Philco Television Playhouse
The Marriages
TV Flash files “The Marriages” as hour 66 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 2, episode 21, aired 1950-01-22, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E21: listed hour 66 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 21 of 45 in season 2. It aired 1950-01-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Murder at the Stork Club” (S02E20). Next is “Uncle Dynamite” (S02E22).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In 1890's England, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley, but his 27-year-old spinster daughter Adela contrives to ruin the relationship. She also turns two of the other three children against their intended stepmother and spoils the widow's plans to help Adela's brother Godfrey out of an unpleasant situation.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Marriages sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S02E21 is listed hour 66 of 256 — hour 21 of 45 in season 2, season 2 episode 21.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S02E21 air?
The Marriages aired 1950-01-22 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…