Philco Television Playhouse
Rescue
TV Flash files “Rescue” as hour 127 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 3, episode 37, aired 1951-05-27, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E37: listed hour 127 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 37 of 56 in season 3. It aired 1951-05-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Justice and Mr. Pleznik” (S03E36). Next is “The Adventures of Hiram Holliday” (S03E38).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The grim and true story taken from the pages of the Louisville Courier-Journal is told. The story goes that Collins had entered the sandstone cavern in Cave City, Kentucky in an attempt to find another entrance to the famed Mammoth Cave. A six-ton rock fell on his leg, trapping him in the sand 120 feet undergroun. Miller was assigned to cover the rescue. Miller risked his life man times to reach the man who died before rescue could come.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Rescue sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S03E37 is listed hour 127 of 256 — hour 37 of 56 in season 3, season 3 episode 37.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S03E37 air?
Rescue aired 1951-05-27 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…