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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

39 Episodes 1950 - 1951

Episode 1

You Can't Take It with You

Fri, Oct 6, 195060 mins

A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

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Episode 2

The Canton Story

Fri, Oct 13, 1950

The editor of the Canton (Ohio) Daily News wages war on organized crime. He considers it his duty to expose wrong-doing, but worries for the safety of his family.

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Episode 3

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Fri, Oct 20, 1950

Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.

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Episode 4

The Late Christopher Bean

Fri, Oct 27, 195060 mins

The Haggett family hosted the tubercular Mr. Bean for fifteen years. They now use his paintings to patch their ceiling. It's pointed out the art is now valuable and the Haggetts try to claim it from his widow Gwinny.

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Episode 5

The Magnificent Ambersons

Fri, Nov 3, 1950

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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Episode 6

The Raven

Fri, Nov 10, 1950

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Episode 7

Knickerbocker Holiday

Fri, Nov 17, 1950

It's 1650 in New Amsterdam, and Brom Broeck, a young outspoken newspaper publisher is arrested for printing advanced opinions on the undemocratic rule of Govenor "Peg-Leg" Stuyvesant. While Brom is in prison, old "Peg-Leg" goes on the make for Brom's sweetheart. But, when "Peg-Leg" is forced to release Brom... Watch-out!

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Episode 8

The End Game

Fri, Nov 24, 1950

A rigid colonel wants his two sons to go to West Point. One son is just like his father; the other also wants a life on the side. Conflict develops when the father orders his son to drop his girlfriend and concentrate only on the military.

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Episode 9

Our Town

Fri, Dec 1, 1950

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.

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Episode 10

The Ponzi Story

Fri, Dec 8, 1950

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Episode 11

Bethel Merriday

Fri, Dec 15, 1950

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Episode 12

The Pharmacist's Mate

Fri, Dec 22, 195060 mins

While on patrol in enemy waters, a pharmacist's mate with no surgical training must perform an emergency appendectomy with no surgical instruments.

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Episode 13

Mrs. January and Mr. Ex

Fri, Dec 29, 1950

In this romantic comedy, the titular Mrs. January, while fabulously wealthy, is a Communist at heart. Sensing that the Revolution is looming, Mrs. January relocates to a small New England town to pose as an impoverished woman in preparation for the triumph of the Proletariat. As luck would have it, her landlord turns out to be a widowed Republican former president.

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Episode 14

Portrait of a President

Fri, Jan 5, 195160 mins

Focus is on Andrew Jackson's presidential campaign and his stand against the United States Bank for its refusal to make credit accessible to more citizens.

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Episode 15

Ned McCobb's Daughter

Fri, Jan 12, 1951

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Episode 16

Light Up the Sky

Fri, Jan 19, 195130 mins

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Episode 17

The Silver Cord

Fri, Jan 26, 1951

A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.

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Episode 18

Alison's House

Fri, Feb 2, 1951

The house of Alison Stanhope, the country's foremost poet who's been dead for 18 years, must now be sold. But it may hold secrets that could harm those she loved. Based upon Susan Glaspell's Pulitzer Prize winning play inspired by the life of Emily Dickinson.

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Episode 19

Broken Dishes

Fri, Feb 9, 1951

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Episode 20

Mary of Scotland

Fri, Feb 16, 195160 mins

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

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Episode 21

Valley Forge

Fri, Feb 23, 1951

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Episode 22

The Wisdom Tooth

Fri, Mar 2, 1951

A clerk fantasizes himself as a young freckled faced vital boy unlike his present persona, a pale and pulseless man and has the boy in him stir to life the courage to tell his boss off and ask his girl to marry him.

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Episode 23

The Haunted House

Fri, Mar 9, 1951

Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.

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Episode 24

The Royal Family

Fri, Mar 16, 1951

George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber collaborated on this 1927 hit comedy about an eminent and slightly eccentric theatrical clan. A Barrymore-like brood, the Cavendishes are as flamboyant offstage as they are on. Their real-life family drama occurs in a Manhattan apartment when the grand matriarch, Fanny Cavendish, learns that her daughter and granddaughter may both be giving up the stage for marriage. Theatre legends Rosemary Harris, Eva LeGallienne, Sam Levene and Ellis Rabb have great fun portraying characters they know all too well from their years on stage.

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Episode 25

Blockade

Fri, Mar 23, 1951

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Episode 26

The Just and the Unjust

Fri, Mar 30, 1951

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Episode 27

Night Over Taos

Fri, Apr 6, 1951

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Episode 28

Icebound

Fri, Apr 13, 1951

A hired girl becomes the salvation of the black sheep in a family when she is willed a fortune.

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Episode 29

Rebellion in Jackson County

Fri, Apr 20, 1951

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Episode 30

Second Threshold

Fri, Apr 27, 1951

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Episode 31

The Happy Journey

Fri, May 4, 195160 mins

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Episode 32

The Thousand Yard Look

Fri, May 11, 1951

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Episode 33

The Queen's Husband

Fri, May 18, 1951

A king outwits his domineering wife while dealing with a son who wants the throne and a daughter who's marrying a peasant plumber.

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Episode 34

The Stolen City

Fri, May 25, 1951

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Episode 35

Detour

Fri, Jun 1, 195160 mins

Helen Hardy has toiled for twenty years by her husband's side on their farm. She holds out hope for a brighter future. When she gives birth to a daughter, she is determined that the child will have all the things she had done without.

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Episode 36

Hostage

Fri, Jun 8, 1951

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Episode 37

The Buccaneer

Fri, Jun 15, 1951

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Episode 38

(a) The Pen, (b) You're Not the Type, (c) The Weak Spot

Fri, Jun 22, 1951

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Episode 39

The Big Break

Fri, Jun 29, 1951

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