Philco Television Playhouse
Brat Farrar
TV Flash files “Brat Farrar” as hour 82 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 2, episode 37, aired 1950-05-14, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E37: listed hour 82 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 37 of 45 in season 2. It aired 1950-05-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Feast” (S02E36). Next is “The Charmed Circle” (S02E38).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Tale concerns identical twins and an attempt at fraud to collect some insurance and a nice big fortune.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Brat Farrar sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S02E37 is listed hour 82 of 256 — hour 37 of 45 in season 2, season 2 episode 37.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S02E37 air?
Brat Farrar aired 1950-05-14 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…