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Season
3 (NBC) (1953-54)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Tom Alger, Rina Fox
references:
TV Guide /
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive
############ Goodyear TV Playhouse ###########
############## season 3 1953-54 ##############
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NBC Sundays 9:00-10:00pm Eastern
title change to TV Playhouse alternated with "Philco TV Playhouse"
Philco Television Playhouse: 0 FOR 37
27Sep53
Ep 3.01 [--] TV Playhouse: THE HAPPY REST
04Oct1953
written by N. Richard Nash
guest
Wallace Ford
Julie Harris
E.G. Marshall
Mildred Natwick
Philco Television Playhouse: THE BACHELOR PARTY
11Oct53
Ep 3.02 [--] TV Playhouse: OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES
18Oct1953
written by Tad Mosel
directed by William Corrigan
guest stars
Rod Steiger
Eileen Heckart
Joseph Sweeney
Mary Lou Taylor
Earl Rowe
Philco Television Playhouse: THE GIRL WITH THE STOP
WATCH
25Oct53
Ep 3.03 [--] TV Playhouse: THE HAVEN
01Nov1953
written by Tad Mosel
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Bart Burns
Eileen Heckart
Charles Taylor
Gloria Kelly
Wallace Rooney
Fred Harrick
Philco Television Playhouse: THE TRAIN TO TROUBLE
08Nov53
Ep 3.04 [--] TV Playhouse: JOHN TURNER
15Nov1953
written by Horton Foote
guest stars
Larry Gates
Katherine Squire
Clifford Tatum Jr.
Synopsis:
The story about a young boy befriended by a childless couple. [RF]
Philco Television Playhouse: UP ABOVE THE WORLD SO
HIGH
22Nov53
Philco Television Playhouse: THE SIXTH YEAR
29Nov53
Ep 3.05 [--] TV Playhouse: MADAME APHRODITE
06Dec1953
written by Tad Mosel
Philco Television Playhouse: THE MIDNIGHT CALLER
13Dec53
Ep 3.06 [--] TV Playhouse: WINGS OVER BARRIERS
20Dec1953
written by Robert Lewis Shayon
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Eddie Albert as Narrator
Addison Powell
Ben Hammer
Charles E. Yeager (pilot Chuck Yeager)
Frank Blair
Norma Marlowe
Philco Television Playhouse: THE GLORIFICATION OF AL
TOOLUM
27Dec53
Ep 3.07 [--] TV Playhouse: PANIC
03Jan1954
written by Sumner Locke Elliott
guest stars
Barbara Baxley
Gene Lyons
Felicia Montealegre
Geoffrey Lumb
Karl Swenson
An insurance executive runs down a woman in the street, and terrified
at the prospect of publicity, leaves the scene and his hit-and-run victim. [RF]
Philco Television Playhouse: HANGMAN IN THE FOG
10Jan54
Ep 3.08 [--] TV Playhouse: HERE'S FATHER
17Jan1954
written by Robert Alan Aurthur
guest stars
Valerie Cossart
Van Dyke Parks
Cyril Ritchard
Elaine Stritch
Synopsis:
A famous producer-director-actor spends a week with his young son,
which is the one week the divorce courts have granted him for each year. [RF]
Philco Television Playhouse: SMOKE SCREEN
24Jan54
Ep 3.09 [--] TV Playhouse: THE BROWNSTONE
31Jan1954
written by N. Richard Nash
guest stars
Janice Rule
Kim Stanley
Eli Wallach
Philco Television Playhouse: A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK
07Feb54
Ep 3.10 [--] TV Playhouse: THE HUNTRESS
14Feb1954
written by David Shaw
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Judy Holliday
Tony Randall
Raymond Bramley
Norman Fell
Bert Thorn
Rita Vale
Harry Sheppard
Jock McGregor
William Lanteau
Clinton Anderson
William Forrester
Philco Television Playhouse: STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
21Feb54
Ep 3.11 [--] TV Playhouse: BUY ME RIBBONS
28Feb1954
guest stars
Enid Markey
Roddy McDowall
Gale Page
Philco Television Playhouse: THE DANCERS
07Mar54
Ep 3.12 [--] TV Playhouse: THE INWARD EYE
aka The Inward Horizon
14Mar1954
written by Joseph Liss
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
David White ....... Debataz
Phyllis Kirk ....... the Girl
Philip Abbott ....... her husband
Steven Hill ....... Mr. Frank
Ralph Longley ....... Scott
Susan Reed
Dorothy Elder
Adele Bradley
Jane Hoffman
Ed Prentiss
Cleo the seeing eye dog.
Synopsis:
Semi-documentary about a blind girl's training with a dog at the
Seeing Eye school at Morristown, N.J. [RF]
Philco Television Playhouse: THE BROKEN FIST
21Mar54
Ep 3.13 [--] TV Playhouse: NATIVE DANCER
28Mar1954
guest stars
Gwen Verdon
Philco Television Playhouse: THE MOTHER
04Apr54
Ep 3.14 [--] TV Playhouse: SPRING REUNION
11Apr1954
written by Robert Alan Aurthur
guest stars
Philip Abbott
Kathleen Maguire
Kevin McCarthy
Patricia Neal
Synopsis:
A 32 year old woman never married falls for a man was voted most likely
to succeed but never did. When they fall in love with each other, she has
a hard time separating from her overprotective father who calls the man a cad.
Philco Television Playhouse: THE KING AND MRS. CANDLE
18Apr54
Ep 3.15 [--] TV Playhouse: OLD TASSELFOOT
25Apr1954
written by J.P. Miller
guest stars
Kevin Coughlin
E.G. Marshall
Sada Thompson
Philco Television Playhouse: THE JOKER
02May54
Ep 3.16 [--] TV Playhouse: MISS LOOK-ALIKE
09May1954
written by Mann Rubin
guest stars
Geraldine Page
Norman Fell
Bibi Osterwald
Philco Television Playhouse: AND CROWN THY GOOD
16May54
Ep 3.17 [--] TV Playhouse: THE LAWN PARTY
23May1954
Written by Tad Mosel
guest stars
Geraldine Fitzgerald .. India
Larry Gates ........... Her Husband
Jeff Harris ........... Casey
Patricia Fay .......... The Daughter
Jane Moultrie ......... Mrs. Mudd
Synopsis:
A midwestern housewife wants to give an elaborate birthday party for her
daughter.
By her plans to "beautify" an empty lot for the occasion,
she unintentionally hurts the people about her.
[RF]
Philco Television Playhouse: THE SHADOW OF WILLIE
GREER
30May54
Ep 3.18 [--] TV Playhouse: SOMEBODY SPECIAL
06Jun1954
written by J.P. Miller
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Kim Stanley ........... Ruth Pack
Harry Townes .......... Charlie Pack
Kay Medford ........... Louise
Patty McCormack ....... Dovie
Harry Mehaffey ........ Oscar
Calvin Thomas ......... Mr. Rebbinger
Synopsis:
An average New York housewife thinks that the popular crooner
Sammy Andrews is the boy she used to date in high school.
If only she'd married him, she'd be the wife of a
celebrity. [RF]
Philco Television Playhouse: ADAPT OR DIE
13Jun54
Ep 3.19 [--] TV Playhouse: WRITE ME OUT FOREVER
20Jun1954
guest stars
Eva Marie Saint
Richard Kiley
Barbara Baxley
Philco Television Playhouse: FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH
27Jun54
Ep 3.20 [--] TV Playhouse: SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
04Jul1954
written by Harry Muheim
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Larry Blyden
Dorothy Hart
Mercer McLeod
G. Albert Smith
Mickey Freeman
Harry Clark
Mardette Edwards
Robert P. Lieb
Martine Bartlett
Philco Television Playhouse: MAN DROWNING
11Jul54
Ep 3.21 [--] TV Playhouse: DEAR HARRIET HEART-THROB
18Jul1954
written by Robert Alan Arthur
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Elliott Reid
Leora Dana
Betsy Palmer
J. Pat O'Malley
Raymond Bramley
Philco Television Playhouse: THE CATAMARAN
25Jul54
Ep 3.22 [--] TV Playhouse: THE ARENA
01Aug1954
written by N. Richard Nash
guest stars
Anthony Franciosa
Bert Freed
Steven Hill
Janice Rule
Philco Television Playhouse: THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE OCEAN
08Aug54
Ep 3.23 [--] TV Playhouse: RECOIL
15Aug1954
written by A.J. Russel
guest stars
Philip Abbott
Betsy Palmer
Philco Television Playhouse: STAR IN THE SUMMER NIGHT
22Aug54
Ep 3.24 [--] TV Playhouse: THE POWER OF SUGGESTION
29Aug1954
written by David Shaw
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Don DeFore
Murray Hamilton
Phyllis Kirk
Neva Patterson
William Redfield
Philco Television Playhouse: RUN LIKE A THIEF
05Sep54
Ep 3.25 [--] TV Playhouse: THE BIG MAN ON CAMPUS
12Sep1954
written by Robert Alan Aurthur
guest stars
Stephen McNally ....... Jim
Constance Ford ........ Laura
Richard Jaeckel ....... Billy
Synopsis:
An ex-football hero, who can't forget the past, stays on the campus
to run the college supply store and work on his doctorate. Ten years
have elapsed since graduation and his work hasn't neared completion. [RF]
############ Goodyear TV Playhouse
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############### end of season 3 ##############
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