Philco Television Playhouse
The Reluctant Landlord
TV Flash files “The Reluctant Landlord” as hour 89 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 2, episode 44, aired 1950-07-02, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E44: listed hour 89 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 44 of 45 in season 2. It aired 1950-07-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Hear My Heart Speak” (S02E43). Next is “The Tentacles” (S02E45).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Scott an aspiring writer buys an apartment house for him and his wife. To help keep them financially solvent, unfortunately the everyday problems and troubles from the tenants make this almost impossible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Reluctant Landlord sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S02E44 is listed hour 89 of 256 — hour 44 of 45 in season 2, season 2 episode 44.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S02E44 air?
The Reluctant Landlord aired 1950-07-02 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…