This live anthology drama series was the first weekly commercial network program. From May to December 1947, NBC aired the show on Wednesday, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.; for the rest of its run, it was broadcast on Wednesday, 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. From 1953 to 1955, another series of the same name was shown on ABC concurrently with the one on NBC. For a short time in 1958, the series abandoned its anthology format and ran with recurring characters and situations. From April to September 1958, the show was known as "Kraft Mystery Theatre." This program was a prestigious showcase for its sponsor, Kraft, winning many awards and becoming a Wednesday night institution. By the end of its run, more than 650 plays, drama and comedy productions, both original and adaptations for TV, had been presented. One of the most awarded episodes was "Patterns" written by Rod Serling and directed by Fielder Cook with performances from Ed Begley, Everett Sloane, and Richard Kiley.
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | 1 | ||
| Season 1 | May 1947 | May 1948 | 11 |
| Season 2 | September 1948 | September 1949 | 53 |
| Season 3 | September 1949 | September 1950 | 53 |
| Season 4 | September 1950 | September 1951 | 50 |
| Season 5 | September 1951 | September 1952 | 53 |
| Season 6 | October 1952 | August 1953 | 47 |
| Season 7 | September 1953 | September 1954 | 56 |
| Season 8 | September 1954 | September 1955 | 52 |
| Season 9 | September 1955 | September 1956 | 48 |
| Season 10 | September 1956 | September 1957 | 52 |
| Season 11 | September 1957 | October 1958 | 51 |
| Unassigned Episodes | 0 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specials | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 527 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 527 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Howard Lindsey | 82 | 12/01/1948 - 04/24/1957 | |
| Dale Wasserman | 5 | 01/26/1955 - 03/19/1958 | |
| Rod Serling | 5 | 04/08/1953 - 02/09/1955 | |
| James Lee Barrett | 4 | 10/10/1956 - 03/05/1958 | |
| Robert Crean | 4 | 08/08/1956 - 12/25/1957 | |
| Louis Pelletier | 3 | 11/02/1955 - 08/01/1956 | |
| John Whedon | 3 | 03/28/1956 - 01/09/1957 | |
| Carey Wilber | 3 | 01/07/1953 - 05/13/1953 | |
| Arthur Heinemann | 3 | 08/29/1956 - 10/17/1956 | |
| Dewitt Copp | 2 | 06/20/1956 - 07/03/1957 | |
| Robert J. Shaw | 2 | 06/06/1956 - 08/29/1956 | |
| Arthur Hailey | 2 | 11/07/1956 - 11/28/1956 | |
| David Davidson | 2 | 01/08/1958 - 04/23/1958 | |
| Will Lorin | 2 | 03/21/1956 - 12/05/1956 | |
| Nicholas E. Baehr | 2 | 10/03/1956 - 11/21/1956 | |
| Jack Klugman | 2 | 07/17/1957 - 01/15/1958 | |
| Alvin Boretz | 2 | 06/11/1958 - 09/17/1958 | |
| George H. Faulkner | 2 | 09/01/1954 - 07/11/1956 | |
| William Noble | 2 | 02/22/1956 - 06/27/1956 | |
| Don M. Mankiewicz | 2 | 05/14/1958 - 05/21/1958 | |
| Gertrude Schweitzer | 2 | 10/31/1956 - 11/14/1956 | |
| Wendell Mayes | 2 | 05/09/1956 - 05/16/1956 | |
| John Gay | 2 | 01/18/1956 - 07/25/1956 | |
| William Mourne | 2 | 05/11/1955 - 09/19/1956 | |
| Victor Wolfson | 2 | 01/11/1956 - 10/17/1956 | |
| Paul Monash | 2 | 06/13/1956 - 01/30/1957 | |
| Henry Denker | 1 | 02/19/1958 | |
| Newton Meltzer | 1 | 11/13/1957 | |
| Phil Reisman, Jr. | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
| Leslie Stevens | 1 | 03/06/1957 | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1 | 04/16/1958 | |
| Jerry De Bono | 1 | 12/28/1955 | |
| Norman Katkov | 1 | 07/18/1956 | |
| J.P. Miller | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
| Junius Eddy | 1 | 01/16/1957 | |
| Jack Roche | 1 | 05/05/1954 | |
| Marc Brandel | 1 | 04/02/1958 | |
| Grace Garment | 1 | 09/26/1956 | |
| Jerome Coopersmith | 1 | 07/16/1958 | |
| O. Henry | 1 | 04/25/1956 | |
| Bruce Bassett | 1 | 10/02/1957 | |
| William Hodapp | 1 | 09/28/1955 | |
| Horton Foote | 1 | 06/20/1951 | |
| Narda Stokes | 1 | 02/29/1956 | |
| John Cecil Holm | 1 | 03/30/1955 | |
| Sam Dann | 1 | 01/22/1958 | |
| Katrina Ettlinger | 1 | 12/26/1956 | |
| Don Ettlinger | 1 | 12/26/1956 | |
| John Howard Lindsey | 1 | 11/25/1953 | |
| Edward Mabley | 1 | 02/26/1958 | |
| Harold Gast | 1 | 04/11/1956 | |
| Leo Lieberman | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
| James Leo Herlihy | 1 | 05/30/1956 | |
| James Costigan | 1 | 04/15/1953 | |
| John J. Morin | 1 | 08/07/1957 | |
| Walter Macken | 1 | 01/25/1956 | |
| A.E. Hotchner | 1 | 04/30/1958 | |
| Terrence Kilpatrick | 1 | 06/22/1955 | |
| Shimon Wincelberg | 1 | 03/12/1958 | |
| Michael Dyne | 1 | 02/05/1958 | |
| Marjorie Faulkner | 1 | 07/11/1956 | |
| Raphael Hayes | 1 | 06/30/1954 | |
| Harry Muheim | 1 | 05/23/1956 | |
| Larry Cohen | 1 | 06/25/1958 | |
| Alfred Brenner | 1 | 03/26/1958 | |
| Harry Julian Fink | 1 | 10/01/1958 | |
| Paul Crabtree | 1 | 10/19/1955 | |
| James P. Cavanaugh | 1 | 06/04/1958 | |
| Frank D. Gilroy | 1 | 10/24/1956 | |
| James Edwards I | 1 | 04/04/1956 | |
| Calvin Tomkins | 1 | 09/12/1956 | |
| Lester Powell | 1 | 03/20/1957 | |
| Susan Glaspell | 1 | 10/06/1948 | |
| Jack Laird | 1 | 12/15/1954 | |
| Rufus Henry | 1 | 03/19/1958 | |
| Palmer Thompson | 1 | 02/01/1956 | |
| Robert Van Scoyk | 1 | 01/01/1958 | |
| David Karp | 1 | 02/08/1956 | |
| Francis Wilson | 1 | 07/04/1956 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William A. Graham | 23 | 06/29/1955 - 09/17/1958 | |
| Harry Herrmann | 12 | 05/05/1948 - 11/28/1956 | |
| Maurice Holland | 12 | 02/04/1953 - 02/15/1956 | |
| Richard Dunlap | 11 | 11/11/1953 - 11/07/1956 | |
| Fielder Cook | 10 | 01/12/1955 - 04/02/1958 | |
| George Roy Hill | 8 | 10/14/1953 - 05/02/1956 | |
| Paul Bogart | 6 | 01/09/1957 - 06/25/1958 | |
| Sidney Lumet | 5 | 03/05/1958 - 05/21/1958 | |
| Stanley Quinn | 4 | 12/07/1949 - 05/20/1953 | |
| Norman Morgan | 3 | 09/28/1955 - 12/25/1957 | |
| Alan Anderson | 3 | 06/20/1956 - 12/19/1956 | |
| Walter Lord | 2 | 03/28/1956 - 05/02/1956 | |
| John Patrick | 2 | 03/23/1955 | |
| Edna Ferber | 2 | 05/05/1948 - 05/19/1948 | |
| Evan Hunter | 2 | 06/11/1958 - 06/25/1958 | |
| Michael Dreyfuss | 2 | 07/16/1958 - 10/01/1958 | |
| Marc Daniels | 2 | 06/27/1956 - 07/25/1956 | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 2 | 09/28/1955 - 06/04/1958 | |
| George S. Kaufman | 2 | 05/05/1948 - 05/19/1948 | |
| Don Medford | 2 | 01/08/1958 - 02/19/1958 | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 2 | 05/14/1958 - 05/21/1958 | |
| Frank Pacelli | 2 | 01/16/1957 - 02/05/1958 | |
| Christine Arnothy | 1 | 10/17/1956 | |
| Norman Lloyd | 1 | 04/24/1957 | |
| Robert Foster | 1 | 07/03/1957 | |
| Bret Harte | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
| Helen Eustis | 1 | 03/07/1956 | |
| Holly Roth | 1 | 08/29/1956 | |
| John F. Kennedy | 1 | 05/16/1956 | |
| Samuel Grafton | 1 | 09/05/1956 | |
| Margaret Manners | 1 | 02/26/1958 | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1 | 09/01/1954 | |
| John Galsworthy | 1 | 06/29/1955 | |
| Margot Bennett | 1 | 07/16/1958 | |
| Louis-Charles Caigniez | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
| William Iversen | 1 | 09/17/1958 | |
| David Alexander | 1 | 11/13/1957 | |
| Richard Goode | 1 | 01/15/1958 | |
| John Hawkins | 1 | 11/21/1956 | |
| Alex Segal | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
| Charles Jackson | 1 | 03/21/1956 | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1 | 04/30/1958 | |
| Stanislaw Mierzenski | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
| Paul Stanley | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
| Murray Golden | 1 | 08/01/1956 | |
| William Corrigan | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
| Goerge Weber | 1 | 07/11/1956 | |
| William Shakespeare | 1 | 12/07/1949 | |
| Edith Grafton | 1 | 09/05/1956 | |
| Piet Bakker | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
| J.M.T. Badouin d'Aubigny | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
| Honore de Balzac | 1 | 03/12/1958 | |
| Anna Mary Wells | 1 | 06/06/1956 | |
| James Aswell | 1 | 09/12/1956 | |
| Daniel Petrie | 1 | 06/04/1958 | |
| Edward Padula | 1 | 10/06/1948 | |
| Hermann Field | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
| Frank Telford | 1 | 12/05/1956 | |
| John Van Druten | 1 | 11/25/1953 | |
| David Orrick McDearmon | 1 | 01/29/1958 | |
| Ward Hawkins | 1 | 11/21/1956 | |
| Cynthia Asquith | 1 | 02/05/1958 | |
| Henry Van Dyke | 1 | 12/25/1957 | |
| Fred Carney | 1 | 03/20/1957 | |
| Irvin S. Cobb | 1 | 01/26/1955 | |
| Ben Benson | 1 | 12/05/1956 | |
| Lewis Carroll | 1 | 05/05/1954 | |
| Francis Didelot | 1 | 01/09/1957 |
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