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The Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 7

Every episode of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 7!

The Best Episodes of The Philco Television Playhouse Season 7

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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  1. Background image for The Death of Billy the Kid
    7.4/10(19 votes)

    #1 - The Death of Billy the Kid

    S7:E23

    How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.

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  2. Background image for Middle of the Night
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    #2 - Middle of the Night

    S7:E1

    A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.

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    #3 - Time Bomb

    S7:E2

    A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.

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    #4 - Man on the Mountaintop

    S7:E3

    Horace Mann Borden is an adult former child prodigy who has been exploited by his father to advance his own theories about education. Horace feels that people view him as a freak and expect things out of him. Horace shuts out the world. Greta Blake is the woman who has fallen in love with Horace and shows him that the world is not out to get him.

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    #5 - Time of Delivery

    S7:E4

    A 24-hour delay in mail delivery violently changes three lives. A postman collapses on his daily route and the delivery of his sack of mail is delayed for a day. In three dramatic situations which develop,

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    #6 - Crime Without Motive

    S7:E5

    The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.

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    #7 - Beg, Borrow or Steal

    S7:E6

    The story of a man who embezzles $18,000 from an estate in order to live up to the standards he likes and of the trap he finds himself in when another lawyer takes over the estate.

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    Director:Arthur Penn
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  9. Background image for Catch My Boy on Sunday
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    #8 - Catch My Boy on Sunday

    S7:E7

    A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.

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    #9 - Run, Girl, Run

    S7:E8

    An aspiring young actress loses her big chance on Broadway and returns home. Her mother shows why she may have failed and inspires her to try again.

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    #10 - Walk Into the Night

    S7:E9

    A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.

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    #11 - Anatomy of Fear

    S7:E10

    A man is implicated in a murder while vacationing with his wife at a summer resort. The man recognizes a murdered woman as the one in love with his business partner. He hides her purse in order to delay identification but his wife threatens to expose him,

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    Director:Delbert Mann
    Writer:N/A
  13. Background image for A Sense of Justice
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    #12 - A Sense of Justice

    S7:E11

    A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.

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    #13 - The Assassin

    S7:E12

    The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.

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    #14 - Play Me Hearts and Flowers

    S7:E13

    A singer who has teamed up with a comedian realizes that he has become the comic's ""straight man"" both on and off the stage, and that somehow he must reassert his individuality.

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    Director:Delbert Mann
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    #15 - Shadow of the Champ

    S7:E14

    A lonely woman feels she has one last shot at romance with a man who's content with being a flunky to a boxing champion.

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    #16 - Watch Me Die

    S7:E15

    He can't simply divorce his wife to marry a young starlet since he wants her money, too. So he begins his search for the ideal way to kill his unsuspecting spouse.

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    #17 - The Bold and the Brave

    S7:E16

    The commander of a military prep school brings near disaster to himself and his son, a pupil at the school. He pushes the boy beyond endurance in his effort to make him a better student than he was.

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    #18 - Letter of Recommendation

    S7:E17

    A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.

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    #19 - The Pardon-Me Boy

    S7:E18

    A young man, held a failure by his father, is a juror in the murder trial of a gangland boss. When the trial is over, the son reveals that he held out for the acquittal of the defendant.

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    #20 - The Ghost Writer

    S7:E19

    The manager of a former actor now running for Congress wants to exploit the fact that the opposition candidate's daughter is working on their campaign. However, the actor and his ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred of her father to their advantage.

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    Director:Jack Smight
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  22. Background image for Total Recall
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    #21 - Total Recall

    S7:E20

    A man who's stopped before committing suicide says he can remember nothing of his past. A police check reveals that he has a wife.

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    #22 - Black Frost

    S7:E21

    A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.

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    #23 - Incident in July

    S7:E22

    Daddy Tom, the camp director, is upset when he learns through the grapevine that one of his counselors, Mrs. Johnson, is infatuated with his 19-year-old office worker, Andy, and that she wants to give him $1,100 for his education. The first part of the rumour is not true but the second part is. She is unable to have children and thinks this is a constructive way to use the money they saved for a child. She and her husband squabble over this. Andy's parents are dead. Daddy Tom fires both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. He later re-hires them on the condition that she not mention...

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    Director:Jack Smight
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  25. Background image for A Room in Paris
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    #24 - A Room in Paris

    S7:E24

    An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.

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    #25 - Gretel

    S7:E25

    Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"The Death of Billy the Kid" is the best rated episode of "The Philco Television Playhouse" season 7. It scored 7.4/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/24/1955. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Middle of the Night".