Philco Television Playhouse
Something's Got to Give
TV Flash files “Something's Got to Give” as hour 51 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 2, episode 6, aired 1949-10-09, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E06: listed hour 51 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 6 of 45 in season 2. It aired 1949-10-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Queen Bee” (S02E05). Next is “The Last Tycoon” (S02E07).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Two freelance writers relocate their families to the country to escape the pressures of the city and their wives talk them into hosting their own radio show instead.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Something's Got to Give sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S02E06 is listed hour 51 of 256 — hour 6 of 45 in season 2, season 2 episode 6.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S02E06 air?
Something's Got to Give aired 1949-10-09 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…