Kraft Television Theatre_
Kraft Television Theater is an American, well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Network
NBC
Episodes
250
Updated Feb 16, 2026
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Overview
Kraft Television Theatre has 11 seasons with 250 episodes spanning 1947-1958.
Year context
Kraft Television Theatre first aired 79 years ago in 1947.
SEASONS (11 seasons, 250 episodes)
SEASON 1
01
Double Door
02
Merton of the Movies
03
The Doctor in Spite of Himself
04
Her Master's Voice
05
The Barker
06
There's Always Juliet
07
The Doll's House
08
I Like It Here
09
You and I
10
To the Ladies
11
Consider Lily
12
Papa Is All
13
Interference
14
The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife
15
Laburnum Grove
16
The First Year
17
Yes and No
18
Mr. Pim Passes By
19
Craig's Wife
20
Murder Without Crime
21
Suspect
22
Payment Deferred
23
January Thaw
24
Therese
25
The Man Who Changed His Name
26
Blind Alley
27
On Stage
28
Ladies in Retirement
29
But Not Goodbye
30
The Curtain Rises
31
Parlor Day
32
The Importance of Being Earnest
33
Holiday
34
Reverie/The Desert Shall Rejoice
35
Respectfully Yours
36
The Truth About Bladys
37
Alternating Current
38
Only the Heart
39
The Criminal Code
40
Outward Bound
41
Spring Green
42
Apple of His Eye
43
Alison's House
44
Counselor-at-Law
45
The Wind is Ninety
46
No Way Out
47
Captain Applejack
48
She Stoops to Conquer
49
June Moon
50
Barchester Towers
51
The Silver Cord
52
Louder Please!
53
The Royal Family
54
Broken Dishes
55
Mr. Minick
56
Riddle Me This
57
The Torchbearers
58
The Fourth Wall
59
Applesauce
60
Foolish Notion
61
The Show-Off
62
Berkeley Square
63
Green Cars Go East
64
Theatre
65
The Tenth Man
66
The White-Haired Boy
67
Poor Aubrey
68
Icebound
69
Poor Little Me
70
Lady Frederick
SEASON 2
01
Her Husband's Wife
02
Great Day
03
Suppressed Desires
04
The Truth Game
05
Criminal at Large
06
Biography
07
Old Lady Robbins
08
The Detour
09
The Ivory Door
10
Wuthering Heights
11
The Dover Road
A wealthy man, who lives on the Dover Road, traditional path of elopers, forces these couples to see one another in the sober light of…
12
The Flashing Stream
13
The Old Soak
14
Hansel and Gretel
22
Room Service
A penniless theatre producer and his zany theatre flunkies obtain hotel rooms and rehearsal space by avoiding creditors while preparing for their surefire Broadway hit.
25
The Arrival of Kitty
A man starts with a little deception but eventually spins the lies into a web so large that he can't escape from it.
30
The Miracle of Chickerston
49
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
51
Respectfully Yours
SEASON 3
01
The Man in Half Moon Street
14
The Glove
46
January Thaw
SEASON 4
13
The Village Green
Judge Homer Peabody's quiet life in small-town New Hampshire, punctuated only by failed Senate runs, is disrupted when a provocative mural at city hall incites…
18
The Spring Green
28
Yours Truly
A young actress has three suitors and must choose one from the crowed field.
36
Ben Franklin
This comedy tells the story of the ambassador Benjamin Franklin's visit to Paris from 1776 to 1777.
43
Zone Four
A college professor becomes involved in matters of naval intelligence.
SEASON 5
04
Irish Eyes
10
Never Be the Same
14
The Golden Slate
30
That Ryan Girl
A woman, known as the nightclub entertainer "That Ryan Girl" is forced to choose between her husband and her son. The father plans to trade…
34
The Man in Half Moon Street
46
The Music Master
SEASON 6
01
Michael and Mary
02
The New Tenant
03
A Kiss for Cinderella
04
A Long Night in Forty Miles
05
The Divine Drudge
06
Melody Jones
07
Hilda McKay
08
The Quiet Wedding
09
Mr. Lazarus
10
The Iron Gate
11
The Intimate Strangers
12
The Guest
13
A Christmas Carol
14
The Paper Moon
16
Zone Four
A former naval intelligence officer, now a college professor, is offered a job by a group of European socialists. He is forced to confront the…
21
Snooksie
31
Hoodlums with a Halo
35
The Twilight Rounds
44
Old Macdonald Had a Curve
67-year-old ex-major league player "Lefty" MacDonald regales fellow residents at the rest home with stories of his glory days in baseball. After injuring his arm…
SEASON 7
01
Quite a Guy
02
Double in Ivory
03
Her Father's Butler
04
Corinth House
05
Lobblies Never Lie
06
Cap'n Jonas
07
Keep Our Honor Bright
08
The Picket Fence
09
The Threshold
11
A Long Time Till Dawn
Just out of prison Joe Harris looks to restart his life. His wife Barbie has moved and the one man who can tell him where…
28
The Picture Window
33
The People Next Door
36
Alice in Wonderland
Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.
50
Charm Bracelet
53
Kidnapped
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to…
SEASON 8
01
A Simple Matter
04
The Luck of Roaring Camp
05
Split Level
A young architect who's finding it tough to make his mark in the big city is faced with a great temptation.
09
Emma
Emma's a beautiful, intelligent heiress who cares for her elderly father. In desperate need of diversion, she involves herself in the romances and dalliances of…
11
Career
15
One Hill, One River
Following the American Civil War, a Southern soldier returns home with the Union soldier who saved his life. When the Yankee falls for a Southern…
16
Patterns
Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally…
17
The Written Word
19
The Skin Game
20
Patterns (2nd Version)
The original presentation received such extensive praise, the same production crew and cast were hired for a highly unusual repeat live performance, thus becoming the…
22
The Emperor Jones
25
The Story of Mary Surratt
30
Gramercy Ghost
When her elderly landlady dies, a young woman inherits her house and the resident ghost: a soldier of the American Revolution who cannot go to…
31
A Seacoast in Bohemia
32
Flowers for 2-B
33
Judge Contain's Hotel
34
The Braveness of Christy Fellon
Since his recent retirement, Christy Fellon has taken to visiting with a night watchman friend. One night, a new element is added: a robber appears…
35
Million Dollar Rookie
36
A Woman for Tony
40
The Mob
43
In the La Banza
A young man trains his ten-year-old brother to be a boxer. The older brother's motivation is his own vanity and quest for success.
44
Meet a Body
45
Spur of the Moment
A medical lab specialist dreams of becoming a successful surgeon. One day when no doctor is available, he intervenes in an emergency to perform an…
46
Two Times Two
A rural Southern woman is a mathematical whiz, but she's rather stay in the backwoods than be considered a genius in the big city.
SEASON 9
01
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
A prep school student named Percy Washington becomes friends with his schoolmate John Unger. Percy invites John to spend the holidays at his family's isolated…
02
The Beautiful Time
03
Trucks Welcome
04
I, Mrs. Bibb
Despite having no political aspirations or experience, Mrs. Bibb is asked to fill the seat of her deceased husband. Aiding her is her husband's assistant,…
05
One
06
Number Four with Flowers
The bullet-riddled body of a big-time gambler is brought to the morgue in this tongue-in-cheek comedy. Out of the blue, a naive young waitress steps…
07
The Ticket and the Tempest
A delicatessen owner who buys an Irish Sweepstakes ticket in a friend's name. When it wins $28,000, trouble abounds for the poor man.
08
Summer's End
09
Day of Judgment
10
Once a Genius
11
Lady Ruth
12
A Nugget from the Sunrise
13
A Christmas Dinner
14
Eleven O'Clock Flight
15
The Thieving Magpie
16
The Sears Girl
17
The Devil as a Roaring Lion
A young boy finds a wounded, dying man hiding in his family's boat house. The man, a prospector who has just killed his partner in…
18
Home Is the Hero
A man who in a drunken rage killed a neighbor is released from prison after serving five years. Paddo returns home and takes out his…
19
Five Minutes to Live
20
Good Old Charlie Faye
21
The Man on Roller Skates
22
Snapfinger Creek
23
Bobbie
24
The Fool Killer
The Fool Killer is a mythical figure who chops the heads off of those who make fools of themselves. In the days after the American…
25
The Lost Weekend
26
A Night to Remember
27
Paper Foxhole
28
The Last Showdown
A big city real estate mogul gets involved in a shady tax deal. Facing exposure, he plans to flee the country, leaving his son-in-law behind…
29
No Riders
30
The Gentle Grafter
Jeff Peters uses his personal magnetism to fleece the mayor of a hick town, run a shady matrimonial agency and establish a monopoly on the…
31
A Night to Remember
On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
32
Death Is a Spanish Dancer
33
A Profile in Courage
34
Bedroom Twelve on the Appalachian Waterfall
35
Box 704
36
The Night of May Third
37
Boy in a Cage
38
Flying Object at Three O'Clock High
39
Starfish
40
Tear Open the Skies
41
Long Arm
An attractive young woman flirts with a store clerk at a pawn shop, inviting him to join her for lunch. While he's gone, the store…
42
Babies for Sale
43
Prairie Night
44
One Way West
45
Anna Santonello
46
The Magic Box
47
The Girls Who Saw Too Much
48
Mock Trial
As part of its law school training, a college stages mock trials for students to gain experience. One of its mock trials turns real when…
49
Shadow of Evil
SEASON 10
01
Out to Kill
02
The Plunge
Al Kendall has climbed from delivery boy to ownership of a dress manufacturing plant. Now facing bankruptcy, he hires an arsonist to burn the plant…
04
Murder of a Sand Flea
A young Marine recruit undergoes rigorous combat training at a Marine boot camp.
09
Before It's Too Late
A frantic father helps police search for his traveling wife and daughter. The child had been bitten by a rabid dog and needs medical attention…
10
The Day of the Hunter
12
The Ninth Hour
A pair of convicts, the leader and his psychopathic follower, attempt a prison break. The two take over the isolation wing of a penitentiary and…
15
The Just and the Unjust
A young lawyer is urged by the local political boss to run for the district attorney's office. Wanting to fight for justice, he debates accepting…
17
Six Hours of Terror
A powerful diplomat and a possible Russian spy are among the passengers on a transatlantic flight thought to have a bomb aboard. As tension builds,…
18
No Warning
21
The Discoverers
24
A Traveler from Brussels
An American salesman who is about to return home from Brussels after an unsuccessful business trip is offered $10,000 to smuggle diamonds to the U.S.…
26
Collision
27
Night of the Plague
A British pathologist conducts an autopsy on a corpse to discover the cause of death. He's shocked to discover that the unidentified man died of…
31
A Night of Rain
A young man comes into the life of a childless married couple, functioning in many ways as a son. Trouble begins when he and the…
33
Flesh and Blood
34
The Glass Wall
A woman who has been away for years recovering from a mental illness returns to find her life quite different. She comes home to a…
37
The Roaring Twentieth
A mousy bank clerk whose hobby is collecting guppies attends his 20th anniversary college reunion. He assumes an outgoing persona for the occasion and impresses…
42
The First and the Last
43
The Big Break
47
Circle of Fear
A psychotic actor goes to extremes to keep his ex-girlfriend from going out with another man. When she falls in love with a new man,…
48
Ride into Danger
Four dangerous desperadoes are heading into a peaceful Western town. The young sheriff gets no support from the merchants who fear a shoot-out will ruin…
52
The Killer Instinct
A decorated ex GI fears that he is the victim of the "killer instinct" when he shoots a fleeing bandit. Does this stem from an…
SEASON 11
01
Vengeance
02
Barefoot Soldier
03
Smart Boy
04
A Cook for Mr. General
05
Man in a Trance
10
Come to Me
12
Polka
The Polish-American father of three daughters takes great pride in entering the annual polka contest each year with one of the girls. Last year, when…
13
The Story of the Other Wise Man
14
The Battle for Wednesday Night
15
The Velvet Trap
17
Eddie
A well-liked policeman dreams that he will have a shoot-out with a criminal on a specific day. While walking his beat on that night, he…
19
The Spell of the Tigress
20
Material Witness
An average citizen witnesses a murder. His family then faces intimidation from the killer.
22
Dog in a Bush Tunnel
25
Angry Angel
26
The Man in Authority
27
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: Moony's Kid Don't Cry/The Last of My Solid Gold Watches/This Property Is Condemned
29
Fifty Grand
30
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
A group of shady characters from a mining town wind up stuck in a blizzard with a naive young couple. The situation brings out the…
31
All the King's Men: Part 1
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
32
All the King's Men: Part 2
38
Next Door to Death
42
Death Wears Many Faces
Two college students hitching their way back to school. A fierce storm arises, and they take shelter in a local farmer's barn. The next day…
44
Night Cry
A tough veteran cop, expecting to be promoted to a supervisor position, is passed over, and finds himself assigned to a homicide by the man…
45
We Haven't Seen Her Lately
Elderly Aunt Violet lets it be known that she's particularly afraid of one of her heirs, who she thinks is greedy enough to do away…
48
Trick or Treat
49
A Cup of Kindness
50
Riddle of a Lady
A sophisticated, upper-crust British lawyer turns to a much shadier colleague to clear him when he's charged with murdering a somewhat disreputable woman.
51
Presumption of Innocence
SERIES INFO
11
Seasons
250
Episodes
60 min/ep
Per Episode
Returning Series
Status
NETWORKS (1)
NBC
DETAILS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Kraft Television Theatre about?
Kraft Television Theater is an American, well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
How many seasons does Kraft Television Theatre have?
Kraft Television Theatre has 11 seasons with 250 episodes total.
What is the rating of Kraft Television Theatre?
Kraft Television Theatre has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 based on 4 votes on TMDB.
Is Kraft Television Theatre still running?
Kraft Television Theatre is currently active with a status of "Returning Series."
GENRES (1)
Drama
