Philco Television Playhouse
Season 2
45 episodes
- S02E01
What Every Woman Knows
A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a successful political career. He rises to a parliamentary seat, never quite realizing that he hasn't done it alone.
- S02E02
Pride's Castle
Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for human decency or moral restraint left him ruthless and corrupt. He falls for Sharon O'Neill who is a woman filled with so much goodness in her soul, as much as he has evil in his.
- S02E03
The Little Sister
A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.
- S02E04
The Lonely
An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland. Their understanding is that the trip will be purely platonic;instead, they fall maly in love. At his first opportunity, the lieutenant flies back to America to break the news to his fiance and family.
- S02E05
The Queen Bee
A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.
- S02E06
Something's Got to Give
Two freelance writers relocate their families to the country to escape the pressures of the city and their wives talk them into hosting their own radio show instead.
- S02E07
The Last Tycoon
A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.
- S02E08
Because of the Lockwoods
The Lockwoods' are patronising toward their former neighbors, the Hunters who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters are saved from despair from the help of a young junk dealer named Oliver Read, who teaches the Lockwoods' a lesson in humanity. It is a gripping story of a girl's lost inheritance, and of how she regains it after years of poverty.
- S02E09
Damion's Daughter
The story concerns the daughter of Blackmer who grows up amidst the production world of his theater. She discovers he is evil and has gained his success by cheapness, and the ending has impact.
- S02E10
The House of Seven Gables
With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder, many believe there is a curse imposed upon the family and the people who come to the House of Seven Gables
- S02E11
The Promise
A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.
- S02E12
Medical Meeting
A deathly ill woman falls for her doctor.
- S02E13
The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and vanity are causes of the trouble.
- S02E14
Mist on the Waters
Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.
- S02E15
The Beautiful Bequest
The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher.
- S02E16
The Strange Christmas Dinner
A modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas day.
- S02E17
In Beauty Like the Night
A British flyer who lost his sight during the war deals with the problems caused by the injury.
- S02E18
Little Boy Lost
A British poet searches for the child he's never seen. The boy vanished after his foster mother was taken away by the German Gestapo.
- S02E19
Bethel Merriday
A small-town girl determined to become an actress.
- S02E20
Murder at the Stork Club
A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.
- S02E21
The Marriages
In 1890's England, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley, but his 27-year-old spinster daughter Adela contrives to ruin the relationship. She also turns two of the other three children against their intended stepmother and spoils the widow's plans to help Adela's brother Godfrey out of an unpleasant situation.
- S02E22
Uncle Dynamite
Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellry into America for a friend of hers.
- S02E23
The Sudden Guest
A New England spinster disregards her neighbors cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. Miss Leckton resents the intrusion, especially if the intruders happen to be Jews.
- S02E24
Ann Rutledge
Ann Mayes Rutledge was born on January 7, 1813, near Henderson, Kentucky. She was Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.
- S02E25
A Letter to Mr. Priest
A dramatized account of the life of a lawyer chosen "most likely to suceed" by his college class.
- S02E26
Hometown
Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a publicity build-up for his book. He meets a glamorous woman, who introduces him to the nightlife of Manhattan. He soon tires of cafes, cocktail parties, and publicity gags, and returns to his simple way of living in the country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart.
- S02E27
The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
A portrait the tortured life of painter Vincent Van Gogh, his relationship with his troubled brother, Theo, and his struggle with painter Paul Gauguin.
- S02E28
The Uncertain Molly Collicutt
A flirt has a difficult time settling down to her marriage responsibilities.
- S02E29
The Trial of Steven Kent
A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.
- S02E30
The Second Oldest Profession
An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.
- S02E31
Nocturne
In 1910 London, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support and care for their widowed, invalid father. Jenny, the younger, pretty sister, seeks to escape from the depressing reality of her poverty-stricken home, while Emmy, the older, plain sister, finds comfort and eventual happiness by serving their ailing father. At the end, both are engaged; Jenny will marry Keith Reddington and Emmy will wed Alf Rylett.
- S02E32
Dirty Eddie
Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract, and Hollywood isnt too happy about it.
- S02E33
The End is Known
A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He then learns the suicide jumped from his apartment. A mystery surrounds a suicide.
- S02E34
The Man in the Black Hat
A gambler has nothing too lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.
- S02E35
The American
An American traveling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures. The American culture born with intellect and drive versus the aristocratic Parisian society of laid back snobbery.
- S02E36
The Feast
A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people. A frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.
- S02E37
Brat Farrar
Tale concerns identical twins and an attempt at fraud to collect some insurance and a nice big fortune.
- S02E38
The Charmed Circle
A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers and finally falls in love with a rich girl, and leads a revolt against the President of the Fraternity house.
- S02E39
Semmelweis
The biography of the great Austrian doctor who discovered that fever in childbed was caused by the unwashed hands of the doctors themselves.
- S02E40
Sense and Sensibility
The story of the Dashwood sisters quest to find suitable husbands after the loss of their family estate.
- S02E41
The Bump on Brannigan's Head
When Mr. Brannigan gets a bump on his head he turns into the nicest friendliest man you could ever meet, but that's not the real Brassy Brannigan.
- S02E42
Anything Can Happen
Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia, experiences many difficulties as he tries to adapt to his adopted country. He works hard to make a place for himself in America, all the while fighting with the English language and the strange customs of an alien people.
- S02E43
Hear My Heart Speak
After returning from war, a farmer returns mute and finds that not only has he lost his voice, but his sweetheart as well.
- S02E44
The Reluctant Landlord
Scott an aspiring writer buys an apartment house for him and his wife. To help keep them financially solvent, unfortunately the everyday problems and troubles from the tenants make this almost impossible.
- S02E45
The Tentacles
The story of a wife's efforts to free her husband from the evil influence of his father.
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