Philco Television Playhouse
Three Cornered Moon
TV Flash files “Three Cornered Moon” as the last listed hour of season 1 — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 1, episode 45, aired 1949-08-28, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E45: listed hour 45 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 1949-08-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Pretty Little Parlor” (S01E44). Next is “What Every Woman Knows” (S02E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law student Kenneth, and Eddie, a would-be actor) after they lose their fortune in the stock-market crash. While Elizabeth works in a shoe factory and tries to help her brothers find jobs, she falls in love with a melancholy writer, but marries a wealthy doctor.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Three Cornered Moon sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S01E45 is listed hour 45 of 256 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 45.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S01E45 air?
Three Cornered Moon aired 1949-08-28 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…