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Screen cap from opening credits (season five)
form y separately published work icon The Philco Television Playhouse series - publisher   film/TV  
Alternative title: The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
Issue Details: First known date: 1948... 1948 The Philco Television Playhouse
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An American anthology television series, sometimes credited with launching the television writing careers of American writers such as Gore Vidal, and of Australian writer Sumner Locke Elliott.

The Philco Television Playhouse shared a timeslot with the Goodyear Television Playhouse after Goodyear started sharing sponsorship of the existing Philco program in 1951.

The separation between the two is largely cosmetic, but for purposes of classification, the serials that ran under each banner are usually listed separately.

Notes

  • The show was sponsored initially by Philco and, from 1951, by Philco and Goodyear, hence the fluctuations in title.

Includes

4.11
form y separately published work icon Dusty Portrait Sumner Locke Elliott , United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1952 6449266 1952 single work film/TV crime mystery

A note in the television guide in the Age describes this story as a 'Dramatisation by Sumner Locke Elliott of the celebrated Maybrick case' (24 April 1953, p.12).

 United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1952
4.15
form y separately published work icon We Were Children Sumner Locke Elliott , United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1952 6450418 1952 single work film/TV

Nothing is known of the plot of this work.

 United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1952
5.01
form y separately published work icon The Thin Air Sumner Locke Elliott , United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1952 6450476 1952 single work film/TV thriller crime

A missing persons thriller.

 United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1952
5.12
form y separately published work icon Elegy Sumner Locke Elliott , Virginia : NBC , 1953 6449477 1953 single work film/TV

Nothing is currently known of the plot of this work.

 Virginia : NBC , 1953
6.03
form y separately published work icon The Girl with the Stopwatch Sumner Locke Elliott , United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1952 6455313 1952 single work film/TV

Nothing is known about the plot of this work.

 United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1952
6.15
form y separately published work icon The King and Mrs Candle Sumner Locke Elliott , United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1954 6449628 1954 single work film/TV satire

A musical Ruritanian romance.

In the New York Times, the piece is described as 'a play about the exiled king of a mythical country who comes to America and finds romance' (8 June 1955, p.59). Later, the New York Times expanded on this to describe him as 'a deposed king of a frantic country called Brandovia where the inhabitants spent their time exporting bologna and fighting off assaults by their aggressive neighbors, the Carps and the Gloats' (23 August 1955, p.49).

Further Reference:

Adams, Val. 'TV Show to Stage an Original Play', New York Times, 8 June 1955, p.59.

Dunckley, Dorothy. 'Cyril Stars in Lavish TV Show', The Argus, 7 September 1955, p.9.

Hastings, Peter. 'One of Broadway's Top Ten', Australian Women's Weekly, 12 May 1954, p.13.

Shanley, J.P. 'TV: Hail, King Ritchard!', New York Times, 23 August 1955, p.49.

 United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1954
7.02
form y separately published work icon Time Bomb Sumner Locke Elliott , United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1954 6449784 1954 single work film/TV

Nothing is known of the plot of this story.

 United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1954
7.08
form y separately published work icon Run, Girl, Run Sumner Locke Elliott , United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1954 6449839 1954 single work film/TV

Little is known of the plot of this work, but a television guide from the day of its first airing describes it briefly as 'story about an actress' (New York Times, 26 December 1954, p.X13).

 United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1954

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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       NBC ,       1948-1955 .
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      Screen cap from opening credits (season five)
      Extent: Seven seasonsp.
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Related Works

form y separately published work icon Goodyear Television Playhouse United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1951-1957 6450621 1951 series - publisher film/TV

American anthology television series.

The Goodyear Television Playhouse shared a timeslot with the Philco Television Playhouse: the two ran on alternate weeks, although the former only began running when Goodyear started sharing sponsorship of the existing Philco program in 1951.

The separation between the two is largely cosmetic, but for purposes of classification, the serials that ran under each banner are usually listed separately.
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