Philco Television Playhouse
High Tor
TV Flash files “High Tor” as a desk essential hour — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 3, episode 1, aired 1950-09-10, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 91 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 1950-09-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Tentacles” (S02E45). Next is “The Long Run” (S03E02).
Essential hour: “High Tor”. High Tor: Maxwell Anderson title as season ignition, Coe's shop still the farm system for kitchen-sink live drama.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A man torn between his fiancee and his love for a mountain he owns, which he refuses to sell to some shady real estate agents. After an avalanche, he is stuck with the realtors in a cave, where he sees a Dutch ghost and a young woman who offers her opinion about his decision.
Viewer FAQ
Where does High Tor sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 91 of 256 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S03E01 air?
High Tor aired 1950-09-10 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…