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

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