Philco Television Playhouse
Pride's Castle
TV Flash files “Pride's Castle” as hour 47 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 2, episode 2, aired 1949-09-11, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 47 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 2 of 45 in season 2. It aired 1949-09-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “What Every Woman Knows” (S02E01). Next is “The Little Sister” (S02E03).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for human decency or moral restraint left him ruthless and corrupt. He falls for Sharon O'Neill who is a woman filled with so much goodness in her soul, as much as he has evil in his.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pride's Castle sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S02E02 is listed hour 47 of 256 — hour 2 of 45 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S02E02 air?
Pride's Castle aired 1949-09-11 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…