Philco Television Playhouse
Crime Without Motive
TV Flash files “Crime Without Motive” as hour 233 of 256 in the TV Flash guide — Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC, season 7, episode 5, aired 1954-11-14, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E05: listed hour 233 of 256 in the Philco Television Playhouse guide, hour 5 of 28 in season 7. It aired 1954-11-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Time of Delivery” (S07E04). Next is “Beg, Borrow or Steal” (S07E06).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Crime Without Motive sit in the Philco Television Playhouse guide?
S07E05 is listed hour 233 of 256 — hour 5 of 28 in season 7, season 7 episode 5.
When did Philco Television Playhouse S07E05 air?
Crime Without Motive aired 1954-11-14 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…