Philco Television Playhouse
The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
TV Flash files “The Life of Vincent Van Gogh” as a desk essential hour — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 2, episode 27, aired 1950-03-05, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E27: listed hour 72 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 27 of 45 in season 2. It aired 1950-03-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Hometown” (S02E26). Next is “The Uncertain Molly Collicutt” (S02E28).
Essential hour: “The Life of Vincent Van Gogh”. The Life of Vincent Van Gogh — named biographical night, anthology-to-Hollywood dream already visible in the playbill.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A portrait the tortured life of painter Vincent Van Gogh, his relationship with his troubled brother, Theo, and his struggle with painter Paul Gauguin.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Life of Vincent Van Gogh sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S02E27 is listed hour 72 of 256 — hour 27 of 45 in season 2, season 2 episode 27.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S02E27 air?
The Life of Vincent Van Gogh aired 1950-03-05 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…