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#1 - What Makes Sammy Run?
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/10/1949
The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic-his congenital incapacity for friendship.
Director: Fred Coe
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
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#2 - A Young Lady of Property
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/5/1953
Wilma a 15-year-old girl has dreams of becoming a movie star but after her mother's death she is sent to live with her aunt, her father is too weak and unreliable. She wishes to be back at her home with her father.
Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Writer: N/A
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#3 - Marty
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/24/1953
Marty Pilletti is a 36 year-old butcher who lives with his mother. His brothers and sisters are all married and his dear mother - along with several other of her friends - is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better. He has very low self-esteem however and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. At one of those dances he meets ...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#4 - A Man is Ten Feet Tall
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1955
Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: N/A
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#5 - The Death of Billy the Kid
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 7/24/1955
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#6 - The House in Athens
Season 5 Episode 27 - Aired 7/5/1953
Three people are thrown together by the death of a man.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1057 votesLoading...
#8 - Star in the Summer Night
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 8/22/1954
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1015 votesLoading...
#9 - The Way of an Eagle
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 6/7/1953
The story of John J. Audobon and his wife Lucy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#10 - Bethel Merriday
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/8/1950
A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
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#11 - Ann Rutledge
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/12/1950
The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.
Director: Gordon Duff
Writer: N/A
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#12 - Leaf out of a Book
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 12/31/1950
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#13 - The Sisters
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/30/1951
The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#14 - Rich Boy
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 2/10/1952
This well-received adaptation of the 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story starred Gene Lyons as rich playboy Anson Hunter, who realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allowing the one woman he truly loved (Kelly) to slip out of his grasp.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
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#15 - Run Like a Thief
Season 6 Episode 26 - Aired 9/5/1954
Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his protege Rob, things go wrong when his wife Della finds an expensive bracelet lost by Pollard and begs to keep. The police are called and Alexander's dreams of his future begin to crumble.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: Sam Hall
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#16 - Dinner at Eight
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1948
Social-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hospitality for a visiting British aristocratic couple by arranging a small dinner party. The guests are chosen both to impress--a faded stage star, a well-known if over-the-hill alcoholic actor--and to meet certain social obligations. This means the necessary inclusion of a philandering doctor and his wife, and a gauche, nouveau-riche couple who are loathed but powerful.
Director: Fred Coe
Writer: N/A
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#17 - Rebecca
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1948
Brooding and moody Maxim deWinter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year after the tragic death of hi first wife, Rebecca. The staff of Manderley, his country home, including Mrs Danvers the housekeeper who rules over the house, are still devoted to their former mistress, the socialite Rebecca and they find it difficult to accept the new, shy Mrs deWinter who is inexperienced running a large home.
Director: Fred Coe
Writer: N/A
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#18 - Counsellor-at-Law
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1948
An upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to help the working-class Jews from his old neighborhood.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Angel in the Wings
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1948
An understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy takes over and brings down the house.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#20 - Street Scene
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1948
Abraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of poverty. Kaplan's revolutionary, socialist views grate against some of his neighbors.
Director: N/A
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#21 - This Thing Called Love
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1948
A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or not. The husband tries to lure her with all kinds of excuses and tricks to the marital bed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#22 - Camille
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1948
Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship jeopardizes his career and prevents the marriage of his sister into a ""respectable"" family, if Duval marries Camille. Camille becomes ill and dies.
Director: N/A
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#23 - An Inspector Calls
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1948
When Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter the very foundations of their lives, but challenge us all to examine our consciences.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#24 - I Like It Here
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1948
Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable man even when he's interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in love with Brad, a young lawyer. Of course, Willie sees fit to give Brad all kinds of advice.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#25 - Suspect
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1948
20 years ago, a Scotswoman was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her son becomes engaged, his fiancée's godfather spots the mother and recognizes her. In his efforts to trap her, and hers not to be trapped trouble arises.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse
Every episode of The Philco Television Playhouse ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse!
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series...
Genre:Drama
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"What Makes Sammy Run?" is the best rated episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse". It scored 8/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Fred Coe and written by Paddy Chayefsky, it aired on 4/10/1949. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Young Lady of Property".