Philco Television Playhouse
The Charmed Circle
TV Flash files “The Charmed Circle” as hour 83 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 2, episode 38, aired 1950-05-21, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E38: listed hour 83 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 38 of 45 in season 2. It aired 1950-05-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Brat Farrar” (S02E37). Next is “Semmelweis” (S02E39).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers and finally falls in love with a rich girl, and leads a revolt against the President of the Fraternity house.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Charmed Circle sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S02E38 is listed hour 83 of 256 — hour 38 of 45 in season 2, season 2 episode 38.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S02E38 air?
The Charmed Circle aired 1950-05-21 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…