later re-hires them on the condition that she not mention...

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Episode 23

The Death of Billy the Kid

6.0
Jul 24, 195560 min1 votes

How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.

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Episode 24

A Room in Paris

NR
Aug 7, 195560 min

An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.

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Episode 25

Gretel

NR
Aug 21, 195560 min

Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.