NaN/100 votes#1 - What Every Woman Knows
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1949
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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#2 - Pride's Castle
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1949
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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#3 - The Little Sister
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1949
A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.
Director: Albert McCleery
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#4 - The Lonely
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/1949
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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#5 - The Queen Bee
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/1949
A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.
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#6 - Something's Got to Give
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1949
A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.
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#7 - The Last Tycoon
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/16/1949
A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.
Director: Fred Coe
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#8 - Because of the Lockwoods
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/23/1949
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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#9 - Damion's Daughter
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/30/1949
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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#10 - The House of Seven Gables
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/6/1949
With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.
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#11 - The Promise
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/13/1949
A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.
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#12 - Medical Meeting
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/20/1949
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#13 - The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 11/27/1949
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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#14 - Mist on the Waters
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/4/1949
Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.
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#15 - The Beautiful Bequest
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/11/1949
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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#16 - The Strange Christmas Dinner
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/18/1949
A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.
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#17 - In Beauty Like the Night
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 12/25/1949
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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#18 - Little Boy Lost
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/1/1950
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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#19 - 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
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#20 - Murder at the Stork Club
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/15/1950
A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.
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#21 - The Marriages
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 1/22/1950
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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#22 - Uncle Dynamite
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 1/29/1950
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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#23 - The Sudden Guest
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/5/1950
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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6.0/101 votes#24 - 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
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#25 - A Letter to Mr. Priest
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 2/19/1950
An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2
Every episode of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2!
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...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"What Every Woman Knows" is the best rated episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse" season 2. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/4/1949. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Pride's Castle".