Episodes
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1. Marcia Akers
21 Oct 1951 · 60 min
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
4 Nov 1951 · 60 min
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
18 Nov 1951 · 60 min
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
2 Dec 1951 · 60 min
An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.
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5. Perspective
16 Dec 1951 · 60 min
The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.
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6. The Sisters
30 Dec 1951 · 60 min · 6.0/10
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
13 Jan 1952 · 60 min
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.
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8. Segment
27 Jan 1952 · 60 min
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.
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9. Rich Boy
10 Feb 1952 · 60 min · 6.0/10
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.
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10. Tender Age
24 Feb 1952 · 60 min
The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.
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11. Dusty Portrait
9 Mar 1952 · 60 min
A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.
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12. The Best Laid Schemes
23 Mar 1952 · 60 min
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.
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13. The Room Next Door
5 Apr 1952 · 60 min
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.
14. The Basket Weaver
19 Apr 1952 · 60 min
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
4 May 1952 · 60 min
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
18 May 1952 · 60 min
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
1 Jun 1952 · 60 min
A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.
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18. Flight into Darkness
15 Jun 1952 · 60 min
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
29 Jun 1952 · 60 min
A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.
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20. A Letter to Mr. Priest
13 Jul 1952 · 60 min
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
27 Jul 1952 · 60 min
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
10 Aug 1952 · 60 min
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.
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23. Three Sundays
24 Aug 1952 · 60 min
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.
24. The Last Hour
7 Sept 1952 · 60 min
A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.
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25. Holiday Song
14 Sept 1952 · 60 min
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.
The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4: quick answers
How many episodes are in The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4?
Season 4 of The Philco Television Playhouse has 25 episodes, about 25 hours in total.
When did The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4 come out?
Season 4 premiered on 21 Oct 1951.