NaN/100 votes#1 - 0 for 37
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1953
A young ballplayer appreciates the value of home and family after a shaky start in professional baseball.
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#2 - The Bachelor Party
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1953
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - The Girl With the Stopwatch
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/1953
A woman of 30 is preoccupied with her work as a television script writer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - The Train to Trouble
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/1953
A man must decide whether or not to expose the past of a candidate for the sheriff's office.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Up Above the World So High
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 11/22/1953
A middle-aged woman seemingly has the gift of second sight.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - The Sixth Year
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/29/1953
A wife becomes exasperated with her husband who seems to have lost the will to work. She takes their child and leaves. He finds a menial job and asks her to come home. She seeks advice on the situation from her mother and father
Director: N/A
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- NaN/100 votes
#7 - The Midnight Caller
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 12/13/1953
Three unmarried women residing in a boarding house in a small town have watched life pass them by waiting for the right man to come into their lives. When a new stranger shows up and moves into the boarding house.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - The Glorification of Al Toolum
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 12/27/1953
No description available
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - The Hangman in the Fog
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 1/10/1954
An American newspaperman in London believes that he is being pursued by agents from across the Iron Curtain.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Smoke Screen
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 1/24/1954
A country boy gets a job in the city as a bookkeeper. He meets a beautiful model and gets mixed up in a murder.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - A Game of Hide and Seek
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 2/7/1954
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Statute of Limitations
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 2/21/1954
The perpetrators of a million dollar robbery find themselves with five hours to go before the statute of limitations takes effect.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#13 - The Dancers
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 3/7/1954
A meek young boy, still shy and unsure of himself, visits his sister in a small town and is persuaded by her to ask the most popular girl in town for a date. He asks her to a school dance, but, as she is going steady, she refuses his invitation. Believing himself to be the butt of ridicule by the young population of the town because of his awkwardness, he withdraws into himself. He later meets a young girl who is as shy as he, is and, because of the mutual understanding between them, they give each other the confidence each lacks.
Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - The Broken Fist
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 3/21/1954
The story of a middle-aged Frenchman in Algiers who decides to do something for his homeland during the Nazi occupation. He joins the underground and goes to the port of Marseilles to report on shipping.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - The Mother
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 4/4/1954
A widow tries not to be dependent on her children.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - The King and Mrs. Candle
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 4/18/1954
The deposed King of Brandovia, whose inhabitants spend their time exporting bologna and repelling invasions by neighboring Carps and Gloats, finds his way to America, where he earns a living as a dancing instructor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - The Joker
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 5/2/1954
Mike Galloway, a "nice guy", was an incurable practical joker--always passing out exploding cigars and perpetrating other silliness. His pranks made for a bad first impression on Dorie, but eventually they fell in love and married.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - And Crown Thy Good
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 5/16/1954
In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - The Shadow of Willie Greer
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 5/30/1954
In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.
Director: Horton Foote
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - Adapt or Die
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 6/13/1954
An editor of the major magazine "Throb" finds that he must either adapt to the high pressure life of a New York magazine or be without a job.
Director: Arthur Penn
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Friday the Thirteenth
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 6/27/1954
3 women have just attended their college reunion, and are returning together when their vehicle crashes through a fence and over a cliff. As their husbands wait anxiously above the accident scene, they learn that only two of the women have survived, and they relive memories of their lives together as they await word as to who lives and who died.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Man Drowning
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 7/11/1954
A big man on the campus turns out to be somewhat of a dud.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#23 - The Catamaran
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 7/25/1954
A husband's hobby threatens his marriage until he finds a suitable replacement, the wife that is.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - The Man in the Middle of the Ocean
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 8/8/1954
A member of an architect's firm is torn by internal conflict. His partners need his compliance if they are to cash in on a deal they have made with a building contractor.
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1057 votes
#25 - Star in the Summer Night
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 8/22/1954
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 6
Every episode of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 6!
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 6 Ratings Summary
"0 for 37" is the best rated episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse" season 6. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/27/1953. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Bachelor Party".