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"Kraft Mystery Theatre" (1958) (new title)

"Kraft Theatre" (1958) (new title)

 

US anthology series 1947-58

 release date 7May47 

Notes on Kraft Television Theatre

-- This hour program was one TV's earliest and most prestigious drama

anthology series, running on NBC from 1947 to 1958.

 

In 11 1/2 years Kraft had presented 650 plays from over

18,845 scripts, starred and/or featured 3,955 actors and actresses

in 6,750 roles.

The first episode (Double Door) cost $3,000. to $165,000. by 1958.

 

Ed Rice was the script editor for the entire Kraft program run.

 

Theme song: "Music From Manhattan" by Norman Cloudier
 

 

1.01 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: DOUBLE DOOR

07May1947

Based on a play by Elizabeth McFadden
guest stars

John Baragrey

Synopsis:
A woman locks another woman in the family burial vault

 to prevent her from marrying her brother.

 

1.02 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MERTON OF THE MOVIES

14May1947

           Teleplay by George Simon Kaufman and Marc Connelly

           from the novel by Harry Leon Wilson

Synopsis:
A young man with grandiose dreams of becoming a serious actor

unintentionally becomes a comedian.

 

1.22 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: PAYMENT DEFERRED
01Oct1947
Based on the play by Jeffrey Dell

Synopsis:
A bank clerk who handles foreign exchange, is in debt and fears that he

might lose his position at the bank. When an investor approaches him about

 a quick fortune to be made and he decides to take matters into his own hands.

1.23 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: JANUARY THAW
08Oct1947
written by Edmund C. Rise & William Roos
story by Bellamy Partridge

Synopsis:
After buying an old farmhouse a couple discover that the

 late owner's heirs have a right to live in the house.

1.37 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ALTERNATING CURRENT
14Jan1948
Written by Jack Roche

Synopsis:
A man sentenced to death, gets a reprieve when there is a power outage.

 

1.38 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ONLY THE HEART
21Jan1948
written by Horton Foote

(Based on his 1943 play and Broadway debut)

Synopsis:

Albert and Julia's marriage is failing miserably, although he loves her,

he is unhappy. Together they try to work things out.

 

1.43 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ALISON'S HOUSE
25Feb1948
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1931 play by Susan Glaspell

Synopsis:

Alison Stanhope, a poet has been dead for eighteen years.

Her spirit lives on in the hearts of her family and friends

who discover a portfolio filled with poems never before released.

1.45 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE WIND IS NINETY
10Mar1948
Written by Ralph Nelson

Synopsis:

An Air Force captain is shot down over Germany during World War II,

his spirit returns to comfort his grieving family.

*Note Remade on June 28, 1950.

 

1.46 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: NO WAY OUT
17Mar1948
Adapted from a play by Owen Davis
guest stars
Eleanor Wilson

Muriel Hutchison
Paul Marlin

Synopsis:
Suffering from dementia a family must place their

 beloved one in a special medical facility.

1.47 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: CAPTAIN APPLEJACK
24Mar1948
Adapted from the play by Walter Hackett
guest stars
Wilma Drake
Leonard Elliott
Peggy Sanford

Synopsis:
Michael dreams he is a pirate sailing the Spanish Main and awake

 his filled with boredom until he decides to bring his dreams to life.

Calling the butler "Lush" with poor Aunt Agatha thinking he's lost his mind.

*Note: First appeared in "Everybody's Magazine" on September 1922.

1.48 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
31Mar1948
Based on a story by Oliver Goldsmith
guest stars
Ralph Nelson ........ Charles
Margaret Phillips ... Kate
Mercer McLeod ....... Hardcastle

Synopsis:
Mr. Hardcastle wants his daughter to marry Sir Charles Marlowe,

a fellow who is fondest of girls who are less genteel. The romance

 blossoms when Marlowe is deceived into thinking that Kate is a barmaid.

1.50 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: BARCHESTER TOWERS
14Apr1948
Adapted by Thomas Job
From the work by Anthony Trollope

Synopsis:
After the death of the much-beloved Bishop, expectations are high

 that his son Archdeacon Grantly will take his place.

 

1.51 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE SILVER CORD
21Apr1948
Adapted from a play by Sidney Howard
guest stars
Nicolas Saunders
Grace Keddy
Linda Carlton Reid

Synopsis:
An obsessive mother cannot bear another woman

 to come between her and her sons.

1.53 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE ROYAL FAMILY
05May1948
story by George S. Kaufman
directed by Harry Herrmann
guest stars
Ethel Owen
Bess Winburn
Hildy Parks

Synopsis:
A family of actors living under one roof make for an entertaining story.

1.55 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MINICK

19May1948
Based on the 1924 play by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber

Short story by Edna Ferber

Directed by Harry Herrmann
guest stars
Ralph Bunker ....... Fred Minick
Robert Allen
Flora Campbell

Synopsis:
A old man moves to Chicago to live with his son and daughter-in-law,

although his intentions are well meant, the couple find him an irritation.

He befriends a young orphan boy and the two soon bond which

is not to the liking of the boy's step-father. [RF]

 

 

2.01 [72] Kraft Television Theatre: HER HUSBAND'S WIFE
22Sep1948
guest stars
Valerie Cossart

Synopsis:
A woman leaves her husband and their six-year old daughter

for a Parisian sculptor.

2.02 [073] Kraft Television Theatre: GREAT DAY
29Sep1948
guest stars
Philippa Bevans
Maury Hill
Katherine Meskill
Anna Minot

2.03 [074] Kraft Television Theatre: SUPPRESSED DESIRES
06Oct1948
06Oct1948 (25Jul48 copyright)
Written by Susan Glaspell
Directed by Edward Padula
guest stars
Joan Roberts ..... Mable
Tom Ewell ..... Stephen Brewster
Roberta Jonay ..... Jeanette Brewster
Synopsis:
Henrietta Brewster is obsessed with psychoanalysis and is driving

her husband Stephen crazy. She wakes him up at night to interpret his

dreams and hounds him to consult Dr. Russell, her mentor. Mabel,

Henrietta's sister, tells them of a dream in which she battles a hen

while some creature yells at her "Step, Hen! Step, Hen!" Two weeks

later, Stephen tells Henrietta that he has been seeing Dr. Russell and

he has interpreted his dreams as a desire to leave her. She is appalled

but insists that he leave her. Mabel returns from a session with Dr. Russell,

who has interpreted her dream as a suppressed desire for Stephen.

He and Mabel are astounded by their desires but concede to the insight

of the science which Henrietta defends. Henrietta then repudiates

psychoanalysis and she and Stephen are reconciled. [LOC]

2.04 [075] Kraft Television Theatre: THE TRUTH GAME
13Oct1948
Story by Ivor Novello
guest stars
Joyce Hayward

2.05 [076] Kraft Television Theatre: CRIMINAL AT LARGE
20Oct1948
Story by Edgar Wallace
guest stars
Tom Palmer
Olive Reeves-Smith

2.06 [077] Kraft Television Theatre: BIOGRAPHY
27Oct1948
Story by Nathaniel Behrman
guest stars
John Forsythe
Virginia Gilmore

2.07 [078] Kraft Television Theatre: OLD LADY ROBBINS
03Nov1948
Written by Albert G. Miller
guest stars
Grace Kelly
Ethel Owen

2.08 [079] Kraft Television Theatre: THE DETOUR
10Nov1948
Story by Owen Davis
guest stars
Curtis Cooksey
Isobel Price

James Cootes
Joan Stanley
Isabelle Robbins

2.09 [080] Kraft Television Theatre: THE IVORY DOOR
17Nov1948
Based on a story by A.A. Milne
guest stars
Jackie Cooper

Edith Hayman

2.10 [081] Kraft Television Theatre: WUTHERING HEIGHTS
24Nov1948
Adapted by Randolph Carter

Based on the book by Emily Bronte
guest stars
John Forsythe
Ethel Griffes
Louisa Horton

Synopsis:

The star-crossed love story of Cathy & Heathcliffe.

2.11 [082] Kraft Television Theatre: THE DOVER ROAD
01Dec1948
Adapted by Robert Howard Lindsey
Based on a story by A.A. Milne
guest stars
Geoffrey Lumb
Synopsis:

A wealthy man who lives on the Dover Road, traditional path of elopers.

His practice of forcing such couples to see one another in the sober light

of home life in his house, leads to a personal involvement for him. [JB]

2.12 [083] Kraft Television Theatre: THE FLASHING STREAM
08Dec1948
Based on a story by Charles Morgan
guest stars
Gwen Anderson

Richard Kirkland
Lorna Kent

2.13 [084] Kraft Television Theatre: THE OLD SOAK
15Dec1948
Story by Harry Beresford
guest stars
Guy Kibbee

2.14 [085] Kraft Television Theatre: HANSEL AND GRETEL
22Dec1948

Story by Engelbert Humperdinck I

*Note: This was an Operetta of the children's fairy tale.

 2.15 [086] Kraft Television Theatre: MEET THE PRINCE
29Dec1948
Based on the story by A.A. Milne

2.16 [087] Kraft Television Theatre: TO CATCH THE WIND
05Jan1949
guest stars
Audrey Ridgewell
Mark Roberts

John Conway

2.17 [088] Kraft Television Theatre: MIRANDA
12Jan1949
guest stars
Richard Kendrick
Beverly Roberts

Betty Ann Nyman

2.18 [089] Kraft Television Theatre: DUET FOR TWO HANDS
19Jan1949
Story by Mary Hayley Bell
guest stars
Valerie Cossart
Louisa Horton
Guy Spaull
Rhod Walker

2.19 [090] Kraft Television Theatre: THERE'S ALWAYS JULIET
26Jan1949
Story by John Van Druten
guest stars
Gwen Anderson
Margery Maude

Lex Richards
Huntington Watts

2.20 [091] Kraft Television Theatre: HER MASTER'S VOICE

02Feb1949
Story by Clare Kummer
guest stars
Valerie Cossart
Augusta Dabney
Ethel Owen
Philip Truex

2.21 [092] Kraft Television Theatre: GRAMERCY GHOST
09Feb1949
Adapted by Robert Howard Lindsey
Based on the story by John Cecil Holm
Synopsis:
When a young woman inherits a house,

she finds a ghostly soldier living there as well.
 

2.22 [093] Kraft Television Theatre: ROOM SERVICE
16Feb1949
Adapted by Allen Boretz
Based on a story by John Murray
guest stars
Gage Clark
Warren Parker
Dudley Sadler

2.23 [094] Kraft Television Theatre: THE FLYING GERARDOS
23Feb1949
Written by Charles Robinson & Kenyon Nicholson
guest stars
Lucille Fenton
Winifield Hoeny
Barbara Meyer
Hugh Reilly

William Thunkhurst

 2.24 [095] Kraft Television Theatre: A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT
02Mar1949

Based on a story by Clemence Dane

2.25 [096] Kraft Television Theatre: THE ARRIVAL OF KITTY
09Mar1949
guest stars
Malcolm Lee Beggs
Dort Clark
Gage Clarke
Patricia Kirkland

2.26 [097] Kraft Television Theatre: CONSIDER LILY
16Mar1949
guest stars
Ann Donaldson
Margaret Phillips
Ron Randell

2.27 [098] Kraft Television Theatre: VILLAGE GREEN
23Mar1949
Written by Carl Allensworth
guest stars
Jean Gillespie
Carl Benton Reid
Mark Roberts

2.28 [099] Kraft Television Theatre: WICKED IS THE VINE
30Mar1949
written by Sumner Locke-Elliott
guest stars
Margaret Phillips ....... Sarah
Joan Stanley ....... Ellie
Michael Everett ....... Joe
Ron Randell ....... Howard
John Hamilton
Margery Maude
Janet Fox

2.29 [100] Kraft Television Theatre: AS HUSBANDS GO
06Apr1949
Story by Rachel Crothers
guest stars
Lawrence Fletcher
Ruth Matteson
Tonio Stewart

Betty Ann Nyman

2.30 [101] Kraft Television Theatre: THE MIRACLE AT CHICKERSTON
13Apr1949
written by Peter Barry
guest stars
William Lee
Natalie Schafer
Gage Clark

2.31 [102] Kraft Television Theatre: THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING
20Apr1949
Story by John Emerson & Anita Loos
guest stars
Valeria Cossart
Lawrence Fletcher
Andrea Wallace
Timothy Lynn Kearse

2.32 [103] Kraft Television Theatre: GREEN STOCKINGS
27Apr1949
guest stars
Ruth Matteson

Joseph Allen Jr.

2.33 [104] Kraft Television Theatre: ADAM AND EVA
04May1949
Story by Guy Bolton
guest stars
Carl Benton Reid
Patricia Barry
Mark Roberts

2.34 [105] Kraft Television Theatre: THE OATH OF HIPPOCRATES
11May1949
written by M.V. Heberden
guest stars
Guy Spaull
Dean Harens
Felicia Montealegre ..... Hygieia

2.35 [106] Kraft Television Theatre: BIG HEARTED HERBERT
18May1949
Story by A.S. Richardson & Sophia Kerr
guest stars
Valerie Cossart

Kirk Brown

2.36 [107] Kraft Television Theatre: AUTUMN FIRE
25May1949
Story by Thomas C. Murray
guest stars
Frank Baxter
Andrea Wallace
Martin Lewis
Helen Stenborg

2.37 [108] Kraft Television Theatre: THE ELEPHANT SHEPHERD
01Jun1949
guest stars
Neil Hamilton
Madelaine Smith
Vernon Smith

2.38 [109] Kraft Television Theatre: PAYMENT DEFERRED
08Jun1949 (Restaged from October 1, 1947)
Story by Jeffrey Dell
guest stars
Grace Carney
Richard Deane
Vilma Kurer
Cloris Leachman
Mercer McLeod

2.39 [110] Kraft Television Theatre: LITTLE BROWN JUG
15Jun1949
Story by Marie Baumer
guest stars
Gwen Anderson
Katherine Anderson
Malcolm Lee Beggs
John Harvey
John Stephen
Vaughn Taylor

2.40 [111] Kraft Television Theatre: PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX
22Jun1949
Adapted from the Roland Pertwee play
guest stars
Leslie Barrie
Cloris Leachman
Peter Fernandez
Jean Gillespie

Viola Frayne

2.41 [112] Kraft Television Theatre: BABY MINE
29Jun1949
guest stars
Kyle MacDonnell
Warren Parker

2.42 [113] Kraft Television Theatre: WITHIN THE LAW
06Jul1949
Story by Bayard Veiller
guest stars
Malcolm Lee Beggs
Jack Orrison
John Stephen

Polly Coe
Patricia Jenkins

2.43 [114] Kraft Television Theatre: A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY
13Jul1949
Story by Harry Thurschwell & Alfred Golden
guest stars
Walter Butterworth
Lee Carney

Joan Shepard
Richard Leone

2.44 [115] Kraft Television Theatre: THE CURTAIN RISES
20Jul1949
guest stars
Nancy Coleman
Lex Richards

Peggy French
Guy Spaull

2.45 [116] Kraft Television Theatre: TIME FOR ELIZABETH
27Jul1949
adapted from the Norman Krasna
and Groucho Marx play
guest stars
Maurice Manson
Nancy Sheridan
John Seymour

2.46 [117] Kraft Television Theatre: HEAVEN AND CHARING CROSS
03Aug1949
guest stars
Louis Beachner
Una O'Connor
Rex O'Malley
Elizabeth Ross

Treva Frazee

2.47 [118] Kraft Television Theatre: THE MISLEADING LADY
10Aug1949
guest stars
Mark Roberts
Patricia Jenkins
Vaughn Taylor

2.48 [119] Kraft Television Theatre: MR. PIM PASSES BY
17Aug1949
Story by A.A. Milne
guest stars
Valerie Cossart
Geoffrey Lumb
Rex O'Malley

2.49 [120] Kraft Television Theatre:

 WHERE THE DEER AND THE ANTELOPE PLAY
24Aug1949
Story by John William Rogers
guest stars
Helene Hatch
Edith Meiser
Joyce Van Patten
Mary Young

Gage Clarke
Charles Nolte
Ruth Hammond
Jay Presson Allen
Helen Hatch
Emory Richardson
Elizabeth Eustis
Hunter Gardner

2.50 [121] Kraft Television Theatre: BEDELIA
31Aug1949
Story by Vera Caspary
guest stars
Julie Haydon

Sally Chamberlin
Edwin Jerome
John Newland
Helen Warren
Jim Davidson
Velma Royton
Grace Carney
Frances Tannenhill

2.51 [122] Kraft Television Theatre: RESPECTFULLY YOURS
07Sep1949
Story by Peggy Lamson
guest stars
Flora Campbell
Chet Stratton
Gage Clarke
Mercer McLeod
Dorothy Francis
Michael Blair
Jay Presson Allen
Betty Ann Nyman
John Rodney

2.52 [123] Kraft Television Theatre: LITTLE DARLING
14Sep1949
Story by Eric Hatch
guest stars
Marlyn Monk
Patricia Pope
Nancy Ross

Jack Orrison
Gene Fuller
Frederic de Wilde
Tom Bickley

 

 

3.01 [124] Kraft Television Theatre: THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET
21Sep1949
Adapted from the play by Barre Lyndon
guest stars
John Newland
Mercer McLeod
Anne Jackson

Lewis Martin
Will Hare
John McQuade
Anthony Rivers
Synopsis:
A group of medical students are performing highly questionable

 experiments in an attempt to find eternal youth.

3.02 [125] Kraft Television Theatre: THE CLIMAX
28Sep1949
Based on the story by Jacques Deval
guest stars
Jack Arthur
Felicia Montealegre
Oliver Thorndike

Synopsis:
A married couple encounter problems when a third party enters the scene.

3.03 [126] Kraft Television Theatre: APPLE OF HIS EYE
prod. no. 49-1673

05Oct1949
Written by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson

guest stars
Lawrence Fletcher ....... Sam
Pamela Rivers ....... Lily
Vaughn Taylor ....... Tude
Helen Stenborg ......... Nina
Dorrit Kelton ....... Nettie
Myrtle Ferguson ....... Stella
Richard Shankland ........ Ott
Norma Jane Marlowe ........ Carol Ann

Synopsis:
The story of an elderly man in love with a young girl. He discovers

that too many people are interested in his romance. The love affair is

the immediate concern of the middle-aged widower's daughter-in-law,

his housekeeper, and the neighbors. Their interference almost deprives

him of years of happiness. [RF]

 

3.04 [127] Kraft Television Theatre: YOUR FRIENDLY NABORS
12Oct1949
Story by Joseph Bates Smith
guest stars
Valerie Cossart
Lawrence Fletcher
Enid Markey
Warren Parker

Gene Fuller
Philip Sterling
Nancy Ross

3.05 [128] Kraft Television Theatre: ACCIDENTALLY YOURS
19Oct1949
guest stars
Valerie Cossart
Cloris Leachman
Mercer McLeod

Synopsis:
A young wife with her child-like behavior frustrates her family.

3.06 [129] Kraft Television Theatre: TO DREAM AGAIN
26Oct1949
guest stars
Janet De Gore
Lauren Gilbert

Robert Craven
Leon Shaw
Velma Royton

3.07 [130] Kraft Television Theatre: WHISTLING IN THE DARK
02Nov1949
Based on the 1949 play by E.C. Carpenter & Lawrence Gross
guest stars
Donald Briggs
Jack Lemmon
Rosemary Rice

3.08 [131] Kraft Television Theatre: HAPPY ENDING
09Nov1949
guest stars
June Dayton
Isobel Price

Jim Davidson
Florence Robinson
Synopsis:
A man learns that success begins at home as he deals with his failing career.

3.09 [132] Kraft Television Theatre: THE HAPPIEST YEARS
16Nov1949

Based on the play written by William Roerick & Thomas Coley
guest stars
James Daly
Lewis Martin
Ethel Owen
Hildy Parks
Alan Bunce

Synopsis:

The Graves home in a small mid-western college town becomes

the best time for a young man with ideas of grandeur.

3.10 [133] Kraft Television Theatre: IN LOVE WITH LOVE
23Nov1949
guest stars
Anne Francis
Maury Hill

3.11 [134] Kraft Television Theatre: SEEN BUT NOT HEARD
30Nov1949
Based on a play by Marie Baumer & Martin Berkeley

guest stars
Jackie Collins
Kathleen Maguire
Warren Parker
George Reeves
Tommy Rettig

Lawrence Fletcher
Tony Halloran
Synopsis:
One after the other the parents try to squelch the children every

time they are in a position to reveal important evidence as to

who killed Aunt Helen and Uncle John.

3.12 [135] Kraft Television Theatre: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
07Dec1949
Based on a play by William Shakespeare

Directed by Stanley Quinn
guest stars
James Daly
Stewart Bradley
Harry Townes
Kurt Richards

Synopsis:
A man searches for his twin children when he is almost ready to give up on life.

3.13 [136] Kraft Television Theatre: THE NANTUCKET LEGEND
14Dec1949
Written by George Lefferts
guest stars
Vaughn Taylor
Philip Faversham
Edith Gresnam
Myrtle Ferguson

3.14 [137] Kraft Television Theatre: THE GLOVE
21Dec1949
guest stars
Dennis Harrison
Margaret Phillips

3.15 [138] Kraft Television Theatre: NEW BROOMS
28Dec1949
Based on the play by Frank Craven
guest stars
June Dayton
Will Hare

Frances Waller
William Lee

Synopsis:
Thomas Bates Sr. tries to get his idle son Tom Jr. interested in his broom

 manufacturing business and puts him in charge of the business for one year.

3.16 [139] Kraft Television Theatre: THE NABORLY FEELING
04Jan1950
guest stars
Valerie Cossart
Enid Markey
Warren Parker

Note: This episode is the sequel to the episode "Your Friendly Nabors" from October 12, 1949.

3.17 [140] Kraft Television Theatre: AS HUSBANDS GO
11Jan1950 (restaged from 06Apr49)
Based on the play by Rachel Crothers
guest stars
Donald Briggs
Mary Alice Moore

Synopsis:
Lucile Lingard has found romance with a young English poet while visiting Europe.

The problem is her husband and Miss Crothers. But when Lucile, and later the poet,

return to the solidarity of the homeland, and when Lucile's husband so patently

demonstrates his "great, selfless love," the affair subsides.

3.18 [141] Kraft Television Theatre: THE VINEGAR TREE
18Jan1950
Based on a play by Paul Osborn
guest stars
Raymond Bramley
Edmon Ryan

Bess Winburn
Synopsis:
An unhappily married couple are distraught when their daughter throws

herself at an older man after being rejected by her true love for

being unsophisticated and inexperienced.

3.19 [142] Kraft Television Theatre: KELLY
25Jan1950
written by Eric Hatch
guest stars
Anne Francis
E.G. Marshall
George Reeves ..... Sergeant Stivers
Olive Deering
Mark Roberts
Yvonne Rudie
Manuel Aparicio
Treva Frazee
Lawrence Fletcher
Lilyan Chauvin
Katherine Crozier
Marilyn Miller, Evelyn Rosselli
Phyllis Cambell, Jack Ewing
Cliff Dunstan, Tommy Gillen
William Skilling
Synopsis:
Story of a G.I. who went overseas in World War II and fell in love with

a French girl, then returned to Kansas and a job at a filling station,

 all the while never forgetting his French love. When he learns that she

 is coming to New York, he and his pals go to meet her. In New York,

 he and the French girl are suspected of illegal activities concerning

some jewels picked up in the war and the story of their romance

 in France is told in flashback. [RF]

*Note This episode was restaged several times throughout the series.

3.20 [143] Kraft Television Theatre: THE OLD LADIES
01Feb1950
Based on a play by Rodney Ackland
Adapted from a novel by Hugh Walpole
guest stars
Katherine Meskill
Mildred Natwick
Doris Rich

Synopsis:
The newest tenant of the Polchester residence is May Beringer who is befriended

by another resident Lucy Amorest, together they meet the strange and mysterious

 gypsy woman Agatha, who says she can help them for a price.

3.21 [144] Kraft Television Theatre: THE DARK TOWER
08Feb1950
Based on the play by George S. Kaufman & Alexander Woollcott
guest stars
E.G. Marshall

Flora Campbell
John Newland

Synopsis:
When theatrical manager Dawson Wells fails to buy off Stanley Vance

who has an unholy hold over his beloved sister Jessica, he plots revenge.

*The play was made into the 1934 motion picture "The Man With Two Faces"

starring Edward G. Robinson as theatrical manager Dawson Wells.

3.22 [145] Kraft Television Theatre: THE SILENT ROOM
15Feb1950
guest stars
Thomas Nello
Neva Patterson

3.23 [146] Kraft Television Theatre: VALLEY FORGE

22Feb1950
Based on a play by Maxwell Anderson
guest stars
Judson Laire
E.G. Marshall
Vaughn Taylor

Synopsis:
Historical story of George Washington's winter with the Continental Army.

3.24 [147] Kraft Television Theatre: MRS. MOONLIGHT
01Mar1950
Based on a play by Benn W. Levy
guest stars
E.G. Marshall
Mary Sinclair
Ethel Remey

Synopsis:

Mrs. Moonlight's perpetual youthful appearance has

 people talking until the truth is revealed.

3.25 [148] Kraft Television Theatre: THE NINETEENTH HOLE
08Mar1950
Based on a short story by Frank Craven

guest stars
Enid Markey
Alan Stevenson
Hildy Parks

Synopsis:

A wife is fed up with her husbands obsession with golf.

3.26 [149] Kraft Television Theatre: LADIES IN RETIREMENT
15Mar1950
Story by Edward Percy & Reginald Denham
guest stars
Marga Ann Deighton
Mildred Natwick
Richard Newton

Synopsis:
Leonora Fiske a former actress lives with her companion

Ellen Green on a remote marsh. When Ellen's two eccentric sisters

visit, mysterious events take place.

3.27 [150] Kraft Television Theatre: THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND
22Mar1950

Based on Robert Emmet Sherwood's story (1928)
guest stars
Mercer McLeod
Katherine Meskill
Richard Purdy

Synopsis:
A constitutional monarch outwitted a domineering wife and a dictatorial prime

minister by uniting with a Communist-Labor coalition. [RF]
*Note: Kraft Television Theater celebrated its 150th performance. [TIME magazine 03Apr50]

3.28 [151] Kraft Television Theatre: THE COPPERHEAD
29Mar1950
guest stars
Flora Campbell
Doris Rich

3.29 [152] Kraft Television Theatre: A DOLL'S HOUSE
prod no. 50-563

05Apr1950
written by Edmund Rice

guest stars
Felicia Montealegre ....... Nora
Theodore Newton ....... Torvald
John Newland ....... Krogatad
Joan Wetmore ....... Christina
Geoffrey Lumb ....... Dr. Rank
Alice Yourman ....... Ellen
Synopsis:
The story of Nora, who is a wife and mother and rebels against being

treated as a mere plaything by her husband Torvald. She wants to be

a companion in the union of marriage rather than just someone to be

protected. When the crucial test of their marriage is brought about by

the expose of a bit of blackmailing, her husband thinks more of his

honor than of his wife. Nora leaves Torvald and her home to lead a

life as an individual rather than that of a wife. [RF]

 

3.30 [153] Kraft Television Theatre: THE LUCKY FINGER

12Apr1950
guest stars
Lois Holmes
Dan Morgan
Eleanor Wilson
Claude Horton

3.31 [154] Kraft Television Theatre: MAKE WAY FOR LUCIA
19Apr1950
guest stars
Geoffrey Lumb

3.32 [155] Kraft Television Theatre: BLACK SHEEP
26Apr1950
guest stars
Anne Francis
Eileen Heckart
Richard McMurray

3.33 [156] Kraft Television Theatre: THE FOURTH STEP
03May1950
guest stars
Leslie Nielsen
Augusta Dabney

3.34 [157] Kraft Television Theatre: MACBETH
10May1950
Based on the play by Shakespeare
Directed by Stanley Quinn
guest stars
E.G. Marshall ...... Macbeth
Uta Hagen .......... Lady Macbeth
Chester Stratton ... Macduff
Philip Huston ...... Banquo
Philip Faversham ... Marshall
Synopsis:
Macbeth is one of King Duncan's greatest war captains. Returning from

 battle with his comrade-in-arms Banquo, Macbeth encounters

 a plot made by three witches who make a prophecy.

3.35 [158] Kraft Television Theatre: STORM IN A TEACUP
17May1950
guest stars
George Reeves
Andrea Wallace
Ivan Simpson
Doris Rich

3.36 [159] Kraft Television Theatre: THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
24May1950
guest stars
Valerie Cossart
Warren Parker
Dudley Sadler

3.37 [160] Kraft Television Theatre: THE LUCK OF GULDEFORD
31May1950
guest stars
Leslie Nielsen

3.38 [161] Kraft Television Theatre: THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF
07Jun1950
guest stars
Robert Chisholm
George Englund
Flora Campbell

3.39 [162] Kraft Television Theatre: GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
14Jun1950
guest stars
Anne Francis
Nelson Olmstead

3.40 [163] Kraft Television Theatre: NOAH

21Jun1950
guest stars
Vaughn Taylor
Doris Rich
Stewart Bradley

3.41 [164] Kraft Television Theatre: THE WIND IS NINETY
prod. no. 50-2046

28Jun1950
written by Ralph Nelson

guest stars
George Reeves ....... Don Richie
Kathleen Comegys ....... Nana
Nancy Coleman ......... Jean, Don's wife
Donald Duerr ....... Jimmy
Herbie Walsh ....... Bert
Keith Russell ....... Tommy
Richard Wigginton ....... Don at 8 yrs old
Harry Townes ....... the Unknown Soldier
Synopsis:
The story of Don Richie, an Air Force captain who is shot down over

Germany during World War II. Anxious to comfort his grieving family,

he "returns" in spirit form accompanied by the spirit of the Unknown

Soldier. Richie discovers that his wife, mother, father, and son remember

him in different ways. At first, he is unable to "get through" to them.

Although the Unknown Soldier explains to him that it will take time for

them to realize that his spirit will remain, Richie is ready to give up

when he receives a surprise. The family is led to believe that whenever

"the wind is ninety" or from the East, Don will be with them in spirit. [RF]

3.42 [165] Kraft Television Theatre: JEANNINE
05Jul1950
guest stars
Mercer McLeod
Elizabeth Ross

3.43 [166] Kraft Television Theatre: MURDER ON THE NILE
12Jul1950
adapted from the Agatha Christie play
guest stars
Lex Richards
Patricia Wheel
Guy Spaull

3.44 [167] Kraft Television Theatre: ACCENT ON YOUTH
19Jul1950
guest stars
Marilyn Erskine
Melville Ruick

 3.45 [168] Kraft Television Theatre: MR. BARRY'S ETCHINGS
26Jul1950

3.46 [169] Kraft Television Theatre: JANUARY THAW
prod. no. 50-2282

02Aug1950
written by William Roos

guest stars
Valerie Cossart ....... Marge
Nelson Olmstead ....... Herbert
Vaughn Taylor ...... Jonathan
Leona Powers ..... Mathilda
Robert Burr ...... Matt
Barbara Ruick ...... Barbara
Susan Harris ...... Sarah
Don Murray ...... George
John Stephen ...... Mr. Loomis
Synopsis:
The story of Herbert and Marge Gage and the confusion that results

when they buy an old-fashioned farmhouse in Connecticut and then

discover that two of the late owner's heirs have a legal right to live in

the house. Soon after the Gages and their two daughters move in, the

Jonathan Rockwoods arrive to take advantage of their relative's will.

The inevitable difficulties arise when two families live under one roof.

A message is received that a neighbor is expecting a child and has

no one to attend to her needs. Mathilda Rockwood and Barbara Gage

 are the only available people, and they slip away and take over until

the following morning when a nurse arrives. This incident leads to all

the differences between the two families being ironed out. [RF]

3.47 [170] Kraft Television Theatre: FEATHERS IN A GALE
09Aug1950
guest stars
E.G. Marshall
George Reeves
Kyle MacDonnell

3.48 [171] Kraft Television Theatre: SEPTEMBER TIDE
16Aug1950
adapted from the Daphne du Maurier story
guest stars
Patricia Breslin
Robert Pastene
Ruth Matteson

3.49 [172] Kraft Television Theatre: THE FIRST MRS. FRASER
23Aug1950
adapted from the John G. St. Ervine play.
guest stars
Lex Richards
Evan Thomas
Dorothy Peterson
E.G. Marshall

3.50 [173] Kraft Television Theatre: THE DETOUR
30Aug1950
guest stars
James Coates
Ethel Remey
Blair Davies

3.51 [174] Kraft Television Theatre: THE LAST TRUMP
06Sep1950
guest stars
Mercer McLeod
Richard Purdy

3.52 [175] Kraft Television Theatre: THE GREAT BIG DOORSTEP
13Sep1950
guest stars
Florida Friebus
Robert Chisholm
Philip Tonge

3.53 [176] Kraft Television Theatre: THE LAST STOP
20Sep1950
story by Irving Kaye Davis
guest stars
Mildred Dunnock
Isobel Price
Vaughn Taylor
Enid Markey

 

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4.01 [177] Kraft Television Theatre: THE GREEN PACK

27Sep1950

guest stars

James Daly

Mercer McLeod

 

4.02 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: I LIKE IT HERE

04Oct1950

guest stars

Anne Francis

Carmen Mathews

Stefan Schnabel

Donald Buka

 

4.03 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE GREAT BROXOPP

11Oct1950

guest stars

Chester Stratton

Rex O'Malley

Faith Brook

Philip Tonge

 

4.04 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: OLD LADY ROBBINS

18Oct1950

written by Albert G. Miller

guest stars

Herbert Nelson

Augusta Dabney

Enid Markey

 

4.05 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  TRUANT IN PARK LANE

25Oct1950

guest stars

Dan Morgan

Blanche Yurka

 

4.06 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  DOLPHIN'S REACH

01Nov1950

Written by R.H. Benson

guest stars

Mercer McLeod

Enid Pulver

Carmen Mathews

Stefan Schnabel

 

4.07 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: SIXTEEN

08Nov1950

Adapted from the play by Aimee and Philip Stuart.

guest stars

Patricia Crowley

Anna Lee

Donald Curtis

 

4.08 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE ROMANTIC AGE

15Nov1950

guest stars

Bethel Leslie

Dean Harens

 

4.09 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY

22Nov1950

guest stars

E.G. Marshall

Betty Caulfield

Ethel Giffes

 

4.10 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: WINDOWS

29Nov1950

adapted from the John Galsworthy play

guest stars

Valerie Cossart

Lex Richards

Mercer McLeod

 

4.11 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: SHORT STORY

06Dec1950

guest stars

Bramwell Fletcher

Viola Keats

 

4.12 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  MICHAEL AND MARY

13Dec1950

Based on a story by A.A. Milne
guest stars
Felicia Montealegre

Peter Fernandez

John Newland

 

4.13 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE VILLAGE GREEN

20Dec1950

guest stars

Raymond Van Sickle

Wendy Drew

Glenn Denning

 

4.14 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: RIP VAN WINKLE

27Dec1950

adapted by R.H. Lindsay

guest stars

E.G. Marshall

Lawrence Fletcher

Barbara Robbins

 

4.15 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: PAPER MOON

03Jan1951

adapted by R. Howard Lindsay

guest stars

Frances Robinson

Richard Kiley

 

4.16 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  KELLY

10Jan1951 (restaged)

written by Eric Hatch

guest stars

Mark Roberts

Olive Deering

E.G. Marshall

George Reeves
Synopsis:
Story of average Kansas gas station attendant who remembers a

beautiful girl in his past, then seeks to find her. A missing fortune in

Nazi loot and an army detective
This story is about a man looking for a beautiful girl from his past.

 

4.17 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: BEST YEARS

17Jan1951

adapted from Raymond Van Sickle play

guest stars

Leslie Nielsen

Dorothy Sands

Augusta Dabney

Bonnie Baken

 

4.18 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE SPRING GREEN

24Jan1951

guest stars

Conrad Janis

Flora Campbell

Herbert Nelson

Helen Seamon

 

4.19 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE SOUND OF HUNTING

31Jan1951

guest stars

Joseph Di Reda

Ralph Meeker

Biff Elliot

 

4.20 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE GLASS MOUNTAIN

07Feb1951

guest stars

Robert Pastene

Patricia Wheel

Blanche Yurka

 

4.21 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ENRAGED

14Feb1951

guest stars

Lloyd Bochner

Jean Gillespie

Louis Edmonds

Elizabeth Ross

Pat Englund

Dan Morgan

 

4.22 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE FORTUNE HUNTER

21Feb1951

adapted from a play by Winchell Smith

guest stars

Jack Lemmon

Margot Moser

Cameron Prud'homme

 

4.23 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: JANE EYRE

28Feb1951

guest stars

John Baragrey

Kathleen Crowley

 

4.24 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: DELICATE STORY

07Mar1951

guest stars

John Ericson

Nelson Olmsted

 

4.25 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ON STAGE

14Mar1951

written by Benjamin Kaye

guest stars

E.G. Marshall

Vaughn Taylor

Barbara Joyce

Patricia Englund

 

4.26 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: OF FAMOUS MEMORY

21Mar1951

written by E.B. Ginty

guest stars

Nancy Marchand

Mercer McLeod

Leslie Nielsen

 

4.27 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE SILENT ROOM

28Mar1951

guest stars

Meg Mundy

Dan Morgan

 

4.28 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: YOURS TRULY

04Apr1951

guest stars

John Randolph

Lisa Kirk

Judith Parrish

Richard Derr

 

4.29 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MRS. DANE'S DEFENSE

11Apr1951

adapted from Henry Arthur Jones play

guest stars

Madge Elliott

Faith Brook

Cyril Ritchard

 

4.30 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MR. MERGENTHWIRKER'S LOBBY

18Apr1951

guest stars

Vaughn Taylor

Vinton Hayworth

 

4.31 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: BRIEF MUSIC

25Apr1951

guest stars

Pat Conway

Patricia Kirkland

Joyce Van Patten

 

4.32 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: BRIEF CANDLE

02May1951

guest stars

Isobel Elsom

Douglass Watson

 

4.33 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: 'TIL DEATH DO US PART

09May1951

guest stars

John Newland

Gwen Anderson

Charles Summers

 

4.34 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE INTIMATE STRANGERS

16May1951

guest stars

Peggy Conklin

Nelson Olmsted

 

4.35 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A PLAY FOR MARY

23May1951

guest stars

Cloris Leachman

James Daly

Bramwell Fletcher

 

4.36 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: BEN FRANKLIN

30May1951

guest stars

Jocelyn Brando

Robert Emhardt

 

4.37 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A SEACOAST IN BOHEMIA

06Jun1951

written by Ben Radin

guest stars

Philip Coolidge

Stuart MacIntosh

Raymond Rizzo

Lili Darvas

Biff Elliot

Joyce Van Patten

Dan Morgan

 

4.38 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: STRANGEHOLD

13Jun1951

guest stars

Enid Markey

Gene Lyons

Marlyn Monk

 

4.39 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ONLY THE HEART

20Jun1951

adapted by Horton Foote

directed by Stanley Quinn

guest stars

Jack Ewing

Isobel Price

Isobel Robins

Dorothy Sands

 

4.40 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MERRY MADNESS

27Jun1951

Adapted from the play by Sheridan Gibney.
guest stars

Cameron Prud'homme

Regina Wallace

 

4.41 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

04Jul1951

guest stars

Charles Taylor

Joey Walsh

 

4.42 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: VIENNA DATELINE

11Jul1951

guest stars

Natalie Core

John Stephen

Robert Dale Martin

Mary Jones

 

4.43 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ZONE FOUR

18Jul1951

written by James Fielder Cook

guest stars

Louisa Horton

Richard Kiley

 

4.44 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: BRIGHT SHADOW

25Jul1951

guest stars

Raymond Evans

Valerie Cardew

Richard Aherne

Frederick Worlock

 

4.45 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: HILDA MCKAY

01Aug1951

guest stars

Polly Rowles

Robert Pastene

John Baragrey

Wendy Drew

 

4.46 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: OLD DOC

08Aug1951

guest stars

Dorothy Sands

Judy Parrish

Vaughn Taylor

John Stephen

 

4.47 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: JOHN WILKES BOOTH

15Aug1951

guest stars

John Baragrey

Oliver Thorndike

Raymond Bramley

 

4.48 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: WITH RAYMOND RICE

22Aug1951

guest stars

Vaughn Taylor

Enid Markey

 

4.49 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ASHES IN THE WIND

29Aug1951

Written by Mac Shoub
Directed by Stanley Quinn
guest stars
Herbert Rudley ..... Oscar
Geraldine Wall ..... Edith
Hildy Parks ........ Van
Emily Lawrence ..... Helen
George Hill ........ Vic
Dorothy Sands ...... Mother
Jack Ewing ......... Willie
Mary James ......... Nurse

 

4.50 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE EASY MARK

05Sep1951

Script based on the production of The Easy Mark by Jack Larric.

 guest stars

Jack Lemmon

 

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5.01 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE TALE OF THE WOLF

12Sep1951

Adapted by Hans Barstch
From the work by Ferenc Molnar
guest stars

Donald Curtis

Katharine Bard

 

5.02 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE WREN

19Sep1951

guest stars

Alan Shayne

Janet De Gore

Howard Wierum

 

5.03 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE CLIMAX

26Sep1951

guest stars

Olive Deering

Oliver Thorndike

Jack Arthur

 

5.04 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: IRISH EYES

03Oct1951

guest stars

Andrea Wallace

Paul Langton

Dick Foran

 

5.05 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: SEEN BUT NOT HEARD

10Oct1951

guest stars

Jean Gillespie

Eleanor Wilson

Lawrence Fletcher

 

5.06 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MOON OVER MULBERRY STREET

19Oct1951

guest stars

Tige Andrews

Dolores Sutton

William Edmunds

 

5.07 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: INTOLERANCE

24Oct1951

guest stars

John Stephen

Margaret Phillips

Bramwell Fletcher

 

5.08 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: HOUR OF CRISIS

31Oct1951

guest stars

Cliff Hall

Hazel Dawn

Billy Lynn

 

5.09 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: JUSTICE

07Nov1951

guest stars

Fred Stewart

Alan Shayne

Malcolm Keen

 

5.10 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: NEVER BE THE SAME

14Nov1951

guest stars

Jean Adair

Dan Morgan

Kristine Miller

Howard Freeman

 

5.11 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: DEAR BRUTUS

21Nov1951

adapted from the James M. Barrie play

guest stars

Donald Curtis

Joseph Anthony

Tom McElhany

Joan Wetmore

 

5.12 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE FAIR HAIRED BOY

28Nov1951

guest stars

Dick Foran

Nelson Olmsted

Frances Helm

Richard Carlyle

 

5.13 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: LOYALTIES

05Dec1951

guest stars

Lloyd Bochner

Philip Friend

Toby Robins

 

5.14 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE GOLDEN STATE

12Dec1951

written by Sam Spewack

guest stars

Dorothy Malone

J. Pat O'Malley

Jane Rose

Edgar Stehli

Logan Ramsey

George Roy Hill

 

5.15 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: INCIDENT ON FIFTH AVENUE

19Dec1951

guest stars

Hildy Parks

Joseph Sweeney

Gene Lee

 

5.16 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE NANTUCKET LEGEND

26Dec1951

guest stars

Vaughn Taylor

Myrtle Ferguson

Pat O'Malley

Brook Byron

 

5.17 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE NEW GOSSOON

02Jan1952

adapted from G. Shiels play

guest stars

E.G. Marshall

Carmen Mathews

 

5.18 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: PHILIP GOES FORTH

09Jan1952

adapted from the George Kelly play

guest stars

Roddy McDowall

Blanche Yurka

William Harrigan

 

5.19 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE ROUND TABLE

16Jan1952

written by Lennox Robinson

guest stars

Katherine Bard

Gene Lyons

Christine White

 

5.20 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR

23Jan1952

guest stars

Dick Foran

Nancy Marchand

Nita Talbot

Melville Cooper

 

5.21 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MRS. O'BRIEN ENTERTAINS

30Jan1952

guest stars

Patrick O'Neal

John McGiver

Peg Hillias as Mrs. O'Brien

 

5.22 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: FOLLOW THE DREAM

06Feb1952

guest stars

Vivian Ferrer

 

5.23 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE SKIN GAME

13Feb1952

guest stars

Tom Helmore

 

5.24 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE MOLLUSC

20Feb1952

guest stars

John Newland

Ernest Truex

Dortha Duckworth

 

5.25 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: SEPTEMBER TIDE

27Feb1952

adapted from the Daphne du Maurier story

guest stars

Robert Pastene

Esther Ralston

 

5.26 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: WHAT ANNE BROUGHT HOME

05Mar1952

written by Larry E. Johnson

guest stars

Beverly Dennis

William Redfield

Tom Shirley

Michael Dreyfuss

 

5.27 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE THIEF

12Mar1952

guest stars

Lauren Gilbert

Vaughn Taylor

Robert Shackleton

Beverly Whitney

 

5.28 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE BRIDE THE SUN SHINES ON

19Mar1952

guest stars

Cloris Leachman

John Newland

 

5.29 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ON THE RUGGED PATH

26Mar1952

written by George Shiels

guest stars

E.G. Marshall

Carmen Mathews

Philip Kenneally

Mildred Clinton

Dan Morgan

 

5.30 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THAT RYAN GIRL

02Apr1952

guest stars

Audrey Christie

Una O'Connor

Edmon Ryan

 

5.31 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE LAST MILE

09Apr1952

guest stars

John Newland

Robert Keith

Ben Gazzara

 

5.32 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: GREEN CARS GO EAST

16Apr1952

guest stars

James Dayton

William Harrigan

 

5.33 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE SUMMIT

23Apr1952

guest stars

E.G. Marshall

Carmen Mathews

 

5.34 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET

30Apr1952

guest stars

Anne Jackson

John Newland

 

5.35 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

07May1952

guest stars

John Baragrey

Kate Hardcastle

Stella Andrew

 

5.36 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE INN

14May1952

guest stars

Rod Steiger

Margaret Hayes

Warner Anderson

 

5.37 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: PROLOGUE TO GLORY

21May1952

story by E.P. Conkle

guest stars

Patricia Breslin

James Dean

Una O'Connor

Thomas Coley

William Lee

Butch Clavell

 

5.38 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE THIRD VISITOR

28May1952

guest stars

Berry Kroeger

Glenn Anders

 

5.39 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: AT MRS. BEAM'S

04Jun1952

guest stars

Lisa Ferraday

Phoebe Mackay

 

5.40 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH

11Jun1952

guest stars

Grace Kelly

Russell Hardie

Synopsis:
A cricket prevents a murder. [RF]

 

5.41 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE DEATH OF KID SLAWSON

18Jun1952

guest stars

Walter Matthau

 

5.42 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THORN IN THE FLESH

25Jun1952

guest stars

Peter Cookson

Beatrice Straight

 

5.43 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A TIME FOR TURNING

02Jul1952

guest stars

Gaby Rodgers

 

5.44 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE GREAT BIG DOORSTEP

16Jul1952

prod. no. 52-3048

Script based on the production of The Great Big Doorstep by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
guest stars

E.G. Marshall ....... Commodore Crochet

Florida Friebus ....... Mrs. Crochet

Enid Pulver

Florence Lurien

Humphrey Davis

Bill Penn

Susan Hallaran

Ellen Barrie

Louis Edmonds

Nancy R. Pollock

Myrtle Garfuson
Synopsis:
The story of the Crochets, a Cajun family, who live in a Louisiana bayou.

 They are proud of the steps which they have salvaged from the river

for their two-room shack, which houses a family of eight. "The Commodore"

 is a lazy man, who presumably earns his living as a ditchdigger.

Mrs. Crochet raises lilies in the swamp, hoping she will someday be

able to sell them. They learn of the possibility of getting a larger home,

one that will match their steps, if they can raise $60. They are sure of

getting the money, but at the last minute their hopes are dashed when

 their sources prove unreliable. Then a florist from New Orleans appears

and buys all of Mrs. Crochet's lilies, 7,000 at 2 cents each, saving the day. [RF]

 

5.45 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE MUSIC MASTER

30Jul1952

guest stars

Don Murray

Roland Winters

Stefan Schnabel

 

 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: no details

06Aug1952

 

5.46 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: LACE ON HER PETTICOAT

13Aug1952

guest stars

Denise Alexander

Valerie Cossart

Una O'Connor

Herbert Rudley

 

5.47 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: INDIAN SUMMER

20Aug1952

guest stars

Jayne Meadows

Anna Lee

Russell Hardie

Edmon Ryan

 

5.48 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE SMALL HOURS

27Aug1952

guest stars

Katherine Meskill

Lauren Gilbert

Grace Kelly

 

5.49 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MR. BARRY'S ETCHINGS

03Sep1952

guest stars

Geoffrey Lumb

 

5.50 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: LETTER TO LUCERNE

10Sep1952

guest stars

Bethel Leslie

 

5.51 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE GRASS HARP

17Sep1952

guest stars

Mildred Natwick

Russell Collins

 

5.52 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: BACKGROUND

24Sep1952

guest stars

Donald Briggs

Joseph Anthony

Katharine Bard

 

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6.01 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MICHAEL AND MARY

01Oct1952

adapted from the A.A. Milne play

restaged from show telecast on 13Dec1950

guest stars

Scott Forbes ....... Michael

Maria Riva ....... Mary

 

6.02 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE NEW TENANT

08Oct1952

guest stars

Katherine Meskill

Alan Bunce

Blanche Yurka

 

6.03 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A KISS FOR CINDERELLA

15Oct1952

guest stars

Mary Kay Stearns ....... Cinderella

Leslie Nielsen ....... Prince Charming

Melville Cooper

 

6.04 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A LONG NIGHT IN FORTY MILES

22Oct1952

guest stars

John Baragrey

Hildy Parks

Fred Stewart

 

6.05 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE DIVINE DRUDGE

29Oct1952

guest stars

Harry Townes

Robert Pastene

 

6.06 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MELODY JONES

05Nov1952

guest stars

Patsy Bruder

 

6.07 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: HILDA MCKAY

12Nov1952

guest stars

Shepperd Strudwick

Haila Stoddard

 

6.08 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE QUIET WEDDING

19Nov1952

guest stars

Alan Haines

 

6.09 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MR. LAZARUS

26Nov1952

story by Harvey O'Higgins & Harriet Ford

guest stars

E.G. Marshall ....... Mr. Lazarus

Don Murray ....... Booth

Dorotha Duckworth ....... Mrs. Sylvester

Joan Gray ....... Pat Molloy

Barry Kroeger ....... Dr. Sylvester

Synopsis:

The story of Mr. Lazarus, who appears at the boardinghouse of the Sylvesters.

He claims that he knew Mrs. Sylvester years ago and then claims he is

John Molloy, her first husband. He proves Dr. Sylvester to be a fraud and

helps Pat, Mrs. Sylvester's daughter, and Booth, her fiance, on the road

to the altar. Mr. Lazarus suddenly leaves, but the family is undecided

as to whether he is John Molloy or John Lazarus. [RF]

 

6.10 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE IRON GATE

03Dec1952

guest stars

Beatrice Straight

Henry Daniell

Patricia Breslin

Margaret Phillips

 

6.11 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE INTIMATE STRANGERS

10Dec1952

guest stars

Nelson Olmsted

Peggy Conklin

Isabel Price

 

6.12 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE GUEST

17Dec1952

guest stars

Judy Parrish

Ethel Remey

Gene Lyons

 

6.13 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

24Dec1952

guest stars

Malcolm Keen

Harry Townes

6.14 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: PAPER MOON

31Dec1952

adapted by R. Howard Lindsay

guest stars

Ruth Matteson

Richard Kiley

Amy Douglass

Caren Preiss

Ruth Chatterton

*Restaging of the episode of 03Jan1951

 

6.15 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:

THE FIRE BELOW AND THE DEVIL ABOVE

07Jan1953

written by Carey Wilber

prod. no. 53-80

guest stars

Tom Coley ....... Eben Stone

Bethel Leslie ....... Tabby

Richard Newton ....... Bluey

William A. Lee ....... Capt. Brewster

James Gregory ....... Bos'un

Whit Bissell ....... Chips

Vaughn Taylor ....... Rev. Obadiah Harkness
Synopsis:
The story of Eben Stone, mate on the brig Ellen B. He takes over as

master after the first mate is murdered and Captain Brewster dies.

The Rev. Obadiah Harkness and his daughter Tabby are passengers,

and Eben falls in love with her, and she with him. The cred led by

Bluey mutiny, and Eben says he must deal with a fire below and the

Devil above. A fire breaks out in the hold, and he goes into the hold

 to save the ship. Bluey tries to gain control of the ship, but the

Reverend Harkness and Tabby with the faithful Chips, the ship's

 carpenter, save both Eben and the ship.

 

6.16 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ZONE FOUR

14Jan1953

guest stars

Richard Kiley

Mary Fickett

John Newland

Lauren Gilbert

 

6.17 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A SQUARE PEG

21Jan1953

guest stars

Evelyn Varden

Lois Bolton

Irene Vernon

Frank M. Thomas

 

6.18 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: DUET

28Jan1953

written by Robert Noah

guest stars

Jack Lemmon

Ray Rizzo

Sallie Brophy

Anatole Winogradoff

 

6.19 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE CHESS GAME

04Feb1953

written by Robert Howard Lindsay

directed by Maurice Holland

prod. no. 53-494

guest stars

Russell Collins ....... Graham

Joey Walsh ....... Johnny

Robert Carroll ....... Glen Polk

Sally Chamberlin ....... Helen Polk

Nana Bryant ....... Mrs. Lucas

Gene O'Donnell ....... Lt. Finney

Nell Harrison ....... Miss Spinner
Synopsis:
John Green, a young delinquent fearing he is suspected of murder,

takes refuge in the home of John Graham, a cynical, atheistic drunk.

 Graham, with the help of the theological student Glen Polk, his wife,

and mother-in-law, create a new identity for John Green as Johnny

Graham. In the mental chess game of trying to evade the law,

Johnny is helped by John Graham, who confesses to the crime in

order to save the young man's life. Graham's good deed is rewarded

when Lt. Finney reveals that the murderer has been found. [RF]

 

6.20 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: RIGHT YOU ARE!

11Feb1953

guest stars

Tom Helmore

Olive Blakeney

 

6.21 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: SNOOKSIE

18Feb1953

adapted by Carey Wilbur

guest stars

Jack Lemmon

J. Pat O'Malley

Andree Wallace

Jack Warden

Vinton Hayworth

 

6.22 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: STAR BRIGHT

25Feb1953

guest stars

William Roerick

Georgann Johnson

 

6.23 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MY BROTHER'S KEEPER

04Mar1953

written by George Roy Hill

guest stars

Rod Steiger

James Gregory

George Roy Hill

John Connell

 

6.24 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: SO VERY YOUNG

11Mar1953

guest stars

Henry Jones

 

6.25 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: AUTUMN STORY

18Mar1953

guest stars

Alan Bruce

Perry Wilson

 

6.26 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MISS MABEL

25Mar1953

guest stars

Estelle Winwood

Frederic Worlock

Malcolm Keen

 

6.27 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE SUMMER PLACE

01Apr1953

guest stars

John Newland

Blanche Yurka

 

6.28 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: NEXT OF KIN

08Apr1953

written by Rod Serling

directed by Stanley Quinn

guest stars

Frederic Tozere

Patricia Ferris

Jack Arthur

Gene Lyons

James Daly

 

6.29 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: RAIN NO MORE

15Apr1953

written by James Costigan

directed by Maury Holland

guest stars

James Costigan

Edward Binns

Murray Hamilton

Penny Santon

Una O'Connor

 

6.30 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE NEW SERVANT

22Apr1953

guest stars

Wright King

John Seymour

Katherine Meskill

 

6.31 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: HOODLUMS WITH A HALO

29Apr1953

guest stars

Frank Albertson

Constance Ford

Joe Maross

 

6.32 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: SIXTH ANNIVERSARY

06May1953

guest stars

Nancy Marchand

Leslie Nielsen

Rod Steiger

George Roy Hill

John Baragrey

*Note Features excerpts from past Kraft programs:

Of Famous Memory (first aired 3/21/51) -- January Thaw (first aired 10/47)

-- Wuthering Heights (first aired 11/17/48) -- My Brother's Keeper (first aired 3/4/53).

 

6.33 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: FINAL EDITION

13May1953

guest stars

Chester Morris

 

6.34 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ONE LEFT OVER

20May1953

guest stars

Harry Townes

Patricia Wheel

Isobel Price

 

6.35 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE TWILIGHT ROUNDS

27May1953

written by Rod Serling

guest stars

Frank Maxwell

Pat O'Malley

Barbara Baxley

Tony Canzoneri

 

[--] Kraft Television Theatre: no details

03Jun1953

 

6.36 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE ASCENT OF P.J. O'HARA

10Jun1953

guest stars

Florida Friebus

Cliff Hall

 

6.37 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: BOY OF MINE

17Jun1953

written by Dana Thomas

guest stars

Henry Jones

Grace Keddy

Martin Newman
Synopsis:
Story concerns the grief of a couple who are afraid of losing their

 adopted teenage son to his heartless mother. [JB]

*Note: Not Grace Kelly but Grace Keddy according to TVGuide 1953 issue.

 

6.38 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE RAINY DAY

24Jun1953

guest stars

Joe Maross

Ernest Truex

Joey Walsh

Sylvia Fields
Synopsis:
A father is willing to sacrifice his lifetime's savings in order to assure

a brighter future for his son. [RF]

 

6.39 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE DIEHARD

01Jul1953

guest stars

Jackie Cooper

 

6.40 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

08Jul1953

guest stars

Harry Townes

Beverly Whitney

Perry Wilson
Synopsis:

A house is kept beautiful by the spirit of the people in it rather than

by the interior decorator. [JB]

 

6.41 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE BLIND SPOT

15Jul1953

guest stars

John Baragrey

Ruth Matteson

Richard Waring

 

6.42 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:

THE ADVENTURES OF THE KIND MR. SMITH

22Jul1953

written by Kathleen and Robert Howard Lindsay

guest stars

Rene Paul

Martyn Green

Marcel Hillaire

 

6.43 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE INTRUDER

29Jul1953

guest stars

John Beal

Patsy Bruder

Kathleen Comegys

Valerie Cossart

 

6.44 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: OLD MACDONALD HAD A CURVE

05Aug1953

written by Rod Serling

directed by Harry Hermann

guest stars

Olin Howlin

Jack Warden

Cameron Prud'homme
Synopsis:
The story of a 67-year-old ex-major leaguer rejoining his former team

after developing a freakish curve ball. [RF]

 

6.45 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: DAY OF THE VISION

12Aug1953

guest stars

Ilka Chase

Harry Townes

John McGovern

 

6.46 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: IN ALBERT'S ROOM

19Aug1953

guest stars

Joe Maross

Tony Randall

 

6.47 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE BLUES FOR JOEY MENOTTI

26Aug1953

written by Rod Serling

guest stars

Dan Morgan

Constance Ford
 

 

7.01 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: QUITE A GUY

02Sep1953

guest stars

Patricia McCormack

Nancy Devlin

Richard Carlyle

Barry McGuire

Allen Nourse

Synopsis:
An athlete's coach tries to bend the rules to allow his star to play in the big game.

 

7.02 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: DOUBLE IN IVORY

09Sep1953

Written by Michelle Cousin

guest stars

Lee Remick

Robert Pastene

Beverly Whitney

Synopsis:
A child prodigy finds it difficult to adjust to adulthood.

 

7.03 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: HER FATHER'S BUTLER

16Sep1953

Written by Dana Thomas

guest stars

Constance Ford

Richard Kiley

Cameron Prud'homme

Chester Stratton

Synopsis:

A millionaire's mischievous daughter hires an outsider

after all the household help has quit.

 

7.04 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: CORINTH HOUSE

23Sep1953

guest stars

Kathleen Comegys

Edgar Stehli

Margaret Phillips
Synopsis:
A boarding house is run by a former teacher and when one

of her students shows up for revenge, her guests lives are jeopardized.

 

7.05 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: LOBBLIES NEVER LIE

30Sep1953

Written by Nelson S. Bond

Based on the novel Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies and Other Fantastic Tales.
guest stars

Vaughn Taylor ..... Mr. Mergenthwirker

Leora Dana

Synopsis:
A small town reporter is assisted by invisible pixies

who help him solve a murder.

 

7.06 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: CAP'N JONAS

07Oct1953

Written by Robert H. Lindsay
guest stars

Mark Roberts

Fred Stewart

Paul Flannagan
Synopsis:
An ill boy befriends an old sea captain named Jonas and

 each vow to help the other if misfortune befalls them.

 

7.07 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: KEEP OUR HONOR BRIGHT

14Oct1953

Written by George Roy Hill

Directed by Maury Holland

guest stars

Michael Higgins

Joan Potter

James Dean ....... Jim

Addison Richards

Bradford Dillman

George Roy Hill

Larry Fletcher

Synopsis:
A student faces expulsion after being caught cheating on an exam.
 

7.08 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE PICKET FENCE

21Oct1953

Written by George Lowther
guest stars

Lee Remick

Lois Bolton

Synopsis:

A family faces economic disaster unless they unite.

 

7.09 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE THRESHOLD

28Oct1953

guest stars

Edward Binns

Joey Walsh

Marian Seldes

Synopsis:
An expectant mother worries that her husband already overloaded

 with the car and house payments may feel like a failure.

 

7.10 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: DREAM HOUSE

04Nov1953

Written by Arthur Cavanaugh

guest stars

Rod Steiger

Doris Rich

Kenny Delmar

Jack Warden
Synopsis:
A lonely couple get married only to find out that isn't what they were looking for.

 

7.11 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A LONG TIME TILL DAWN

11Nov1953

Written by Rod Serling

Directed by Richard Dunlap

guest stars

James Dean ....... Joe Harris

Naomi Riordan

Rudolph Weiss

Ted Osborn

Robert F. Simon
Synopsis:
Joe Harris, a young ex-con, out of jail only a few hours, visits kindly

Papa Goldens delicatessen and beats the old man into a coma and

eventually; a coffin. His pretty wife has moved to New Jersey and is

living with Joes father. Angry at first at the direction Joes life has been

 taking, the older Harris warms to the idea of the return of the prodigal

son. Describing the youth as a "poet and a gangster," wife and father

provide an untrue alibi for Joe when a world-weary cop with a son of

his own comes to make the pinch. [RF]

 

7.12 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE GATE

18Nov1953

Written by Kathleen Lindsay
guest stars

Margaret Wycherly

Audra Lindley

Addison Richards

Dortha Duckworth
Synopsis:
After marrying into a wealthy Southern family,

a man discovers that it is she who is in control.

 

7.13 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: GAVIN

25Nov1953

Written by John Howard Lindsay

Based on the short story by John Van Druten
Directed by Harry Herrmann

guest stars

Jane Seymour II

Richard Kendrick

Beatrice Straight

Synopsis:
A man has a difficult time with his second wife when he tells

conflicting stories of the son from his first marriage.

 

7.14 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE ROSE GARDEN

02Dec1953

Based on the play by Meade Roberts
guest stars

Enid Markey

Synopsis:

An actress tries to reclaim her spotlight without success, so

she decides to return to her hometown and open an acting school.

 

7.15 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A ROOM AND A HALF

09Dec1953

Written by George Lowther

guest stars

Joe Maross

Patricia Smith

Jack Pearl
Synopsis:
On the eve of their first wedding anniversary, a couple find

 their marriage is jeopardized by their families.

 

7.16 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: TO LIVE IN PEACE

16Dec1953

Written by George (George H.) Faulkner
Based on the play by Victor Rietti
guest stars

Anne Bancroft

Florenz Ames

Arnold Moss

Doro Merande

Synopsis:
When a relative of Napoleon Bonaparte's is contacted to take

a position in Paris, the small town is in an uproar.

 

7.17 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: RIP VAN WINKLE

23Dec1953 (restaging)

Adapted by Robert Howard Lindsay

Based on the story by Washington Irving

guest stars

E.G. Marshall

Ray Bramley

June Dayton

James Young

Synopsis:
Rip Van Winkle goes on a walk to escape his nagging wife

 and lies down for a nice long nap.

 

7.18 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A CUP OF KINDNESS

30Dec1953

Adapted for television by James Costigan
From the work by Aleen Leslie
guest stars

Lilia Skala

Mark Roberts

Elaine Stritch

Constance Ford

James Costigan
Synopsis:
A boardinghouse owner looks for male boarders to marry her granddaughter.

 

7.19 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE THANKFUL HEART

06Jan1954

Adapted by Jack Roche
Based on a story by Herbert A. Francis

guest stars

Grace Kelly

John Stephen

Florenz Ames

Leora Thatcher
Synopsis:
A successful surgeon urges his father, a country doctor to retire.

 

7.20 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE ATHERTON BOY

13Jan1954

written by Reginald Lawrence

guest stars

Grant Sullivan

Louise Allbritton
Margaret Barker
Synopsis:
The lifeguard at a wealthy resort exerts a powerful attraction

upon the visitors. [RF]

 

7.21 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ONE MAN IN A MILLION

20Jan1954

guest stars

Ed Begley

James Barton
Doro Merande
Raymond Bramley
Dorothy Hart

Synopsis:
A Vermont farmer applies for a loan from the U.S. government

and gets a check for a million dollars.

 

7.22 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE ANTIQUE TOUCH

27Jan1954

Written by William Iversen
guest stars

Tony Randall
Dorothy Donahue
Pud Flanagan
Synopsis:
A schoolteacher who buys an ancient dwelling in a New England town,

under the impression that the house is of great historic importance.

 

7.23 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE MISSING YEARS

03Feb1954

Based on the novel by Patricia McGerr
guest stars

Anthony Perkins

Mary Astor

Ted Brenner

Synopsis:

A man returns after deserting his family years ago.

 

7.24 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE BARN

10Feb1954

Written by George Lowther

guest stars

Felicia Montealegre

Edward Binns

Audra Lindley

Vaughn Taylor
Synopsis:
A string of terrible events causes a man to lose his faith in God.

 

7.25 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE CUCKOO CLOCK

17Feb1954

Written by Gerald Savory
guest stars

Edgar Stehli

Gaby Rodgers

Hans Schumm

Synopsis:

A man adjusting to life in America finds it difficult to break with

old traditions and becomes upset with his daughter's new beau.

 

7.26 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: GALLIN, ALL-AMERICAN
24Feb1954
Written by Nicholas Baehr
guest stars
Judson Pratt
Don Dubbins
Joanna Roos
Synopsis:
A father and son, both "All Americans", have a major adjustment to

make when the father loses his sight. [RF]

 

7.27 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: TWO WEEKS IN THE COUNTRY

03Mar1954

Written by Robert Howard Lindsey & Kathleen Lindsey
guest stars

Paul Langton

Frances Reid

Charles Saari
Synopsis:
A couple decide to adopt, with no idea how to raise children,

 they take in a couple of unruly boys which almost makes

 them change their mind about adopting.

 

7.28 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE PICTURE WINDOW

10Mar1954

Written by Charles Mergendahl
guest stars

Raymond Bramley

Arthur Franz

Kathleen Maguire

Leora Thatcher

Synopsis:
A man plans on saving enough money to open a sporting goods store in the country.

 

7.29 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: YOU TOUCHED ME

17Mar1954

Adapted by Arthur Cavanaugh

Based on the story by Tennessee Williams

guest stars

Cynthia Latham

Martyn Green

Terence Kilburn

Katherine Willard

Deirdre Owens

Synopsis:

A father tries to cope with his spinster sister's influence over his daughter. [RF]

 

7.30 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: PARDON MY PRISONER

24Mar1954

guest stars

Helen Gallagher

Dennis James

Cliff Hall

Parker Fennelly
Kathleen Comegys
Warren Parker
Synopsis:
A woman is arrested for reckless driving in a small town.

Minor offenses are to be worked off and this places the young

woman in the home of a bachelor with a jealous fiance.

 

7.31 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A HAT FOR WINTER

31Mar1954

Written by Mel Goldberg

guest stars

Mary Fickett

Bart Burns

Bert Thorn

Synopsis:

A newly married man gives up his music for a real career,

the problem is that his music still calls to him.

 

7.32 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: MR. CANDIDO

07Apr1954

Written by Walt Anderson
guest stars

Jose Perez ........ Mr. Candido
Carlos Montalban .. Jesue Gomer
Muriel Berkson .... Adelita
Kimetha Auerbacher. Chea
Patrick McVey
Synopsis:
Homeless little boy is offered one home after another. [RF]
 

7.33 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR

14Apr1954

Written by Mary Chamberlin
guest stars

Charles Drake

Louisa Horton

Audrey Christie

Anne Mary Tallon
Synopsis:
A very private family falls under scrutiny from the townspeople.

 

7.34 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE LITTLE GOD SELLS TAMALES

21Apr1954

Written by Walt Anderson

guest stars

Henry Lascoe

Leon Belasco

Don Dubbins

Luis Van Rooten
Synopsis:
A poverty stricken restaurant owner has dreams of sending his son to college.

 

7.35 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: DR. RAINWATER GOES A-COURTIN'

28Apr1954

Written by Dale Wasserman
Adapted from the short story by William Brandon
guest stars

Jack Warden

Pat Smith

Heywood Hale Broun

Peter Kelley

Synopsis:
A medicine show man is jailed in a small town for a

minor offense and agrees to court a girl.

 

7.36 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ALICE IN WONDERLAND

05May1954

Adapted by Jack Roche

Based on the novel by Lewis Carroll
Directed by Maury Holland

Narrators Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy

guest stars

Robin Morgan ........ Alice
Art Carney .......... Mad Hatter
Grant Williams ...... White Knight

Arnold Moss ......... Red Knight
Arthur Treacher ..... Cheshire Cat
Blanche Yurka ....... Queen of Hearts
Bobby Clark ......... King of Hearts
Ernest Truex ........ Dormouse
Cliff Hall .......... Duchess
James Barton
Joey Walsh
Una O'Connor
Joe E. Marks
Fredd Wayne
Chandler Cowles

Synopsis:

Classic children's story of Alice's adventures.

 

*Note: This was a Seventh Anniversary presentation.

 

7.37 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE STAKE

12May1954

Written by George Lefferts
guest stars

Walter Klavun

Louise Horton

John Baragrey

Joe Maross

Leon Belasco

Synopsis:
An affair with the wife of a corporal during the Indian battles of 1871,

leave the troops abandoning the lieutenant in order to save their corporal.

 

7.38 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: A TOUCH OF SUMMER

19May1954

guest stars

Jerome Cowan

Cora Witherspoon

Ruth Matteson

William Duell
Synopsis:
An actor finally gets his break on stage in the production of "Henry V".

 

7.39 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE SCARLET LETTER

26May1954

Adapted by George H. Faulkner

Classic story by Nathaniel Hawthorne

guest stars

Kim Stanley .......... Hester Prnne
Leslie Nielsen ....... Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Bramwell Fletcher .... Roger Chillingworth
Margaret Wycherly .... Mistress Hibbin
Jack Livesey
Barbara Meyer
Logan Ramsey

Synopsis:
Young Hester Prynne is condemned to wear a scarlet "A" as a sign that she is an adultress.

 Her elderly husband becomes the physician to the minister he believes to be her lover. [RF]

 

7.40 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: CITIZEN MILLER

02Jun1954

guest stars

Edgar Stehli

Vaughn Taylor

Enid Markey

Marie Carroll

Bruno Wick

Stuart MacIntosh
Leona Powers
Synopsis:
Residing at an old age rest home, a man is unexpectedly called for jury duty.

 

7.41 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: ROMEO AND JULIET

09Jun1954

Based on the William Shakespeare classic
Directed by Richard Dunlap
guest stars

Liam Sullivan ........ Romeo

Susan Strasberg ..... Juliet

Carroll McComas ...... Nurse

Noel Leslie ...... Friar Laurence

Eric Sinclair ..... Benvolio

Felix Deebank ...... Mercutio

Marc Breaux .......... Tybalt
Jack Livesey ......... Lord Capulet
Madeleine Clive ...... Lady Capulet
Synopsis:

Shakespeare's tragic drama of two youngsters who fall in love and plan

 to marry secretly because their families are engaged in a bitter feud. [RF]

 

7.42 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE MAN WHO TOOK TO HIS BED

16Jun1954

guest stars

Jack Hartley

Pat Smith

Perry Fiske
Roy Bromley
Synopsis:
A man is frustrated by his wife's spending that he suggests

 she get a job and see how hard it is to make a living.

 

7.43 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE LONG ROAD HOME

23Jun1954

Written by Marc Brandel
guest stars

James Gregory

Peggy Conklin

Sara Haden

Denise Alexander
John Cunnaughton
Synopsis:
After serving his time for embezzlement a man finds that

 no one is willing to hire him and give him another chance.

 

7.44 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE MAN MOST LIKELY

30Jun1954

Written by Raphael Hayes

Directed by Maury Holland

guest stars

Rod Steiger

Wright King

Zina Provendie

Eli Mintz

Anna Appel
Mikhail Rasumny
Synopsis:
A businessman goes bankrupt after carelessly relying on luck to achieve success.

 

7.45 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: WISH TONIGHT

07Jul1954

Written by A.B. Shiffrin (Abraham B.)
guest stars

Patrick McVey

Susan Hallaran

Beverly Roberts

Synopsis:
A child tries hard to get her father to grow up and start facing reality.

 

7.46 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: AN AMERICAN LYRIC

14Jul1954

Written by Robert E. Carson
guest stars

Joe Verdi

Maureen Stapleton
Felice Orlandi
Carlo D'Angelo
Gloria Marlowe
Synopsis:
An immigrant wants to return to his homeland after a long struggle.

 

7.47 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: KNIGHT IN A BUSINESS SUIT

21Jul1954

Written by George Lowther
guest stars

Arthur O'Connell

Valerie Cossart

Toni Hallaran
Synopsis:
A bank employee needs a raise for his family

of five and finds it difficult to ask his boss for it.

*Note: Title copyrighted as Knight in a Baseball Suit.

 

7.48 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: EDIE AND THE PRINCESS

28Jul1954

Written by Ben Radin
guest stars

William Smithers

Susan Hallaran

Pat Smith

Dortha Duckworth
Patricia Wheel
Joseph Foley
Synopsis:
An eight year old meddles with her older sister's love life.

 

7.49 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE HAPPY TOUCH

04Aug1954

Written by Kathleen Lindsay & Robert H. Lindsay
Story by Edmund Beloin & Henry Garson

guest stars

Chester Stratton ..... Reverend Sam Thurber

Zasu Pitts

Margaret Hamilton

Doro Merande

Synopsis:
The poor Reverend Thurber has no idea that his relative is a

 criminal when she tries to help him with the recent land swindle.

 

7.50 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: CHARM BRACELET

11Aug1954

Written by Helen Cotton
guest stars

Una O'Connor

Frank Overton

Joanna Roos

Synopsis:
A widow moves out of her son's house after his wife gives him an ultimatum.

 

7.51 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE WORRIED MAN'S BLUES

18Aug1954

Adapted from the play by George H. Faulkner
guest stars

Edgar Stehli

Joe Maross

Bill Dillard

John Shellie
Synopsis:
A veteran is implicated in a murder and the small townspeople are ready to lynch him.

 

7.52 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: SHORT STORY

25Aug1954

Adapted from the play by Robert Morley
guest stars

Carmen Mathews

Murray Matheson

Gaby Rodgers
Nicholas Joy
Synopsis:
An author on a cruise becomes infatuated with a woman and writes a story to entice her.

 

7.53 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: KIDNAPPED

01Sep1954

Adapted by George H. Faulkner

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Kidnapped".

Directed by Maury Holland

guest stars

Johnny Stewart .... Davie Balfour

Dick Foran

Dennis Patrick

Jerome Kilty

Jack Livesey

Frederick Worlock

Synopsis:

Davie Balfour is only fifteen years old and must triumph over adversity

 to claim his inheritance as he journeys to the New World.

 

7.54 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: PARTY FOR JONATHAN

08Sep1954

Written by Aurand Harris
guest stars

Betty Sinclair ...... Beulah
Carl Betz ........... Jonathan
Barbara Myers ....... Debbie
Patti Bosworth ...... Wilba
Joseph Foley
Synopsis:
A small-town spinster plans a party for a little girl's brother who is returning

from Australia after an absence of 20 years. She and the little girl plan the

"welcome home" affair together. The spinster is faced with a stern

 decision when events take a strange turn. [RF]
 

 7.55 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE WITCH CHILD
15Sep1954
Adapted by Lois Landauer
From a short story by Olive Burt
guest stars
Adele Newton
Stevie Briggs
Ethel Remey
Synopsis:
An old woman in a backwoods community is considered a witch. As a result, her little granddaughter has her troubles with her schoolmates, with the exception of one little boy. [RF]

 

7.56 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE LIGHT IS COLD

22Sep1954

Written by Robert J. Shaw
guest stars

Elizabeth Montgomery

Don Dubbins

Lilia Skala

Russell Hardie
Jeff Harris
Synopsis:
A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor boy and her parents feel that

they are not suited to each other.

8.01 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  A SIMPLE MATTER

29Sep1954

guest stars

Harry Townes

Joey Walsh

 

8.02 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE OFFICE DANCE

06Oct1954

guest stars

Sammy Kaye

Nancy Marchand

Phyllis Love

Doris Rich

 

8.03 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  PAPA WAS A SPORT

13Oct1954

written by Helen Cotton

guest stars

Richard Jaeckel

Lilia Skala

Barnard Hughes

 

8.04 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE LUCK OF THE ROARING CAMP

20Oct1954

written by Dale Wasserman

guest stars

Joe Maross

Mary Sinclair

Cliff Hall

William Harrigan

J. Pat O'Malley

Jared Reed

 

8.05 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  SPLIT LEVEL

27Oct1954

written by Charles Mergendahl

guest stars

Biff McGuire

Nydia Westman

Pat Smith

 

8.06 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  FULL OF THE OLD HARRY

03Nov1954

guest stars

Leora Dana

Fritz Lieber

Douglass Montgomery

 

8.07 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE WORLD AND THE WERNERS

10Nov1954

guest stars

Mikhail Rasumny

 

8.08 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE INDEPENDENT

17Nov1954

guest stars

Jeffrey Lynn

Joe Fallon

Frances Robinson

 

8.09 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  EMMA

24Nov1954

Adapted from Jane Austen's classic

guest stars

Felicia Montealegre ....... Emma Woodhouse

Roddy McDowall ....... Mr. Elton

Peter Cookson ....... Mr. Knightley

Martine Bartlett ....... Mrs. Elton

Stafford Dickens ....... Mr. Woodhouse

Sarah Marshall ....... Harriet Smith

Nydia Westman ....... Mrs. Weston

Robinson Stone ....... Mr. Weston

Nancie Hobbs ....... Mrs. Goddard

Peter Donat ....... William Larkins

McLean Savage ....... Searle

 

8.10 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: CAMILLE

01Dec1954

Adapted from Alexandre Dumas classic

guest stars

Signe Hasso ....... Camille

Jacques Bergerac ........ Armand
Charles Andre ........... Monsieur Duval

Lilia Skala ....... Prudence

Synopsis:
The tragic love affair of a prostitute and her soldier.

*Quote from the Times review: "Jacques Bergerac (currently Ginger Rogers' husband)

had scarcely as much animation as a wooden Indian and spoke

 his lines as if he had learned them phonetically."

 

8.11 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  CAREER

08Dec1954

written by William Chapman White

guest stars

Nancy Marchand

J. Pat O'Malley

Byron Sanders

E.A. Krumschmidt

 

8.12 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  ACCOUNT RENDERED

15Dec1954

guest stars

Jessie Royce Landis

Craig Kelly

Richard Kendrick

 

8.13 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE LITTLE STONE OF GOD

22Dec1954

guest stars

Tom Helmore

 

8.14 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  STRANGERS IN HIDING

29Dec1954

written by Robert Thomson

guest stars

Doro Merande

Inger Stevens

Harold Lang

Bradford Dillman

 

8.15 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  ONE HILL, ONE RIVER

05Jan1955

guest stars

Conrad Janis

Lee Remick

Wright King

Crahan Denton

 

8.16 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  PATTERNS

12Jan1955

written by Rod Serling

directed by Fielder Cook

guest stars

Everett Sloane ....... Mr. Ramsie

Ed Begley ......... Andy Sloane

Richard Kiley ....... Fred Staples

June Dayton ....... Fran Staples

Joanne Roos ........ Miss Lanier

Elizabeth Montgomery ........ Ann Evans

Elizabeth Wilson ....... Marge Fleming

Jack Arthur ....... Starter

Victoria Ward ....... Miss Stevens

Sybil Baker ....... Telephone Operator

Shirley Standlee ....... Miss Hill

Theodore Newton ....... Mr. Gordon

Jack Livesey ....... Mr. Jamieson

Ronnie Welsh ......... Paul Sloane

Tom Charles, Victor Harrison

Helen Ludlom, Joseph MacCauley

Al Morgen, Douglas Rutherford

Chuck Wallace
Synopsis:

Young Fred Staples is the new executive at Ramsie and Company

and the unwitting replacement for good natured vice president,

Andy Sloane. Ruthless Mr. Ramsie, president of the company, is

determined to oust Sloane whose humanitarian outlook Ramsie feels

is the enemy of big business.

Note: This drama of the power struggles amongst the executives of

a large company was so highly regarded at the time of it's first broadcast

that it was repeated, live, four weeks later (on February 9.)

 

8.17 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE WRITTEN WORD

19Jan1955

guest stars

Edward Binns

David Cole

J. Pat O'Malley

 

8.18 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  BOYS WILL BE BOYS

26Jan1955

written by Dale Wasserman

directed by Maury Holland

guest stars

James Barton

Ed Begley

Mary Howard

Heywood Hale Broun

 

8.19 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE SKIN GAME

02Feb1955

written by Robert Howard

guest stars

Richard Newton

Jack Livesey

J. Pat O'Malley

Frederic Tozere

 

 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: PATTERNS

09Feb1955

(repeat performance of highly acclaimed

showing of the 12Jan1955.)

 

8.20 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  DEPARTURE

16Feb1955

written by Steven Gethers
guest stars
Neva Patterson ....... Lisa
Mikhail Rasumny ....... Pop
Anna Appel ....... Mom
Mike Kellin ....... Seymour
Synopsis:
In their apartment overlooking the Hudson River, two sisters daydream

 of boarding one of the ships to Europe. Their dreams form an escape

 from family quarrels. [RF]

 

8.21 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE EMPEROR JONES

23Feb1955

Adapted from the play by Eugene O'Neill

guest stars

Ossie Davis ....... Emperor Jones

Everett Sloane

Rex Ingram

 

8.22 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:   HALF THE WORLD'S A BRIDE

02Mar1955

written by Betty Jeffries

guest stars

Loretta Leversee

Carmen Mathews

George Voskovec

 

8.23 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE NIGHT WATCHER

09Mar1955

guest stars

Edward Binns

Constance Ford

Mark Roberts

 

8.24 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  JEANNIE

16Mar1955

written by Aimee Stuart

guest stars

James Daly

Elizabeth Ross

Dan Morgan

 

8.25 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: THE STORY OF MARY SURRATT

23Mar1955

directed by Richard Dunlap

guest stars

Doreen Lang ........ Mary Surratt

Alexander Scourby

Anne Pearson

Bruce Gordon

Synopsis:
Mary Surratt, hanged in 1865 for complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln,

 and, like most historians, found her innocent. The quality of a woman too pure-minded

 to know or guess at the plot that was hatched in her own house; the military court that

condemned her to death had that toplofty disregard for the evidence that seems to

 identify all judges who hear cases with their minds already made up.

 

8.26 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  THE SOUTHWEST CORNER

30Mar1955

adapted by John Cecil Holm

directed by Maury Holland

guest stars

Eva Le Gallienne

Enid Markey

Parker Fennelly

 

8.27 [--] Kraft Television Theatre: WHIM OF IRON

06Apr1955

guest stars

Anthony Franciosa

Claudia Morgan

 

8.28 [--] Kraft Television Theatre:  NOW, WHERE WAS I?