The Philco Television Playhouse

Season 3 (56 Episodes)

8 Seasons 1950 NR 1h 00m 7.6

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...

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 plays and musicals. Bert Lytell, the former President of the Association, acted as host. During the second season, an agreement was made with the Book-of-the-Month Club, and the plays were adaptations of current novels. Starting in the third season, the television plays were adaptations of plays, novels, dramas, etc., by known and unknown authors. The title of the show was changed to "Repertory Theatre" (1949) for episodes 1.29 to 1.31 and "Arena Theatre" (1949) for episodes 1.32 to 1.38. Effective with episode 1.39, the original title was used. Starting with the fourth season, this show alternated weekly with "The Goodyear Theatre" (1951); starting in the eighth season, this program alternated with "The Goodyear Theatre" (1951) and "The ALCOA Hour" (1955).

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Season 3 Episodes:

Episode 1 High Tor

1. High Tor

Aired: Sep 10, 1950

Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountai...

Episode 6 A Husband for Mama

6. A Husband for Mama

Aired: Oct 15, 1950

The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husban...

Episode 7 Portrait in Smoke

7. Portrait in Smoke

Aired: Oct 22, 1950

A debt collector searches for the woman who saved him from an armed holdup; h...

Episode 8 The Gambler

8. The Gambler

Aired: Oct 29, 1950

A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Centur...

Episode 9 The Power Devil

9. The Power Devil

Aired: Nov 5, 1950

A young attorney involves himself in many shady deals as he pursues political...

Episode 11 I'm Still Alive

11. I'm Still Alive

Aired: Nov 19, 1950

A mousy teacher at a small school had written a swashbuckling story filled wi...

Episode 14 Bonanza

14. Bonanza

Aired: Dec 10, 1950

The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom ...

Episode 16 The Pupil

16. The Pupil

Aired: Dec 24, 1950

A tutor hired to instruct an uncontrollable 10-year-old soon recognizes the c...

Episode 20 Confession

20. Confession

Aired: Jan 21, 1951

The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the e...

Episode 23 Kitty Doone

23. Kitty Doone

Aired: Feb 11, 1951

A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.

Episode 26 No Medals on Pop

26. No Medals on Pop

Aired: Mar 11, 1951

A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is ...

Episode 27 The Dark Corridor

27. The Dark Corridor

Aired: Mar 18, 1951

The story of the Marr family which is made up of a dominant mother who bates ...

Episode 28 Bulletin 120

28. Bulletin 120

Aired: Mar 25, 1951

In Mississippi in 1915, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of conv...

Episode 29 Parnassus on Wheels

29. Parnassus on Wheels

Aired: Apr 1, 1951

In 1900's New England, Helen McGuill buys a horse-drawn, traveling bookstore,...

Episode 30 Routine Assignment

30. Routine Assignment

Aired: Apr 8, 1951

A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then ...

Episode 33 Mr. Arcularis

33. Mr. Arcularis

Aired: Apr 29, 1951

After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage...

Episode 34 A Secret Island

34. A Secret Island

Aired: May 6, 1951

A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social posit...

Episode 35 The Visitors

35. The Visitors

Aired: May 13, 1951

A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when...

Episode 39 The Fast Dollar

39. The Fast Dollar

Aired: Jun 10, 1951

A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confiden...

Episode 40 Operation: Airlift

40. Operation: Airlift

Aired: Jun 17, 1951

The story of the Berlin airlift, when the Western Allies organized the Berlin...

Episode 42 The Plot

42. The Plot

Aired: Jul 1, 1951

Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medi...

Episode 43 Case History

43. Case History

Aired: Jul 8, 1951

A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a...

Episode 44 I Want to March

44. I Want to March

Aired: Jul 15, 1951

The year is 1915 and the suffragettes cause a stir in the home of a zoology p...

Episode 46 Television Story

46. Television Story

Aired: Jul 29, 1951

A covetous young actress' career means more to her than marriage to a middle-...

Episode 47 The Return

47. The Return

Aired: Aug 5, 1951

An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fort...

Episode 49 Come Alive

49. Come Alive

Aired: Aug 19, 1951

An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her sec...

Episode 50 Night at the Vulcan

50. Night at the Vulcan

Aired: Aug 26, 1951

When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the su...

Episode 51 This Time Next Year

51. This Time Next Year

Aired: Sep 2, 1951

The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at hi...

Episode 52 Women of Intrigue

52. Women of Intrigue

Aired: Sep 9, 1951

In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the fo...

Episode 53 The Wayward Season

53. The Wayward Season

Aired: Sep 16, 1951

A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings ...

Episode 54 The Spur

54. The Spur

Aired: Sep 23, 1951

After the assassination of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leaped to the...

Episode 55 By-Line for Murder

55. By-Line for Murder

Aired: Sep 30, 1951

A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the...


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Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Genres: Drama