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The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 2

Episode List

What Every Woman Knows
E1 - What Every Woman Knows

Aired: September 04, 1949

A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a successful political career. He rises to a parliamentary seat, never quite realizing that he hasn't done it alone.

Pride's Castle
E2 - Pride's Castle

Aired: September 11, 1949

Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for human decency or moral restraint left him ruthless and corrupt. He falls for Sharon O'Neill who is a woman filled with so much goodness in her soul, as much as he has evil in his.

The Little Sister
E3 - The Little Sister

Aired: September 18, 1949

A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.

The Lonely
E4 - The Lonely

Aired: September 25, 1949

An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a female friend. Their understanding is that the trip will be purely platonic; instead, they fall madly in love. At his first opportunity, the lieutenant flies back to America to break the news to his fiancé and family.

The Queen Bee
E5 - The Queen Bee

Aired: October 02, 1949

A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.

Something's Got to Give
E6 - Something's Got to Give

Aired: October 09, 1949

A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.

The Last Tycoon
E7 - The Last Tycoon

Aired: October 16, 1949

A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.

Because of the Lockwoods
E8 - Because of the Lockwoods

Aired: October 23, 1949

The Lockwoods are patronising toward their former neighbours, the Hunters, who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters are saved from despair from the help of a young junk dealer named Oliver Read, who teaches the Lockwoods a lesson in humanity.

Damion's Daughter
E9 - Damion's Daughter

Aired: October 30, 1949

A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.

The House of Seven Gables
E10 - The House of Seven Gables

Aired: November 06, 1949

With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.

The Promise
E11 - The Promise

Aired: November 13, 1949

A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.

Medical Meeting
E12 - Medical Meeting

Aired: November 20, 1949

The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
E13 - The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram

Aired: November 27, 1949

A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and vanity are causes of the trouble.

Mist on the Waters
E14 - Mist on the Waters

Aired: December 04, 1949

Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.

The Beautiful Bequest
E15 - The Beautiful Bequest

Aired: December 11, 1949

The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher.

The Strange Christmas Dinner
E16 - The Strange Christmas Dinner

Aired: December 18, 1949

A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.

In Beauty Like the Night
E17 - In Beauty Like the Night

Aired: December 25, 1949

A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.

Little Boy Lost
E18 - Little Boy Lost

Aired: January 01, 1950

An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.

Bethel Merriday
E19 - Bethel Merriday

Aired: January 08, 1950

A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.

Murder at the Stork Club
E20 - Murder at the Stork Club

Aired: January 15, 1950

A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.

The Marriages
E21 - The Marriages

Aired: January 22, 1950

In England in the 1890s, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley, but his 27-year-old spinster daughter Adela contrives to ruin the relationship. She also turns two of the other three children against their intended stepmother and spoils the widow's plans to help Adela's brother Godfrey out of an unpleasant situation.

Uncle Dynamite
E22 - Uncle Dynamite

Aired: January 29, 1950

Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers.

The Sudden Guest
E23 - The Sudden Guest

Aired: February 05, 1950

A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resents the intrusion, especially since her neighbours happen to be Jews.

Ann Rutledge
E24 - Ann Rutledge

Aired: February 12, 1950

The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.

A Letter to Mr. Priest
E25 - A Letter to Mr. Priest

Aired: February 19, 1950

An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.

Hometown
E26 - Hometown

Aired: February 26, 1950

Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a publicity build-up for his book. He meets a glamorous woman, who introduces him to the nightlife of Manhattan. He soon tires of cafés, cocktail parties, and public appearances, and returns to his simple way of living in the country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart.

The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
E27 - The Life of Vincent Van Gogh

Aired: March 05, 1950

The tragic life story of the tormented artist.

The Uncertain Molly Collicutt
E28 - The Uncertain Molly Collicutt

Aired: March 12, 1950

A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.

The Trial of Steven Kent
E29 - The Trial of Steven Kent

Aired: March 19, 1950

A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.

The Second Oldest Profession
E30 - The Second Oldest Profession

Aired: March 26, 1950

An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

Nocturne
E31 - Nocturne

Aired: April 02, 1950

In London in 1910, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support and care for their widowed, invalid father. Jenny, the younger, pretty sister, seeks to escape from the depressing reality of her poverty-stricken home, while Emmy, the older, plain sister, finds comfort and eventual happiness by serving their ailing father. At the end, both are engaged: Jenny will marry Keith Reddington and Emmy will wed Alf Rylett.

Dirty Eddie
E32 - Dirty Eddie

Aired: April 09, 1950

Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.

The End is Known
E33 - The End is Known

Aired: April 16, 1950

A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He then learns the suicide jumped from his apartment. A mystery surrounds a suicide.

The Man in the Black Hat
E34 - The Man in the Black Hat

Aired: April 23, 1950

A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.

The American
E35 - The American

Aired: April 30, 1950

An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.

The Feast
E36 - The Feast

Aired: May 07, 1950

A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.

Brat Farrar
E37 - Brat Farrar

Aired: May 14, 1950

Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.

The Charmed Circle
E38 - The Charmed Circle

Aired: May 21, 1950

A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers. He eventually falls in love with a rich girl and leads a revolt against the President of the fraternity house.

Semmelweis
E39 - Semmelweis

Aired: May 28, 1950

Story of the great physician who saved millions of lives due to his discovery of the cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever) and eliminated its danger by prescribing the absolute sterlization of all instruments and the cleanliness of all persons coming in contact with the mother.

Sense and Sensibility
E40 - Sense and Sensibility

Aired: June 04, 1950

Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.

The Bump on Brannigan's Head
E41 - The Bump on Brannigan's Head

Aired: June 11, 1950

A bonk on the head turns a grouchy hothead into the sweetest man in town. Brannigan runs for mayor of his small town--and wins--with his "love everybody" campaign. He even wins over the crooked newspaper publisher.

Anything Can Happen
E42 - Anything Can Happen

Aired: June 18, 1950

A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.

Hear My Heart Speak
E43 - Hear My Heart Speak

Aired: June 25, 1950

A shell-shocked WWI ex-soldier is unable to speak though doctors say the problem isn't physical. Tired of completing with his overbearing, doting mother, the woman he loves begins to withdraw from his life. It's then that he regains his ability to talk.

The Reluctant Landlord
E44 - The Reluctant Landlord

Aired: July 02, 1950

Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia, experiences many difficulties as he tries to adapt to his adopted country. He works hard to make a place for himself in America, all the while fighting with the English language and the strange customs of an alien people.

The Tentacles
E45 - The Tentacles

Aired: July 09, 1950

A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.