Philco Television Playhouse
The Visitors
TV Flash files “The Visitors” as hour 125 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 3, episode 35, aired 1951-05-13, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E35: listed hour 125 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 35 of 56 in season 3. It aired 1951-05-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A Secret Island” (S03E34). Next is “Justice and Mr. Pleznik” (S03E36).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Visitors sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S03E35 is listed hour 125 of 256 — hour 35 of 56 in season 3, season 3 episode 35.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S03E35 air?
The Visitors aired 1951-05-13 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…