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 |
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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 |
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Specials | 0 | ||
Unassigned Episodes | 527 |
Season | From | To | Episodes |
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Season 1 | 0 | ||
Unassigned Episodes | 527 |
Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
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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 | |
Edna Ferber | 2 | 05/05/1948 - 05/19/1948 | |
Evan Hunter | 2 | 06/11/1958 - 06/25/1958 | |
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 | |
Michael Dreyfuss | 2 | 07/16/1958 - 10/01/1958 | |
Walter Lord | 2 | 03/28/1956 - 05/02/1956 | |
John Patrick | 2 | 03/23/1955 | |
Frank Pacelli | 2 | 01/16/1957 - 02/05/1958 | |
David Alexander | 1 | 11/13/1957 | |
Christine Arnothy | 1 | 10/17/1956 | |
Alex Segal | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
Charles Jackson | 1 | 03/21/1956 | |
John Hawkins | 1 | 11/21/1956 | |
Ernest Hemingway | 1 | 04/30/1958 | |
Paul Stanley | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
Helen Eustis | 1 | 03/07/1956 | |
Holly Roth | 1 | 08/29/1956 | |
William Shakespeare | 1 | 12/07/1949 | |
Edith Grafton | 1 | 09/05/1956 | |
Margaret Manners | 1 | 02/26/1958 | |
Piet Bakker | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
Louis-Charles Caigniez | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
William Iversen | 1 | 09/17/1958 | |
Daniel Petrie | 1 | 06/04/1958 | |
Richard Goode | 1 | 01/15/1958 | |
Stanislaw Mierzenski | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
Murray Golden | 1 | 08/01/1956 | |
Frank Telford | 1 | 12/05/1956 | |
William Corrigan | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
Goerge Weber | 1 | 07/11/1956 | |
John Van Druten | 1 | 11/25/1953 | |
J.M.T. Badouin d'Aubigny | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
Ward Hawkins | 1 | 11/21/1956 | |
Honore de Balzac | 1 | 03/12/1958 | |
Anna Mary Wells | 1 | 06/06/1956 | |
James Aswell | 1 | 09/12/1956 | |
Fred Carney | 1 | 03/20/1957 | |
Irvin S. Cobb | 1 | 01/26/1955 | |
Edward Padula | 1 | 10/06/1948 | |
Lewis Carroll | 1 | 05/05/1954 | |
Ben Benson | 1 | 12/05/1956 | |
Hermann Field | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
Francis Didelot | 1 | 01/09/1957 | |
Norman Lloyd | 1 | 04/24/1957 | |
Robert Foster | 1 | 07/03/1957 | |
David Orrick McDearmon | 1 | 01/29/1958 | |
Bret Harte | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
Cynthia Asquith | 1 | 02/05/1958 | |
John F. Kennedy | 1 | 05/16/1956 | |
Henry Van Dyke | 1 | 12/25/1957 | |
Samuel Grafton | 1 | 09/05/1956 | |
John Galsworthy | 1 | 06/29/1955 | |
Robert Louis Stevenson | 1 | 09/01/1954 | |
Margot Bennett | 1 | 07/16/1958 |
Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
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Robert Howard Lindsey | 18 | 12/01/1948 - 08/31/1955 | |
Dale Wasserman | 5 | 01/26/1955 - 03/19/1958 | |
Rod Serling | 5 | 04/08/1953 - 02/09/1955 | |
Robert Crean | 4 | 08/08/1956 - 12/25/1957 | |
James Lee Barrett | 4 | 10/10/1956 - 03/05/1958 | |
John Whedon | 3 | 03/28/1956 - 01/09/1957 | |
Arthur Heinemann | 3 | 08/29/1956 - 10/17/1956 | |
Louis Pelletier | 3 | 11/02/1955 - 08/01/1956 | |
Nicholas E. Baehr | 2 | 10/03/1956 - 11/21/1956 | |
Dewitt Copp | 2 | 06/20/1956 - 07/03/1957 | |
Jack Klugman | 2 | 07/17/1957 - 01/15/1958 | |
Alvin Boretz | 2 | 06/11/1958 - 09/17/1958 | |
Robert J. Shaw | 2 | 06/06/1956 - 08/29/1956 | |
Will Lorin | 2 | 03/21/1956 - 12/05/1956 | |
Wendell Mayes | 2 | 05/09/1956 - 05/16/1956 | |
John Gay | 2 | 01/18/1956 - 07/25/1956 | |
George H. Faulkner | 2 | 09/01/1954 - 07/11/1956 | |
William Noble | 2 | 02/22/1956 - 06/27/1956 | |
Paul Monash | 2 | 06/13/1956 - 01/30/1957 | |
Don M. Mankiewicz | 2 | 05/14/1958 - 05/21/1958 | |
Gertrude Schweitzer | 2 | 10/31/1956 - 11/14/1956 | |
Arthur Hailey | 2 | 11/07/1956 - 11/28/1956 | |
William Mourne | 2 | 05/11/1955 - 09/19/1956 | |
Victor Wolfson | 2 | 01/11/1956 - 10/17/1956 | |
David Davidson | 2 | 01/08/1958 - 04/23/1958 | |
Francis Wilson | 1 | 07/04/1956 | |
Jerome Coopersmith | 1 | 07/16/1958 | |
O. Henry | 1 | 04/25/1956 | |
Newton Meltzer | 1 | 11/13/1957 | |
Horton Foote | 1 | 06/20/1951 | |
Phil Reisman, Jr. | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
John Cecil Holm | 1 | 03/30/1955 | |
Jerry De Bono | 1 | 12/28/1955 | |
Don Ettlinger | 1 | 12/26/1956 | |
Junius Eddy | 1 | 01/16/1957 | |
Harold Gast | 1 | 04/11/1956 | |
Jack Roche | 1 | 05/05/1954 | |
Leo Lieberman | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
James Leo Herlihy | 1 | 05/30/1956 | |
James Costigan | 1 | 04/15/1953 | |
Grace Garment | 1 | 09/26/1956 | |
Walter Macken | 1 | 01/25/1956 | |
Bruce Bassett | 1 | 10/02/1957 | |
Michael Dyne | 1 | 02/05/1958 | |
A.E. Hotchner | 1 | 04/30/1958 | |
William Hodapp | 1 | 09/28/1955 | |
Shimon Wincelberg | 1 | 03/12/1958 | |
Narda Stokes | 1 | 02/29/1956 | |
Raphael Hayes | 1 | 06/30/1954 | |
Alfred Brenner | 1 | 03/26/1958 | |
Sam Dann | 1 | 01/22/1958 | |
Katrina Ettlinger | 1 | 12/26/1956 | |
Larry Cohen | 1 | 06/25/1958 | |
Harry Julian Fink | 1 | 10/01/1958 | |
John Howard Lindsey | 1 | 11/25/1953 | |
Edward Mabley | 1 | 02/26/1958 | |
Frank D. Gilroy | 1 | 10/24/1956 | |
Lester Powell | 1 | 03/20/1957 | |
John J. Morin | 1 | 08/07/1957 | |
Jack Laird | 1 | 12/15/1954 | |
Terrence Kilpatrick | 1 | 06/22/1955 | |
Palmer Thompson | 1 | 02/01/1956 | |
Robert Van Scoyk | 1 | 01/01/1958 | |
David Karp | 1 | 02/08/1956 | |
Marjorie Faulkner | 1 | 07/11/1956 | |
Henry Denker | 1 | 02/19/1958 | |
Harry Muheim | 1 | 05/23/1956 | |
Tennessee Williams | 1 | 04/16/1958 | |
Paul Crabtree | 1 | 10/19/1955 | |
James P. Cavanaugh | 1 | 06/04/1958 | |
Leslie Stevens | 1 | 03/06/1957 | |
J.P. Miller | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
James Edwards I | 1 | 04/04/1956 | |
Norman Katkov | 1 | 07/18/1956 | |
Calvin Tomkins | 1 | 09/12/1956 | |
Susan Glaspell | 1 | 10/06/1948 | |
Rufus Henry | 1 | 03/19/1958 | |
Marc Brandel | 1 | 04/02/1958 |
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