Philco Television Playhouse
Parlor Story
TV Flash files “Parlor Story” as hour 11 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 1, episode 11, aired 1948-12-12, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E11: listed hour 11 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 11 of 45 in season 1. It aired 1948-12-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Suspect” (S01E10). Next is “A Christmas Carol” (S01E12).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Parlor Story sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S01E11 is listed hour 11 of 256 — hour 11 of 45 in season 1, season 1 episode 11.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S01E11 air?
Parlor Story aired 1948-12-12 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…