The Philco Television Playhouse - Season 6
Season 6
Network
Episodes26
Datessept. 27, 1953 - sept. 5, 1954
Episodes
Season 6Episode 160 min
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A young ballplayer appreciates the value of home and family after a shaky start in professional baseball.
sept. 27, 1953
Season 6Episode 260 min
The Bachelor Party
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
oct. 11, 1953
Season 6Episode 360 min
The Girl with the Stopwatch
A woman of 30 is preoccupied with her work as a television script writer.
oct. 25, 1953
Season 6Episode 460 min
The Train to Trouble
A man must decide whether or not to expose the past of a candidate for the sheriff's office.
nov. 8, 1953
Season 6Episode 560 min
Up Above the World So High
A middle-aged woman seemingly has the gift of second sight.
nov. 22, 1953
Season 6Episode 660 min
The Sixth Year
A wife becomes exasperated with her husband who seems to have lost the will to work. She takes their child and leaves. He finds a menial job and asks her to come home. She seeks advice on the situation from her mother and father
nov. 29, 1953
Season 6Episode 760 min
The Midnight Caller
Three unmarried women residing in a boarding house in a small town have watched life pass them by waiting for the right man to come into their lives. When a new stranger shows up and moves into the boarding house.
déc. 13, 1953
Season 6Episode 860 min
The Glorification of Al Toolum
déc. 27, 1953
Season 6Episode 960 min
The Hangman in the Fog
An American newspaperman in London believes that he is being pursued by agents from across the Iron Curtain.
janv. 10, 1954
Season 6Episode 1060 min
Smoke Screen
A country boy gets a job in the city as a bookkeeper. He meets a beautiful model and gets mixed up in a murder.
janv. 24, 1954
Season 6Episode 1160 min
A Game of Hide and Seek
févr. 7, 1954
Season 6Episode 1260 min
Statute of Limitations
The perpetrators of a million dollar robbery find themselves with five hours to go before the statute of limitations takes effect.
févr. 21, 1954
Season 6Episode 1360 min
The Dancers
A meek young boy, still shy and unsure of himself, visits his sister in a small town and is persuaded by her to ask the most popular girl in town for a date. He asks her to a school dance, but, as she is going steady, she refuses his invitation. Believing himself to be the butt of ridicule by the young population of the town because of his awkwardness, he withdraws into himself. He later meets a young girl who is as shy as he, is and, because of the mutual understanding between them, they give each other the confidence each lacks.
mars 7, 1954
Season 6Episode 1460 min
The Broken Fist
The story of a middle-aged Frenchman in Algiers who decides to do something for his homeland during the Nazi occupation. He joins the underground and goes to the port of Marseilles to report on shipping.
mars 21, 1954
Season 6Episode 1560 min
The Mother
A widow tries not to be dependent on her children.
avr. 4, 1954
Season 6Episode 1660 min
The King and Mrs. Candle
The deposed King of Brandovia, whose inhabitants spend their time exporting bologna and repelling invasions by neighboring Carps and Gloats, finds his way to America, where he earns a living as a dancing instructor.
avr. 18, 1954
Season 6Episode 1760 min
The Joker
Mike Galloway, a "nice guy", was an incurable practical joker--always passing out exploding cigars and perpetrating other silliness. His pranks made for a bad first impression on Dorie, but eventually they fell in love and married.
mai 2, 1954
Season 6Episode 1860 min
And Crown Thy Good
In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.
mai 16, 1954
Season 6Episode 1960 min
The Shadow of Willie Greer
In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.
mai 30, 1954
Season 6Episode 2060 min
Adapt or Die
An editor of the major magazine "Throb" finds that he must either adapt to the high pressure life of a New York magazine or be without a job.
juin 13, 1954
Season 6Episode 2160 min
Friday the Thirteenth
3 women have just attended their college reunion, and are returning together when their vehicle crashes through a fence and over a cliff. As their husbands wait anxiously above the accident scene, they learn that only two of the women have survived, and they relive memories of their lives together as they await word as to who lives and who died.
juin 27, 1954
Season 6Episode 2260 min
Man Drowning
A big man on the campus turns out to be somewhat of a dud.
juil. 11, 1954
Season 6Episode 2360 min
The Catamaran
A husband's hobby threatens his marriage until he finds a suitable replacement, the wife that is.
juil. 25, 1954
Season 6Episode 2460 min
The Man in the Middle of the Ocean
A member of an architect's firm is torn by internal conflict. His partners need his compliance if they are to cash in on a deal they have made with a building contractor.
août 8, 1954
Season 6Episode 2560 min
Star in the Summer Night
août 22, 1954
Season 6Episode 2660 min
Run Like a Thief
Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his protege Rob, things go wrong when his wife Della finds an expensive bracelet lost by Pollard and begs to keep. The police are called and Alexander's dreams of his future begin to crumble.
sept. 5, 1954
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