NaN/100 votes#1 - High Tor
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1950
Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountain, High Tor, for commercial use. When the group becomes trapped by a landslide, Van Dorn goes for help and encounters a Dutchwoman who's been haunting the mountain for two centuries.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - The Long Run
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1950
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Dear Guest and Ghost
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1950
A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#4 - The Touch of a Stranger
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1950
A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1950
Seeds planted in a New York City backyard grow into a magical plant that brings happiness to those living near it. Formerly unpleasant neighbors turn into caring, warm-hearted individuals.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - A Husband for Mama
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1950
The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Portrait in Smoke
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1950
A debt collector searches for the woman who saved him from an armed holdup; he wants her to have a $1000 reward. As he talks with those who knew her, he learns that she was a siren with a couple of murders to her credit.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - The Gambler
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1950
A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Century, this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - The Power Devil
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/1950
A young attorney involves himself in many shady deals as he pursues political ambitions. His wife speaks up and demands he clean up his act. The threat of disbarment also contributes to his final decision.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - The Man Who Got Away With It
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1950
No description available
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - I'm Still Alive
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/1950
A mousy teacher at a small school had written a swashbuckling story filled with international spies and adventure. Unbeknownst to him, the story is sold to a newspaper as a true account of his life. Suddenly, femme fatales and real gangsters are paying him visits.
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Torch for a Dark Journey
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/1950
A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Wacky, the Small Boy
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/3/1950
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - Bonanza
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/10/1950
The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Decoy
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/17/1950
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - The Pupil
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/24/1950
A tutor hired to instruct an uncontrollable 10-year-old soon recognizes the child's problem: it's his parents. The boy has had never received any affection from his negligent mother and father.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/101 votes
#17 - Leaf out of a Book
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 12/31/1950
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - The Symbol: Jefferson Davis
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/7/1951
Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - The Lost Diplomat
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/14/1951
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - Confession
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 1/21/1951
The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - The Great Escape
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 1/28/1951
The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - A Matter of Life and Death
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/4/1951
No description available
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Kitty Doone
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/11/1951
A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Let Them Be Sea Captains
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 2/18/1951
Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century feminist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - The Man Who Bought a Town
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 2/25/1951
A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 3
Every episode of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 3!
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 3 Ratings Summary
"High Tor" is the best rated episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse" season 3. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Delbert Mann and written by N/A, it aired on 9/10/1950. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Long Run".