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The Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2

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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 was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 19 - Bethel Merriday
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E19

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

    Director:Delbert Mann
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 24 - Ann Rutledge
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E24

    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:Unknown

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  3. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 1 - What Every Woman Knows
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 2 - Pride's Castle
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 3 - The Little Sister
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E3

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

    Director:Albert McCleery
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 4 - The Lonely
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 5 - The Queen Bee
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 6 - Something's Got to Give
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 7 - The Last Tycoon
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E7

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

    Director:Fred Coe
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 8 - Because of the Lockwoods
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 9 - Damion's Daughter
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E9

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 10 - The House of Seven Gables
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 11 - The Promise
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 12 - Medical Meeting
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E12

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 13 - The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E13

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 14 - Mist on the Waters
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E14

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 15 - The Beautiful Bequest
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E15

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 16 - The Strange Christmas Dinner
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E16

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 17 - In Beauty Like the Night
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E17

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

    Director:Delbert Mann
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 18 - Little Boy Lost
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E18

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 20 - Murder at the Stork Club
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E20

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 21 - The Marriages
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E21

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 22 - Uncle Dynamite
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E22

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 23 - The Sudden Guest
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E23

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 2 Episode 25 - A Letter to Mr. Priest
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E25

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

    Director:Delbert Mann
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Bethel Merriday" is the best rated episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse" season 2. It scored 6/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Delbert Mann and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/8/1950. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Ann Rutledge".