Kraft Suspense Theatre

Total Seasons :2Total Episodes : 59

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Episodes(28)

The Case Against Paul Ryker (1)

1. The Case Against Paul Ryker (1)

This story chronicles the court martial of a Korean War sergeant accused of treason. He is found guilty and sentenced to die, but his wife refuses to accept that her husband is a traitor and so persuades a prosecuting attorney to reopen the case and investigate further.

Air Date : 1963-10-10

The Case Against Paul Ryker (2)

2. The Case Against Paul Ryker (2)

Sgt. Ryker is sentenced to death for treason, but prosecuting officer David Young asks for another hearing on the grounds that Ryker wasn't properly defended. The request is granted, but Young is ordered to handle the defense this time.

Air Date : 1963-10-17

The End of the World, Baby

3. The End of the World, Baby

An artist romances both a mother and her daughter. Things get complicated when the mother wants to divorce her husband to marry the artist. The daughter acts to protect her father and ends up in trouble.

Air Date : 1963-10-24

A Hero for Our Times

4. A Hero for Our Times

A "happily married" and well thought of businessman witnesses a murder. Unfortunately, he is at his mistress' apartment when it happens. His dilemma about whether or not to report what he knows to the police is heightened further when a man he knows to be innocent of the crime is arrested.

Air Date : 1963-10-31

Are There Any More Out There Like You?

5. Are There Any More Out There Like You?

A spoiled teenager is implicated in a fatal auto accident.

Air Date : 1963-11-07

One Step Down

6. One Step Down

A dead husband turns up in a motel room, but the stunning woman he was with vanishes, leaving no fingerprints. When police show scant interest in the case, the rich widow falls off the wagon and swears revenge. With $7 million all to herself, the widow expects to track the temptress down and make her suffer.

Air Date : 1963-11-14

The Machine That Played God

7. The Machine That Played God

A seemingly happy married couple have a fatal car crash. The husband dies and the surviving wife is suspected by the police of intentionally causing the accident. She tries to "prove" her innocence by taking two polygraph tests. The results confuse her and she comes to believe the "lie detector machines" know the real truth.

Air Date : 1963-12-05

The Long, Lost Life of Edward Smalley

8. The Long, Lost Life of Edward Smalley

Wielding a gun, Edward Smalley invades the office of attorney J. Marvin Bean. The attorney has no idea what this is all about until forced to remember an incident in World War II when Smalley had been accused of treason, and Bean was his court-appointed military attorney. The trial was cancelled before Smalley was given a chance to exonerate himself; the charges were dropped, but the accused man feels that he has never truly been cleared.

Air Date : 1963-12-12

The Hunt

9. The Hunt

A "surfer bum","600 miles from a wave", is roaming the back-roads of the U.S. in his woody wagon when it breaks down. His "rescuers" include a small town sheriff who has a habit of his prisoners escaping and then being hunted down and murdered by his bloodhounds. When the surfer is seen as a threat to report the goings-on he is arrested and is next in line to "escape".

Air Date : 1963-12-19

The Name of the Game

10. The Name of the Game

A professional craps player (who is habitually broke) is offered backing of up to $1,000,000 to play for a wealthy Southerner who has the goal of winning $200,000 from a Las Vegas casino. If successful they will split the winnings evenly. Complications include the craps players' love interest-and her boyfriend.

Air Date : 1963-12-26

The Deep End

11. The Deep End

A woman enters a private estate with a lake, strips down to a bathing suit and goes swimming. She is pulled underwater by a mysterious scuba diver and held until she drowns. The local police determine her death to be purely an accident, but an investigator from out of town is not so sure about that.

Air Date : 1964-01-02

A Truce to Terror

12. A Truce to Terror

In Los Angeles,a wealthy man has a brief scuffle with a Spanish laborer and is accidentally hurt.Feeling the incident was actually a vicious attack,he vows to track down the Spaniard.He does find the man's daughter and by accident causes her to become hurt.Now the Spaniard becomes the hunter and is out for revenge.

Air Date : 1964-01-09

Who is Jennifer?

13. Who is Jennifer?

A teenager discovers that an old woman may actually be his long-lost mother

Air Date : 1964-01-16

Leviathan Five

14. Leviathan Five

Five men trapped in an underground Research Center determine that their oxygen will run out before they can be rescued They decide to have a "lottery" to choose who will have to die so the rest can live.After being saved,the four survivors are charged with murder and find the outcome could be fatal.

Air Date : 1964-01-30

My Enemy, This Town

15. My Enemy, This Town

A young man returns to Santa Marta, California after seven years,having been paroled on a ten year term for raping a local girl.He finds resentment from his father and the townsfolk.What no one will believe is that he is innocent.His "plan" to clear himself runs into a problem-he is set up to take a fall again.

Air Date : 1964-02-06

The Action of the Tiger

16. The Action of the Tiger

In 1943 a somewhat shell-shocked pilot is put back into action after being shot down for the second time in his total of four missions. However, he is shot down again and ends up in a German POW camp. He escapes to smuggle out intelligence information. On his way back to England he plays a game of cat-and-mouse with the Nazis.

Air Date : 1964-02-20

Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am?

17. Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am?

An overly stressed, financially strapped, high powered businessman goes on a sales trip and wakes up suffering from amnesia after being assaulted. He settles in a small town, meets a nice girl and gets a simple satisfying job. Then his memory returns. He goes back to his old life and finds unhappiness. What will he do?

Air Date : 1964-02-27

The Threatening Eye

18. The Threatening Eye

In California,a young French-Canadian secretary relentlessly pursues marriage to a dull, married, middle-aged accountant. The man is flattered but mystified. What does the woman really want from him?

Air Date : 1964-03-12

A Cause of Anger

19. A Cause of Anger

An "overdeveloped genius" teenage boy has periodic fits of violent anger. Accompanied by a C.I.D. officer and a psychiatric nurse he is driven by car from his home in L.A. to a military installation in Kansas for diagnosis. During the journey several odd incidents occur and eventually the boy is missing. Is it kidnapping or foul play?

Air Date : 1964-03-19

Knight's Gambit

20. Knight's Gambit

In Majorca,Spain the U.S. Special Envoy is investigated for accepting bribes from organized crime while in his former position of D.A. The U.S. government uses an unlikely undercover operative - an international playboy worth 18 million dollars. The playboy begins the search for evidence by romancing the Special Envoy's secretary.

Air Date : 1964-03-26

One Upon a Savage Knight

21. One Upon a Savage Knight

Police authorities in Chicago are seeking serial killer "Georgie Porgie." His M.O. is to murder blondes with a "cheap" reputation. He was thought to have "gone south for the winter" after a killing in Tennessee. But he has returned to Chicago and kills a woman in the middle of a strip club. Georgie Porgie is somewhere on the Illinois Tollway. However, the manhunt is complicated by a missile convoy moving through the Chicago area.

Air Date : 1964-04-02

Portrait of an Unknown Man

22. Portrait of an Unknown Man

A mysterious unfriendly man comes to a remote mountain town to buy supplies and causes the locals to wonder why he is there. He further puzzles them when he sets up a homestead next to a long played out mine and puts up a 'No Trespassing' sign. Meanwhile, the owner of the town's General Store and his daughter are battling their own demons.

Air Date : 1964-04-16

Their Own Executioners

23. Their Own Executioners

In Wickfield, Mass. (just outside Boston) a quiet clean-cut young man confesses to murdering his wife. A local attorney who is dying agrees to see the man and comes away feeling there is a more to the case than premeditated murder. He finds there are motives involving the man's "pure" mother and "tramp" wife. Helping this man brings peace to the dying attorney.

Air Date : 1964-04-23

The Sweet Taste of Vengeance

24. The Sweet Taste of Vengeance

A divorcee who skips the country and heads to Brazil, her ex-husband would normally be happy to see the back of her; unfortunately she took $2 million of his money before leaving. Private eye Forsythe is hired to bring her back. And just to keep Forsythe honest, a second private eye is engaged to bring him back.

Air Date : 1964-04-30

Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly

25. Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly

An alcoholic, loudmouth, unemployed man on the verge of losing his wife and son is arrested for murder. He actually is a witness to who committed the crime but no one except a family friend believes him to be innocent. He becomes a hero to his neighbors as the murdered man was a drug dealer and begins to revel in the glory. When his friend finds the real killer it may be too late as the "hero" is now fully prepared to go to prison.

Air Date : 1964-05-07

The Watchman

26. The Watchman

An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the Enemy catches up with his quarry first.

Air Date : 1964-05-14

The Robrioz Ring

27. The Robrioz Ring

In the San Diego area (at Coronado) a family heirloom/good luck piece ring is sold by a man's mother to raise money. A spinsterish school teacher on vacation from Philadelphia buys the ring at a gift shop and the man, just too late to buy it back, decides to romance her to recover the good luck piece. As time passes the relationship becomes more important than the ring.

Air Date : 1964-05-28

A Cruel and Unusual Night

28. A Cruel and Unusual Night

A stern Lucas County, California "letter of the law" judge is kidnapped and "sentenced" to death by a man he once sentenced to death. The one-time Death Row prisoner recalls the agonies he went through as he awaited death by gas chamber. As his story is detailed tension builds and two questions remain to be answered-(1) "Will the judge crack?" and (2) "Will the execution be carried out?"

Air Date : 1964-06-04

Cast

Walter Brooke
Walter Brooke

(Col. Arthur Merriam)

Murray Hamilton
Murray Hamilton

(Capt. Appleton)

Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman

(Capt. David Young)

Peter Graves
Peter Graves

(Maj. Frank Whitaker)

Telly Savalas
Telly Savalas

(Beret)

Don Marshall
Don Marshall

(Cpl. Jenks)

Dabney Coleman
Dabney Coleman

(William Gunther)

Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan

(Gen. Amos Bailey)

Jack Weston
Jack Weston

(Homer Fargis)

Tol Avery
Tol Avery

(3rd Judge)

Norman Fell
Norman Fell

(Sgt. Max Winkler)

Vera Miles
Vera Miles

(Ann Ryker)

Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin

(Sgt. Paul Ryker)

Myron Healey
Myron Healey

(Lt. Bill Thaler)

Scott Marlowe
Scott Marlowe

(Johnny Baroja)

Rusty Lane
Rusty Lane

(Warden)

Philip Abbott
Philip Abbott

(Major Charles Wheeler)

Berkeley Harris

(Pete Francis)

Frank Silvera
Frank Silvera

(Sgt. Terrell)

Julie Adams
Julie Adams

(Ellen Yarnell)

Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino

(Harriet Whitney)

Morgan Mason
Morgan Mason

(Andy Merritt)

Joseph Gallison
Joseph Gallison

(Page Boy)

John Ireland
John Ireland

(William 'Scotty' Scott)

Adam Roarke
Adam Roarke

(Paul Durbin)

Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern

(Maynard)

Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde

(George Press)

Nancy Kovack
Nancy Kovack

(Melinda Davis)

Aldo Ray
Aldo Ray

(Sam Kimber)

Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson

(Mrs. Charlotte Heaton)

Arthur Kennedy
Arthur Kennedy

(Dr. Walter Meade Taylor)

Philip Carey
Philip Carey

(Edward Martin)

Michael Burns
Michael Burns

(Frankie Kling)

Coleen Gray
Coleen Gray

(Dorothy Nehf)

Linda Dangcil

(Peggy Sue)

Chester Morris
Chester Morris

(Blaine Davis)

Clint Walker
Clint Walker

(David Wolfe)

Herschel Bernardi
Herschel Bernardi

(Joe Monti)

Diana Hyland
Diana Hyland

(Laura DeLinda Stevenson / Laura Murdoch)

Clancy Cooper
Clancy Cooper

(Sgt. Kelly)

Steve Forrest
Steve Forrest

(David Buchanan)

Martha Hyer
Martha Hyer

(Helen Blaine)

Jack Klugman
Jack Klugman

(Steve Zaro)

Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia

(Mario Robrioz)

Don Collier
Don Collier

(Detective Sgt. Newsome)

Josephine Hutchinson
Josephine Hutchinson

(Mrs. Blanchard)

Gig Young
Gig Young

(Hugo Myrich)

Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges

(Mason Etheridge)

Sharon Farrell
Sharon Farrell

(Althea Winton)

Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna

(Edward Smalley)

Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney

(Sheriff Williams)

Monica Lewis
Monica Lewis

(Mrs. Caldwell)

Whit Bissell
Whit Bissell

(Gus Hickman)

David Brian
David Brian

(Mark Nelson)

Frank Overton
Frank Overton

(Bruce Reynolds)

Adam Williams
Adam Williams

(Ben Jorgenson)

Edy Williams
Edy Williams

(Enes)

Ed Kemmer
Ed Kemmer

(Stewart)

Ed Gilbert
Ed Gilbert

(Inspector)

Eleanor Parker
Eleanor Parker

(Dorian Smith)

Jay C. Flippen
Jay C. Flippen

(Hugh Ramsey)

Dean Stockwell
Dean Stockwell

(Martin Rosetti)

Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland

(JoAnne Kling)

Don Diamond
Don Diamond

(Paco)

Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan

(Dr. Adam Winters)

Ron Hayes
Ron Hayes

(Luther Hobbs)

Robert Ellenstein
Robert Ellenstein

(Raskob / Stevenson's attorney)

Nancy Malone
Nancy Malone

(Nurse Linda Beaumont)

Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands

(Janet Cord)

Nina Foch
Nina Foch

(Sarah Middleton)

Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks

(Doris Etheridge)

Katharine Ross
Katharine Ross

(Janet Bollington)

Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes

(Mrs. Pike)

James Caan
James Caan

(Rick Peterson)

Tina Louise
Tina Louise

(Angie Powell)

Lyle Bettger
Lyle Bettger

(Ted Johnson)

Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea

(Lt. Boyd Manners)

Barbara Nichols
Barbara Nichols

(Ann Hilts)

Ulla Jacobsson
Ulla Jacobsson

(Ursula)

Barney Phillips
Barney Phillips

(C.A. Thompson)

Roger Smith
Roger Smith

(Anthony Griswold Knight)

George Chandler
George Chandler

(Doc Baines)

Malcolm Atterbury
Malcolm Atterbury

(Doctor Gregory)

Richard Kiley
Richard Kiley

(Lou Franklin)

Lawrence Dobkin
Lawrence Dobkin

(Doctor (uncredited))

Virginia Gregg
Virginia Gregg

(Kate Taylor)

Anne Helm
Anne Helm

(Avis Tyler)

Jack Kelly
Jack Kelly

(Pete Braven)

James Whitmore
James Whitmore

(J. Marvin Bean)

John Forsythe
John Forsythe

(Jerry Wilson / John Williams)

Pat O'Brien
Pat O'Brien

(Lt. John Curwood)

Peter Brown
Peter Brown

(Lieutenant Ben Hollister)

Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan

(Thomas Bollington)

Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre

(Frederick Bergen)

Dabbs Greer
Dabbs Greer

(Newton Yort)

Pat Hingle
Pat Hingle

(Ed Caldwell)

Clu Gulager
Clu Gulager

(Dan Walsh)

Michael Ansara
Michael Ansara

(Morgan)

Gene Roth
Gene Roth

(1st Policeman)

John van Dreelen
John van Dreelen

(Dr. Eduardo Lenzi)

Rod Lauren
Rod Lauren

(Arturo Baroja)

Paul Newlan
Paul Newlan

(Doc Pierson)

Audrey Totter
Audrey Totter

(Mrs. Myra Moran)

H.M. Wynant
H.M. Wynant

(Escobar)

Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall

(Harvey Farnsworth)

Julie Harris
Julie Harris

(Lucy Bram)

Harry Townes
Harry Townes

(Felix Potter)

Peter Helm
Peter Helm

(Willis Maudry)

John Gavin
John Gavin

(Carlos)

Ben Wright
Ben Wright

(Casino Manager)

Phillip Pine
Phillip Pine

(Ellis)

Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn

(Charlie Kling)

Jack Warden
Jack Warden

(Jack Fleming)

Gary Merrill
Gary Merrill

(Mark Jordan)

Steve Ihnat
Steve Ihnat

(Pit Boss)

Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn

(Barbara Sherwood / Lucille Benton)

Jan Shepard
Jan Shepard

(Policewoman)

William Smith
William Smith

(Deputy Raynor)

Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan

(Judge Howard R. Stimming)

Paul Comi
Paul Comi

(Donnelly)

Lilia Skala
Lilia Skala

(Lina Rosetti)

Robert Clarke
Robert Clarke

(Adam Conway)

Brian Keith
Brian Keith

(Andy Bastian)

Mala Powers
Mala Powers

(Ellen Ramsey)

Frank Maxwell
Frank Maxwell

(Arthur Jensen)

Diane McBain
Diane McBain

(Mary Jorgenson)

Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen

(Dr. David Cord)

Anne Francis
Anne Francis

(Peggy Merritt)

Paul Langton
Paul Langton

(Sheriff Johnny Kyle)

Anna Navarro
Anna Navarro

(Maria)

Stephen McNally
Stephen McNally

(Major Sanford)

Phyllis Thaxter
Phyllis Thaxter

(Mildred Zaro)

Anthony Caruso
Anthony Caruso

(Cuero)

Bill Erwin
Bill Erwin

(Father Daley)

Al Hirt
Al Hirt

(Self - Musician)

Wright King
Wright King

(Chaplain)

Malachi Throne
Malachi Throne

(L. J. West)

Kevin Hagen

(Nilsen)

Danny Bravo
Danny Bravo

(Juan)

Oscar Beregi Jr.
Oscar Beregi Jr.

(Schneider)

Frank De Kova
Frank De Kova

(Edward)

Douglas Henderson
Douglas Henderson

(Skippy)

Naomi Stevens
Naomi Stevens

(Norma)

Edmon Ryan
Edmon Ryan

(Dr. Davis)

Bill Walker
Bill Walker

(Trustee)

Albert Carrier
Albert Carrier

(Frenchy)

William Boyett
William Boyett

(1st Detective)

Reggie Nalder
Reggie Nalder

(1st SS Agent)

Charles Aidman
Charles Aidman

(Maj. Kitchener)

Dan Frazer
Dan Frazer

(Mr. Chilton)

Pauline Drake

(Police Woman)

Herb Armstrong
Herb Armstrong

(Doctor)

Charles McGraw
Charles McGraw

(Harry Brockman)

Robert Ridgely
Robert Ridgely

(Dan McVeay)

Ted Knight
Ted Knight

(Carl Lombardo)

Barbara Turner
Barbara Turner

(Bernadette)

Charlene Lee

(Wynnette)

Douglas A. Alleman

(Ralph)

Arlene Kieta

(The Blond)

John A. Alonzo
John A. Alonzo

(Officer Miller)

Tom Allen

(Assistant District Attorney)

Robert H. Harris
Robert H. Harris

(Officer Newman)

Mary Frann
Mary Frann

(Annette)

Jan Marsh

(Dancer)

Katherine Crawford
Katherine Crawford

(Daphne Middleton)

Françoise Ruggieri

(B-Girl)

Dee Carroll

(Saleswoman)

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