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Kraft Television Theatre

Season 5

53 listed hours · 1947–1958 · NBC

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How this season is filed

Filed by Lana Reyes · Red Carpet Reality

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 5 of Kraft Television Theatre (1947–1958) on NBC as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 11) — 53 listed hours, 1951-09-12–1952-09-24 from “The Tale of the Wolf” (S05E01) to “Background” (S05E53). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S05E09 Justice

    Justice — one-word mid-run title, Golden Age cornerstone still treating the stopwatch like a curtain.

  1. S05E01 The Tale of the Wolf
  2. S05E02 The Wren
  3. S05E03 The Climax
  4. S05E04 Irish Eyes
  5. S05E05 Seen But Not Heard
  6. S05E06 Moon Over Mulberry Street
  7. S05E07 Intolerance
  8. S05E08 Hour of Crisis
  9. S05E09 Justice
  10. S05E10 Never Be the Same
  11. S05E11 Dear Brutus
  12. S05E12 The Fair-Haired Boy
  13. S05E13 Loyalties
  14. S05E14 The Golden State
  15. S05E15 Incident on Fifth Avenue
  16. S05E16 The Nantucket Legend
  17. S05E17 The New Gossoon
  18. S05E18 Philip Goes Forth
  19. S05E19 The Round Table
  20. S05E20 The Peaceful Warrior
  21. S05E21 Mrs. O'Brien Entertains
  22. S05E22 Follow the Dream
  23. S05E23 The Skin Game
  24. S05E24 The Mollusc
  25. S05E25 September Tide
  26. S05E26 What Anne Brought Home
  27. S05E27 The Thief
  28. S05E28 The Bride the Sun Shines On
  29. S05E29 The Rugged Path
  30. S05E30 That Ryan Girl
  31. S05E31 The Last Mile
  32. S05E32 Green Cars Go East
  33. S05E33 The Summit
  34. S05E34 The Man in Half Moon Street
  35. S05E35 She Stoops to Conquer
  36. S05E36 The Inn
  37. S05E37 Prologue to Glory
  38. S05E38 The Third Visitor
  39. S05E39 At Mrs. Beam's
  40. S05E40 The Cricket on the Hearth
  41. S05E41 The Death of Kid Slawson
  42. S05E42 Thorn in the Flesh
  43. S05E43 A Time for Turning
  44. S05E44 The Great Big Doorstep
  45. S05E45 The Music Master
  46. S05E46 Six by Six
  47. S05E47 Lace on Her Petticoat
  48. S05E48 Indian Summer
  49. S05E49 The Small Hours
  50. S05E50 Mr. Barry's Etchings
  51. S05E51 Letters to Lucerne
  52. S05E52 The Grass Harp
  53. S05E53 Background

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