Philco Television Playhouse
Let Them Be Sea Captains
TV Flash files “Let Them Be Sea Captains” as hour 114 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 3, episode 24, aired 1951-02-18, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E24: listed hour 114 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 24 of 56 in season 3. It aired 1951-02-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Kitty Doone” (S03E23). Next is “The Man Who Bought a Town” (S03E25).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century femninist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff. The show also deals with Whig opposition to the Revolutionary North American Phalanx of Albert Brisbane, a cooperative social group living in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Let Them Be Sea Captains sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S03E24 is listed hour 114 of 256 — hour 24 of 56 in season 3, season 3 episode 24.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S03E24 air?
Let Them Be Sea Captains aired 1951-02-18 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…