Philco Television Playhouse
Hear My Heart Speak
TV Flash files “Hear My Heart Speak” as hour 88 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 2, episode 43, aired 1950-06-25, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E43: listed hour 88 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 43 of 45 in season 2. It aired 1950-06-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Anything Can Happen” (S02E42). Next is “The Reluctant Landlord” (S02E44).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After returning from war, a farmer returns mute and finds that not only has he lost his voice, but his sweetheart as well.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Hear My Heart Speak sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S02E43 is listed hour 88 of 256 — hour 43 of 45 in season 2, season 2 episode 43.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S02E43 air?
Hear My Heart Speak aired 1950-06-25 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…