Philco Television Playhouse
Flight Into Darkness
TV Flash files “Flight Into Darkness” as hour 164 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 4, episode 18, aired 1952-06-15, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E18: listed hour 164 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 18 of 25 in season 4. It aired 1952-06-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “A Man's Game” (S04E17). Next is “The Monument” (S04E19).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Flight Into Darkness sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S04E18 is listed hour 164 of 256 — hour 18 of 25 in season 4, season 4 episode 18.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S04E18 air?
Flight Into Darkness aired 1952-06-15 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…