Philco Television Playhouse
The Return
TV Flash files “The Return” as hour 137 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 3, episode 47, aired 1951-08-05, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E47: listed hour 137 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 47 of 56 in season 3. It aired 1951-08-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Television Story” (S03E46). Next is “Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands” (S03E48).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fortune. When his so-called family greet him with reserve, however he gets busy to iron out the unreal problem.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Return sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S03E47 is listed hour 137 of 256 — hour 47 of 56 in season 3, season 3 episode 47.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S03E47 air?
The Return aired 1951-08-05 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…