Philco Television Playhouse
What Every Woman Knows
TV Flash files “What Every Woman Knows” as the first listed hour of season 2 — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 2, episode 1, aired 1949-09-04, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 46 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1949-09-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Three Cornered Moon” (S01E45). Next is “Pride's Castle” (S02E02).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a successful political career. He rises to a parliamentary seat, never quite realizing that he hasn't done it alone.
Viewer FAQ
Where does What Every Woman Knows sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 46 of 256 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S02E01 air?
What Every Woman Knows aired 1949-09-04 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…