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, Stanley Quinn, Paul Bogart, Fielder Cook, Sidney Lumet, George Roy Hill, Norman Morgan, Frank Telford, Frank Pacelli, Alan Anderson, William Corrigan, Don Medford, Marc Daniels, Richard Goode, Ernest Colling, Michael Dreyfuss, Lew Brown, David Orrick McDearmon, Don Richardson, Murray Golden, William O. Harbach, Fred Carney, David Alexander, Paul Stanley, Robert Foster, George Weber, Edward V. Padula, 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, George Lowther, George Faulkner, Robert J. Crean, Mel Goldberg, George Kelly, John Whedon, Kathleen Lindsey, James Lee Barrett, Carl Allensworth, Wendell Mayes, Kenyon Nicholson, Arthur Cavanaugh, William Shakespeare, Michael Dyne, David Davidson, Nicholas E. Baehr, Benjamin M. Kaye, Reginald Denham, Charles Robinson, Edward Percy, Henrik Ibsen, George Roy Hill, Roger Garis, John Van Druten, Ben Radin, Tapan Saha, Eric Hatch, Frank Craven, Louis Pelletier, Sam Elkin, John Galsworthy, Will Lorin, William Iverson, Ralph Nelson, Victor Wolfson, Marc Connelly, Norman Krasna, John Cecil Holm, Oliver Goldsmith, A.B. Shiffrin, George Shiels, David Karp, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Helen Cotton, Stanley Kauffman, Susan Glaspell, William Noble, Calvin Tomkins, Colin Clements, Paul Crabtree, Charles Mergendahl, George Harmon Coxe, Washington Irving, Philip Barry, Rachel Crothers, Joseph Bates Smith, Robert Penn Warren, Bret Harte, Horton Foote, Edmund Rice, Walt Anderson, Gertrude Schweitzer, DeWitt Copp, Bellamy Partridge, Vance Bourjaily, Paul Monash, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Heinemann, Robert J. Shaw, Florence Ryerson, Edwin Bronner, Owen Davis, George Lefferts, John Gay, Dana Lee Thomas, Jack Klugman, Arthur Hailey, Ferenc Molnár, Tennessee Williams, Martin Flavin, Roland Pertwee , Harry Julian Fink, William Roos, Daphne Du Maurier, Barré Lyndon, Evan Hunter, Clare Kummer, Jeffrey Dell, Camille Torabpour, Aimée Stuart, Larry Cohen, Edgar Wallace, Alvin Boretz, Sumner Locke Elliott, Oliver Crawford, James Costigan, Marc Brandel, Robert Morley, Thomas Job, Robert Van Scoyk, Carey Wilber, Don Mankiewicz, Walter Macken, Arnold Schulman, Alfred Brenner, Patterson Greene, Robert Emmett, Nelson Gidding, Paul Vincent Carroll, Cy Chermak, Clemence Dane, Richard De Roy, Edward DeBlasio, Jacques Deval, Gerald Savory, Philip H. Reisman Jr., Harold Dearden, William L. Stuart, Bruno Frank, Barry Conners, Guy Bolton, Mary Hayley Bell, Anatole France, Harry W. Junkin, Aleen Leslie, Richard Wendley, Allen Boretz, J.P. Miller, Czenzi Ormonde, Lennox Robinson, Vicki Baum, Ring Lardner, Norman Thaddeus Vane, Sam Spewack, Walter Lord, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edna Ferber, Charlotte Armstrong, J.M. Barrie, Samuel A. Taylor, Piet Bakker, John L. Balderston, Fritz Rotter, Cyril Hume, Charlotte Brontë, Sidney Howard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Winchell Smith, Henry Kane, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Nelson Bond, Palmer Thompson, Leo Lieberman, Ward Hawkins, John Hawkins, Jack Paritz, Samson Raphaelson, Robert E. Sherwood, Elmer Rice, Joseph Cochran, Agatha Christie, James P. Cavanagh, James Benjamin, Irving Kaye Davis, Norman Katkov, Albert G. Miller, George Middleton, Benn W. Levy, Paul Osborn, Alexandre Dumas fils, Walter C. Hackett, Sutton Vane, Leslie Duncan, Mary Chamberlain, Doug Taylor, Jack Larric, Peter Barry, Pamela Barrington, Henry van Dyke, Henry Arthur Jones, John Murray, Charles Morgan, Harriet Ford, Helen Jerome, Anthony Gilbert, Patricia McGerr, James Warwick, Anna Steese Richardson, Sophie Kerr, 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, Engelbert Humperdinck, Daniel N. Ruben, 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, 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, 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, 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, Charles R. Jackson, Jack Roche, Joseph Schrank, Reginald Lawrence, Newton Meltzer, Vincent McConnor, Edward Mabley, Pamela Hansford Johnson, William Cotton, Jean Lee Latham, Raymond Van Sickle, Harry Thurschwell, Alfred Golden, Edmund C. Rise, Howard Cordery, Francois Rabelais, Elizabeth McFadden, Anthony Trollope, Fred Edge, E.B. Ginty, Peggy Lamson, Samuel Grafton, E.P. Conkle, Laurence Gross, Harold Flender, Sam Dann, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Helen Eustis, William Brandon, Lois Landauer, Fielder Cook, John F. Kennedy, Richard Carlson, Kenneth Horne, George Seaton, J. Lee Thompson, Groucho Marx, Ivor Novello, Peter Donat, A.E. Hotchner, Ernest Hemingway, John Emerson, W. Somerset Maugham, Anita Loos, Rodney Ackland, Eric Ambler, Victor Rietti, Burton Benjamin, Henry James, Hugh Walpole, Ludovic Kennedy, Alexander Woollcott, Meade Roberts, Richard Berg, William Roerick, Martine Bartlett, Charles Dickens, Maxwell Anderson, Sheridan Gibney, S.N. Behrman, Irvin S. Cobb, Bayard Veiller, Raphael Hayes, Mark Twain, Molière, 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, A.E.W. Mason, Frank D. Gilroy, Art Wallace, Don Ettlinger, Steve Gethers, Shimon Wincelberg, Laurence Heath, Martin Berkeley, Jane Austen, Leslie Stevens, Thomas Coley, Harry Beresford, J.B. Priestley, Edmund Beloin, Henry Garson, Peter Lind Hayes, Lewis Carroll

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