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Season
3 (NBC) (1950-51)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Tom Alger, Rina Fox
references:
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UCLA Film and Television Archive
######### Philco Television Playhouse ########
############## season 3 1950-51 ##############
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NBC Sundays 9:00-10:00pm Eastern (weekly)
3.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: HIGH TOR
10Sep50
written by Fred Coe
play by Maxwell Anderson
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Alfred Ryder
Felicia Montealegre
Vinton Hayworth
Edgar Stehli
Leo Penn
Maurice Manson
Edward Cullen
Synopsis:
A man torn between his fiancee and his love for a mountain he owns, which
he refuses to sell to some shady real estate agents. After an avalanche, he
is stuck with the realtors in a cave, where he sees a Dutch ghost and a young
woman who offers her opinion about his decision. [RF]
3.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LONG RUN
17Sep50
starring
Vicki Cummings
Francis Lederer
3.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DEAR GUEST AND GHOST
24Sep50
starring
Josephine Hull
Barry Nelson
3.04 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE TOUCH OF A STRANGER
01Oct50
written by Joseph Liss
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Olive Deering
E.G. Marshall
Leslie Nielsen
Jack Warden
Gloria Stroock
Leo Penn
Synopsis:
A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes
out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.
3.05 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE VINE THAT GREW ON FIFTIETH STREET
08Oct50
starring
William Farnum
Florida Friebus
Bethel Leslie
Frank Maxwell
Dorothy Sands
3.06 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A HUSBAND FOR MAMA
15Oct50
written by David Shaw
novel by Louis Paul
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Betty Caulfield
Vinton Hayworth
Muriel Kirkland
Conrad Janis
Biff McGuire
3.07 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PORTRAIT IN SMOKE
22Oct50
starring
Olive Deering
Shepperd Strudwick
Synopsis:
Rising out of the shabbiness of the Lower East Side, Kathy ruthlessly climbs
the social and financial ladder by using and then abandoning
a series of gullible older men. [RF[
3.08 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE GAMBLER
29Oct50
written by Joseph Liss
directed by Delbert Mann
producer Fred Coe
starring
Anne Crawford ....... Theresa
Alfred Ryder ........ Philip
Philip Coolidge ...... the General
Ethel Griffies ....... Grandmother
Maurice Burke
Muriel Hutchinson
Synopsis:
A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th-century,
this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career
for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable
greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny
is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in
marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who
chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors. [TA]
3.09 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE POWER DEVIL
05Nov50
starring
Augusta Dabney
Kevin McCarthy
3.10 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MAN WHO GOT AWAY WITH IT
12Nov50
written by Alexander Kirkland
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Fred Beir
Margaret Hayes
Barbara Robbins
Francis X. Sullivan
Richard Sanders
Donald Woods
Bernard Nedell
3.11 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: I'M STILL ALIVE
19Nov50
starring
Walter Brooke
Burgess Meredith
Howard Smith
Haila Stoddard
3.12 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TORCH FOR A DARK JOURNEY
26Nov50
written by Max Wilk
directed by Delbert Mann
producer Fred Coe
starring
Bramwell Fletcher
Loring Smith
Felicia Montealegre
Edgar Stehli
Richard Webb
Robert H. Harris
Louis Sorin
Jon Dawson
Al Thaler
Walter Black
Millicent Brower
Frank Sutton
Alfred Leberfeld
Bob Goldman
Frank Baxter
Synopsis:
A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist,
who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a
former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must
return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must
decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America. [RF]
3.13 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WACKY, THE SMALL BOY
03Dec50
starring
Bill Goodwin
Aline MacMahon
3.14 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BONANZA
10Dec50
written by Stephen de Baun
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Stanley Ridges
Dan Morgan
Alfreda Wallace
William Kemp
Frank Tweddell
Ann Ives
3.15 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DECOY
17Dec50
starring
Dulcy Jordan
Will Lee
John McQuade
3.16 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE PUPIL
24Dec50
written by Stephen de Baun
story by Henry James
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
John Newland
Judson Rees
Viola Roache
Ann Summers
Neil Fitzgerald
Elizabeth Eustis
3.17 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: LEAF OUT OF A BOOK
31Dec50
starring
Grace Kelly
Vicki Cummings
Lauren Gilbert
Claudia Morgan
3.18 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE SYMBOL: JEFFERSON DAVIS
07Jan51
written by William Kendall Clarke
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
John Baragrey
Lesley Woods
E.G. Marshall
Ellen Cobb-Hill
Victor Sutherland
John D. Seymour
3.19 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LOST DIPLOMAT
14Jan51
starring
Scott McKay
Frances Reid
3.20 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: CONFESSION
21Jan51
written by David Shaw
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
John Ireland
Neva Patterson
Nelson Olmsted
James Van Dyk
Ann Ives
Ken Rockefeller
3.21 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE GREAT ESCAPE
28Jan51
starring
E.G. Marshall
Everett Sloane
Horace Braham
Kurt Katch
3.22 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
04Feb51
written by Abram S. Ginnes
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Cloris Leachman
J. Pat O'Malley
John Ericson
Marian Winters
Tom Reynolds
Herbert Nelson
3.23 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: KITTY DOONE
11Feb51
written by Joan Crowley
story by Aben Kandel
starring
Valerie Bettis as Kitty Doone
Edmon Ryan
Harry Worth
Russell Dennis
Brandon Peters
Viola Roache
David White
Nina Varela
Irving Winter
Carl Green
3.24 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: LET THEM BE SEA CAPTAINS
18Feb51
written by Hoffman R. Hays
directed by Delbert Mann
producer Fred Coe
starring
Anne Crawford as Margaret Fuller
Florida Friebus as Mary Greeley
E.G. Marshall as Horace Greeley
David Brisbane as Albert Brisbane
Harold McGee as Thurlow Weed
Charles Taylor
Nicholas Saunders
Ken Rockerfeller
Ruth Hope
Nancy Graves
Julie Follansbee
Katherine Gregg
Margaret Higgins
David Lewis
Synopsis:
Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller,
the mid-19th century femninist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.
The show also deals with Whig opposition to the Revolutionary North American Phalanx
of Albert Brisbane, a cooperative social group living in Red Bank, New Jersey. [RF]
3.25 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MAN WHO BOUGHT A TOWN
25Feb51
starring
Oscar Homolka
Katherine Balfour as Elizabeth Bush
Raymond Bramley as Henry Locke
Bert Conway as Pete
Joan Croydon as Mrs. Dennis
Vinton Hayworth as H.L. Potter
Dorothy Sands as Mrs. Bush
Bobby Santon as Jimmy
Sam Schwartz as The Auctioneer
Elliott Sullivan as Lou McCabe
3.26 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: NO MEDALS ON POP
11Mar51
written by Henry K. Moritz
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Rod Steiger
Frederic de Wilde
Ellen Cobb-Hill
Brandon de Wilde
Alice Yourman
Hal Currier
3.27 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE DARK CORRIDOR
18Mar51
starring
Wesley Addy
Stella Andrew
Viola Roache
3.28 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BULLETIN 120
25Mar51
written by Joseph Liss
directed by Delbert Mann
producer Fred Coe
starring
Stephen Courtleigh as Dr. Joseph Goldberger
Robert Quarry as Dr. Wheeler
Elinor Randel as Mrs. Wheeler
John Randolph as Hotstuff
Dan Reed as Lucius
Jack Bittner as Broadway
Alan Shayne as Kid
Eddie Lyans
Leslie Barrett
Synopsis:
The story for this program is taken from the files of the U.S. Public Health Service.
In 1915 in Mississippi, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts
and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection. [RF]
3.29 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
01Apr51
starring
Russell Hardie
Muriel Kirkland
Una O'Connor
William Post Jr.
3.30 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ROUTINE ASSIGNMENT
08Apr51
written by David Swift
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Stephen Elliott
Billy M. Greene
Frank Maxwell
James Westerfield
Emily Lawrence
Thomas Heaphy
James Van Dyk
3.31 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: HOUR OF DESTINY
15Apr51
starring
Anne Burr
Phyllis Love
Dorothy Peterson
3.32 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BIRTH OF THE MOVIES
22Apr51
written by Hoffman R. Hays & Robert Alan Aurthur
directed by Delbert Mann
producer Fred Coe
starring
Lillian Gish as Narrator
John Newland
Jean Pearson
Paul Mann
Bruce Gordon
Robert F. Simon
Ben Lackland
Brandon Peters
Gordon Peters
Richard Abbott
Ken Rockefeller
Philip Rhodes
Frank Sutton
George McCoy
Eden Bitzer
Synopsis:
Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks
with Lillian Gish before and following the drama. [RF]
3.33 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MR. ARCULARIS
29Apr51
written by Conrad Aiken
directed by Delbert Mann
producer Fred Coe
starring
Nelson Olmsted as Mr. Arcularis
Leora Dana as Clarice
Edward Andrews
Stuart MacIntosh
Frank Marth
Herbert Nelson
Joe Bassett
John C. Becher
Helen Wagner
Theresa Hayden
Synopsis:
This drama based on the supernatural revolves around the expansion and
contraction on an anesthesia rebreathing bag as Mr. Arcularis' life hangs in
the balance on the operating table. While he is unconscious, he dreams that he
has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However death
follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens.
The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love,
forces him back to reality. At the end, Mr. Arcularis regains consciousness to find
Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right. [RF]
3.34 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A SECRET ISLAND
06May51
written by Paul Peters
story by Honore de Balzac
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Mildred Natwick
Edgar Stehli
Chris White
Cliff Robertson
Harry Sheppard
Phoebe Mackay
3.35 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE VISITORS
13May51
starring
Romney Brent
Sylvia Field
Anne Ives
Don Murray
3.36 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: JUSTICE AND MR. PLEZNIK
20May51
written by Thomas Phipps
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Joseph Buloff
Leo Penn
Naomi Riordan
Barbara Bulgakov
Ben Lackland
Charles Campbell
3.37 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: RESCUE
27May51
starring
John Randolph
Elliott Sullivan
James Westerfield
3.38 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE ADVENTURES OF HIRAM HOLLIDAY
03Jun51
written by Alexander Kirkland
story by Paul Gallico
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
E.G. Marshall
Stella Andrew
Adia Kuznetzoff
Henry Calvin
Ivan Simpson
Miriam Goldina
Synopsis:
Hiram Holliday is a copy-writer for a major newspaper. One day, he saves
his paper a fortune in a libel case, because of his meticulous work. [RF]
3.39 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE FAST DOLLAR
10Jun51
starring
J. Pat O'Malley
Judy Parrish
Vaughn Taylor
3.40 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: OPERATION: AIRLIFT
17Jun51
written by David Swift & George Giroux
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Ernest Borgnine
John D. Seymour
Lauren Gilbert
Russell Hardie
Frank Maxwell
David Swift
Paul Lipson
3.41 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DR. HUDSON'S SECRET JOURNAL
24Jun51
starring
Colin Keith-Johnston
Shepperd Strudwick
3.42 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE PLOT
01Jul51
starring
Donald Buka
Edgar Stehli
3.43 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: CASE HISTORY
08Jul51
starring
Robert Pastene
Jane Seymour
Peggy Allenby
Barbara Joyce
Nydia Westman
Leslie Woods
3.44 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: I WANT TO MARCH
15Jul51
starring
John Hoyt
Enid Markey
Katherine Meskill
3.45 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PRETEND I AM A STRANGER
22Jul51
written by David Shaw
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Henry Beckman
Olive Deering
Richard Newton
William Prince
Mariane Maricle
Michael McAloney
Peter Von Zerneck
3.46 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TELEVISION STORY
29Jul51
starring
Sidney Blackmer
Walter Brooke
Gaby Rodgers
3.47 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE RETURN
05Aug51
written by Stephen de Baun
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Robert F. Simon
Therese Hunter
Biff Elliott
Jill Kraft
Daniel Reed
Alonzo Bosan
3.48 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: EPHRAIM TUTT'S CLEAN HANDS
12Aug51
written by David Swift
directed by Gordon Duff
starring
Parker Fennelly
Muriel Kirkland
3.49 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: COME ALIVE
19Aug51
written by William Kendall Clarke
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Valerie Bettis
Lauren Gilbert
Leora Dana
Richard Coogan
Alfreda Wallace
Donald Curtis
3.50 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: NIGHT AT THE VULCAN
26Aug51
starring
Jerome Cowan
William Prince
Polly Rowles
3.51 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THIS TIME NEXT YEAR
02Sep51
written by Fred Coe
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Nelson Olmsted
Edgar Stehli
Barbara Bolton
Leona Powers
Hugh Reilly
Paul Ford
Frank Sutton
3.52 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WOMEN OF INTRIGUE
09Sep51
starring
Madeleine Carroll
Robin Craven
Anthony Dawson
Philip Friend
Murray Matheson
3.53 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE WAYWARD SEASON
16Sep51
written by David Shaw
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Carol Goodner
Kent Smith
Margaret Wycherly
Peggy McKay
Bethel Leslie
Ruth McDevitt
3.54 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE SPUR
23Sep51
starring
Wesley Addy
Alfred Ryder
3.55 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BY-LINE FOR MURDER
30Sep51
written by Walter Bernstein
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
E.G. Marshall
Hugh Reilly
Barbara Joyce
Vinton Hayworth
Irene Moore
Addison Powell
Robert H. Harris
3.56 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A REQUIEM FOR A MODEL
07Oct51
starring
Dortha Duckworth
Mike Lewin
Edmon Ryan
######### Philco Television
Playhouse ########
############### end of season 3 ##############
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