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 respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Dinner at Eight | 1948-10-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Rebecca | 1948-10-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Counsellor-at-Law | 1948-10-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Angel in the Wings | 1948-10-24 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Street Scene | 1948-10-31 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | This Thing Called Love | 1948-11-07 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Camille | 1948-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | An Inspector Calls | 1948-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | I Like It Here | 1948-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Suspect | 1948-12-05 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Parlor Story | 1948-12-12 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | A Christmas Carol | 1948-12-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | The Old Lady Shows Her Medals | 1948-12-26 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Ramshackle Inn | 1949-01-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | Cyrano de Bergerac | 1949-01-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | Papa is All | 1949-01-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | Pride and Prejudice | 1949-01-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | Dark Hammock | 1949-01-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | The Late Christopher Bean | 1949-02-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | The Story of Mary Surratt | 1949-02-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | Twelfth Night | 1949-02-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | St. Helena | 1949-02-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | The Druid Circle | 1949-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | Quality Street | 1949-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | Dinner at Antoine's | 1949-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | Becky Sharpe | 1949-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 27 | And Never Been Kissed | 1949-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 28 | What Makes Sammy Run? | 1949-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 29 | Mr. Mergenthwicker's Lobblies | 1949-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 30 | Burlesque | 1949-04-24 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 31 | Macbeth | 1949-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 32 | Romeo and Juliet | 1949-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 33 | This Time, Next Year | 1949-06-05 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 34 | It Pays to Advertise | 1949-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 35 | Summer Formal | 1949-06-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 36 | Jenny Kissed Me | 1949-06-26 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 37 | Dark of the Moon | 1949-07-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 38 | For Love or Money | 1949-07-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 39 | The Five Lives of Richard Gordon | 1949-07-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 40 | You Touched Me! | 1949-07-24 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 41 | The Fourth Wall | 1949-07-31 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 42 | Enter Madame | 1949-08-07 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 43 | A Murder Has Been Arranged | 1949-08-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 44 | Pretty Little Parlor | 1949-08-21 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 45 | Three Cornered Moon | 1949-08-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | What Every Woman Knows | 1949-09-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Pride's Castle | 1949-09-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | The Little Sister | 1949-09-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Lonely | 1949-09-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | The Queen Bee | 1949-10-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Something's Got to Give | 1949-10-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | The Last Tycoon | 1949-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Because of the Lockwoods | 1949-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Damion's Daughter | 1949-10-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | The House of Seven Gables | 1949-11-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | The Promise | 1949-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | Medical Meeting | 1949-11-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 13 | The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram | 1949-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 14 | Mist on the Waters | 1949-12-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 15 | The Beautiful Bequest | 1949-12-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 16 | The Strange Christmas Dinner | 1949-12-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 17 | In Beauty Like the Night | 1949-12-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 18 | Little Boy Lost | 1950-01-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 19 | Bethel Merriday | 1950-01-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 20 | Murder at the Stork Club | 1950-01-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 21 | The Marriages | 1950-01-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 22 | Uncle Dynamite | 1950-01-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 23 | The Sudden Guest | 1950-02-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 24 | Ann Rutledge | 1950-02-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 25 | A Letter to Mr. Priest | 1950-02-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 26 | Hometown | 1950-02-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 27 | The Life of Vincent Van Gogh | 1950-03-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 28 | The Uncertain Molly Collicutt | 1950-03-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 29 | The Trial of Steven Kent | 1950-03-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 30 | The Second Oldest Profession | 1950-03-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 31 | Nocturne | 1950-04-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 32 | Dirty Eddie | 1950-04-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 33 | The End is Known | 1950-04-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 34 | The Man in the Black Hat | 1950-04-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 35 | The American | 1950-04-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 36 | The Feast | 1950-05-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 37 | Brat Farrar | 1950-05-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 38 | The Charmed Circle | 1950-05-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 39 | Semmelweis | 1950-05-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 40 | Sense and Sensibility | 1950-06-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 41 | The Bump on Brannigan's Head | 1950-06-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 42 | Anything Can Happen | 1950-06-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 43 | Hear My Heart Speak | 1950-06-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 44 | The Reluctant Landlord | 1950-07-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 45 | The Tentacles | 1950-07-09 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | High Tor | 1950-09-10 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | The Long Run | 1950-09-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Dear Guest and Ghost | 1950-09-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | The Touch of a Stranger | 1950-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street | 1950-10-08 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | A Husband for Mama | 1950-10-15 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Portrait in Smoke | 1950-10-22 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Gambler | 1950-10-29 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | The Power Devil | 1950-11-05 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | The Man Who Got Away with It | 1950-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | I'm Still Alive | 1950-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | Torch for a Dark Journey | 1950-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 13 | Wacky, the Small Boy | 1950-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 14 | Bonanza | 1950-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 15 | Decoy | 1950-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 16 | The Pupil | 1950-12-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 17 | Leaf out of a Book | 1950-12-31 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 18 | The Symbol: Jefferson Davis | 1951-01-07 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 19 | The Lost Diplomat | 1951-01-14 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 20 | Confession | 1951-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 21 | The Great Escape | 1951-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 22 | A Matter of Life and Death | 1951-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 23 | Kitty Doone | 1951-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 24 | Let Them Be Sea Captains | 1951-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 25 | The Man Who Bought a Town | 1951-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 26 | No Medals on Pop | 1951-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 27 | The Dark Corridor | 1951-03-18 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 28 | Bulletin 120 | 1951-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 29 | Parnassus on Wheels | 1951-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 30 | Routine Assignment | 1951-04-08 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 31 | Hour of Destiny | 1951-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 32 | The Birth of the Movies | 1951-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 33 | Mr. Arcularis | 1951-04-29 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 34 | A Secret Island | 1951-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 35 | The Visitors | 1951-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 36 | Justice and Mr. Pleznik | 1951-05-20 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 37 | Rescue | 1951-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 38 | The Adventures of Hiram Holliday | 1951-06-03 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 39 | The Fast Dollar | 1951-06-10 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 40 | Operation: Airlift | 1951-06-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 41 | Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal | 1951-06-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 42 | The Plot | 1951-07-01 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 43 | Case History | 1951-07-08 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 44 | I Want to March | 1951-07-15 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 45 | Pretend I Am a Stranger | 1951-07-22 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 46 | Television Story | 1951-07-29 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 47 | The Return | 1951-08-05 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 48 | Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands | 1951-08-12 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 49 | Come Alive | 1951-08-19 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 50 | Night at the Vulcan | 1951-08-26 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 51 | This Time Next Year | 1951-09-02 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 52 | Women of Intrigue | 1951-09-09 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 53 | The Wayward Season | 1951-09-16 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 54 | The Spur | 1951-09-23 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 55 | By-Line for Murder | 1951-09-30 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 56 | A Requiem for a Model | 1951-10-07 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Marcia Akers | 1951-10-21 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | The Education of a Fullback | 1951-11-04 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | A Little Night Music | 1951-11-18 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Incident at Golden's Creek | 1951-12-02 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Perspective | 1951-12-16 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | The Sisters | 1951-12-30 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | Without Fear or Favor | 1952-01-13 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Segment | 1952-01-27 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | Rich Boy | 1952-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | Tender Age | 1952-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 11 | Dusty Portrait | 1952-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 12 | The Best Laid Schemes | 1952-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 13 | The Room Next Door | 1952-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 14 | The Basket Weaver | 1952-04-19 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 15 | We Were Children | 1952-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 16 | A Cowboy for Chris | 1952-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 17 | A Man's Game | 1952-06-01 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 18 | Flight Into Darkness | 1952-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 19 | The Monument | 1952-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 20 | A Letter to Mr. Priest | 1952-07-13 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 21 | Brat Farrar | 1952-07-27 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 22 | The Five Fathers of Pepi | 1952-08-10 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 23 | Three Sundays | 1952-08-24 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 24 | The Last Hour | 1952-09-07 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 25 | Holiday Song | 1952-09-14 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | The Thin Air | 1952-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | The Black Sheep | 1952-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Uncertain Heritage | 1952-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | The Winter of the Dog | 1952-11-02 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Parole Chief | 1952-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | The Gift | 1952-11-30 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Tempest of Tick Creek | 1952-12-14 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Magic Morning | 1952-12-28 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | Double Jeopardy | 1953-01-04 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | Pride's Way | 1953-01-11 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 11 | Two for One | 1953-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 12 | Elegy | 1953-01-25 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 13 | The Reluctant Citizen | 1953-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 14 | Mr. Pettengill Here | 1953-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 15 | Wings on My Feet | 1953-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 16 | The Trip to Bountiful | 1953-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 17 | The Gesture | 1953-03-15 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 18 | The Velvet Mitten | 1953-03-22 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 19 | A Young Lady of Property | 1953-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 20 | The Recluse | 1953-04-12 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 21 | Printer's Measure | 1953-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 22 | A Little Something in Reserve | 1953-05-10 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 23 | Marty | 1953-05-24 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 24 | The Way of the Eagle | 1953-06-07 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 25 | Expectant Relations | 1953-06-21 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 26 | The House in Athens | 1953-07-05 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 27 | The Big Deal | 1953-07-19 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 28 | The Rainmaker | 1953-08-16 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 29 | Holiday Song | 1953-09-20 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 30 | Othello | 1953-09-06 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 31 | The Baby | 1953-09-13 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | 0 for 37 | 1953-09-27 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | The Bachelor Party | 1953-10-11 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | The Girl with the Stopwatch | 1953-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | The Train to Trouble | 1953-11-08 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | Up Above the World So High | 1953-11-22 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | The Sixth Year | 1953-11-29 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | The Midnight Caller | 1953-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | The Glorification of Al Toolum | 1953-12-27 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | The Hangman in the Fog | 1954-01-10 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 10 | Smoke Screen | 1954-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 11 | A Game of Hide and Seek | 1954-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 12 | Statute of Limitations | 1954-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 13 | The Dancers | 1954-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 14 | The Broken Fist | 1954-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 15 | The Mother | 1954-04-04 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 16 | The King and Mrs. Candle | 1954-04-18 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 17 | The Joker | 1954-05-02 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 18 | And Crown Thy Good | 1954-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 19 | The Shadow of Willie Greer | 1954-05-30 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 20 | Adapt or Die | 1954-06-13 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 21 | Friday the Thirteenth | 1954-06-27 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 22 | Man Drowning | 1954-07-11 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 23 | The Catamaran | 1954-07-25 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 24 | The Man in the Middle of the Ocean | 1954-08-08 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 25 | Star in the Summer Night | 1954-08-22 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 26 | Run Like a Thief | 1954-09-05 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Middle of the Night | 1954-09-19 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | Time Bomb | 1954-10-03 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | Man on the Mountain | 1954-10-17 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 4 | Time of Delivery | 1954-10-31 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | Crime Without Motive | 1954-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 6 | Beg, Borrow or Steal | 1954-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 7 | Catch My Boy on Sunday | 1954-12-12 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 8 | Run, Girl, Run | 1954-12-26 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 9 | Walk Into the Night | 1955-01-09 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 10 | Anatomy of Fear | 1955-01-23 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 11 | A Sense of Justice | 1955-02-06 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 12 | The Assassin | 1955-02-20 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 13 | Play Me Hearts and Flowers | 1955-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 14 | Shadow of the Champ | 1955-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 15 | Watch Me Die | 1955-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 16 | The Bold and the Brave | 1955-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 17 | Letter of Recommendation | 1955-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 18 | The Pardon-Me Boy | 1955-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 19 | The Ghost Writer | 1955-05-29 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 20 | Total Recall | 1955-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 21 | Black Frost | 1955-06-26 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 22 | Incident in July | 1955-07-10 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 23 | The Death of Billy the Kid | 1955-07-24 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 24 | A Room in Paris | 1955-08-07 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 25 | Gretel | 1955-08-21 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 26 | The Miss America Story | 1955-09-04 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 27 | The Outsiders | 1955-09-18 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 28 | A Man is Ten Feet Tall | 1955-10-02 | 60 min |
| Production | Robert Alan Aurthur | Producer |
| Writing | Robert Alan Aurthur | Writer |
