The Philco Television Playhouse

1. High Tor

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

2. The Long Run

3. Dear Guest and Ghost

A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.

4. The Touch of a Stranger

A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out hi...

5. The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street

Seeds planted in a New York City backyard grow into a magical plant that brin...

6. A Husband for Mama

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

7. Portrait in Smoke

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

8. The Gambler

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

9. The Power Devil

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

10. The Man Who Got Away with It

11. I'm Still Alive

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

12. Torch for a Dark Journey

A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industriali...

13. Wacky, the Small Boy

14. Bonanza

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

15. Decoy

16. The Pupil

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

17. Leaf out of a Book

18. The Symbol: Jefferson Davis

Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three w...

19. The Lost Diplomat

20. Confession

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

21. The Great Escape

The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.

22. A Matter of Life and Death

23. Kitty Doone

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

24. Let Them Be Sea Captains

Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller,...

25. The Man Who Bought a Town

A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.

26. No Medals on Pop

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

27. The Dark Corridor

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

28. Bulletin 120

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

29. Parnassus on Wheels

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

30. Routine Assignment

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

31. Hour of Destiny

32. The Birth of the Movies

Lillian Gish introduces this episode which dramatizes her experiences in the ...

33. Mr. Arcularis

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

34. A Secret Island

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

35. The Visitors

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

36. Justice and Mr. Pleznik

The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.

37. Rescue

38. The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several e...

40. Operation: Airlift

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

41. Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal

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

42. The Plot

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

43. Case History

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

44. I Want to March

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

45. Pretend I Am a Stranger

The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer i...

46. Television Story

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

47. The Return

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

48. Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands

Lawyer Tutt refuses to cross the street for a $5 million account, but goes cl...

49. Come Alive

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

50. Night at the Vulcan

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

51. This Time Next Year

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

52. Women of Intrigue

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

53. The Wayward Season

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

54. The Spur

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

55. By-Line for Murder

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

56. A Requiem for a Model

After buying a very used car, a writer uncovers some very unusual items under...