Philco Television Playhouse
Rebecca
TV Flash files “Rebecca” as a desk essential hour — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 1, episode 2, aired 1948-10-10, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E02: listed hour 2 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 2 of 45 in season 1. It aired 1948-10-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Dinner at Eight” (S01E01). Next is “Counsellor-at-Law” (S01E03).
Essential hour: “Rebecca”. Rebecca: second-week literary brand, intimate realist TV still borrowing prestige names to teach the camera close-up.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Rebecca sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S01E02 is listed hour 2 of 256 — hour 2 of 45 in season 1, season 1 episode 2.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S01E02 air?
Rebecca aired 1948-10-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Marty (May 24, 1953, Rod Steiger) — the teleplay that became the anthology-to-Oscar dream — then sample other surviving Coe/Mann hours.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Philco Television Playhouse is Chayefsky's kitchen-sink live plays: ordinary lives, extraordinary telecasts, Marty with Rod Steiger before the Oscar film. Watch it now as the rise of intimate realist TV drama — Fred Coe's shop, Delbert Mann, and the anthology-to-Hollywood dream in one sponsor's title.
The close-up is a butcher's loneliness, not a gown — kitchen-sink light, live cameras, ordinary lives getting extraordinary writing. NBC's *Philco Television Playhouse* (1948–1955), 256 episodes across seven seasons, Fred Coe's shop, directors like Delbert Mann, Paddy Chayefsky's *Marty* telecast May 24, 1953 with Rod Steiger. A kitchen sink as an Oscar machine. The Philco/Goodyear tandem nights made anthology drama a dual-sponsor prestige ritual. The timeline can call domestic realism mid. The silhouette was a…