Philco Television Playhouse
Ramshackle Inn
TV Flash files “Ramshackle Inn” as hour 14 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 1, episode 14, aired 1949-01-02, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E14: listed hour 14 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 14 of 45 in season 1. It aired 1949-01-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals” (S01E13). Next is “Cyrano de Bergerac” (S01E15).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Ramshackle Inn sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S01E14 is listed hour 14 of 256 — hour 14 of 45 in season 1, season 1 episode 14.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S01E14 air?
Ramshackle Inn aired 1949-01-02 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…