The Philco Television Playhouse

Welcome to The Philco Television Playhouse guide at TV Tome. This live dramatic anthology series featured top name actors and actresses in original TV plays and adaptations of novels, short stories and plays. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (photo with Madge Evans and John Baragrey in the roles) and Sense and Sensibility were brought to the small screen. Perhaps the most elaborate production during the first season was "Cyrano de Bergerac" with Jose Ferrer and seven sets to recreate 17th century Paris. From 1951 till the show finished in 1955 Philco Television Playhouse alternated weekly with Goodyear Television Playhouse.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 74591
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired October 3, 1948
  • Recent October 2, 1955
  • Network NBC
  • Average Runtime 45 minutes
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
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  • Created February 4, 2008 by
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  • Modified July 23, 2023 by
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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 0
Season 1 October 1948 August 1949 44
Season 2 September 1949 July 1950 44
Season 3 September 1950 October 1951 56
Season 4 October 1951 September 1952 24
Season 5 September 1952 September 1953 31
Season 6 September 1953 September 1954 26
Season 7 September 1954 October 1955 28
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Unassigned Episodes 253
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 253
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Delbert Mann 70 11/27/1949 - 03/06/1955
Frederick Coe 12 10/03/1948 - 09/02/1951
F. Scott Fitzgerald 2 10/16/1949 - 02/10/1952
Jack Smight 2 05/29/1955 - 07/10/1955
Vincent J. Donehue 2 03/01/1953 - 03/07/1954
Arthur Penn 2 06/13/1954 - 11/28/1954
Henry James 2 01/22/1950 - 12/24/1950
Paul Gallico 1 06/03/1951
George S. Kaufman 1 10/03/1948
Christopher LaFarge 1 02/05/1950
Margaret Kennedy 1 05/07/1950
William Corrigan 1 09/27/1953
Louis Paul 1 10/15/1950
Aben Kandel 1 02/11/1951
Gordon Duff 1 08/12/1951
Charles Dickens 1 12/19/1948
Sinclair Lewis 1 01/08/1950
William Shakespeare 1 09/06/1953
Honore de Balzac 1 05/06/1951
Fred Coe 1 10/10/1948
George Papashvily 1 06/18/1950
George Giroux 1 06/17/1951
Jeffrey Hayden 1 09/05/1954
Robert Mulligan 1 10/02/1955
Eric Hatch 1 12/11/1949
Daphne Du Maurier 1 10/10/1948
Edna Ferber 1 10/03/1948
Maxwell Anderson 1 09/10/1950
Lewis Arnold 1 12/25/1949
Edwin Gilbert 1 10/30/1949
Name Number of Episodes Dates
David Shaw (II) 11 10/30/1949 - 03/06/1955
William Kendall Clarke 8 01/08/1950 - 06/29/1952
Joseph Liss 8 10/16/1949 - 03/23/1952
Hoffman R. Hays 7 01/22/1950 - 01/13/1952
Stephen de Baun 7 06/25/1950 - 09/06/1953
David Swift 5 04/08/1951 - 06/01/1952
Paddy Chayefsky 5 02/08/1953 - 09/19/1954
Samuel Taylor 2 12/19/1948 - 01/23/1949
Sumner Locke Elliott 2 03/09/1952 - 01/25/1953
Horton Foote 2 03/01/1953 - 03/07/1954
Alexander Kirkland 2 11/12/1950 - 06/03/1951
Walter Bernstein 2 09/30/1951 - 02/10/1952
Harry M. Nuheim 2 05/10/1953 - 06/13/1954
Lionel Shapiro 2 09/07/1952 - 01/10/1954
Robert Alan Aurthur 2 04/22/1951 - 10/02/1955
Conrad Aiken 1 04/29/1951
Ira L. Avery 1 08/10/1952
Abram S. Ginnes 1 02/04/1951
Calder Willingham 1 07/10/1955
Max Wilk 1 11/26/1950
Paul Peters 1 05/06/1951
Sam Taylor 1 12/11/1949
Jane Hinton 1 08/24/1952
Lawrence Dugan 1 12/25/1949
Stewart Stern 1 05/16/1954
Sam Hall 1 09/05/1954
Henry K. Moritz 1 03/11/1951
Richard Sanders 1 11/16/1952
F.W. Durkee Jr. 1 01/23/1955
Virginia Dugan 1 12/25/1949
Joan Crowley 1 02/11/1951
Nelson Olmsted 1 03/19/1950
Budd Schulberg 1 04/10/1949
Greer Johnson 1 11/22/1953
Nelsom Olmsted 1 02/19/1950
Thomas W. Phipps 1 05/20/1951
Mann Rubin 1 01/24/1954
Tad Mosel 1 08/08/1954
Bernard Wolfe 1 05/29/1955

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