The Philco Television Playhouse S04E12 · The Best Laid Schemes

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Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.

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1. 1 1. Marcia Akers1951-10-21 · 1h 0mA young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladder and stepping on people along the way. She's set to marry a wealthy man--just what's always wanted--wh
2. 2 2. The Education of a Fullback1951-11-04 · 1h 0mA comedy on the foibles of campus activities about a professor who can't understand why a football hero shouldn't be given an unsatisfactory grade especially when he slept thru the
3. 3 3. A Little Night Music1951-11-18 · 1h 0mElizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.
4. 4 4. Incident at Golden's Creek1951-12-02 · 1h 0mAn Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.
5. 5 5. Perspective1951-12-16 · 1h 0mThe play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.
6. 6 6. The Sisters1951-12-30 · 1h 0mThe lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.
7. 7 7. Without Fear or Favor1952-01-13 · 1h 0mModern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, where the New York Times crusades against the crooks in City Ha
8. 8 8. Segment1952-01-27 · 1h 0mDuring a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. The wife nagging pushes the man over the edge and he is determ
9. 9 9. Rich Boy1952-02-10 · 1h 0mThis well-received adaptation of the 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story starred Gene Lyons as rich playboy Anson Hunter, who realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allo
10. 10 10. Tender Age1952-02-24 · 1h 0mThe tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.
11. 11 11. Dusty Portrait1952-03-09 · 1h 0mA tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.
12. 12 12. The Best Laid Schemes1952-03-23 · 1h 0mBoy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.
13. 13 13. The Room Next Door1952-04-05 · 1h 0mA social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined daughter. She however prefers an unstable piano player over an established member of the tea and crumpe
14. 14 14. The Basket Weaver1952-04-19 · 1h 0mThe story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased by a personal crisis.
15. 15 15. We Were Children1952-05-04 · 1h 0mA close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.
16. 16 16. A Cowboy for Chris1952-05-18 · 1h 0mA little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.
17. 17 17. A Man's Game1952-06-01 · 1h 0mA big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.
18. 18 18. Flight into Darkness1952-06-15 · 1h 0mA psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is going insane and later that his brother, a doctor is going to murder him.
19. 19 19. The Monument1952-06-29 · 1h 0mA reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.
20. 20 20. A Letter to Mr. Priest1952-07-13 · 1h 0mThe camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.
21. 21 21. Bratt Farrar1952-07-27 · 1h 0mNo Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13.
22. 22 22. The Five Fathers of Pepi1952-08-10 · 1h 0mA young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American couple who will adopt Pepi and give him a proper upbringing. W
23. 23 23. Three Sundays1952-08-24 · 1h 0mA criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for creating the affair and absolves the dead man.
24. 24 24. The Last Hour1952-09-07 · 1h 0mA woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.
25. 25 25. Holiday Song1952-09-14 · 1h 0mThe 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 giv