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Season
4 (NBC) (1951-52)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Tom Alger, Rina Fox
references:
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######### Philco Television Playhouse ########
############## season 4 1951-52 ##############
##############################################
NBC Sundays 9:00-10:00pm Eastern
**Format changed - Philco Playhouse was on every other
week alternating with "Goodyear TV Playhouse".
4.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MARCIA AKERS
21Oct51
starring
Olive Deering as Marcia Akers
James Daly
Kendall Clark
James Gregory
4.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE EDUCATION OF A FULLBACK
04Nov51
starring
Joseph Buloff
Vinton Hayworth
4.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
18Nov51
starring
Paul McGrath
Neva Patterson
4.04 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: INCIDENT AT GOLDEN'S CREEK
02Dec51
starring
Michael Gorrin
4.05 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PERSPECTIVE
16Dec51
starring
Augusta Dabney
Everett Sloane
4.06 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE SISTERS
30Dec51
starring
Leslie Nielsen
Dorothy Peterson
Natalie Schafer
4.07 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR
13Jan52
written by Hoffman R. Hays
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Ernest Borgnine
Philip Coolidge
E.G. Marshall
Murvyn Vye
Madeleine Sherwood
Elliott Sullivan
Synopsis:
Dramatization of the story of famed corrupt politico Boss Tweed.
4.08 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: SEGMENT
27Jan52
written by David Swift
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Eileen Heckart
Mercer McLeod
Deidre Owens
Joseph Anthony
Addison Powell
William Lally
Synopsis:
A shrewish wife drives her husband insane. [TA]
4.09 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE RICH BOY
10Feb52
written by Walter Bernstein
story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
directed by Delbert Mann
producer Fred Coe
starring
Grace Kelly as Paula
Robert Pastene
Gene Lyons as Anson Hunter
Phyllis Kirk as Dolly
Kathleen Comegys as Mrs. Legendie
David White as Cary Sloane
Mary Jackson as Aunt Edna
Tom Pedi as Joe
Geoffrey Lumb as Uncle Robert
Henry Hart
Robert McQueeney
Eric Sinclair
Elinor Randall
Stratton Walling
Synopsis:
A rich playboy realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allowing
the one woman he truly loved to slip out of his grasp. [RF]
4.10 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TENDER AGE
24Feb52
starring
Stella Andrew
Anthony Ross
4.11 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: DUSTY PORTRAIT
09Mar52
written by Sumner Locke Elliott
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
John Newland
Audra Lindley
Rita Vale
John McLiam
Elizabeth Eustis
Victor Beecroft
Anita Bolster
4.12 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BEST LAID SCHEMES
23Mar52
written by Joseph Liss
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Joseph Buloff
Eileen Heckart
Wolfe Barzell
Joe Maross
Andrew Duggan
Elizabeth Watts
4.13 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
05Apr52
starring
Gene Lyons
Arthur Treacher
4.14 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BASKET WEAVER
19Apr52
starring
Robert Keith
Walter Matthau
4.15 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WE WERE CHILDREN
04May52
starring
Polly Rowles
4.16 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A COWBOY FOR CHRIS
18May52
starring
Buster Crabbe
Brandon De Wilde
4.17 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A MAN'S GAME
01Jun52
written by David Swift
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Patricia Benoit
Vinton Hayworth
Synopsis:
A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans,
but signs Evans’s fireball pitching sister instead. [RF]
4.18 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: FLIGHT INTO DARKNESS
15Jun52
starring
Robert Pastene
Alfred Ryder
4.19 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE MONUMENT
29Jun52
written by William Kendall Clarke
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
John Forsythe
E.G. Marshall
Vanessa Brown
4.20 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A LETTER TO MR. PRIEST
13Jul52
starring
Leora Dana
Audra Lindley
Nelson Olmsted
4.21 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BRAT FARRAR
27Jul52
starring
Richard Derr
John Baragrey
John Newland
Robert Pastene
4.22 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE FIVE FATHERS OF PEPI
10Aug52
written by Ira L. Avery
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
José Pérez
James Daly
James Gregory
Lesley Woods
Dino Terranova
Silvio Minciotti
4.23 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THREE SUNDAYS
24Aug52
written by Jane Hinton
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Walter Matthau
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Malcolm Keen
Murray Matheson
Reginald Mason
Frederick Worlock
Dermot McNamara
4.24 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE LAST HOUR
07Sep52
written by Lionel Shapiro
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Maria Riva
Tod Andrews
Marian Seldes
Michael Gorrin
Vinton Hayworth
Anatole Winogradoff
4.25 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: HOLIDAY SONG
14Sep52
written by Paddy Chayefsky
directed by Gordon Duff
producer Fred Coe
starring
Joseph Buloff
Herbert Berghof
Frances Chaney
Dora Weissman
David Opatoshu
David Kerman
Werner Klemperer
Irja Jensen
Martin Green
Ann Dere
Synopsis:
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. [RF]
######### Philco Television
Playhouse ########
############### end of season 4 ##############
##############################################
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