Season 7
The Philco Television Playhouse
28 EPISODES • 1954
Season 7 of The Philco Television Playhouse was released on September 19 and consists of 28 episodes.

Season 6

Episodes

1: Middle of the Night
Sep 19, 1954
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
2: Time Bomb
Oct 3, 1954
A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.
3: Man on the Mountaintop
Oct 17, 1954
Horace Mann Borden is an adult former child prodigy who has been exploited by his father to advance his own theories about education. Horace feels that people view him as a freak and expect things out of him. Horace shuts out the world. Greta Blake is the woman who has fallen in love with Horace and shows him that the world is not out to get him.
4: Time of Delivery
Oct 31, 1954
A 24-hour delay in mail delivery violently changes three lives. A postman collapses on his daily route and the delivery of his sack of mail is delayed for a day. In three dramatic situations which develop,
5: Crime Without Motive
Nov 14, 1954
The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.
6: Beg, Borrow or Steal
Nov 28, 1954
The story of a man who embezzles $18,000 from an estate in order to live up to the standards he likes and of the trap he finds himself in when another lawyer takes over the estate.
7: Catch My Boy on Sunday
Dec 12, 1954
A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.
8: Run, Girl, Run
Dec 26, 1954
An aspiring young actress loses her big chance on Broadway and returns home. Her mother shows why she may have failed and inspires her to try again.
9: Walk Into the Night
Jan 9, 1955
A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.
10: Anatomy of Fear
Jan 23, 1955
A man is implicated in a murder while vacationing with his wife at a summer resort. The man recognizes a murdered woman as the one in love with his business partner. He hides her purse in order to delay identification but his wife threatens to expose him,
11: A Sense of Justice
Feb 6, 1955
A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
12: The Assassin
Feb 20, 1955
The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.
13: Play Me Hearts and Flowers
Mar 6, 1955
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, and that somehow he must reassert his individuality.
14: Shadow of the Champ
Mar 20, 1955
A lonely woman feels she has one last shot at romance with a man who's content with being a flunky to a boxing champion.
15: Watch Me Die
Apr 3, 1955
He can't simply divorce his wife to marry a young starlet since he wants her money, too. So he begins his search for the ideal way to kill his unsuspecting spouse.
16: The Bold and the Brave
Apr 17, 1955
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.
17: Letter of Recommendation
May 1, 1955
A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.
18: The Pardon-Me Boy
May 15, 1955
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.
19: The Ghost Writer
May 29, 1955
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. However, the actor and his ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred of her father to their advantage.
20: Total Recall
Jun 12, 1955
A man who's stopped before committing suicide says he can remember nothing of his past. A police check reveals that he has a wife.
21: Black Frost
Jun 26, 1955
A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.
22: Incident in July
Jul 10, 1955
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 rumour 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 later re-hires them on the condition that she not mention...
23: The Death of Billy the Kid
Jul 24, 1955
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
24: A Room in Paris
Aug 7, 1955
An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.
25: Gretel
Aug 21, 1955
Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.
26: The Miss America Story
Sep 4, 1955
27: The Outsiders
Sep 18, 1955
28: A Man is Ten Feet Tall
Oct 2, 1955
An AWOL soldier befriends a black waterfront worker, and together they battle hatred and oppression.
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