The Philco Television Playhouse
Season 8 Episode 1 - The Miss America Story
6.3 ?
1948
Drama
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.
Episodes in Season 8
1
The Miss America Story
60 min
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2
The Outsiders
60 min
3
A Man is Ten Feet Tall
60 min
4
A Business Proposition
60 min
5
The Mechanical Heart
60 min
6
One Mummy Too Many
60 min
7
The Trees
60 min
8
Christmas 'Til Closing
60 min
9
Rise Up and Walk
60 min
10
This Land is Mine
60 min
11
The Starlet
60 min
12
Kyria Katina
60 min
