Kraft Television Theatre

Episode 1

The Oath of Hippocrates

Thu, Sep 30, 1954 60 mins

Episode 2

The Man Who Made the Kaiser Laugh

Thu, Oct 7, 1954 60 mins

Episode 3

The Passionate Bystander

Thu, Oct 14, 1954 60 mins

Episode 4

The Shop at Sly Corner

Thu, Oct 21, 1954 60 mins

Descius Heiss is a French expatriate, and former Devil's Island prisoner, with two passions; driving shrewd bargains in antiques at his Sly Corner Shop, and the care of his motherless, violin-playing daughter, Margaret. But, his comfortable wealth comes more from being a fence for stolen goods than it does buying-and-selling antiques. His secret is discovered by his shop assistant Archie Fellowes, a nasty, sniveling young rat, and he begins blackmailing Heiss. Heiss employs the usual solution to blackmailers, and the film ends in a London concert-hall where Margaret is playing the Mendelssohm Violin Concerto.

Episode 5

The Happy Journey

Thu, Oct 28, 1954 60 mins

Episode 6

The Day the Diner Closed

Thu, Nov 4, 1954 60 mins

Episode 7

One Sunday Afternoon

Thu, Nov 11, 1954 60 mins

Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.

Episode 8

My Son, the Doctor

Thu, Nov 18, 1954 60 mins

Episode 9

Run for the Money

Thu, Nov 25, 1954 60 mins

Episode 10

Kitty Foyle

Thu, Dec 2, 1954 60 mins

Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.

Episode 11

The Consul

Thu, Dec 9, 1954 60 mins

Episode 12

Time of the Drought

Thu, Dec 16, 1954 60 mins

Episode 13

A Child Is Born

Thu, Dec 23, 1954 60 mins

Episode 14

Death Takes a Holiday

Thu, Dec 30, 1954 60 mins

Death decides to take a holiday from his usual business to see what it is like to be a mortal. Posing as Prince Sirki, he spends 3 days with Duke Lambert and his guests, which results in unexpected complications.

Episode 15

A Bit of Love

Thu, Jan 6, 1955 60 mins

Episode 16

The Hickory Limb

Thu, Jan 13, 1955 60 mins

Episode 17

The Rugged Mountains

Thu, Jan 20, 1955 60 mins

Episode 18

The Cornered Man

Thu, Jan 27, 1955 60 mins

Episode 19

Thirty, Honey, Thirty

Thu, Feb 3, 1955 60 mins

Episode 20

Prologue to Glory

Thu, Feb 10, 1955 60 mins

Abe Lincoln's legendary "tragic love" for Ann Rutledge.

Episode 21

The Dover Road

Thu, Feb 17, 1955 60 mins

A wealthy man who lives on the Dover Road, traditional path of elopers. His practice of forcing such couples to see one another in the sober light of home life in his house, leads to a personal involvement for him.

Episode 22

The Second Chance

Thu, Feb 24, 1955 60 mins

Episode 23

Anna Christie

Thu, Mar 3, 1955 60 mins

Adapted from the play by Eugene O'Neill, "Anna Christie" is the story of a former prostitute who falls in love, but runs into difficulty in turning her life around.

Episode 24

Billy Budd

Thu, Mar 10, 1955 60 mins

An innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797 is accused and tried after the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered.

Episode 25

The Silver Box

Thu, Mar 17, 1955 60 mins

Episode 26

Autumn Crocus

Thu, Mar 24, 1955 60 mins

Episode 27

The Forger

Thu, Mar 31, 1955 60 mins

Episode 28

The Glass Parlor

Mon, Mar 7, 1955 60 mins

A small-town schoolteacher's efforts to help a student make her the object of scandal-mongering.

Episode 29

No Riders

Thu, Apr 14, 1955 60 mins

The death of their child almost wrecks the marriage of a truck driver and his wife. Then one night he goes against company regulations and picks up a Mexican waif on the road.

Episode 30

Thunder Rock

Thu, Apr 21, 1955 60 mins

An embittered idealist becomes a lighthouse keeper to escape a world gone mad. In his solitude, he creates a ghost world peopled with undefeated idealists of a previous age.

Episode 31

Hang Up My Guns

Thu, Apr 28, 1955 60 mins

A lawyer's life depends on his successful defense of a Southern mountain boy charged with murder.

Episode 32

Candle Light

Thu, May 5, 1955 60 mins

Episode 33

Cynara

Thu, May 12, 1955 60 mins

The story of a London attorney who, though married, becomes tragically involved with a shop-girl.

Episode 34

The Ways of Courage

Thu, May 19, 1955 60 mins

An elderly scientist is being held captive behind the Iron Curtain. U.S. Military Intelligence asks the man's young protege to risk his life in order to rescue the scientist.

Episode 35

The Kingdom of Andrew Jones

Thu, May 26, 1955 60 mins

A well-known playwright has written but one play. Though his students, at the college where he teaches, admire him, his aged mother believes his talent is already played out.

Episode 36

Erricka

Thu, Jun 2, 1955 60 mins

Patricia Joudry has constructed a merry-go-round of psychological complexes. It starts whirling when a middle-aged psychiatrist, an expert on father-daughter relationships, marries a girl young enough to be his daughter.

Episode 37

Life and Taxes

Thu, Jun 9, 1955 60 mins

Episode 38

Mother Is Watching

Thu, Jun 16, 1955 60 mins

Episode 39

The Fascinating Stranger

Thu, Jun 23, 1955 60 mins

Episode 40

Death Is a Spanish Dancer

Thu, Jun 30, 1955 60 mins

Episode 41

Coquette

Thu, Jul 7, 1955 60 mins