Philco Television Playhouse
Dark of the Moon
TV Flash files “Dark of the Moon” as hour 37 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 1, episode 37, aired 1949-07-03, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E37: listed hour 37 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 37 of 45 in season 1. It aired 1949-07-03 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Jenny Kissed Me” (S01E36). Next is “For Love or Money” (S01E38).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjur woman turn him into a human. The only condition of the spell is that Barbara must remain faithful to John for one full year after they are married. If Barbara is not faithful, then John will turn back into a witch boy.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Dark of the Moon sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S01E37 is listed hour 37 of 256 — hour 37 of 45 in season 1, season 1 episode 37.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S01E37 air?
Dark of the Moon aired 1949-07-03 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…