Philco Television Playhouse
Enter Madame
TV Flash files “Enter Madame” as hour 42 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 1, episode 42, aired 1949-08-07, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E42: listed hour 42 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 42 of 45 in season 1. It aired 1949-08-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Fourth Wall” (S01E41). Next is “A Murder Has Been Arranged” (S01E43).
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A grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better half. While the pampered pet of a suite of servants and receiving the homage of operatic mad foreigners, she believes he is sitting at home in Boston immersed in his work. Instead he has fallen for a designing widow and has about decided to divorce his songbird wife.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Enter Madame sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S01E42 is listed hour 42 of 256 — hour 42 of 45 in season 1, season 1 episode 42.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S01E42 air?
Enter Madame aired 1949-08-07 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…