Kraft Television Theatre
The Rugged Path
TV Flash files “The Rugged Path” as hour 196 of 526 in the TV Flash guide — Kraft Television Theatre (1947–1958) on NBC, season 5, episode 29, aired 1952-03-26, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E29: listed hour 196 of 526 in the Kraft Television Theatre guide, hour 29 of 53 in season 5. It aired 1952-03-26 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Bride the Sun Shines On” (S05E28). Next is “That Ryan Girl” (S05E30). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Rugged Path sit in the Kraft Television Theatre guide?
S05E29 is listed hour 196 of 526 — hour 29 of 53 in season 5, season 5 episode 29.
When did Kraft Television Theatre S05E29 air?
The Rugged Path aired 1952-03-26 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…