The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 4
Season 4
Network
Episodes24
DatesOct 21, 1951 - Sep 14, 1952
Episodes
Season 4Episode 160 min
Marcia Akers
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".
Oct 21, 1951
Season 4Episode 260 min
The Education of a Fullback
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.
Nov 4, 1951
Season 4Episode 360 min
A Little Night Music
Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.
Nov 18, 1951
Season 4Episode 460 min
Incident at Golden's Creek
An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.
Dec 2, 1951
Season 4Episode 560 min
Perspective
The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.
Dec 16, 1951
Season 4Episode 660 min
The Sisters
The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.
Dec 30, 1951
Season 4Episode 760 min
Without Fear or Favor
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.
Jan 13, 1952
Season 4Episode 860 min
Segment
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.
Jan 27, 1952
Season 4Episode 960 min
Rich Boy
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.
Feb 10, 1952
Season 4Episode 1060 min
Tender Age
The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.
Feb 24, 1952
Season 4Episode 1160 min
Dusty Portrait
A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.
Mar 9, 1952
Season 4Episode 1260 min
The Best Laid Schemes
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.
Mar 23, 1952
Season 4Episode 1360 min
The Room Next Door
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.
Apr 5, 1952
Season 4Episode 1460 min
The Basket Weaver
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.
Apr 19, 1952
Season 4Episode 1560 min
We Were Children
A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.
May 4, 1952
Season 4Episode 1660 min
A Cowboy for Chris
A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.
May 18, 1952
Season 4Episode 1760 min
A Man's Game
A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.
Jun 1, 1952
Season 4Episode 1860 min
Flight Into Darkness
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.
Jun 15, 1952
Season 4Episode 1960 min
The Monument
A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.
Jun 29, 1952
Season 4Episode 2060 min
A Letter to Mr. Priest
The 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, 1952
Season 4Episode 2160 min
Brat Farrar
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.
Jul 27, 1952
Season 4Episode 2260 min
The Five Fathers of Pepi
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.
Aug 10, 1952
Season 4Episode 2360 min
Three Sundays
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.
Aug 24, 1952
Season 4Episode 2460 min
The Last Hour
A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.
Sep 7, 1952
Season 4Episode 2560 min
Holiday Song
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.
Sep 14, 1952
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