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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