USA, 7 May 1947-24 September 1958
11 series, episodes average 50m each
black and white, later colour, 4:3
mono, English
An American anthology drama television series with some genre episodes.
Plot Summary
An anthology of one-off plays.
Alternative Titles
Kraft Mystery Theatre
Kraft Theatre
Episodes
Credits are given for genre episodes only.
Season One
Double Door (7 May 1947)
Season Two
Her Husband's Wife (22 September 1948)
Great Day (29 September 1948)
Criminal at Large (20 October 1948)
Biography (27 October 1948)
Old Lady Robbins (3 November 1948)
The Detour (10 November 1948)
The Ivory Door (17 November 1948)
Wuthering Heights (24 November 1948)
Novel: Charlotte Bronte
Cast: Ethel Griffies; John Forsythe; John Baragrey
The Dover Road (1 December 1948)
The Flashing Stream (8 December 1948)
The Old Soak (15 December 1948)
Hansel and Gretel (22 December 1948)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
To Catch the Wind (5 January 1949)
Miranda (12 January 1949)
Duet for Two Hands (19 January 1949)
There's Always Juliet (26 January 1949)
Her Master's Voice (2 February 1949)
Room Service (16 February 1949)
The Flying Gerardos (23 February 1949)
The Arrival of Kitty (9 March 1949)
Consider Lily (16 March 1949)
Village Green (23 March 1949)
Wicked Is the Vine (30 March 1949)
As Husbands Go (6 April 1949)
The Miracle of Chickerston (13 April 1949)
The Whole Town's Talking (20 April 1949)
Green Stockings (27 April 1949)
Adam and Eva (4 May 1949)
The Oath of Hippocrates (11 May 1949)
Big Hearted Herbert (18 May 1949)
Autumn Fire (25 May 1949)
The Elephant Shepherd (1 June 1949)
Payment Deferred (8 June 1949)
Little Brown Jug (15 June 1949)
Pink Strings and Sealing Wax (22 June 1949)
Baby Mine (29 June 1949)
Within the Law (6 July 1949)
A Young Man's Fancy (13 July 1949)
The Curtain Rises (20 July 1949)
Time for Elizabeth (27 July 1949)
Heaven and Charing Cross (3 August 1949)
The Misleading Lady (10 August 1949)
Mr Pim Passes By (17 August 1949)
Where the Dear Antelope Play (24 August 1949)
Bedelia (31 August 1949)
Respectfully Yours (7 September 1949)
Little Darling (14 September 1949)
The Man in Half Moon Street (21 September 1949)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
Climax (28 September 1949)
Apple of His Eye (5 October 1949)
Your Friendly Nabors (12 October 1949)
Accidentally Yours (19 October 1949)
To Dream Again (26 October 1949)
Whistling in the Dark (2 November 1949)
Happy Ending (9 November 1949)
The Happiest Years (16 November 1949)
In Love with Love (23 November 1949)
Seen But Not Heard (30 November 1949)
The Comedy of Errors (7 December 1949)
The Nantucket Legend (14 December 1949)
The Glove (21 December 1949)
New Brooms (28 December 1949)
The Naborly Feeling (4 January 1950)
As Husbands Go (11 January 1950)
The Vinegar Tree (18 January 1950)
Kelly (25 January 1950)
The Old Ladies (1 February 1950)
The Dark Tower (8 February 1950)
The Silent Room (15 February 1950)
Valley Forge (22 February 1950)
Mrs Moonlight (1 March 1950)
The Nineteenth Hole (8 March 1950)
Ladies in Retirement (15 March 1950)
The Queen's Husband (22 March 1950)
The Copperhead (29 March 1950)
A Doll's House (5 April 1950)
The Lucky Finger (12 April 1950)
Make Way for Lucia (19 April 1950)
Black Sheep (26 April 1950)
The Fourth Step (3 May 1950)
Macbeth (10 May 1950)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
Storm in a Teacup (17 May 1950)
The House Beautiful (24 May 1950)
The Luck of Guldeford (31 May 1950)
The Doctor in Spite of Himself (7 June 1950)
Good Housekeeping (14 June 1950)
Noah (21 June 1950)
The Wind Is Ninety (28 June 1950)
Jeannie (5 July 1950)
Murder on the Nile (12 July 1950)
Accent on Youth (19 July 1950)
January Thaw (2 August 1950)
Feathers in a Gale (9 August 1950)
September Tide (16 August 1950)
The First Mrs Fraser (23 August 1950)
The Detour (30 August 1950)
The Last Trump (6 September 1950)
The Great Big Doorstep (13 September 1950)
The Last Stop (20 September 1950)
Season Four
The Green Pack (27 September 1950)
I Like It Here (4 October 1950)
The Great Broxopp (11 October 1950)
Old Lady Robbins (18 October 1950)
Truant in Park Lane (25 October 1950)
Dolphin's Beach (1 November 1950)
Sixteen (8 November 1950)
The Romantic Age (15 November 1950)
The Romantic Young Lady (22 November 1950)
Windows (29 November 1950)
Short Story (6 December 1950)
Michael and Mary (13 December 1950)
The Village Green (20 December 1950)
Rip Van Winkle (27 December 1950)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
Paper Moon (3 January 1951)
Kelly (10 January 1951)
The Best Years (17 January 1951)
The Spring Green (24 January 1951)
The Sound of Hunting (31 January 1951)
The Glass Mountain (7 February 1951)
Enraged (14 February 1951)
The Fortune Hunter (21 February 1951)
Jane Eyre (28 February 1951)
Novel: Charlotte Brontë
Cast: John Baragrey; Kathleen Crowley
Delicate Story (7 March 1951)
On Stage (14 March 1951)
Of Famous Memory (21 March 1951)
The Silent Room (28 March 1951)
Yours Truly (4 April 1951)
Mrs Dane's Defense (11 April 1951)
Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (18 April 1951)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
Brief Music (25 April 1951)
Brief Candle (2 May 1951)
Till Death Do Us Part (9 May 1951)
The Intimate Strangers (16 May 1951)
A Play for Mary (23 May 1951)
Ben Franklin (30 May 1951)
A Seacoast in Bohemia (6 June 1951)
Stranglehold (13 June 1951)
Only the Heart (20 June 1951)
Merry Madness (27 June 1951)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (4 July 1951)
Vienna Dateline (11 July 1951)
Zone Four (18 July 1951)
Bright Shadow (25 July 1951)
Hilda McKay (1 August 1951)
Old Doc (8 August 1951)
John Wilkes Booth (15 August 1951)
With Raymond Rice (22 August 1951)
Ashes in the Wind (29 August 1951)
The Easy Mark (5 September 1951)
Season Five
The Tale of the Wolf (12 September 1951)
The Wren (19 September 1951)
The Climax (26 September 1951)
Irish Eyes (3 October 1951)
Seen But Not Heard (10 October 1951)
Moon Over Mulberry Street (19 October 1951)
Intolerance (24 October 1951)
Hour of Crisis (31 October 1951)
Justice (7 November 1951)
Never Be the Same (14 November 1951)
Dear Brutus (21 November 1951)
The Fair Haired Boy (28 November 1951)
Loyalties (5 December 1951)
The Golden Slate (12 December 1951)
Incident on Fifth Avenue (19 December 1951)
The Nantucket Legend (26 December 1951)
The New Gossoon (2 January 1952)
Philip Goes Forth (9 January 1952)
The Round Table (16 January 1952)
The Peaceful Warrior (23 January 1952)
Mrs O'Brien Entertains (30 January 1952)
Follow the Dream (6 February 1952)
The Skin Game (13 February 1952)
The Mollusc (20 February 1952)
September Tide (27 February 1952)
What Anne Brought Home (5 March 1952)
The Thief (12 March 1952)
The Bride the Sun Shines On (19 March 1952)
The Rugged Path (26 March 1952)
That Ryan Girl (2 April 1952)
The Last Mile (9 April 1952)
Green Cars Go East (16 April 1952)
The Summit (23 April 1952)
The Man in Half Moon Street (30 April 1952)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
She Stoops to Conquer (7 May 1952)
The Inn (14 May 1952)
Prologue to Glory (21 May 1952)
The Third Visitor (28 May 1952)
At Mrs Beam's (4 June 1952)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
The Cricket on the Hearth (11 June 1952)
The Death of Kid Slawson (18 June 1952)
Thorn in the Flesh (25 June 1952)
A Time for Turning (2 July 1952)
The Great Big Doorstep (16 July 1952)
The Music Master (30 July 1952)
Lace on Her Petticoat (13 August 1952)
Indian Summer (20 August 1952)
The Small House (29 August 1952)
Mr Barry's Etchings (3 September 1952)
Letters to Lucerne (10 September 1952)
The Grass Harp (17 September 1952)
Background (24 September 1952)
Season Six
Michael and Mary (1 October 1952)
The New Tenant (8 October 1952)
A Kiss for Cinderella (15 October 1952)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
A Long Night in Forty Miles (22 October 1952)
The Divine Drudge (29 October 1952)
Melody Jones (5 November 1952)
Hilda McKay (12 November 1952)
The Quiet Wedding (19 November 1952)
Mr Lazarus (26 November 1952)
The Iron Gate (3 December 1952)
The Intimate Strangers (10 December 1952)
The Guest (17 December 1952)
A Christmas Carol (24 December 1952)
Written by: Robert Howard Lindsay
Based on the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Cast: Malcolm Keen (Ebenezer Scrooge); Harry Townes (Bob Cratchit); Valerie Cossart (Mrs Cratchit); Glenn Walken (Tiny Tim); Veronica Dangel (Edith); Buzzy Martin (Peter); Norma Jean Marlowe (Belinda); Noel Leslie (Ghost of Christmas Past); Melville Cooper (Ghost of Christmas Present); George Spelvin (Ghost of Christmas Future); Richard Purdy (Jacob Marley); Richard Newton; Naomi Riordan; Eric Sinclair; Biff McGuire; Ken Walken; Geoffrey Lumb; Geoffrey Lumb Jr; Douglas Wood; Rex O'Malley; Eric Berry; Eva Condon; Philip Brady
The Paper Moon (31 December 1952)
The Fire Below and the Devil Above (7 January 1953)
Zone Four (14 January 1953)
A Square Peg (21 January 1953)
Duet (28 January 1953)
The Cheese Game (4 February 1953)
Right You Are! (11 February 1953)
Snooksie (18 February 1953)
Star Bright (25 February 1953)
My Brother's Keeper (4 March 1953)
So Very Young (11 March 1953)
Autumn Story (18 March 1953)
Miss Mabel (25 March 1953)
The Summer Place (1 April 1953)
Next of Kin (8 April 1953)
Rain No More (15 April 1953)
The New Servant (22 April 1953)
Hoodlums with a Halo (29 April 1953)
The Sixth Anniversary Show (6 May 1953)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
Final Edition (13 May 1953)
One Left Over (20 May 1953)
The Twilight Rounds (27 May 1953)
The Ascent of P.J. O'Hara (10 June 1953)
Boy of Mine (17 June 1953)
The Rainy Day (24 June 1953)
The Diehard (1 July 1953)
The House Beautiful (8 July 1953)
The Blind Spot (15 July 1953)
The Adventures of the Kind Mr Smith (22 July 1953)
The Intruder (29 July 1953)
Old Macdonald Had a Curve (5 August 1953)
Day of the Vision (12 August 1953)
In Albert's Room (19 August 1953)
The Blues for Joey Menotti (26 August 1953)
Season Seven
Quite a Guy (2 September 1953)
Double in Ivory (9 September 1953)
Her Father's Butler (16 September 1953)
Corinth House (23 September 1953)
Lobblies Never Lie (30 September 1953)
Cap'n Jonas (7 October 1953)
Keep Our Honor Bright (14 October 1953)
The Picket Fence (21 October 1953)
The Threshold (28 October 1953)
Dream House (4 November 1953)
A Long Time Till Dawn (11 November 1953)
The Gate (18 November 1953)
Gavin (25 November 1953)
The Rose Garden (2 December 1953)
A Room and a Half (9 December 1953)
To Live in Peace (16 December 1953)
Rip Van Winkle (23 December 1953)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
A Christmas Carol (24 December 1953)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
A Cup of Kindness (30 December 1953)
The Thankful Heart (6 January 1954)
The Atherton Boy (13 January 1954)
One Man in a Million (20 January 1954)
The Antique Touch (27 January 1954)
The Missing Years (3 February 1954)
The Barn (10 February 1954)
The Cuckoo Clock (17 February 1954)
Gallin – All American (24 February 1954)
Two Weeks in the Country (3 March 1954)
The Picture Window (10 March 1954)
You Touched Me! (17 March 1954)
Pardon My Prisoner (24 March 1954)
A Hat for Winter (31 March 1954)
Mr Candido (7 April 1954)
The People Next Door (14 April 1954)
The Little Gods Sell Tamales (21 April 1954)
Dr Rainwater Goes A-Courtin' (28 April 1954)
Alice in Wonderland (5 May 1954)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
The Stake (12 May 1954)
A Touch of Summer (19 May 1954)
The Scarlet Letter (26 May 1954)
Citizen Miller (2 June 1954)
Romeo and Juliet (9 June 1954)
The Man Who Took to His Bed (16 June 1954)
The Long Road Home (23 June 1954)
The Man Most Likely (30 June 1954)
Wish Tonight (7 July 1954)
An American Lyric (14 July 1954)
Knight in a Business Suit (21 July 1954)
Edie and the Princess (28 July 1954)
The Happy Touch (4 August 1954)
Charm Bracelet (11 August 1954)
The Worried Man's Blues (18 August 1954)
Short Story (25 August 1954)
Kidnapped (1 September 1954)
Party for Jonathan (8 September 1954)
The Witch Child (15 September 1954)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
The Light Is Cold (22 September 1954)
Season Eight
A Simple Matter (29 September 1954)
The Office Dance (6 October 1954)
Papa Was a Sport (13 October 1954)
The Luck of Roaring Camp (20 October 1954)
The Shop at Sly Corner (21 October 1954 (is this correct?))
Split Level (27 October 1954)
Full of the Old Harry (3 November 1954)
The World and the Werners (10 November 1954)
The Independent (17 November 1954)
Emma (24 November 1954)
Camille (1 December 1954)
Career (8 December 1954)
Account Rendered (15 December 1954)
The Little Stone of God (22 December 1954)
Strangers in Hiding (30 December 1954)
One Hill, One River (5 January 1955)
Patterns (12 January 1955)
The Written Word (19 January 1955)
Boys Will Be Boys (26 January 1955)
The Skin Game (2 February 1955)
Patterns (9 February 1955)
Departure (16 February 1955)
The Emperor Jones (23 February 1955)
Half the World's a Bride (2 March 1955)
The Night Watcher (9 March 1955)
Jeannie (16 March 1955)
The Story of Mary Surratt (23 March 1955)
The Southwest Corner (30 March 1955)
Whim of Iron (6 April 1955)
Now, Where Was I? (13 April 1955)
Gramercy Ghost (20 April 1955)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
A Seacoast in Bohemia (27 April 1955)
Flowers for 2-B (4 May 1955)
Judge Contain's Hotel (11 May 1955)
The Braveness of Christy Fellon (18 May 1955)
Million Dollar Rookie (25 May 1955)
A Woman for Tony (1 June 1955)
Someone to Hang (8 June 1955)
My Aunt Daisy (15 June 1955)
Drop on the Devil (22 June 1955)
The Mob (29 June 1955)
Impasse (6 July 1955)
The Straw (13 July 1955)
In the La Banza (20 July 1955)
Meet a Body (27 July 1955)
Spur of the Moment (3 August 1955)
Two Times Two (10 August 1955)
The Failure (17 August 1955)
The Haunted (24 August 1955)
Written by: not known
Directed by: not known
Cast: not known
The Chess Game (31 August 1955)
Woman of Principle (7 September 1955)
It's Only Money (14 September 1955)
The King's Bounty (21 September 1955)
Season Nine
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (28 September 1955)
The Beautiful Time (5 October 1955)
Trucks Welcome (12 October 1955)
I, Mrs Bibb (19 October 1955)
One (26 October 1955)
Number Four with Flowers (2 November 1955)
The Ticket and the Tempest (9 November 1955)
Summer's End (16 November 1955)
Day of Judgment (23 November 1955)
Once a Genius (30 November 1955)
Lady Ruth (7 December 1955)
A Nugget from the Sunrise (14 December 1955)
A Christmas Dinner (21 December 1955)
Eleven O'Clock Flight (28 December 1955)
The Thieving Magpie (4 January 1956)
The Sears Girl (11 January 1956)
The Devil as a Roaring Lion (18 January 1956)
Home Is the Hero (25 January 1956)
Five Minutes to Live (1 February 1956)
Good Old Charlie Faye (8 February 1956)
Man on Roller Skates (15 February 1956)
Snapfinger Creek (22 February 1956)
Bobbie (29 February 1956)
The Fool Killer (7 March 1956)
The Lost Weekend (21 March 1956)
A Night to Remember (28 March 1956)
Paper Foxhole (4 April 1956)
The Last Showdown (11 April 1956)
No Riders (18 April 1956)
The Gentle Grafters (25 April 1956)
A Night to Remember (2 May 1956)
Death Is a Spanish Dancer (9 May 1956)
A Profile in Courage (16 May 1956)
Bedroom Twelve on the Appalachian Waterfall (23 May 1956)
Box 704 (30 May 1956)
The Night of May Third (6 June 1956)
Boy in a Cage (13 June 1956)
Flying Object at Thre O'Clock High (20 June 1956)
Starfish (27 June 1956)
Tear Open the Skies (4 July 1956)
Long Arm (11 July 1956)
Babies for Sale (18 July 1956)
Prairie Night (25 July 1956)
One Way West (1 August 1956)
Anna Santonello (8 August 1956)
The Girls Who Saw Too Much (29 August 1956)
Mock Trial (5 September 1956)
Shadow of Evil (12 September 1956)
Season Ten
Out to Kill (19 September 1956)
The Plunge (26 September 1956)
The Life of Mickey Mantle (3 October 1956)
The Murder of a Sand Flea (10 October 1956)
I Am Fifteen and Don't Want to Die (17 October 1956)
Ten Grapefruit to Lisbon (24 October 1956)
Hit and Run (31 October 1956)
Shadow of Suspicion (7 November 1956)
Before It's Too Late (14 November 1956)
The Day of the Hunter (21 November 1956)
Time Lock (28 November 1956)
The Ninth Hour (5 December 1956)
Teddy Bear (12 December 1956)
The Wonderful Gift (19 December 1956)
The Just and the Unjust (26 December 1956)
Hang Up My Guns (2 January 1957)
Six Hours of Terror (9 January 1957)
No Warning (16 January 1957)
Most Blessed Woman (23 January 1957)
The Singin' Idol (30 January 1957)
The Discoverers (6 February 1957)
The Man Who Couldn't Say No (13 February 1957)
Give Me the Courage (20 February 1957)
A Travel from Brussels (27 February 1957)
The Duel (6 March 1957)
Night of the Plague (20 March 1957)
Sheriff's Man (27 March 1957)
The Medallion (3 April 1957)
A Matter of Life (17 April 1957)
A Night of Rain (24 April 1957)
Drummer Man (1 May 1957)
Flesh and Blood (8 May 1957)
The Glass Wall (15 May 1957)
Man of Prey (22 May 1957)
All Those Beautiful Girls (29 May 1957)
The Roaring Twentieth (5 June 1957)
Fire and Ice (12 June 1957)
Nothing Personal (19 June 1957)
The Curly Headed Kid (29 June 1957)
The Long Flight (3 July 1957)
The First and the Last (10 July 1957)
The Big Break (17 July 1957)
Welcome to a Stranger (24 July 1957)
Success! (31 July 1957)
Sextuplets (7 August 1957)
Circle of Fear (14 August 1957)
Ride into Danger (21 August 1957)
Sing a Song (28 August 1957)
Triumph (4 September 1957)
The Old Ticket (11 September 1957)
The Killer Instinct (18 September 1957)
Season Eleven
Vengeance (25 September 1957)
Barefoot Soldier (2 October 1957)
Smart Boy (9 October 1957)
A Cook for Mr General (16 October 1957)
Man in a Trance (23 October 1957)
Gun at a Fair One (30 October 1957)
The Category Is Murder (6 November 1957)
The Big Heist (13 November 1957)
The Sound of Trouble (20 November 1957)
Come to Me (4 December 1957)
Heroes Walk on Sand (11 December 1957)
Polka (18 December 1957)
The Other Wise Man (25 December 1957)
The Battle for Wednesday Night (1 January 1958)
The Velvet Trap (8 January 1958)
Code of the Corner (15 January 1958)
Eddie (22 January 1958)
Run, Joe, Run (29 January 1958)
The Spell of the Tigress (5 February 1958)
Material Witness (19 February 1958)
The Woman at High Hollow (26 February 1958)
Dog in a Bus Tunnel (5 March 1958)
The Sea Is Boiling Hot (12 March 1958)
Look What's Going On (19 March 1958)
Angry Angel (26 March 1958)
The Man in Authority (2 April 1958)
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: Moony's Kid Don't Cry/The Last of My Solid Gold Watches/This Property Is Condemned (16 April 1958)
Angry Harvest (23 April 1958)
Fifty Grand (30 April 1958)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (7 May 1958)
All the King's Men: Part 1 (14 May 1958)
All the King's Men: Part 2 (21 May 1958)
A Boy Called Ciske (28 May 1958)
The Last of the Belles (4 June 1958)
Killer's Choice (11 June 1958)
Now Will Your Try for Murder? (18 June 1958)
The Eighty Seventh Precinct (25 June 1958)
Next Door to Death (2 July 1958)
Cop Killer (9 July 1958)
The Man Who Didn't Fly (16 July 1958)
Focus on Murder (23 July 1958)
Death Wears Many Faces (30 July 1958)
Death for Sale (6 August 1958)
Night Cry (13 August 1958)
We Haven't Seen Her Lately (20 August 1958)
Web of Guilt (27 August 1958)
Back Track (3 September 1958)
A Cup of Kindness (17 September 1958)
Riddle of a Lady (24 September 1958)
