Philco Television Playhouse
Because of the Lockwoods
TV Flash files “Because of the Lockwoods” as hour 53 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 2, episode 8, aired 1949-10-23, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E08: listed hour 53 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 8 of 45 in season 2. It aired 1949-10-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Last Tycoon” (S02E07). Next is “Damion's Daughter” (S02E09).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Lockwoods' are patronising toward their former neighbors, the Hunters who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters are saved from despair from the help of a young junk dealer named Oliver Read, who teaches the Lockwoods' a lesson in humanity. It is a gripping story of a girl's lost inheritance, and of how she regains it after years of poverty.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Because of the Lockwoods sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S02E08 is listed hour 53 of 256 — hour 8 of 45 in season 2, season 2 episode 8.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S02E08 air?
Because of the Lockwoods aired 1949-10-23 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…