Philco Television Playhouse
I Like It Here
TV Flash files “I Like It Here” as hour 9 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 1, episode 9, aired 1948-11-28, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E09: listed hour 9 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 9 of 45 in season 1. It aired 1948-11-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “An Inspector Calls” (S01E08). Next is “Suspect” (S01E10).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does I Like It Here sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S01E09 is listed hour 9 of 256 — hour 9 of 45 in season 1, season 1 episode 9.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S01E09 air?
I Like It Here aired 1948-11-28 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…