The Philco Television Playhouse Season 8, Episode 8: Christmas 'Til Closing

The Miss America Story

The Philco Corporation and ABC network televised the first live Miss America broadcast on Saturday September 11, 1954. Twenty seven million viewers from coast to coast shared the thrills of the Boardwalk Hall audience as they watched from their own homes as California's Lee Meriwether captured the title for 1955. Bob Russell was the emcee. For the first time, the pageant also featured it's first "Illuminated Night Parade" down the Boardwalk.

60 min

The Outsiders

The work of US engineers in a South American country is disrupted by angry local people.

60 min

A Man is Ten Feet Tall

Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry.

60 min

A Business Proposition

60 min

The Mechanical Heart

A businessman commits an unpardonable breach of ethics in order to keep his business alive.

60 min

One Mummy Too Many

Three crates, one contains a mummy, one a dead body and one an air-conditioning unit that gets shunted around with utter confusion.

60 min

The Trees

A little girl returns from a fresh air camp to her slum district home and brings a sapling with her. The tree is planted in the parking. Ridicule of the family's efforts to keep it alive comes from all sources. Angered, the father sets out to get more trees planted, trouble brews.

60 min

Rise Up and Walk

A polio victim's battle to conquer polio is a potent weapon for recovery.

60 min

This Land is Mine

60 min

The Starlet

60 min

Kyria Katina

The life of a widow is likely to change the day a gentleman suitor proposes to her. For the better?

60 min