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Kraft Television Theatre
1947 - 1958 7.5 (4 votes) 11 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
NBC

Kraft Television Theatre

Overview

Kraft Television Theater is an American, well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.

Seasons

Season 1 (1947)

No overview available.

70 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Double Door
1947-05-07

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Merton of the Movies
1947-05-14

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Episode 3: The Doctor in Spite of Himself
1947-05-21

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Episode 4: Her Master's Voice
1947-05-28

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Episode 5: The Barker
1947-06-04

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Episode 6: There's Always Juliet
1947-06-11

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Episode 7: The Doll's House
1947-06-18

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Episode 8: I Like It Here
1947-06-25

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Episode 9: You and I
1947-07-02

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Episode 10: To the Ladies
1947-07-09

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Episode 11: Consider Lily
1947-07-16

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Episode 12: Papa Is All
1947-07-23

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Episode 13: Interference
1947-07-30

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Episode 14: The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife
1947-08-06

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Episode 15: Laburnum Grove
1947-08-13

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Episode 16: The First Year
1947-08-20

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Episode 17: Yes and No
1947-08-27

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Episode 18: Mr. Pim Passes By
1947-09-03

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Episode 19: Craig's Wife
1947-09-10

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Episode 20: Murder Without Crime
1947-09-17

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Episode 21: Suspect
1947-09-24

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Episode 22: Payment Deferred
1947-10-01

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Episode 23: January Thaw
1947-10-08

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Episode 24: Therese
1947-10-15

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Episode 25: The Man Who Changed His Name
1947-10-22

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Episode 26: Blind Alley
1947-10-29

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Episode 27: On Stage
1947-11-05

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Episode 28: Ladies in Retirement
1947-11-12

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Episode 29: But Not Goodbye
1947-11-19

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Episode 30: The Curtain Rises
1947-11-26

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Episode 31: Parlor Day
1947-12-03

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Episode 32: The Importance of Being Earnest
1947-12-10

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Episode 33: Holiday
1947-12-17

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Episode 34: Reverie/The Desert Shall Rejoice
1947-12-24

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Episode 35: Respectfully Yours
1947-12-31

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Episode 36: The Truth About Bladys
1948-01-07

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Episode 37: Alternating Current
1948-01-14

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Episode 38: Only the Heart
1948-01-21

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Episode 39: The Criminal Code
1948-01-28

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Episode 40: Outward Bound
1948-02-04

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Episode 41: Spring Green
1948-02-11

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Episode 42: Apple of His Eye
1948-02-18

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Episode 43: Alison's House
1948-02-25

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Episode 44: Counselor-at-Law
1948-03-03

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Episode 45: The Wind is Ninety
1948-03-10

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Episode 46: No Way Out
1948-03-17

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Episode 47: Captain Applejack
1948-03-24

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Episode 48: She Stoops to Conquer
1948-03-31

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Episode 49: June Moon
1948-04-07

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Episode 50: Barchester Towers
1948-04-14

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Episode 51: The Silver Cord
1948-04-21

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Episode 52: Louder Please!
1948-04-28

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Episode 53: The Royal Family
1948-05-05

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Episode 54: Broken Dishes
1948-05-12

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Episode 55: Mr. Minick
1948-05-19

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Episode 56: Riddle Me This
1948-05-26

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Episode 57: The Torchbearers
1948-06-02

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Episode 58: The Fourth Wall
1948-06-09

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Episode 59: Applesauce
1948-06-16

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Episode 60: Foolish Notion
1948-06-30

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Episode 61: The Show-Off
1948-07-07

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Episode 62: Berkeley Square
1948-07-21

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Episode 63: Green Cars Go East
1948-07-28

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Episode 64: Theatre
1948-08-04

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Episode 65: The Tenth Man
1948-08-11

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Episode 66: The White-Haired Boy
1948-08-18

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Episode 67: Poor Aubrey
1948-08-25

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Episode 68: Icebound
1948-09-01

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Episode 69: Poor Little Me
1948-09-08

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Episode 70: Lady Frederick
1948-09-15

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Season 7 (1953)

No overview available.

14 episodes

Season 8 (1954)

No overview available.

21 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Simple Matter
1954-09-29

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Episode 4: The Luck of Roaring Camp
1954-10-20

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Episode 5: Split Level
1954-10-27

A young architect who's finding it tough to make his mark in the big city is faced with a great temptation.

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Episode 9: Emma
1954-11-24

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 her friends.

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Episode 11: Career
1954-12-08

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Episode 16: Patterns
1955-01-12

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 reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Written Word
1955-01-19

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Episode 19: The Skin Game
1955-02-02

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Episode 20: Patterns (2nd Version)
1955-02-09

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 first live drama in television history to be broadcast twice due to popularity. Both shows were performed and broadcast live. 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 reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Emperor Jones
1955-02-23

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Episode 25: The Story of Mary Surratt
1955-03-25

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Episode 30: Gramercy Ghost
1955-04-20

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Episode 31: A Seacoast in Bohemia
1955-04-27

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Episode 32: Flowers for 2-B
1955-05-04

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Episode 33: Judge Contain's Hotel
1955-05-11

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Episode 34: The Braveness of Christy Fellon
1955-05-18

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Episode 35: Million Dollar Rookie
1955-05-25

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Episode 36: A Woman for Tony
1955-06-01

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Episode 40: The Mob
1955-06-29

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Episode 44: Meet a Body
1955-07-27

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Episode 45: Spur of the Moment
1955-08-03

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 operation. When the patient dies, he tries to clear himself of responsibility by implicating a nurse.

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Season 9 (1955)

No overview available.

49 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
1955-09-28

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Episode 2: The Beautiful Time
1955-10-05

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Episode 3: Trucks Welcome
1955-10-12

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Episode 4: I, Mrs. Bibb
1955-10-19

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, Ned, who is engaged to the Bibbs' daughter. Events take an ugly turn when it Ned is suspected of having taken a bribe from a contractor.

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Episode 5: One
1955-10-26

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Episode 6: Number Four with Flowers
1955-11-02

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Episode 7: The Ticket and the Tempest
1955-11-09

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.

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Episode 8: Summer's End
1955-11-16

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Episode 9: Day of Judgment
1955-11-23

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Episode 10: Once a Genius
1955-11-30

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Episode 11: Lady Ruth
1955-12-07

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Episode 12: A Nugget from the Sunrise
1955-12-14

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Episode 13: A Christmas Dinner
1955-12-21

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Episode 14: Eleven O'Clock Flight
1955-12-28

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Episode 15: The Thieving Magpie
1956-01-04

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Episode 16: The Sears Girl
1956-01-11

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Episode 17: The Devil as a Roaring Lion
1956-01-18

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Episode 18: Home Is the Hero
1956-01-25

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 rage on his friends and family members. His son Willie stands up to the brute and proves that Paddo is neither needed nor wanted by the family.

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Episode 19: Five Minutes to Live
1956-02-01

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Episode 20: Good Old Charlie Faye
1956-02-08

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Episode 21: The Man on Roller Skates
1956-02-15

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Episode 22: Snapfinger Creek
1956-02-22

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Episode 23: Bobbie
1956-02-29

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Episode 24: The Fool Killer
1956-03-07

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Episode 25: The Lost Weekend
1956-03-21

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Episode 26: A Night to Remember
1956-03-28

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Episode 27: Paper Foxhole
1956-04-04

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Episode 28: The Last Showdown
1956-04-11

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Episode 29: No Riders
1956-04-18

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Episode 30: The Gentle Grafter
1956-04-25

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 rot-gut whiskey business. Peters is joined in these schemes by a right-hand man and a beautiful widow. The trio thinks that they are unstoppable until they meet up with a former master of the con game.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 31: A Night to Remember
1956-05-02

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Episode 32: Death Is a Spanish Dancer
1956-05-09

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Episode 33: A Profile in Courage
1956-05-16

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Episode 34: Bedroom Twelve on the Appalachian Waterfall
1956-05-23

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Episode 35: Box 704
1956-05-30

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Episode 36: The Night of May Third
1956-06-06

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Episode 37: Boy in a Cage
1956-06-13

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Episode 38: Flying Object at Three O'Clock High
1956-06-20

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Episode 39: Starfish
1956-06-27

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Episode 40: Tear Open the Skies
1956-07-04

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Episode 41: Long Arm
1956-07-11

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Episode 42: Babies for Sale
1956-07-18

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Episode 43: Prairie Night
1956-07-25

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Episode 44: One Way West
1956-08-01

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Episode 45: Anna Santonello
1956-08-08

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Episode 46: The Magic Box
1956-08-15

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Episode 47: The Girls Who Saw Too Much
1956-08-29

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Episode 48: Mock Trial
1956-09-05

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 the city's mayor is put on the stand and the misuse of taxpayers' money is revealed.

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Episode 49: Shadow of Evil
1956-09-12

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Season 10 (1956)

No overview available.

21 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Out to Kill
1956-09-19

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Episode 2: The Plunge
1956-09-26

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 down so he can collect the insurance. When the building goes up in flames, a man is unexpectedly killed, leaving Kendall facing a murder charge.

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Episode 4: Murder of a Sand Flea
1956-10-10

A young Marine recruit undergoes rigorous combat training at a Marine boot camp.

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Episode 9: Before It's Too Late
1956-11-14

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 immediately.

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Episode 10: The Day of the Hunter
1956-11-21

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Episode 15: The Just and the Unjust
1956-12-26

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 the politician's support. Though he despises the boss' methods, he feels he can accomplish much good with the man's endorsement.

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Episode 17: Six Hours of Terror
1957-01-09

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, a French detective goes about the job of determining if it's simply an empty threat and who might be behind such a deed.

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Episode 18: No Warning
1957-01-16

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Episode 21: The Discoverers
1957-02-06

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Episode 24: A Traveler from Brussels
1957-02-27

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. He agrees and promptly has the gems stolen. He then frantically goes in search of the thief.

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Episode 26: Collision
1957-03-13

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Episode 27: Night of the Plague
1957-03-20

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 the bubonic plague. Scotland Yard is very interested, as are a couple of foreign agents.

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Episode 31: A Night of Rain
1957-04-24

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 wife fall in love and begin plotting the death of the clueless husband.

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Episode 33: Flesh and Blood
1957-05-08

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Episode 34: The Glass Wall
1957-05-15

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 daughter who does not remember her and a husband who has since remarried.

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Episode 37: The Roaring Twentieth
1957-06-05

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 the alumni with his gregarious ways.

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Episode 42: The First and the Last
1957-07-10

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Episode 43: The Big Break
1957-07-17

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Episode 47: Circle of Fear
1957-08-14

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, the couple become the target of threats and violence from the berserk thespian.

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Episode 48: Ride into Danger
1957-08-27

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 the town's reputation or the locals who are simply afraid. He's left with just his gun and sense of duty to take on the deadly quartet.

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Episode 52: The Killer Instinct
1957-09-18

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 evil instinct or from a sense of justice? Another violent crisis, however, proves his anxiety unfounded.

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Season 11 (1957)

No overview available.

28 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Vengeance
1957-09-25

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Episode 2: Barefoot Soldier
1957-10-02

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Episode 3: Smart Boy
1957-10-09

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Episode 4: A Cook for Mr. General
1957-10-16

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Episode 5: Man in a Trance
1957-10-23

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Episode 10: Come to Me
1957-12-04

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Episode 13: The Story of the Other Wise Man
1957-12-25

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Episode 14: The Battle for Wednesday Night
1958-01-01

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Episode 15: The Velvet Trap
1958-01-08

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Episode 17: Eddie
1958-01-22

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 encounters the thug of his dreams.

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Episode 19: The Spell of the Tigress
1958-02-05

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Episode 20: Material Witness
1958-02-19

An average citizen witnesses a murder. His family then faces intimidation from the killer.

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Episode 22: Dog in a Bush Tunnel
1958-03-05

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Episode 25: Angry Angel
1958-03-26

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Episode 26: The Man in Authority
1958-04-02

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Episode 27: Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: Moony's Kid Don't Cry/The Last of My Solid Gold Watches/This Property Is Condemned
1958-04-16

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Episode 29: Fifty Grand
1958-04-30

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Episode 30: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1958-05-07

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 best, and worst, in everyone.

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Episode 31: All the King's Men: Part 1
1958-05-14

The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.

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Episode 32: All the King's Men: Part 2
1958-05-21

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Episode 38: Next Door to Death
1958-07-02

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Episode 42: Death Wears Many Faces
1958-07-30

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 on the radio they hear that the daughter of the farmer who gave them shelter has been murdered, and the boys are shocked to hear that a description of the killers matches them perfectly.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 44: Night Cry
1958-08-13

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Episode 45: We Haven't Seen Her Lately
1958-08-20

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 with her to get her money. Not long after hiring a new gardener, Violet disappears. Her friends and neighbors suspect that she has been killed by the greedy heir, but her niece Helen decides to search the entire countryside to find out what happened to her aunt.

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Episode 48: Trick or Treat
1958-09-10

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Episode 49: A Cup of Kindness
1958-09-17

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Episode 50: Riddle of a Lady
1958-09-24

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Episode 51: Presumption of Innocence
1958-10-01

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