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The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 7

Episode List

Middle of the Night
E1 - Middle of the Night

Aired: September 19, 1954

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

Time Bomb
E2 - Time Bomb

Aired: October 03, 1954

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

Man on the Mountaintop
E3 - Man on the Mountaintop

Aired: October 17, 1954

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.

Time of Delivery
E4 - Time of Delivery

Aired: October 31, 1954

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,

Crime Without Motive
E5 - Crime Without Motive

Aired: November 14, 1954

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

Beg, Borrow or Steal
E6 - Beg, Borrow or Steal

Aired: November 28, 1954

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.

Catch My Boy on Sunday
E7 - Catch My Boy on Sunday

Aired: December 12, 1954

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

Run, Girl, Run
E8 - Run, Girl, Run

Aired: December 26, 1954

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.

Walk Into the Night
E9 - Walk Into the Night

Aired: January 09, 1955

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

Anatomy of Fear
E10 - Anatomy of Fear

Aired: January 23, 1955

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,

A Sense of Justice
E11 - A Sense of Justice

Aired: February 06, 1955

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

The Assassin
E12 - The Assassin

Aired: February 20, 1955

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

Play Me Hearts and Flowers
E13 - Play Me Hearts and Flowers

Aired: March 06, 1955

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.

Shadow of the Champ
E14 - Shadow of the Champ

Aired: March 20, 1955

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.

Watch Me Die
E15 - Watch Me Die

Aired: April 03, 1955

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.

The Bold and the Brave
E16 - The Bold and the Brave

Aired: April 17, 1955

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.

Letter of Recommendation
E17 - Letter of Recommendation

Aired: May 01, 1955

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

The Pardon-Me Boy
E18 - The Pardon-Me Boy

Aired: May 15, 1955

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.

The Ghost Writer
E19 - The Ghost Writer

Aired: May 29, 1955

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.

Total Recall
E20 - Total Recall

Aired: June 12, 1955

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.

Black Frost
E21 - Black Frost

Aired: June 26, 1955

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

Incident in July
E22 - Incident in July

Aired: July 10, 1955

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...

The Death of Billy the Kid
E23 - The Death of Billy the Kid

Aired: July 24, 1955

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

A Room in Paris
E24 - A Room in Paris

Aired: August 07, 1955

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

Gretel
E25 - Gretel

Aired: August 21, 1955

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