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Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.

First Aired

1963-10-10
Last Aired

1965-07-01
Creator
Genre

Mystery, Drama
Seasons

2
Episodes

59
Status

Ended
Language

English
Network

NBC

Keywords:

anthology

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Season 1

Season 2

1. The Case Against Paul Ryker (1)

This story chronicles the court martial of a Korean War sergeant accused of treason. He is found guilt...More

This story chronicles the court martial of a Korean War sergeant accused of treason. He is found guilty and sentenced to die, but his wife refuses to accept that her husband is a traitor and so persuades a prosecuting attorney to reopen the case and investigate further.Less

1963-10-10

2. The Case Against Paul Ryker (2)

Sgt. Ryker is sentenced to death for treason, but prosecuting officer David Young asks for another hea...More

Sgt. Ryker is sentenced to death for treason, but prosecuting officer David Young asks for another hearing on the grounds that Ryker wasn't properly defended. The request is granted, but Young is ordered to handle the defense this time.Less

1963-10-17

3. The End of the World, Baby

An artist romances both a mother and her daughter. Things get complicated when the mother wants to di...More

An artist romances both a mother and her daughter. Things get complicated when the mother wants to divorce her husband to marry the artist. The daughter acts to protect her father and ends up in trouble.Less

1963-10-24

4. A Hero for Our Times

A "happily married" and well thought of businessman witnesses a murder. Unfortunately, he is at his mi...More

A "happily married" and well thought of businessman witnesses a murder. Unfortunately, he is at his mistress' apartment when it happens. His dilemma about whether or not to report what he knows to the police is heightened further when a man he knows to be innocent of the crime is arrested.Less

1963-10-31

5. Are There Any More Out There Like You?

A spoiled teenager is implicated in a fatal auto accident.

A spoiled teenager is implicated in a fatal auto accident.Less

1963-11-07

6. One Step Down

A dead husband turns up in a motel room, but the stunning woman he was with vanishes, leaving no finge...More

A dead husband turns up in a motel room, but the stunning woman he was with vanishes, leaving no fingerprints. When police show scant interest in the case, the rich widow falls off the wagon and swears revenge. With $7 million all to herself, the widow expects to track the temptress down and make her suffer.Less

1963-11-14

7. The Machine That Played God

A seemingly happy married couple have a fatal car crash. The husband dies and the surviving wife is su...More

A seemingly happy married couple have a fatal car crash. The husband dies and the surviving wife is suspected by the police of intentionally causing the accident. She tries to "prove" her innocence by taking two polygraph tests. The results confuse her and she comes to believe the "lie detector machines" know the real truth.Less

1963-12-05

8. The Long, Lost Life of Edward Smalley

Wielding a gun, Edward Smalley invades the office of attorney J. Marvin Bean. The attorney has no idea...More

Wielding a gun, Edward Smalley invades the office of attorney J. Marvin Bean. The attorney has no idea what this is all about until forced to remember an incident in World War II when Smalley had been accused of treason, and Bean was his court-appointed military attorney. The trial was cancelled before Smalley was given a chance to exonerate himself; the charges were dropped, but the accused man feels that he has never truly been cleared.Less

1963-12-12

9. The Hunt

A "surfer bum","600 miles from a wave", is roaming the back-roads of the U.S. in his woody wagon when ...More

A "surfer bum","600 miles from a wave", is roaming the back-roads of the U.S. in his woody wagon when it breaks down. His "rescuers" include a small town sheriff who has a habit of his prisoners escaping and then being hunted down and murdered by his bloodhounds. When the surfer is seen as a threat to report the goings-on he is arrested and is next in line to "escape".Less

1963-12-19

10. The Name of the Game

A professional craps player (who is habitually broke) is offered backing of up to $1,000,000 to play f...More

A professional craps player (who is habitually broke) is offered backing of up to $1,000,000 to play for a wealthy Southerner who has the goal of winning $200,000 from a Las Vegas casino. If successful they will split the winnings evenly. Complications include the craps players' love interest-and her boyfriend.Less

1963-12-26

11. The Deep End

A woman enters a private estate with a lake, strips down to a bathing suit and goes swimming. She is p...More

A woman enters a private estate with a lake, strips down to a bathing suit and goes swimming. She is pulled underwater by a mysterious scuba diver and held until she drowns. The local police determine her death to be purely an accident, but an investigator from out of town is not so sure about that.Less

1964-01-02

12. A Truce to Terror

In Los Angeles,a wealthy man has a brief scuffle with a Spanish laborer and is accidentally hurt.Feeli...More

In Los Angeles,a wealthy man has a brief scuffle with a Spanish laborer and is accidentally hurt.Feeling the incident was actually a vicious attack,he vows to track down the Spaniard.He does find the man's daughter and by accident causes her to become hurt.Now the Spaniard becomes the hunter and is out for revenge.Less

1964-01-09

13. Who is Jennifer?

A teenager discovers that an old woman may actually be his long-lost mother

A teenager discovers that an old woman may actually be his long-lost motherLess

1964-01-16

14. Leviathan Five

Five men trapped in an underground Research Center determine that their oxygen will run out before the...More

Five men trapped in an underground Research Center determine that their oxygen will run out before they can be rescued They decide to have a "lottery" to choose who will have to die so the rest can live.After being saved,the four survivors are charged with murder and find the outcome could be fatal.Less

1964-01-30

15. My Enemy, This Town

A young man returns to Santa Marta, California after seven years,having been paroled on a ten year ter...More

A young man returns to Santa Marta, California after seven years,having been paroled on a ten year term for raping a local girl.He finds resentment from his father and the townsfolk.What no one will believe is that he is innocent.His "plan" to clear himself runs into a problem-he is set up to take a fall again.Less

1964-02-06

16. The Action of the Tiger

In 1943 a somewhat shell-shocked pilot is put back into action after being shot down for the second ti...More

In 1943 a somewhat shell-shocked pilot is put back into action after being shot down for the second time in his total of four missions. However, he is shot down again and ends up in a German POW camp. He escapes to smuggle out intelligence information. On his way back to England he plays a game of cat-and-mouse with the Nazis.Less

1964-02-20

17. Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am?

An overly stressed, financially strapped, high powered businessman goes on a sales trip and wakes up s...More

An overly stressed, financially strapped, high powered businessman goes on a sales trip and wakes up suffering from amnesia after being assaulted. He settles in a small town, meets a nice girl and gets a simple satisfying job. Then his memory returns. He goes back to his old life and finds unhappiness. What will he do?Less

1964-02-27

18. The Threatening Eye

In California,a young French-Canadian secretary relentlessly pursues marriage to a dull, married, midd...More

In California,a young French-Canadian secretary relentlessly pursues marriage to a dull, married, middle-aged accountant. The man is flattered but mystified. What does the woman really want from him?Less

1964-03-12

19. A Cause of Anger

An "overdeveloped genius" teenage boy has periodic fits of violent anger. Accompanied by a C.I.D. offi...More

An "overdeveloped genius" teenage boy has periodic fits of violent anger. Accompanied by a C.I.D. officer and a psychiatric nurse he is driven by car from his home in L.A. to a military installation in Kansas for diagnosis. During the journey several odd incidents occur and eventually the boy is missing. Is it kidnapping or foul play?Less

1964-03-19

20. Knight's Gambit

In Majorca,Spain the U.S. Special Envoy is investigated for accepting bribes from organized crime whil...More

In Majorca,Spain the U.S. Special Envoy is investigated for accepting bribes from organized crime while in his former position of D.A. The U.S. government uses an unlikely undercover operative - an international playboy worth 18 million dollars. The playboy begins the search for evidence by romancing the Special Envoy's secretary.Less

1964-03-26

21. One Upon a Savage Knight

Police authorities in Chicago are seeking serial killer "Georgie Porgie." His M.O. is to murder blonde...More

Police authorities in Chicago are seeking serial killer "Georgie Porgie." His M.O. is to murder blondes with a "cheap" reputation. He was thought to have "gone south for the winter" after a killing in Tennessee. But he has returned to Chicago and kills a woman in the middle of a strip club. Georgie Porgie is somewhere on the Illinois Tollway. However, the manhunt is complicated by a missile convoy moving through the Chicago area.Less

1964-04-02

22. Portrait of an Unknown Man

A mysterious unfriendly man comes to a remote mountain town to buy supplies and causes the locals to w...More

A mysterious unfriendly man comes to a remote mountain town to buy supplies and causes the locals to wonder why he is there. He further puzzles them when he sets up a homestead next to a long played out mine and puts up a 'No Trespassing' sign. Meanwhile, the owner of the town's General Store and his daughter are battling their own demons.Less

1964-04-16

23. Their Own Executioners

In Wickfield, Mass. (just outside Boston) a quiet clean-cut young man confesses to murdering his wife....More

In Wickfield, Mass. (just outside Boston) a quiet clean-cut young man confesses to murdering his wife. A local attorney who is dying agrees to see the man and comes away feeling there is a more to the case than premeditated murder. He finds there are motives involving the man's "pure" mother and "tramp" wife. Helping this man brings peace to the dying attorney.Less

1964-04-23

24. The Sweet Taste of Vengeance

A divorcee who skips the country and heads to Brazil, her ex-husband would normally be happy to see th...More

A divorcee who skips the country and heads to Brazil, her ex-husband would normally be happy to see the back of her; unfortunately she took $2 million of his money before leaving. Private eye Forsythe is hired to bring her back. And just to keep Forsythe honest, a second private eye is engaged to bring him back.Less

1964-04-30

25. Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly

An alcoholic, loudmouth, unemployed man on the verge of losing his wife and son is arrested for murder...More

An alcoholic, loudmouth, unemployed man on the verge of losing his wife and son is arrested for murder. He actually is a witness to who committed the crime but no one except a family friend believes him to be innocent. He becomes a hero to his neighbors as the murdered man was a drug dealer and begins to revel in the glory. When his friend finds the real killer it may be too late as the "hero" is now fully prepared to go to prison.Less

1964-05-07

26. The Watchman

An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutio...More

An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the Enemy catches up with his quarry first.Less

1964-05-14

27. The Robrioz Ring

In the San Diego area (at Coronado) a family heirloom/good luck piece ring is sold by a man's mother t...More

In the San Diego area (at Coronado) a family heirloom/good luck piece ring is sold by a man's mother to raise money. A spinsterish school teacher on vacation from Philadelphia buys the ring at a gift shop and the man, just too late to buy it back, decides to romance her to recover the good luck piece. As time passes the relationship becomes more important than the ring.Less

1964-05-28

28. A Cruel and Unusual Night

A stern Lucas County, California "letter of the law" judge is kidnapped and "sentenced" to death by a ...More

A stern Lucas County, California "letter of the law" judge is kidnapped and "sentenced" to death by a man he once sentenced to death. The one-time Death Row prisoner recalls the agonies he went through as he awaited death by gas chamber. As his story is detailed tension builds and two questions remain to be answered-(1) "Will the judge crack?" and (2) "Will the execution be carried out?"Less