The Philco Television Playhouse

Season 2 Episode 12: Medical Meeting

8 SeasonsNov 20, 1949NR1h7.6

This live dramatic series featured original stories and adaptations of novels, plays, etc., during its eight-year run. During the first year, the show was sponsored by the Actor's Equity Association, and featured adaptations of Broadway...

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 2 Pride's Castle

2. Pride's Castle

Aired: Sep 11, 1949

Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in ra...

Episode 3 The Little Sister

3. The Little Sister

Aired: Sep 18, 1949

A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.

Episode 4 The Lonely

4. The Lonely

Aired: Sep 25, 1949

An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a...

Episode 5 The Queen Bee

5. The Queen Bee

Aired: Oct 2, 1949

A conniving and devious Southern socialite manipulates the lives of those aro...

Episode 7 The Last Tycoon

7. The Last Tycoon

Aired: Oct 16, 1949

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie produ...

Episode 9 Damion's Daughter

9. Damion's Daughter

Aired: Oct 30, 1949

A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken b...

Episode 11 The Promise

11. The Promise

Aired: Nov 13, 1949

A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individ...

Episode 14 Mist on the Waters

14. Mist on the Waters

Aired: Dec 4, 1949

Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tra...

Episode 18 Little Boy Lost

18. Little Boy Lost

Aired: Jan 1, 1950

An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disapp...

Episode 19 Bethel Merriday

19. Bethel Merriday

Aired: Jan 8, 1950

A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.

Episode 21 The Marriages

21. The Marriages

Aired: Jan 22, 1950

In England in the 1890s, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls i...

Episode 22 Uncle Dynamite

22. Uncle Dynamite

Aired: Jan 29, 1950

Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculp...

Episode 23 The Sudden Guest

23. The Sudden Guest

Aired: Feb 5, 1950

A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help a...

Episode 24 Ann Rutledge

24. Ann Rutledge

Aired: Feb 12, 1950

The short life of a girl loved by the young Abraham Lincoln.

Episode 26 Home Town

26. Home Town

Aired: Feb 26, 1950

Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a publicit...

Episode 31 Nocturne

31. Nocturne

Aired: Apr 2, 1950

In London in 1910, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support and ca...

Episode 32 Dirty Eddie

32. Dirty Eddie

Aired: Apr 9, 1950

Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn'...

Episode 33 The End Is Known

33. The End Is Known

Aired: Apr 16, 1950

A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He ...

Episode 35 The American

35. The American

Aired: Apr 30, 1950

An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.

Episode 36 The Feast

36. The Feast

Aired: May 7, 1950

A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustra...

Episode 37 Brat Farrar

37. Brat Farrar

Aired: May 14, 1950

Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a ...

Episode 38 The Charmed Circle

38. The Charmed Circle

Aired: May 21, 1950

A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brot...

Episode 39 Semmelweis

39. Semmelweis

Aired: May 28, 1950

The factual story of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis is dramatized. The Hungarian physic...

Episode 42 Anything Can Happen

42. Anything Can Happen

Aired: Jun 18, 1950

A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewil...

Episode 43 Hear My Heart Speak

43. Hear My Heart Speak

Aired: Jun 25, 1950

A shell-shocked WWI ex-soldier is unable to speak though doctors say the prob...

Episode 45 The Tentacles

45. The Tentacles

Aired: Jul 9, 1950

A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative ...


Info about The Philco Television Playhouse

Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Genres:Drama