Kraft Theatre

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  • Genre(s):Drama
  • Release year: 1947
Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series that began May 7, 1947, on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year. It first promoted MacLaren's Imperial Cheese, which was advertised nowhere else.read more

Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series that began May 7, 1947, on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year. It first promoted MacLaren's Imperial Cheese, which was advertised nowhere else. In January 1948, it moved to 9pm on Wednesdays, continuing in that timeslot until 1958. Initially produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, the live hour-long series offered television plays with new stories and new characters each week, in addition to adaptations of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Alice in Wonderland. The program was broadcast live from Studio 8-H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, currently the home of Saturday Night Live.

Original Release

05/07/1947 on NBC

US Release

05/07/1947

Cast

(see additional cast & crew)
# Title Air Date
1 Vengeance Wednesday, 25 September 1957
2 Barefoot Soldier Wednesday, 02 October 1957
3 Smart Boy Wednesday, 09 October 1957
4 A Cook for Mr. General Wednesday, 16 October 1957
5 Man in a Trance Wednesday, 23 October 1957
6 Gun at a Fair One Wednesday, 30 October 1957
7 The Category Is Murder Wednesday, 06 November 1957
8 The Big Heist Wednesday, 13 November 1957
9 The Sound of Trouble Wednesday, 20 November 1957
10 Come to Me Wednesday, 04 December 1957
11 Heroes Walk on Sand Wednesday, 11 December 1957
12 Polka Wednesday, 18 December 1957
13 The Other Wise Man Wednesday, 25 December 1957
14 The Battle for Wednesday Night Wednesday, 01 January 1958
15 The Velvet Trap Wednesday, 08 January 1958
16 Code of the Corner Wednesday, 15 January 1958
17 Eddie Wednesday, 22 January 1958
18 Run, Joe, Run Wednesday, 29 January 1958
19 The Spell of the Tigress Wednesday, 05 February 1958
20 Material Witness Wednesday, 19 February 1958
21 The Woman at High Hollow Wednesday, 26 February 1958
22 Dog in a Bus Tunnel Wednesday, 05 March 1958
23 The Sea Is Boiling Hot Wednesday, 12 March 1958
24 Look What's Going On Wednesday, 19 March 1958
25 Angry Angel Wednesday, 26 March 1958
26 The Man in Authority Wednesday, 02 April 1958
27 Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: Moony's Kid Don't Cry/The Last of My Solid Gold Watches/This Property Is Condemned Wednesday, 16 April 1958
28 Angry Harvest Wednesday, 23 April 1958
29 Fifty Grand Wednesday, 30 April 1958
30 The Outcasts of Poker Flat Wednesday, 07 May 1958
31 All the King's Men: Part 1 Wednesday, 14 May 1958
32 All the King's Men: Part 2 Wednesday, 21 May 1958
33 A Boy Called Ciske Wednesday, 28 May 1958
34 The Last of the Belles Wednesday, 04 June 1958
35 Killer's Choice Wednesday, 11 June 1958
36 Now Will You Try for Murder? Wednesday, 18 June 1958
37 The Eighty Seventh Precinct Wednesday, 25 June 1958
38 Next Door to Death Wednesday, 02 July 1958
39 Cop Killer Wednesday, 09 July 1958
40 The Man Who Didn't Fly Wednesday, 16 July 1958
41 Focus on Murder Wednesday, 23 July 1958
42 Death Wears Many Faces Wednesday, 30 July 1958
43 Death for Sale Wednesday, 06 August 1958
44 Night Cry Wednesday, 13 August 1958
45 We Haven't Seen Her Lately Wednesday, 20 August 1958
46 Web of Guilt Wednesday, 27 August 1958
47 Back Track Wednesday, 03 September 1958
48 Trick or Treat Wednesday, 10 September 1958
49 A Cup of Kindness Wednesday, 17 September 1958
50 Riddle of a Lady Wednesday, 24 September 1958
51 Presumption of Innocence Wednesday, 01 October 1958
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Directors

William A. Graham, Richard Dunlap, Harry Herrmann, Maury Holland, Paul Bogart, Stanley Quinn, Fielder Cook, Sidney Lumet, George Roy Hill, Norman Morgan, Frank Telford, Frank Pacelli, Alan Anderson, Marc Daniels, Michael Dreyfuss, Lew Brown, Don Medford, Richard Goode, William Corrigan, Don Richardson, Murray Golden, David Orrick McDearmon, William O. Harbach, Edward V. Padula, Fred Carney, Robert Foster, Paul Stanley, David Alexander, George Weber, Ernest Colling, Alex Segal, Jack Klugman, John Boulting, Roy Boulting, Daniel Petrie, David Greene, Fred Coe

Writers

Robert Howard Lindsay, A.A. Milne, Dale Wasserman, Jacqueline Babbin, Audrey Maas, Rod Serling, George S. Kaufman, Robert J. Crean, George Faulkner, Mel Goldberg, George Lowther, Carl Allensworth, Wendell Mayes, John Whedon, Kathleen Lindsey, James Lee Barrett, Michael Dyne, Edward Percy, Arthur Cavanaugh, Henrik Ibsen, George Roy Hill, Kenyon Nicholson, John Van Druten, Sam Elkin, Ben Radin, George Kelly, Nicholas E. Baehr, David Davidson, Charles Robinson, Roger Garis, Reginald Denham, William Shakespeare, Frank Craven, John Galsworthy, Tapan Saha, Louis Pelletier, Eric Hatch, Will Lorin, William Noble, Rachel Crothers, William Iverson, Tennessee Williams, Gertrude Schweitzer, Joseph Bates Smith, Marc Brandel, Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Nelson, George Lefferts, Horton Foote, DeWitt Copp, Stanley Kauffman, Arthur Hailey, Camille Torabpour, Victor Wolfson, James Costigan, Eugene O'Neill, Washington Irving, Alvin Boretz, Paul Crabtree, Don Mankiewicz, Edmund Rice, Walt Anderson, John Cecil Holm, David Karp, Jack Klugman, Oliver Goldsmith, George Shiels, Jeffrey Dell, Vance Bourjaily, Bellamy Partridge, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Monash, Arthur Heinemann, A.B. Shiffrin, Robert Van Scoyk, Evan Hunter, Carey Wilber, Helen Cotton, Thomas Job, Sumner Locke Elliott, Robert J. Shaw, Oliver Crawford, Marc Connelly, Larry Cohen, Dana Lee Thomas, Edwin Bronner, William Roos, John Gay, Edgar Wallace, Daphne Du Maurier, Barré Lyndon, Charles Mergendahl, Colin Clements, Harry Julian Fink, Aimée Stuart, Calvin Tomkins, Susan Glaspell, Ferenc Molnár, Benjamin M. Kaye, Bret Harte, George Harmon Coxe, Robert Morley, Roland Pertwee , Owen Davis, Florence Ryerson, John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins, Leo Lieberman, Nelson Bond, Jack Paritz, Palmer Thompson, Edward DeBlasio, William L. Stuart, Edward Mabley, Vincent McConnor, Alfred Brenner, Patterson Greene, Sidney Howard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Winchell Smith, Henry Kane, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Clare Kummer, Charlotte Brontë, John L. Balderston, Norman Thaddeus Vane, Ring Lardner, Alexandre Dumas fils, Paul Osborn, Albert G. Miller, Norman Katkov, James P. Cavanagh, Agatha Christie, Robert E. Sherwood, Samson Raphaelson, Cy Chermak, Paul Vincent Carroll, Nelson Gidding, Robert Emmett, Arnold Schulman, Walter Macken, Harry W. Junkin, Anatole France, Mary Hayley Bell, Guy Bolton, Bruno Frank, Harold Dearden, Gerald Savory, Jacques Deval, Richard De Roy, Clemence Dane, Joseph Cochran, James Benjamin, Irving Kaye Davis, George Middleton, Benn W. Levy, Walter C. Hackett, Aleen Leslie, Richard Wendley, Allen Boretz, J.P. Miller, Czenzi Ormonde, Lennox Robinson, Vicki Baum, Sam Spewack, Walter Lord, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edna Ferber, Charlotte Armstrong, J.M. Barrie, Samuel A. Taylor, Piet Bakker, Fritz Rotter, Cyril Hume, E.P. O'Donnell, Hans Bartsch, R.H. Benson, E.C. Carpenter, Pauline Williams Snapp, Randolph Carter, John William Rogers, Thomas C. Murray, M.V. Heberden, Pamela Barrington, Henry van Dyke, Charles Morgan, Patricia McGerr, James Warwick, Émile Zola, Philip Stuart, Doris Miles Disney, Harry Olesker, Stanislaw Mierzenski, Hermann H. Field, Simon Wardell, Kieran Tunney, Rufus Henry, Bruce Bassett, Lester Powell, George Salverson, Max Rosenfeld, Grace Garment, Edith Grafton, Ray Allister, Seymour Vall, Mildred Walker, Giovacchino Forzano, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Petr Krenek, Anna Mary Wells, Francis Wilson, David Stern, Robert Thomson, Robert Noah, Joel Ross, Margot Bennett, George Bagby, E.X. Ferrars, George E. Dyslin, Junius Eddy, John J. Morrin, Christine Amothy, Frances O'Neil, Anthony Gilbert, Helen Jerome, Harriet Ford, John Murray, Henry Arthur Jones, Peter Barry, Jack Larric, Doug Taylor, Mary Chamberlain, Leslie Duncan, Frank Kulla, Marjorie Faulkner, William Hodapp, Narda Stokes, Jess Gregg, Julian Maxwell, Albert Halper, Morton Braun, William Mowne, Betty Jeffries, Olive Burt, Herbert A. Francis, John Howard Lindsay, Robert E. Carson, Allen Vincent, Larry E. Johnson, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Helen Eustis, Lois Landauer, William Chapman White, Katrina Ettlinger, Margaret Manners, Harry Miles Muheim, Michele Cousin, Mac Shoub, J.C. Squire, Aurand Harris, Kay Arthur, Jack Laird, James Elward, Cynthia Asquith, Terrence Kilpatrick, William McCleery, Jack Roche, Joseph Schrank, Reginald Lawrence, Newton Meltzer, William Cotton, Jean Lee Latham, Raymond Van Sickle, Philip H. Reisman Jr., Charles R. Jackson, William Brandon, Laurence Gross, E.P. Conkle, Samuel Grafton, Harry Thurschwell, Alfred Golden, Edmund C. Rise, Howard Cordery, Francois Rabelais, Elizabeth McFadden, Anthony Trollope, Fred Edge, E.B. Ginty, Peggy Lamson, Harold Flender, Sam Dann, Fielder Cook, John F. Kennedy, Richard Carlson, Kenneth Horne, J. Lee Thompson, Groucho Marx, Ivor Novello, Peter Donat, Ernest Hemingway, W. Somerset Maugham, Rodney Ackland, Eric Ambler, Victor Rietti, Burton Benjamin, Henry James, Hugh Walpole, Ludovic Kennedy, Alexander Woollcott, Meade Roberts, Richard Berg, Philip Barry, William Roerick, Martine Bartlett, Harry Beresford, Charles Dickens, Maxwell Anderson, Sheridan Gibney, S.N. Behrman, Irvin S. Cobb, Bayard Veiller, Raphael Hayes, Mark Twain, Emily Brontë, Vera Caspary, Harry Leon Wilson, O. Henry, Margaret Mayo, Harold Gast, Henry Denker, Oscar Wilde, Anthony Spinner, Jerry de Bono, James Leo Herlihy, W.R. Burnett, Truman Capote, Frank D. Gilroy, Art Wallace, Don Ettlinger, Steve Gethers, Shimon Wincelberg, Laurence Heath, Martin Berkeley, Jane Austen, A.E. Hotchner, Leslie Stevens, Thomas Coley, Norman Krasna, J.B. Priestley, Edmund Beloin, Henry Garson, Peter Lind Hayes, Lewis Carroll

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