Kraft Television Theatre
Whim of Iron
TV Flash files “Whim of Iron” as a desk essential hour — Kraft Television Theatre (1947–1958) on NBC, season 8, episode 28, aired 1955-04-06, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S08E28: listed hour 351 of 526 in the Kraft Television Theatre guide, hour 28 of 52 in season 8. It aired 1955-04-06 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Southwest Corner” (S08E27). Next is “Now, Where Was I?” (S08E29). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “Whim of Iron”. Whim of Iron: mid-1950s named hour, industrial-scale theater with incomplete kinescope survival already the archival tax.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Whim of Iron sit in the Kraft Television Theatre guide?
S08E28 is listed hour 351 of 526 — hour 28 of 52 in season 8, season 8 episode 28.
When did Kraft Television Theatre S08E28 air?
Whim of Iron aired 1955-04-06 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…