NaN/100 votes#1 - Marcia Akers
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/21/1951
A young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladder and stepping on people along the way. She's set to marry a wealthy man--just what's always wanted--when she finds herself in love with a "regular guy".
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#2 - The Education of a Fullback
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/4/1951
A comedy on the foibles of campus activities about a professor who can't understand why a football hero shouldn't be given an unsatisfactory grade especially when he slept thru the classes.
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#3 - A Little Night Music
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/18/1951
Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.
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#4 - Incident at Golden's Creek
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 12/2/1951
An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.
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#5 - Perspective
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/16/1951
The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.
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- 6.0/101 votes
#6 - 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.
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#7 - Without Fear or Favor
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1/13/1952
Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, where the New York Times crusades against the crooks in City Hall headed by Boss Tweed and his thieving cronies, which included judges, police officials and even the Mayor.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
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#8 - Segment
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 1/27/1952
During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. The wife nagging pushes the man over the edge and he is determined to kill her after he makes her listen to his list of reasons she's been cruel to him. Meanwhile police try to talk him out of it, and watch him with a television camera across the street.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: David Swift
- 6.0/101 votes
#9 - 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
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#10 - Tender Age
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 2/24/1952
The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.
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#11 - Dusty Portrait
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 3/9/1952
A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott
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#12 - The Best Laid Schemes
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 3/23/1952
Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
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#13 - The Room Next Door
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 4/5/1952
A social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined daughter. She however prefers an unstable piano player over an established member of the tea and crumpet set, things build up with a tragic ending.
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NaN/100 votes#14 - The Basket Weaver
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 4/19/1952
The story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased by a personal crisis.
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#15 - We Were Children
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 5/4/1952
A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.
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#16 - A Cowboy for Chris
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 5/18/1952
A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.
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#17 - A Man's Game
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 6/1/1952
A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: David Swift
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Flight into Darkness
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 6/15/1952
A psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is going insane and later that his brother, a doctor is going to murder him.
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#19 - The Monument
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 6/29/1952
A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
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#20 - A Letter to Mr. Priest
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 7/13/1952
The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.
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#21 - Bratt Farrar
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 7/27/1952
No Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13.
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#22 - The Five Fathers of Pepi
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 8/10/1952
A young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American couple who will adopt Pepi and give him a proper upbringing. When the time comes to give the tyke up.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Three Sundays
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 8/24/1952
A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for creating the affair and absolves the dead man.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#24 - The Last Hour
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 9/7/1952
A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
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#25 - Holiday Song
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 9/14/1952
The night before Rosh Hashonah, a cantor suffers a spiritual crisis. That same night, he is sent by someone to see a rabbi out in Brooklyn, A mysterious train station attendant gives him directions after which he stops a woman from committing suicide because she is despondent over the death of her husband in the war. On his way home, the cantor meets up with the husband. He thought his wife had died. The cantor reunites them. After trying to find the station guard, the cantor learns that no one has ever worked there fitting the man's description. thus the cantor realizes that some sort of 'celestial conductor' must have had a hand in the matter. His faith restored, the cantor is able to resume his life's work.
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The Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4
Every episode of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4!
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 4 Ratings Summary
"Marcia Akers" is the best rated episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse" season 4. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/21/1951. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Education of a Fullback".