Philco Television Playhouse
Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands
TV Flash files “Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands” as hour 138 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 3, episode 48, aired 1951-08-12, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E48: listed hour 138 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 48 of 56 in season 3. It aired 1951-08-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Return” (S03E47). Next is “Come Alive” (S03E49).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Lawyer Tutt refuses to cross the street for a $5 million account, but goes clear to Pottsville to draw up a will for Jim Lawton, staying there until he successfully contests a claim to a woman's farm, proving to his assistant that more is gained through the reading of law books than from beating up the opposition.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S03E48 is listed hour 138 of 256 — hour 48 of 56 in season 3, season 3 episode 48.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S03E48 air?
Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands aired 1951-08-12 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…