Philco Television Playhouse
Jenny Kissed Me
TV Flash files “Jenny Kissed Me” as hour 36 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 1, episode 36, aired 1949-06-26, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E36: listed hour 36 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 36 of 45 in season 1. It aired 1949-06-26 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Summer Formal” (S01E35). Next is “Dark of the Moon” (S01E37).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The plot is concerned with the priest's clumsy endeavors to make Jenny attractive to the boys.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Jenny Kissed Me sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S01E36 is listed hour 36 of 256 — hour 36 of 45 in season 1, season 1 episode 36.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S01E36 air?
Jenny Kissed Me aired 1949-06-26 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…