| Series: | The Philco Television Playhouse |
| Season: | 4 |
| Episode: | 15 |
| Director: | Gordon Duff |
| Producer: | Fred Coe |
| Length: | 60 mins |
"We Were Children" is a 1952 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It originally aired as an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse produced by Fred Coe.
It focused on the influence of childhood on adult development.[1]
Variety called it "well constructed" and "artfully presented".[2]
A brother embezzles from the family business.
The play was adapted for Australian radio in 1954. Muriel Steinbeck starred.[3]
A reviewer for The Daily Telegraph said "Reviewing a long and de pressing acquaintance with the radio works of Mr. Locke-Elliott, I can not recall more than one instance when he has displayed either the authority or the imagination of even a second-rate playwright. We Were Children fairly Iechoed with the cantankerous whining of frustrated American womanhood, and the occasional disconsolate barking of a tired American businessman.... the dialogue was so constructed as to convey a dreary, indefinable uneasiness among its inmates."[4]