The Philco Television Playhouse

Season 4 Episode 12: The Best Laid Schemes

8 SeasonsMar 23, 1952NR1h7.6

Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.

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Season 4 Episodes:

Episode 1 Marcia Akers

1. Marcia Akers

Aired: Oct 21, 1951

A young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladde...

Episode 3 A Little Night Music

3. A Little Night Music

Aired: Nov 18, 1951

Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spin...

Episode 5 Perspective

5. Perspective

Aired: Dec 16, 1951

The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art fo...

Episode 6 The Sisters

6. The Sisters

Aired: Dec 30, 1951

The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming t...

Episode 7 Without Fear or Favor

7. Without Fear or Favor

Aired: Jan 13, 1952

Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is s...

Episode 8 Segment

8. Segment

Aired: Jan 27, 1952

During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mot...

Episode 9 Rich Boy

9. Rich Boy

Aired: Feb 10, 1952

Rich playboy Anson Hunter realizes too late that he has wasted his life by al...

Episode 10 Tender Age

10. Tender Age

Aired: Feb 24, 1952

The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.

Episode 11 Dusty Portrait

11. Dusty Portrait

Aired: Mar 9, 1952

A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstant...

Episode 13 The Room Next Door

13. The Room Next Door

Aired: Apr 5, 1952

A social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined ...

Episode 14 The Basket Weaver

14. The Basket Weaver

Aired: Apr 19, 1952

The story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a cra...

Episode 15 We Were Children

15. We Were Children

Aired: May 4, 1952

A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardene...

Episode 16 A Cowboy for Chris

16. A Cowboy for Chris

Aired: May 18, 1952

A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another bo...

Episode 17 A Man's Game

17. A Man's Game

Aired: Jun 1, 1952

A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs...

Episode 18 Flight Into Darkness

18. Flight Into Darkness

Aired: Jun 15, 1952

A psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is go...

Episode 19 The Monument

19. The Monument

Aired: Jun 29, 1952

A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the a...

Episode 21 Bratt Farrar

21. Bratt Farrar

Aired: Jul 27, 1952

No Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the iden...

Episode 23 Three Sundays

23. Three Sundays

Aired: Aug 24, 1952

A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but ev...

Episode 24 The Last Hour

24. The Last Hour

Aired: Sep 7, 1952

A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innoce...

Episode 25 Holiday Song

25. Holiday Song

Aired: Sep 14, 1952

The night before Rosh Hashonah, a cantor suffers a spiritual crisis. That sam...


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Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Genres:Drama