Kraft Television Theatre

1. Double Door

Air Date: 1947-05-07

2. Merton of the Movies

Air Date: 1947-05-14

3. The Doctor in Spite of Himself

Air Date: 1947-05-21

4. Her Master's Voice

Air Date: 1947-05-28

5. The Barker

Air Date: 1947-06-04

6. There's Always Juliet

Air Date: 1947-06-11

7. The Doll's House

Air Date: 1947-06-18

8. I Like It Here

Air Date: 1947-06-25

9. You and I

Air Date: 1947-07-02

10. To the Ladies

Air Date: 1947-07-09

11. Consider Lily

Air Date: 1947-07-16

12. Papa Is All

Air Date: 1947-07-23

13. Interference

Air Date: 1947-07-30

14. The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife

Air Date: 1947-08-06

15. Laburnum Grove

Air Date: 1947-08-13

16. The First Year

Air Date: 1947-08-20

17. Yes and No

Air Date: 1947-08-27

18. Mr. Pim Passes By

Air Date: 1947-09-03

19. Craig's Wife

Air Date: 1947-09-10

20. Murder Without Crime

Air Date: 1947-09-17

21. Suspect

Air Date: 1947-09-24

22. Payment Deferred

Air Date: 1947-10-01

23. January Thaw

Air Date: 1947-10-08

24. Therese

Air Date: 1947-10-15

25. The Man Who Changed His Name

Air Date: 1947-10-22

26. Blind Alley

Air Date: 1947-10-29

27. On Stage

Air Date: 1947-11-05

28. Ladies in Retirement

Air Date: 1947-11-12

29. But Not Goodbye

Air Date: 1947-11-19

30. The Curtain Rises

Air Date: 1947-11-26

31. Parlor Day

Air Date: 1947-12-03

32. The Importance of Being Earnest

Air Date: 1947-12-10

33. Holiday

Air Date: 1947-12-17

34. Reverie/The Desert Shall Rejoice

Air Date: 1947-12-24

35. Respectfully Yours

Air Date: 1947-12-31

36. The Truth About Bladys

Air Date: 1948-01-07

37. Alternating Current

Air Date: 1948-01-14

38. Only the Heart

Air Date: 1948-01-21

39. The Criminal Code

Air Date: 1948-01-28

40. Outward Bound

Air Date: 1948-02-04

41. Spring Green

Air Date: 1948-02-11

42. Apple of His Eye

Air Date: 1948-02-18

43. Alison's House

Air Date: 1948-02-25

44. Counselor-at-Law

Air Date: 1948-03-03

45. The Wind is Ninety

Air Date: 1948-03-10

46. No Way Out

Air Date: 1948-03-17

47. Captain Applejack

Air Date: 1948-03-24

48. She Stoops to Conquer

Air Date: 1948-03-31

49. June Moon

Air Date: 1948-04-07

50. Barchester Towers

Air Date: 1948-04-14

51. The Silver Cord

Air Date: 1948-04-21

52. Louder Please!

Air Date: 1948-04-28

53. The Royal Family

Air Date: 1948-05-05

54. Broken Dishes

Air Date: 1948-05-12

55. Mr. Minick

Air Date: 1948-05-19

56. Riddle Me This

Air Date: 1948-05-26

57. The Torchbearers

Air Date: 1948-06-02

58. The Fourth Wall

Air Date: 1948-06-09

59. Applesauce

Air Date: 1948-06-16

60. Foolish Notion

Air Date: 1948-06-30

61. The Show-Off

Air Date: 1948-07-07

62. Berkeley Square

Air Date: 1948-07-21

63. Green Cars Go East

Air Date: 1948-07-28

64. Theatre

Air Date: 1948-08-04

65. The Tenth Man

Air Date: 1948-08-11

66. The White-Haired Boy

Air Date: 1948-08-18

67. Poor Aubrey

Air Date: 1948-08-25

68. Icebound

Air Date: 1948-09-01

69. Poor Little Me

Air Date: 1948-09-08

70. Lady Frederick

Air Date: 1948-09-15

1. Her Husband's Wife

Air Date: 1948-09-22

2. Great Day

Air Date: 1948-09-29

3. Suppressed Desires

Air Date: 1948-10-06

4. The Truth Game

Air Date: 1948-10-13

5. Criminal at Large

Air Date: 1948-10-20

6. Biography

Air Date: 1948-10-27

7. Old Lady Robbins

Air Date: 1948-11-03

8. The Detour

Air Date: 1948-11-10

9. The Ivory Door

Air Date: 1948-11-17

10. Wuthering Heights

Air Date: 1948-11-24

11. The Dover Road

Air Date: 1948-12-01

12. The Flashing Stream

Air Date: 1948-12-08

13. The Old Soak

Air Date: 1948-12-15

14. Hansel and Gretel

Air Date: 1948-12-22

1. The Man in Half Moon Street

Air Date: 1949-09-21

46. January Thaw

Air Date: 1950-08-02

28. Yours Truly

Air Date: 1951-04-04

A young actress has three suitors and must choose one from the crowed field.

36. Ben Franklin

Air Date: 1951-05-30

This comedy tells the story of the ambassador Benjamin Franklin's visit to Paris from 1776 to 1777.

43. Zone Four

Air Date: 1951-07-18

A college professor becomes involved in matters of naval intelligence.

10. Never Be the Same

Air Date: 1951-11-14

14. The Golden Slate

Air Date: 1951-12-12

30. That Ryan Girl

Air Date: 1952-04-02

A woman, known as the nightclub entertainer "That Ryan Girl" is forced to choose between her husband and her son. The father plans to trade on their reputations to clear himself of a murder rap.

34. The Man in Half Moon Street

Air Date: 1952-04-30

46. The Music Master

Air Date: 1952-07-30

1. Michael and Mary

Air Date: 1952-10-01

2. The New Tenant

Air Date: 1952-10-08

3. A Kiss for Cinderella

Air Date: 1952-10-15

4. A Long Night in Forty Miles

Air Date: 1952-10-22

5. The Divine Drudge

Air Date: 1952-10-29

6. Melody Jones

Air Date: 1952-11-05

7. Hilda McKay

Air Date: 1952-11-12

8. The Quiet Wedding

Air Date: 1952-11-19

9. Mr. Lazarus

Air Date: 1952-11-26

10. The Iron Gate

Air Date: 1952-12-03

11. The Intimate Strangers

Air Date: 1952-12-10

12. The Guest

Air Date: 1952-12-17

13. A Christmas Carol

Air Date: 1952-12-24

14. The Paper Moon

Air Date: 1952-12-31

16. Zone Four

Air Date: 1953-01-14

A former naval intelligence officer, now a college professor, is offered a job by a group of European socialists. He is forced to confront the changes in life since the start of the Cold War.

21. Snooksie

Air Date: 1953-02-18

31. Hoodlums with a Halo

Air Date: 1953-04-29

35. The Twilight Rounds

Air Date: 1953-05-27

1. Quite a Guy

Air Date: 1953-09-02

2. Double in Ivory

Air Date: 1953-09-09

3. Her Father's Butler

Air Date: 1953-09-16

4. Corinth House

Air Date: 1953-09-23

5. Lobblies Never Lie

Air Date: 1953-09-30

6. Cap'n Jonas

Air Date: 1953-10-07

7. Keep Our Honor Bright

Air Date: 1953-10-14

8. The Picket Fence

Air Date: 1953-10-21

9. The Threshold

Air Date: 1953-10-28

28. The Picture Window

Air Date: 1954-03-10

33. The People Next Door

Air Date: 1954-04-14

50. Charm Bracelet

Air Date: 1954-08-11

1. A Simple Matter

Air Date: 1954-09-29

4. The Luck of Roaring Camp

Air Date: 1954-10-20

9. Emma

Air Date: 1954-11-24

Emma's a beautiful, intelligent heiress who cares for her elderly father. In desperate need of diversion, she involves herself in the romances and dalliances of her friends.

11. Career

Air Date: 1954-12-08

16. Patterns

Air Date: 1955-01-12

Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.

17. The Written Word

Air Date: 1955-01-19

19. The Skin Game

Air Date: 1955-02-02

20. Patterns (2nd Version)

Air Date: 1955-02-09

The original presentation received such extensive praise, the same production crew and cast were hired for a highly unusual repeat live performance, thus becoming the first live drama in television history to be broadcast twice due to popularity. Both shows were performed and broadcast live. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.

22. The Emperor Jones

Air Date: 1955-02-23

25. The Story of Mary Surratt

Air Date: 1955-03-25

30. Gramercy Ghost

Air Date: 1955-04-20

31. A Seacoast in Bohemia

Air Date: 1955-04-27

32. Flowers for 2-B

Air Date: 1955-05-04

33. Judge Contain's Hotel

Air Date: 1955-05-11

34. The Braveness of Christy Fellon

Air Date: 1955-05-18

35. Million Dollar Rookie

Air Date: 1955-05-25

36. A Woman for Tony

Air Date: 1955-06-01

40. The Mob

Air Date: 1955-06-29

44. Spur of the Moment

Air Date: 1955-08-03

1. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Air Date: 1955-09-28

2. The Beautiful Time

Air Date: 1955-10-05

3. Trucks Welcome

Air Date: 1955-10-12

4. I, Mrs. Bibb

Air Date: 1955-10-19

Despite having no political aspirations or experience, Mrs. Bibb is asked to fill the seat of her deceased husband. Aiding her is her husband's assistant, Ned, who is engaged to the Bibbs' daughter. Events take an ugly turn when it Ned is suspected of having taken a bribe from a contractor.

5. One

Air Date: 1955-10-26

6. Number Four with Flowers

Air Date: 1955-11-02

7. The Ticket and the Tempest

Air Date: 1955-11-09

A delicatessen owner who buys an Irish Sweepstakes ticket in a friend's name. When it wins $28,000, trouble abounds for the poor man.

8. Summer's End

Air Date: 1955-11-16

9. Day of Judgment

Air Date: 1955-11-23

10. Once a Genius

Air Date: 1955-11-30

11. Lady Ruth

Air Date: 1955-12-07

12. A Nugget from the Sunrise

Air Date: 1955-12-14

13. A Christmas Dinner

Air Date: 1955-12-21

14. Eleven O'Clock Flight

Air Date: 1955-12-28

15. The Thieving Magpie

Air Date: 1956-01-04

16. The Sears Girl

Air Date: 1956-01-11

17. The Devil as a Roaring Lion

Air Date: 1956-01-18

18. Home Is the Hero

Air Date: 1956-01-25

A man who in a drunken rage killed a neighbor is released from prison after serving five years. Paddo returns home and takes out his rage on his friends and family members. His son Willie stands up to the brute and proves that Paddo is neither needed nor wanted by the family.

19. Five Minutes to Live

Air Date: 1956-02-01

20. Good Old Charlie Faye

Air Date: 1956-02-08

21. The Man on Roller Skates

Air Date: 1956-02-15

22. Snapfinger Creek

Air Date: 1956-02-22

23. Bobbie

Air Date: 1956-02-29

24. The Fool Killer

Air Date: 1956-03-07

25. The Lost Weekend

Air Date: 1956-03-21

26. A Night to Remember

Air Date: 1956-03-28

27. Paper Foxhole

Air Date: 1956-04-04

28. The Last Showdown

Air Date: 1956-04-11

29. No Riders

Air Date: 1956-04-18

30. The Gentle Grafter

Air Date: 1956-04-25

Jeff Peters uses his personal magnetism to fleece the mayor of a hick town, run a shady matrimonial agency and establish a monopoly on the rot-gut whiskey business. Peters is joined in these schemes by a right-hand man and a beautiful widow. The trio thinks that they are unstoppable until they meet up with a former master of the con game.

31. A Night to Remember

Air Date: 1956-05-02

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

32. Death Is a Spanish Dancer

Air Date: 1956-05-09

33. A Profile in Courage

Air Date: 1956-05-16

34. Bedroom Twelve on the Appalachian Waterfall

Air Date: 1956-05-23

35. Box 704

Air Date: 1956-05-30

36. The Night of May Third

Air Date: 1956-06-06

37. Boy in a Cage

Air Date: 1956-06-13

38. Flying Object at Three O'Clock High

Air Date: 1956-06-20

39. Starfish

Air Date: 1956-06-27

40. Tear Open the Skies

Air Date: 1956-07-04

41. Long Arm

Air Date: 1956-07-11

42. Babies for Sale

Air Date: 1956-07-18

43. Prairie Night

Air Date: 1956-07-25

44. One Way West

Air Date: 1956-08-01

45. Anna Santonello

Air Date: 1956-08-08

46. The Magic Box

Air Date: 1956-08-15

47. The Girls Who Saw Too Much

Air Date: 1956-08-29

48. Mock Trial

Air Date: 1956-09-05

As part of its law school training, a college stages mock trials for students to gain experience. One of its mock trials turns real when the city's mayor is put on the stand and the misuse of taxpayers' money is revealed.

49. Shadow of Evil

Air Date: 1956-09-12

1. Out to Kill

Air Date: 1956-09-19

2. The Plunge

Air Date: 1956-09-26

Al Kendall has climbed from delivery boy to ownership of a dress manufacturing plant. Now facing bankruptcy, he hires an arsonist to burn the plant down so he can collect the insurance. When the building goes up in flames, a man is unexpectedly killed, leaving Kendall facing a murder charge.

4. Murder of a Sand Flea

Air Date: 1956-10-10

A young Marine recruit undergoes rigorous combat training at a Marine boot camp.

10. The Day of the Hunter

Air Date: 1956-11-21

15. The Just and the Unjust

Air Date: 1956-12-26

A young lawyer is urged by the local political boss to run for the district attorney's office. Wanting to fight for justice, he debates accepting the politician's support. Though he despises the boss' methods, he feels he can accomplish much good with the man's endorsement.

18. No Warning

Air Date: 1957-01-16

21. The Discoverers

Air Date: 1957-02-06

24. A Traveler from Brussels

Air Date: 1957-02-27

An American salesman who is about to return home from Brussels after an unsuccessful business trip is offered $10,000 to smuggle diamonds to the U.S. He agrees and promptly has the gems stolen. He then frantically goes in search of the thief.

26. Collision

Air Date: 1957-03-13

27. Night of the Plague

Air Date: 1957-03-20

A British pathologist conducts an autopsy on a corpse to discover the cause of death. He's shocked to discover that the unidentified man died of the bubonic plague. Scotland Yard is very interested, as are a couple of foreign agents.

33. Flesh and Blood

Air Date: 1957-05-08

34. The Glass Wall

Air Date: 1957-05-15

A woman who has been away for years recovering from a mental illness returns to find her life quite different. She comes home to a daughter who does not remember her and a husband who has since remarried.

37. The Roaring Twentieth

Air Date: 1957-06-05

A mousy bank clerk whose hobby is collecting guppies attends his 20th anniversary college reunion. He assumes an outgoing persona for the occasion and impresses the alumni with his gregarious ways.

42. The First and the Last

Air Date: 1957-07-10

43. The Big Break

Air Date: 1957-07-17

48. Ride into Danger

Air Date: 1957-08-27

Four dangerous desperadoes are heading into a peaceful Western town. The young sheriff gets no support from the merchants who fear a shoot-out will ruin the town's reputation or the locals who are simply afraid. He's left with just his gun and sense of duty to take on the deadly quartet.

52. The Killer Instinct

Air Date: 1957-09-18

A decorated ex GI fears that he is the victim of the "killer instinct" when he shoots a fleeing bandit. Does this stem from an evil instinct or from a sense of justice? Another violent crisis, however, proves his anxiety unfounded.

1. Vengeance

Air Date: 1957-09-25

2. Barefoot Soldier

Air Date: 1957-10-02

3. Smart Boy

Air Date: 1957-10-09

4. A Cook for Mr. General

Air Date: 1957-10-16

5. Man in a Trance

Air Date: 1957-10-23

10. Come to Me

Air Date: 1957-12-04

13. The Story of the Other Wise Man

Air Date: 1957-12-25

14. The Battle for Wednesday Night

Air Date: 1958-01-01

15. The Velvet Trap

Air Date: 1958-01-08

17. Eddie

Air Date: 1958-01-22

A well-liked policeman dreams that he will have a shoot-out with a criminal on a specific day. While walking his beat on that night, he encounters the thug of his dreams.

19. The Spell of the Tigress

Air Date: 1958-02-05

20. Material Witness

Air Date: 1958-02-19

An average citizen witnesses a murder. His family then faces intimidation from the killer.

22. Dog in a Bush Tunnel

Air Date: 1958-03-05

25. Angry Angel

Air Date: 1958-03-26

26. The Man in Authority

Air Date: 1958-04-02

27. Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: Moony's Kid Don't Cry/The Last of My Solid Gold Watches/This Property Is Condemned

Air Date: 1958-04-16

29. Fifty Grand

Air Date: 1958-04-30

31. All the King's Men: Part 1

Air Date: 1958-05-14

The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.

32. All the King's Men: Part 2

Air Date: 1958-05-21

38. Next Door to Death

Air Date: 1958-07-02

42. Death Wears Many Faces

Air Date: 1958-07-30

Two college students hitching their way back to school. A fierce storm arises, and they take shelter in a local farmer's barn. The next day on the radio they hear that the daughter of the farmer who gave them shelter has been murdered, and the boys are shocked to hear that a description of the killers matches them perfectly.

44. Night Cry

Air Date: 1958-08-13

48. Trick or Treat

Air Date: 1958-09-10

49. A Cup of Kindness

Air Date: 1958-09-17

50. Riddle of a Lady

Air Date: 1958-09-24

51. Presumption of Innocence

Air Date: 1958-10-01