Kraft Television Theatre
Season 1
11 listed hours · 1947–1958 · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Kraft Television Theatre (1947–1958) on NBC as the first listed season of 11 — 11 listed hours, 1947-05-07–1948-05-19 from “Double Door” (S01E01) to “Mr. Minick” (S01E11). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Double Door
Double Door opens 1947: live drama between product acts, prestige as a grocery brand daring a living-room Broadway.
- S01E01 Double Door
- S01E02 Merton of the Movies
- S01E03 Payment Deferred
- S01E04 January Thaw
- S01E05 Only the Heart
- S01E06 No Way Out
- S01E07 Captain Applejack
- S01E08 She Stoops to Conquer
- S01E09 The Silver Cord
- S01E10 The Royal Family
- S01E11 Mr. Minick
More from the 1950s.