When I worked in a repair shop in the early 80s, Philcos were considered (by us anyway) to be bottom-tier junk, along with Sylvanias and Magnavoxes of the era. Note that we sold Zenith and Quasar so those were mortal enemies. We weren't a "Philco town" so didn't see that many of them for service, but they did come in occasionally.
That said, Shango has a
video of a Philco color set that he pulled out of a dump somewhere and I remember being surprised at the level and quality of engineering that went into it. This was back in a day when other brands were selling hybrids still, and this thing was a fully modular chassis and had a pretty advanced switching power supply and SCRs in the horizontal section.