The Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2

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

Director: Delbert Mann

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The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.

Director: Gordon Duff

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A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a successful political career. He rises to a parliamentary seat, never quite realizing that he hasn't done it alone.

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Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for human decency or moral restraint left him ruthless and corrupt. He falls for Sharon O'Neill who is a woman filled with so much goodness in her soul, as much as he has evil in his.

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

Director: Albert McCleery

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An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a female friend. Their understanding is that the trip will be purely platonic; instead, they fall madly in love. At his first opportunity, the lieutenant flies back to America to break the news to his fiancé and family.

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A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.

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A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.

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A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.

Director: Fred Coe

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The Lockwoods are patronising toward their former neighbours, the Hunters, who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters are saved from despair from the help of a young junk dealer named Oliver Read, who teaches the Lockwoods a lesson in humanity.

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A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.

Director: Fred Coe

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With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.

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

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A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and vanity are causes of the trouble.

Director: Delbert Mann

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

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The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher.

Director: Delbert Mann

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A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.

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A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.

Director: Delbert Mann

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An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.

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A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.

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In England in the 1890s, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley, but his 27-year-old spinster daughter Adela contrives to ruin the relationship. She also turns two of the other three children against their intended stepmother and spoils the widow's plans to help Adela's brother Godfrey out of an unpleasant situation.

Director: Fred Coe

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Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers.

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A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resents the intrusion, especially since her neighbours happen to be Jews.

Director: Delbert Mann

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An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.

Director: Delbert Mann

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