Philco Television Playhouse
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
TV Flash files “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals” as hour 13 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 1, episode 13, aired 1948-12-26, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E13: listed hour 13 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 13 of 45 in season 1. It aired 1948-12-26 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A Christmas Carol” (S01E12). Next is “Ramshackle Inn” (S01E14).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Old Lady Shows Her Medals sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S01E13 is listed hour 13 of 256 — hour 13 of 45 in season 1, season 1 episode 13.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S01E13 air?
The Old Lady Shows Her Medals aired 1948-12-26 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…