The Philco Television Playhouse - Episode Guide

Social-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hospitality for a visiting British aristocratic couple by arranging a small dinner party. The guests are chosen both to impress--a faded stage star, a well-known if over-the-hill alcoholic actor --and to meet certain social obligations. This means the necessary inclusion of a philandering doctor and his wife, and a gauche, nouveau-riche couple who are loathed but powerful.

Brooding and moody Maxim de Winter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year after the tragic death of hi first wife, Rebecca. The staff of Manderley, his country home, including Mrs Danvers the housekeeper who rules over the house, are still devoted to their former mistress, the socialite Rebecca and they find it difficult to accept the new, shy Mrs deWinter who is inexperienced running a large home.

An upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to help the working-class Jews from his old neighborhood.

A understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy takes over and brings down the house.

Abraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of poverty. Kaplan's revolutionary, socialist views grate against some of his neighbors.

A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or not. The husband tries to lure her with all kinds of excuses and tricks to the marital bed.

Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship jeopardizes his career and prevents the marriage of his sister into a "respectable" family, if Duval marries Camille. Camille becomes ill and dies.

When Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter the very foundations of their lives, but challenge us all to examine our consciences.

Willie is a refugee, he works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable character even when he's interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in love with Brad a young lawyer and of course Willie sees fit to give Brad all kinds of advice.

A Scotswoman some 20 years ago was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her son becomes engaged, his fiancee's godfather spots the mother and recognizes her. In his efforts to trap her, and hers not to be trapped trouble arises.

An ambitious professor wants to become President of his University. He soon is so caught up in the political opportunism of the State Governor, the wiles of an unscrupulous newspaper publisher and the parlor tricks of his own meddling wife.

Charles Dickens introduces the story of Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge and Bob Cratchit are working in Scrooge's office. "Silent Night" sung by Bing Crosby and the Mitchell Boys Choir.

The basement flat of Mrs Dowey, a Scottish charwoman who lives and works in London, during World War I, and Mrs Dowey and her guests - three other charwomen whom she has invited for tea - are discussing the tactics of trench warfare with the confidence of people who have never been near the Front.

An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting people. She purchases a strange rundown place near the ocean and gets what she bargains for.

The poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose, Cyrano uses the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit for his feelings, the ugly but eloquent Cyrano pours his heart out to the lovely Roxanne. And she, wooed by the beauty of the words, falls in love with Christian, not realizing that it is Cyrano whose voice has aroused her passion.

Papa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel.

The trials of a woman trying to find husbands for her five daughters in 18th-century England.

In a remote part of Florida, Coral Platt, a sinister woman has married a man considerably older than she. For reasons sufficient to her, she wants him out of the way and plans an ingenious though slow murder by poison. She has succeeded in making it seem that Marvin is dying through natural causes. However, she is forced unexpectedly to play hostess to two women who have come to Florida. The women stay longer than they planned because they have begun to suspect what Coral is up to. In a series of exciting scenes they discover just what is going on and prevent Marvin's death.

Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish, and ill-tempered. It is Abby, the family servant, who ultimately holds them all in her power; she has one of the greatest paintings, which she cannot be persuaded into selling or giving away. She is the only one who really understood the artist -- besides, she had been married to him!

After the death of her husband Mary opened a boardinghouse to pay the debts owed by her husband. .. There she began a respectable boardinghouse business and met the man who would ultimately lead to her inglorious place in history - John Wilkes Booth.

Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. But Orsino thinks she's a man, and her predicament worsens when she realizes that Olivia has fallen in love with her.

The story unfolds around the last years of Napoleon Bonaparte's life on the rocky island of St. Helena. The exiled emperor is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In his confinement he's suffering from a bad liver and a sulking mistress all this begins to weigh heavy on him as he continues to be haunted by spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would have had 12,000 more men. The imperial manners gradually give way to those of a lonely and embittered country squire. Feeling death upon him at last, he hears that a comet has appeared in the sky

An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by the boy to the girl. The professor uses this to humiliate the young people, unconsciously venting upon them his own perverse cruelty for the disappointment suffered in his own life.

Phoebe Throssel is nearly 30 and still unwed, this is regarded as an over-the-hill spinster. She and her sister decide to open up a school for genteel children. Things become complicated when Phoebe is offered the opportunity for a reunion with Captain Brown, whom she hasn't seen in years. Phoebe desperately wants to rekindle his affections.

The murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.

A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. However, fate never seems to give her an even break.

A sixteen year old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.

The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic-his congenital incapacity for friendship.

Only Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.

This program tells the story of Skid, a song and dance man on Broadway.

Scottish nobleman who prompted by his own prophecy and ambitions, kills a king to wear his crown.

Star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the start by the hatred of their families.

The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at Grant's Tomb.

With the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously popular product and cant keep up with the demand.

A woman becomes enamored with a married man at a summer formal.

A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The plot is concerned with the priest's clumsy endeavors to make Jenny attractive to the boys.

A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjur woman turn him into a human. The only condition of the spell is that Barbara must remain faithful to John for one full year after they are married. If Barbara is not faithful, then John will turn back into a witch boy.

A young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of an over forty famous actor.

Katie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. Her restless and bored spouse just keeps finding himself in hot water.

Two spinster sisters, quietly nursing their dying father in their family home, find their lives disrupted by the reappearance of a former charity boy, now a young soldier, whom their father had raised as a son.

The life of a middle-aged couple has become to complacent and empty.

A grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better half. While the pampered pet of a suite of servants and receiving the homage of operatic mad foreigners, she believes he is sitting at home in Boston immersed in his work. Instead he has fallen for a designing widow and has about decided to divorce his songbird wife.

A ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.

A little soire is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.

Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law student Kenneth, and Eddie, a would-be actor) after they lose their fortune in the stock-market crash. While Elizabeth works in a shoe factory and tries to help her brothers find jobs, she falls in love with a melancholy writer, but marries a wealthy doctor.

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 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.

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

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

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

Two freelance writers relocate their families to the country to escape the pressures of the city and their wives talk them into hosting their own radio show instead.

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

The Lockwoods' are patronising toward their former neighbors, 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. It is a gripping story of a girl's lost inheritance, and of how she regains it after years of poverty.

The story concerns the daughter of Blackmer who grows up amidst the production world of his theater. She discovers he is evil and has gained his success by cheapness, and the ending has impact.

With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder, many believe there is a curse imposed upon the family and the people who come to the House of Seven Gables

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

A deathly ill woman falls for her doctor.

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.

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

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.

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

A British flyer who lost his sight during the war deals with the problems caused by the injury.

A British poet searches for the child he's never seen. The boy vanished after his foster mother was taken away by the German Gestapo.

A small-town girl determined to become an actress.

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

In 1890's England, 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 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 jewellry into America for a friend of hers.

A New England spinster disregards her neighbors cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. Miss Leckton resents the intrusion, especially if the intruders happen to be Jews.

Ann Mayes Rutledge was born on January 7, 1813, near Henderson, Kentucky. She was Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.

A dramatized account of the life of a lawyer chosen "most likely to suceed" by his college class.

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 cafes, cocktail parties, and publicity gags, and returns to his simple way of living in the country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart.

A portrait the tortured life of painter Vincent Van Gogh, his relationship with his troubled brother, Theo, and his struggle with painter Paul Gauguin.

A flirt has a difficult time settling down to her marriage responsibilities.

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

An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

In 1910 London, 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 is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract, and Hollywood isnt too happy about it.

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.

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

An American traveling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures. The American culture born with intellect and drive versus the aristocratic Parisian society of laid back snobbery.

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

Tale concerns identical twins and an attempt at fraud to collect some insurance and a nice big fortune.

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

The biography of the great Austrian doctor who discovered that fever in childbed was caused by the unwashed hands of the doctors themselves.

The story of the Dashwood sisters quest to find suitable husbands after the loss of their family estate.

When Mr. Brannigan gets a bump on his head he turns into the nicest friendliest man you could ever meet, but that's not the real Brassy Brannigan.

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.

After returning from war, a farmer returns mute and finds that not only has he lost his voice, but his sweetheart as well.

Scott an aspiring writer buys an apartment house for him and his wife. To help keep them financially solvent, unfortunately the everyday problems and troubles from the tenants make this almost impossible.

The story of a wife's efforts to free her husband from the evil influence of his father.

A man torn between his fiancee and his love for a mountain he owns, which he refuses to sell to some shady real estate agents. After an avalanche, he is stuck with the realtors in a cave, where he sees a Dutch ghost and a young woman who offers her opinion about his decision.

Murder brings about a reunion of a lot of people that had motive for the killing.

A Victorian house on Staten Island is haunted by a ghost more charming than macabre. The spirit plays hob with the live of the otherwise conventional and unsuspecting inhabitants.

A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.

Three unusual seeds planted in a patch of soil in Manhattan grow with incredible speed, soon overtaking the lives of several nearby residents.

After a family loses their father, they decide to find Mama a new husband.

Rising out of the shabbiness of the Lower East Side, Kathy ruthlessly climbs the social and financial ladder by using and then abandoning a series of gullible older men.

A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th-century, this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors.

A lawyer builds his career on dishonesty and alienates his wife thru patent opportunism.

A man believes he has gotten away with a crime he committed a long time ago.

A writer is trying to live like his fictional hero he created in a lurid newspaper serial.

A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America.

Wacky can't help but find himself in all kinds of trouble, his poor parents are at their wits end with his shenanigans.

A ghost town forgotten in the march of progress tries to make a comeback from the dead with the fighting spirit of the past and present.

A drama about working career women and the challenges they meet and must overcome in a male dominated business.

After the fall of the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia, Jefferson Davis and his small group of government officials and followers fled the state in a hope to continue the struggle for the South, it was a symbol of the lost cause.

A man sets out to give a false confession to a crime committed by someone else.

The story of the escape of 76 British and American prisoners from the infamous German prison camp, Stalag Luft 17.

An investigative reporter is killed by a gangster who marries a naive waitress who could testify against him having witnessed the crime.

A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.

Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century femninist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff. The show also deals with Whig opposition to the Revolutionary North American Phalanx of Albert Brisbane, a cooperative social group living in Red Bank, New Jersey.

A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.

A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is heartbroken when he finds out the truth and how his father disgraced the family.

The story of the Marr family which is made up of a dominant mother who bates everyone, the vacillating son, his wife and their blind son. Things are upset even moe when a new maid arrives, a miad who has served a term in prison as an accessory to a murder.

The story for this program is taken from the files of the U.S. Public Health Service. In 1915 in Mississippi, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection.

Parnassus is a sprite like figure who moves through the New England countryside with his traveling book wagon.

A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then deny his guilt in a complex twist of events.

The story of Jean Z. Owen, tells about the accident and then flashes back to show the true character of each woman.

Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith.

This drama based on the supernatural revolves around the expansion and contraction on an anesthesia rebreathing bag as Mr. Arcularis' life hangs in the balance on the operating table. While he is unconscious, he dreams that he has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However death follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens. The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love, forces him back to reality. At the end, Mr. Arcularis regains consciousness to find Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right.

A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.

A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.

The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.

The grim and true story taken from the pages of the Louisville Courier-Journal is told. The story goes that Collins had entered the sandstone cavern in Cave City, Kentucky in an attempt to find another entrance to the famed Mammoth Cave. A six-ton rock fell on his leg, trapping him in the sand 120 feet undergroun. Miller was assigned to cover the rescue. Miller risked his life man times to reach the man who died before rescue could come.

Hiram Holliday is a copy-writer for a major newspaper. One day, he saves his paper a fortune in a libel case, because of his meticulous work.

A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.

The story of the Berlin airlift, when the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The success of the airlift humilated the Soviets claiming that such a thing would never work.

Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.

An old recluse retires after three decades of a successful writing career to live an isolated and luxurious existence.

A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.

The year is 1915 and the suffragettes cause a stir in the home of a zoology professor as his wife takes up the banner of "women's rights".

The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.

A covetous young actress' career means more to her than marriage to a middle-aged actor who turns to TV after a successful career in other facets of show business only to find that his wife influences his work there.

An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fortune. When his so-called family greet him with reserve, however he gets busy to iron out the unreal problem.

Lawyer Tutt refuses to cross the street for a $5 million account, but goes clear to Pottsville to draw up a will for Jim Lawton, staying there until he successfully contests a claim to a woman's farm, proving to his assistant that more is gained through the reading of law books than from beating up the opposition.

An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.

When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemies.

Every year the ghost of Ulysses S. Grant appears at Grant's Tomb.

In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the foreign office disappears.

A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.

After the assasination of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leapt to the stage below, his spur became entangled in the American flag draping the balcony causing Booth to break his leg. The story unfolds to the events leading up to his madness and ultimate betrayal to his country.

A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.

After buying a very used car, a writer uncovers some very unusual items under one of the seat cushions. The story of the vehicle's former owners is told via flashbacks.