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Season
7 (NBC) (1954-55)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Tom Alger, Rina Fox
references:
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######### Philco Television Playhouse ########
############## season 7 1954-55 ##############
##############################################
NBC Sundays 9:00-10:00pm Eastern -
Alternating with "Goodyear
TV Playhouse"
7.01 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
19Sep54
written by Paddy Chayefsky
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Eva Marie Saint ....... Betty
E.G. Marshall ....... Jerry
Steven Hill ....... George
Peter Mark Richman ...... Jack
Peg Hillias ...... Mrs. Preiss
Betty Lou Keim ...... Phyllis
Ann Shoemaker ...... Millie
Lee Meriwether
Patricia Crowley
Bess Myerson
Anna Berger
7.02 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TIME BOMB
03Oct54
written by Sumner Locke Elliott
starring
John Ireland
Nancy Kelly
7.03 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: MAN ON THE MOUNTAINTOP
17Oct54
starring
Steven Hill
Loretta Leversee
Anne Meara
Peter Mark Richman
Sidney Armus
Gordon B. Clarke
Anthony Ross
7.04 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TIME OF DELIVERY
31Oct54
written by David Shaw
starring
Robert Mulligan
James Broderick
Martin E. Brooks
7.05 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: CRIME WITHOUT MOTIVE
14Nov54
written by Marc Brandel
starring
Burt Brinckerhoff
George Chandler
William Lundmark
Mark Rydell
7.06 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BEG, BORROW OR STEAL
28Nov54
directed by Arthur Penn
starring
Anthony Ross
Bess Myerson
7.07 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: CATCH MY BOY ON SUNDAY
12Dec54
written by Paddy Chayefsky
starring
Sylvia Sidney
7.08 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: RUN, GIRL, RUN
26Dec54
starring
Mary Astor
Lin McCarthy
Lee Meriwether
Ann Shoemaker
Robert F. Simon
Margot Stevenson
7.09 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WALK INTO THE NIGHT
09Jan55
starring
Walter Matthau
Neva Patterson
7.10 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: ANATOMY OF FEAR
23Jan55
written by F.W. Durkee Jr.
directed by Delbert Mann
starring
Rod Steiger
Perry Wilson
Geoffrey Horne
Katherine Marshall
7.11 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A SENSE OF JUSTICE
06Feb55
written by Gore Vidal
starring
E.G. Marshall
John Hudson
Synopsis:
A young man determines to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
[RF]
7.12 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE ASSASSIN
20Feb55
starring
Jacob Ben-Ami
Nehemiah Persoff
Gaby Rodgers
Jo Van Fleet
7.13 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: PLAY ME HEARTS AND FLOWERS
06Mar55
written by David Shaw
directed by Delbert Mann
producer, Gordon Duff
starring
Joey Adams ......... Bill Dix
Johnny Desmond .........Nick Mercer
Luis Van Rooten ......... Harry Shelton
Kay Medford ......... Betty Winston
Ellen Cobb-Hill ......... Phyllis Mercer
Allan Nourse ......... Joe Preger
Milo Boulton ......... Ed Fuller
Synopsis:
A singer who has teamed up with a comedian, realizes that he has become
the comic's 'straight man' both on and off the stage. Somehow,
he must reassert his individuality! [RF]
7.14 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: SHADOW OF THE CHAMP
20Mar55
written by Robert Alan Aurthur
starring
Eli Wallach
Lee Grant
Jack Warden
Tony Canzoneri
Synopsis:
On a transatlantic voyage, the disenchanted sister of a sportswriter, is thrown
together with the boyhood chum and adult hanger-on of the heavyweight champion
of the world, and slowly draws him away from his lifelong shadow-like attachment to the champ.
7.15 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: WATCH ME DIE
03Apr55
written by F.W. Durkee Jr.
starring
John Baragrey
7.16 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE
17Apr55
written by Calder Willingham
starring
John Kerr ......... George Avery
Peter Mark Richman ........ Tinian
Tom Tully ........ Major Avery
Jack Weston ......... Lumpkin
Don Fellows ......... Lanier
Oliver Berg ........ Jack Avery
Nan McFarland ....... Mrs. Avery
Lonnie Chapman ........ Cadet O.D.
Synopsis:
The commander of a military prep school brings near-disaster to himself
and his son, a pupil at the school. He pushes the boy beyond endurance
in his effort to make him a better student than he was. [RF]
Goodyear TV Playhouse: Do It Yourself
24Apr55
7.17 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION
(aka The Governess)
01May55
written by Jerome Ross
starring
Ross Martin
Augusta Dabney
Betty Sue Albert
Maureen Hurley
Miko Oscard
Goodyear TV Playhouse: Visit to a Small Planet
08May55
7.18 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE PARDON-ME BOY
15May55
written by J.P. Miller
starring
Jackie Cooper ........ Bubbo
Peggy Maurer ........ Phyllis
Harry Bellaver ........ Joe
Joanne Roos ........ Mary
Carlos Montalban ........ Saguro
Synopsis:
A young man, held a failure by his father, is a juror in the murder trial of a
gangland boss. When the trial is over the son reveals that he held out
for the acquittal of the defendant. [RF]
Goodyear TV Playhouse: The Catered Affair
22May55
7.19 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE GHOST WRITER
29May55
written by Bernard Wolfe
directed by Jack Smight
starring
Philip Abbott ......... David Lomak
Betsy Palmer ........... Janice Gans
Shepperd Strudwick ......... Lincoln Venner
Bert Freed .......... Al Rago
Nehemiah Persoff ......... Ed Kagan
Margot Stevenson ........... Mary Venner
Chris Gampel .......... Diego
Rod Winchell ........... Harold
Milo Boulton ........... Moderator
Eleanor Baron ....... Mambo girl
Rawn Harding ........ Mambo girl
Synopsis:
The manager of a former actor now running for Congress wants to exploit
the fact that the opposition candidate's daughter is working on their campaign.
But the actor and his ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred
of her father to their advantage. [RF]
Goodyear TV Playhouse: Mr. Dorothy Allen
05Jun55
7.20 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: TOTAL RECALL
12Jun55
written by David Shaw
starring
Robert Ellenstein
Arthur Franz
Loretta Leversee
Lois Wheeler
Goodyear TV Playhouse: End of the Mission
19Jun55
7.21 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: BLACK FROST
26Jun55
written by Steve Hill
starring
Lonny Chapman
Bert Freed
Pat Hingle
Lenka Peterson
Logan Ramsey
Goodyear TV Playhouse: The Prizewinner
03Jul55
7.22 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: INCIDENT IN JULY
(aka Dogwood Blossoms)
10Jul55
producer Gordon Duff
written by Calder Willingham
directed by Jack Smight
starring
Dick York ....... Andy
Charles Dingle ....... Daddy Tom
Peggy Maurer ........ Madeleine
Maureen Stapleton .......... Mrs. Johnson
Will West ........ Ham Ector
Ethel Remey ........ Mrs. Mulberry
Fred Eisley ........ Jimmy
Allen Nourse ...... Mr. Johnson
Synopsis:
Daddy Tom, the camp director, is upset when he learns through the grapevine
that one of his counselors, Mrs. Johnson, is infatuated with his 19-year-old
office worker, Andy, and that she wants to give him $1,100 for his education.
The first part of the rumor is not true, but the second part is. She is unable to have
children and thinks this is a constructive way to use the money they saved for a child.
She and her husband squabble over this. Andy's parents are dead. Daddy Tom
fires both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. He re-hires them on the condition she not mention
the money until the last day of camp. She does wait, but Andy wants to work his way
through college. She is reconciled with Mr. Johnson, and they decide to adopt a child. [RF]
Goodyear TV Playhouse: Man on Spikes
17Jul55
7.23 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: THE DEATH OF BILLY THE KID
24Jul55
written by Gore Vidal
starring
Paul Newman ........ Billy the Kid
Jason Robards
Michael Conrad
Frank Overton
Michael Strong
Goodyear TV Playhouse: Tangled Web
31Jul55
7.24 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: A ROOM IN PARIS
07Aug55
starring
John Cassavetes
Kathleen Maguire
Al Markim
Goodyear TV Playhouse: The Takers
14Aug55
7.25 [--] Philco Television Playhouse: GRETEL
21Aug55
written by Vance Bourjaily
starring
Geoffrey Horne
Edmon Ryan
Eva Stern
######### Philco Television
Playhouse ########
############### end of season 7 ##############
##############################################
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