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The Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4

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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 4 Episode 1 - Marcia Akers
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    #1 - Marcia Akers

    S4:E1

    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".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 2 - The Education of a Fullback
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    #2 - The Education of a Fullback

    S4:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 3 - A Little Night Music
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    #3 - A Little Night Music

    S4:E3

    Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 4 - Incident at Golden's Creek
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    #4 - Incident at Golden's Creek

    S4:E4

    An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 5 - Perspective
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    #5 - Perspective

    S4:E5

    The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 6 - The Sisters
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    #6 - The Sisters

    S4:E6

    The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 7 - Without Fear or Favor
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    #7 - Without Fear or Favor

    S4:E7

    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:Unknown

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  8. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 8 - Segment
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    #8 - Segment

    S4:E8

    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

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  9. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 9 - Rich Boy
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    #9 - Rich Boy

    S4:E9

    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
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 10 - Tender Age
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    #10 - Tender Age

    S4:E10

    The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 11 - Dusty Portrait
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    #11 - Dusty Portrait

    S4:E11

    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 Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 12 - The Best Laid Schemes
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    #12 - The Best Laid Schemes

    S4:E12

    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:Unknown

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  13. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 13 - The Room Next Door
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    #13 - The Room Next Door

    S4:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 14 - The Basket Weaver
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    #14 - The Basket Weaver

    S4:E14

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 15 - We Were Children
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    #15 - We Were Children

    S4:E15

    A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 16 - A Cowboy for Chris
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    #16 - A Cowboy for Chris

    S4:E16

    A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 17 - A Man's Game
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    #17 - A Man's Game

    S4:E17

    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

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  18. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 18 - Flight into Darkness
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    #18 - Flight into Darkness

    S4:E18

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 19 - The Monument
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    #19 - The Monument

    S4:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 20 - A Letter to Mr. Priest
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    #20 - A Letter to Mr. Priest

    S4:E20

    The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 21 - Bratt Farrar
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    #21 - Bratt Farrar

    S4:E21

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 22 - The Five Fathers of Pepi
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    #22 - The Five Fathers of Pepi

    S4:E22

    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:Unknown

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  23. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 23 - Three Sundays
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    #23 - Three Sundays

    S4:E23

    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:Unknown

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  24. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 24 - The Last Hour
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    #24 - The Last Hour

    S4:E24

    A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.

    Director:Delbert Mann
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 Episode 25 - Holiday Song
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    #25 - Holiday Song

    S4:E25

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Marcia Akers" is the best rated episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse" season 4. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/21/1951. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Education of a Fullback".