Kraft Television Theatre

S04 E13 · 1950-12-20 · 60 min

The Village Green

Judge Homer Peabody's quiet life in small-town New Hampshire, punctuated only by failed Senate runs, is disrupted when a provocative mural at city hall incites local outrage. Peabody defends the artist against the town's disapproval.

S04 E18 · 1951-01-24

The Spring Green

S04 E28 · 1951-04-04

Yours Truly

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

S04 E36 · 1951-05-30 · 60 min

Ben Franklin

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

S04 E43 · 1951-07-18

Zone Four

A college professor becomes involved in matters of naval intelligence.

S05 E04 · 1951-10-03

Irish Eyes

S05 E10 · 1951-11-14

Never Be the Same

S05 E14 · 1951-12-12

The Golden Slate

S05 E30 · 1952-04-02

That Ryan Girl

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.

S05 E34 · 1952-04-30

The Man in Half Moon Street

S05 E46 · 1952-07-30

The Music Master

S06 E01 · 1952-10-01

Michael and Mary

S06 E02 · 1952-10-08

The New Tenant

S06 E03 · 1952-10-15

A Kiss for Cinderella

S06 E04 · 1952-10-22

A Long Night in Forty Miles

S06 E05 · 1952-10-29

The Divine Drudge

S06 E06 · 1952-11-05

Melody Jones

S06 E07 · 1952-11-12

Hilda McKay

S06 E08 · 1952-11-19

The Quiet Wedding

S06 E09 · 1952-11-26

Mr. Lazarus

S06 E10 · 1952-12-03

The Iron Gate

S06 E11 · 1952-12-10

The Intimate Strangers

S06 E12 · 1952-12-17

The Guest

S06 E13 · 1952-12-24

A Christmas Carol

S06 E14 · 1952-12-31

The Paper Moon

S06 E16 · 1953-01-14

Zone Four

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.

S06 E21 · 1953-02-18

Snooksie

S06 E31 · 1953-04-29

Hoodlums with a Halo

S06 E35 · 1953-05-27

The Twilight Rounds

S06 E44 · 1953-08-05

Old Macdonald Had a Curve

67-year-old ex-major league player "Lefty" MacDonald regales fellow residents at the rest home with stories of his glory days in baseball. After injuring his arm throwing a horseshoe, "Lefty" finds he can now throw a freakish curve ball. He approaches the manager of his old team, the floundering Brooklyn Dodgers. The team is doing so poorly, the manager gives the old timer a spot on the roster.

S07 E01 · 1953-09-02

Quite a Guy

S07 E02 · 1953-09-09

Double in Ivory

S07 E03 · 1953-09-16

Her Father's Butler

S07 E04 · 1953-09-23

Corinth House

S07 E05 · 1953-09-30

Lobblies Never Lie

S07 E06 · 1953-10-07

Cap'n Jonas

S07 E07 · 1953-10-14

Keep Our Honor Bright

S07 E08 · 1953-10-21

The Picket Fence

S07 E09 · 1953-10-28

The Threshold

S07 E11 · 1953-11-11

A Long Time Till Dawn

Just out of prison Joe Harris looks to restart his life. His wife Barbie has moved and the one man who can tell him where refuses to do so. Enraged, Joe beats the old man senseless and runs away to his father's home, where he also finds his wife. A police detective comes around about the beating (which will soon to become a murder) and Joe insists he's innocent. Joe tells his wife and father he's a changed man and he's only a suspect because of his prior conviction. Barbie and Fred struggle with their desire to believe Joe's plea versus their fear he'll never change.

S07 E28 · 1954-03-10

The Picture Window

S07 E33 · 1954-04-14

The People Next Door

S07 E36 · 1954-05-05

Alice in Wonderland

Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.

S07 E50 · 1954-08-11

Charm Bracelet

S07 E53 · 1954-09-01

Kidnapped

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.

S08 E01 · 1954-09-29

A Simple Matter

S08 E04 · 1954-10-20

The Luck of Roaring Camp

S08 E05 · 1954-10-27

Split Level

A young architect who's finding it tough to make his mark in the big city is faced with a great temptation.

S08 E09 · 1954-11-24

Emma

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.

S08 E11 · 1954-12-08

Career

S08 E15 · 1955-01-05

One Hill, One River

Following the American Civil War, a Southern soldier returns home with the Union soldier who saved his life. When the Yankee falls for a Southern Belle, the resentments of the soldier's southern family quickly bubble to the surface.

S08 E16 · 1955-01-12 · 60 min

Patterns

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.

S08 E17 · 1955-01-19

The Written Word

S08 E19 · 1955-02-02

The Skin Game

S08 E20 · 1955-02-09 · 60 min

Patterns (2nd Version)

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.

S08 E22 · 1955-02-23

The Emperor Jones

S08 E25 · 1955-03-25

The Story of Mary Surratt

S08 E30 · 1955-04-20

Gramercy Ghost

When her elderly landlady dies, a young woman inherits her house and the resident ghost: a soldier of the American Revolution who cannot go to Heaven because he failed to deliver a message to George Washington.

S08 E31 · 1955-04-27

A Seacoast in Bohemia

S08 E32 · 1955-05-04

Flowers for 2-B

S08 E33 · 1955-05-11

Judge Contain's Hotel

S08 E34 · 1955-05-18

The Braveness of Christy Fellon

Since his recent retirement, Christy Fellon has taken to visiting with a night watchman friend. One night, a new element is added: a robber appears and is captured by Christy Fellon himself.

S08 E35 · 1955-05-25

Million Dollar Rookie

S08 E36 · 1955-06-01

A Woman for Tony

S08 E40 · 1955-06-29

The Mob

S08 E43 · 1955-07-20

In the La Banza

A young man trains his ten-year-old brother to be a boxer. The older brother's motivation is his own vanity and quest for success.

S08 E44 · 1955-07-27

Meet a Body

S08 E45 · 1955-08-03

Spur of the Moment

A medical lab specialist dreams of becoming a successful surgeon. One day when no doctor is available, he intervenes in an emergency to perform an operation. When the patient dies, he tries to clear himself of responsibility by implicating a nurse.

S08 E46 · 1955-08-10

Two Times Two

A rural Southern woman is a mathematical whiz, but she's rather stay in the backwoods than be considered a genius in the big city.

S09 E01 · 1955-09-28

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

A prep school student named Percy Washington becomes friends with his schoolmate John Unger. Percy invites John to spend the holidays at his family's isolated Montana mansion. It sits atop a mountain of solid diamond. John begins to worry about his safety when he learns the the father, Mr. Washington, is paranoid about his wealth. He shoots down planes that fly over the house and then kills the pilots. The crazed patriarch does the same with children who drop in.

S09 E02 · 1955-10-05

The Beautiful Time

S09 E03 · 1955-10-12

Trucks Welcome

S09 E04 · 1955-10-19

I, Mrs. Bibb

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.

S09 E05 · 1955-10-26

One

S09 E06 · 1955-11-02

Number Four with Flowers

The bullet-riddled body of a big-time gambler is brought to the morgue in this tongue-in-cheek comedy. Out of the blue, a naive young waitress steps forward to claim the dead man's remains. Soon, she finds herself with three boyfriends: a mortician, a tough police officer and the murdered crook's business partner. Soon she's being taken on her "last ride" and she manages to even charm the gunman.

S09 E07 · 1955-11-09

The Ticket and the Tempest

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.

S09 E08 · 1955-11-16

Summer's End

S09 E09 · 1955-11-23

Day of Judgment

S09 E10 · 1955-11-30

Once a Genius

S09 E11 · 1955-12-07

Lady Ruth

S09 E12 · 1955-12-14

A Nugget from the Sunrise

S09 E13 · 1955-12-21

A Christmas Dinner

S09 E14 · 1955-12-28

Eleven O'Clock Flight

S09 E15 · 1956-01-04

The Thieving Magpie

S09 E16 · 1956-01-11

The Sears Girl

S09 E17 · 1956-01-18

The Devil as a Roaring Lion

A young boy finds a wounded, dying man hiding in his family's boat house. The man, a prospector who has just killed his partner in a dispute, at first frightens the boy, but as the two begin to get to know each other, they become friends. Eventually the boy suspects that the man might not be all he claims to be.

S09 E18 · 1956-01-25

Home Is the Hero

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.

S09 E19 · 1956-02-01

Five Minutes to Live

S09 E20 · 1956-02-08

Good Old Charlie Faye

S09 E21 · 1956-02-15

The Man on Roller Skates

S09 E22 · 1956-02-22

Snapfinger Creek

S09 E23 · 1956-02-29

Bobbie

S09 E24 · 1956-03-07

The Fool Killer

The Fool Killer is a mythical figure who chops the heads off of those who make fools of themselves. In the days after the American Civil War, a young boy who is haunted by this creature in his dreams. When he runs away from home he encounters the beast in the flesh.

S09 E25 · 1956-03-21

The Lost Weekend

S09 E26 · 1956-03-28

A Night to Remember

S09 E27 · 1956-04-04

Paper Foxhole

S09 E28 · 1956-04-11

The Last Showdown

A big city real estate mogul gets involved in a shady tax deal. Facing exposure, he plans to flee the country, leaving his son-in-law behind to take the blame. His daughter learns of his scheme and puts a stop to it.

S09 E29 · 1956-04-18

No Riders

S09 E30 · 1956-04-25 · 60 min

The Gentle Grafter

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.

S09 E31 · 1956-05-02

A Night to Remember

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

S09 E32 · 1956-05-09

Death Is a Spanish Dancer

S09 E33 · 1956-05-16

A Profile in Courage

S09 E34 · 1956-05-23

Bedroom Twelve on the Appalachian Waterfall

S09 E35 · 1956-05-30

Box 704

S09 E36 · 1956-06-06

The Night of May Third

S09 E37 · 1956-06-13

Boy in a Cage

S09 E38 · 1956-06-20

Flying Object at Three O'Clock High

S09 E39 · 1956-06-27

Starfish

S09 E40 · 1956-07-04

Tear Open the Skies

S09 E41 · 1956-07-11

Long Arm

An attractive young woman flirts with a store clerk at a pawn shop, inviting him to join her for lunch. While he's gone, the store is robbed and the owner is killed. The clerk is without an alibi because the woman with whom he dined worked for the criminals.

S09 E42 · 1956-07-18

Babies for Sale

S09 E43 · 1956-07-25

Prairie Night

S09 E44 · 1956-08-01

One Way West

S09 E45 · 1956-08-08

Anna Santonello

S09 E46 · 1956-08-15

The Magic Box

S09 E47 · 1956-08-29

The Girls Who Saw Too Much

S09 E48 · 1956-09-05

Mock Trial

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.

S09 E49 · 1956-09-12

Shadow of Evil

S10 E01 · 1956-09-19

Out to Kill

S10 E02 · 1956-09-26

The Plunge

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.

S10 E04 · 1956-10-10

Murder of a Sand Flea

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

S10 E09 · 1956-11-14

Before It's Too Late

A frantic father helps police search for his traveling wife and daughter. The child had been bitten by a rabid dog and needs medical attention immediately.

S10 E10 · 1956-11-21

The Day of the Hunter

S10 E12 · 1956-12-05

The Ninth Hour

A pair of convicts, the leader and his psychopathic follower, attempt a prison break. The two take over the isolation wing of a penitentiary and hold a couple of guards hostage. Then negotiations start with the warden and a shady politician.

S10 E15 · 1956-12-26

The Just and the Unjust

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.

S10 E17 · 1957-01-09

Six Hours of Terror

A powerful diplomat and a possible Russian spy are among the passengers on a transatlantic flight thought to have a bomb aboard. As tension builds, a French detective goes about the job of determining if it's simply an empty threat and who might be behind such a deed.

S10 E18 · 1957-01-16

No Warning

S10 E21 · 1957-02-06

The Discoverers

S10 E24 · 1957-02-27

A Traveler from Brussels

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.

S10 E26 · 1957-03-13

Collision

S10 E27 · 1957-03-20

Night of the Plague

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.

S10 E28 · 1957-03-28

Sheriff's Man

Conflict develops between an old sheriff and his ambitious, young deputy as the two pursue a killer on the loose.

S10 E31 · 1957-04-24

A Night of Rain

A young man comes into the life of a childless married couple, functioning in many ways as a son. Trouble begins when he and the wife fall in love and begin plotting the death of the clueless husband.

S10 E33 · 1957-05-08

Flesh and Blood

S10 E34 · 1957-05-15

The Glass Wall

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.

S10 E37 · 1957-06-05

The Roaring Twentieth

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.

S10 E42 · 1957-07-10

The First and the Last

S10 E43 · 1957-07-17

The Big Break

S10 E47 · 1957-08-14

Circle of Fear

A psychotic actor goes to extremes to keep his ex-girlfriend from going out with another man. When she falls in love with a new man, the couple become the target of threats and violence from the berserk thespian.

S10 E48 · 1957-08-27

Ride into Danger

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.

S10 E52 · 1957-09-18

The Killer Instinct

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.

S11 E01 · 1957-09-25

Vengeance

S11 E02 · 1957-10-02

Barefoot Soldier

S11 E03 · 1957-10-09

Smart Boy

S11 E04 · 1957-10-16

A Cook for Mr. General

S11 E05 · 1957-10-23

Man in a Trance

S11 E10 · 1957-12-04

Come to Me

S11 E12 · 1957-12-18

Polka

The Polish-American father of three daughters takes great pride in entering the annual polka contest each year with one of the girls. Last year, when his oldest daughter married, the second daughter Theckla danced and won the contest with Papa. However, this year, Theckla is in love, and she refuses to put on the old-country costume and dance.

S11 E13 · 1957-12-25

The Story of the Other Wise Man

S11 E14 · 1958-01-01

The Battle for Wednesday Night

S11 E15 · 1958-01-08

The Velvet Trap

S11 E17 · 1958-01-22

Eddie

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.

S11 E19 · 1958-02-05

The Spell of the Tigress

S11 E20 · 1958-02-19

Material Witness

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

S11 E22 · 1958-03-05

Dog in a Bush Tunnel

S11 E25 · 1958-03-26

Angry Angel

S11 E26 · 1958-04-02

The Man in Authority

S11 E27 · 1958-04-16

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

S11 E29 · 1958-04-30

Fifty Grand

S11 E30 · 1958-05-07

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

A group of shady characters from a mining town wind up stuck in a blizzard with a naive young couple. The situation brings out the best, and worst, in everyone.

S11 E31 · 1958-05-14

All the King's Men: Part 1

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

S11 E32 · 1958-05-21

All the King's Men: Part 2

S11 E38 · 1958-07-02

Next Door to Death

S11 E42 · 1958-07-30 · 60 min

Death Wears Many Faces

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.

S11 E44 · 1958-08-13

Night Cry

A tough veteran cop, expecting to be promoted to a supervisor position, is passed over, and finds himself assigned to a homicide by the man who took what he considered to be his job. His new boss warns him against using the brutal tactics he is infamous for, but the cop soon ditches his partner and pays a visit to the suspect in the case, in order to "interrogate" him--alone.

S11 E45 · 1958-08-20

We Haven't Seen Her Lately

Elderly Aunt Violet lets it be known that she's particularly afraid of one of her heirs, who she thinks is greedy enough to do away with her to get her money. Not long after hiring a new gardener, Violet disappears. Her friends and neighbors suspect that she has been killed by the greedy heir, but her niece Helen decides to search the entire countryside to find out what happened to her aunt.

S11 E48 · 1958-09-10

Trick or Treat

S11 E49 · 1958-09-17

A Cup of Kindness

S11 E50 · 1958-09-24

Riddle of a Lady

A sophisticated, upper-crust British lawyer turns to a much shadier colleague to clear him when he's charged with murdering a somewhat disreputable woman.

S11 E51 · 1958-10-01

Presumption of Innocence