Kraft Television Theatre
The Man in Half Moon Street
TV Flash files “The Man in Half Moon Street” as a desk essential hour — Kraft Television Theatre (1947–1958) on NBC, season 3, episode 1, aired 1949-09-21, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E01: listed hour 65 of 526 in the Kraft Television Theatre guide, first listed hour of season 3. It aired 1949-09-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Little Darling” (S02E53). Next is “The Climax” (S03E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “The Man in Half Moon Street”. The Man in Half Moon Street: early named teleplay, young stars cutting teeth while Kraft still owned the hour's manners.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Man in Half Moon Street sit in the Kraft Television Theatre guide?
S03E01 is listed hour 65 of 526 — first listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 1.
When did Kraft Television Theatre S03E01 air?
The Man in Half Moon Street aired 1949-09-21 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with whatever surviving kinescopes you can find of the live-play form — the point is the weekly Broadway-subscription feel, not a continuing cast.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Kraft Television Theatre is live drama with a cheese sponsor: hundreds of teleplays, young stars cutting teeth between product acts, prestige as a grocery brand. Watch it now as a Golden Age cornerstone — industrial-scale living-room theater, incomplete kinescope survival, and proof early TV thought of itself as Broadway first.
The lighting is grocery-brand prestige. Not a red carpet, not a tag: live drama poured into living rooms like a weekly Broadway subscription, Kraft selling product between acts. *Kraft Television Theatre*, primarily NBC, 1947–1958, 526 episodes across 11 seasons — period tallies cite on the order of 650 Kraft productions — stage and screen talent still learning the camera. Young stars and writers cut their teeth in that light. Survival rates for kinescopes are incomplete, which only deepens the lost-library…