Kraft Television Theatre (1947)
Kraft Television Theatre (1947)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Ed Herlihy
Announcer
Vaughn Taylor
Mr. Mergenthwirker
Valerie Cossart
Mrs. Ryerson
Dan Morgan
3rd Class Passenger
Mercer McLeod
Hardcastle
Harry Townes
Bill
Sidney Lumet
Director
Ossie Davis
The Emperor Jones
Rex Ingram
Lem
Philip Abbott
Max
Colleen Dewhurst
Christine
Norman Lloyd
Andrew J. Fogarty
Joe Mantell
Sam Abbott / Pfc. Harry McCall
Don Murray
Booth / George
E.G. Marshall
Mr. Lazarus
J. Pat O'Malley
Dovetail / Goody
Dennis Patrick
Manchester
David Doyle
Dave
Earl Holliman
Danny Smith
Dick O'Neill
Toby Link
Rudy Vallee
Bromley
Harold J. Stone
George Peppard
Stanja Lowe
Barbara Barrie
Farley Granger
Alexander Scourby
Paul Mazursky
James Whitmore
William Shatner
Nancy Marchand
Edward Binns
Details.
Wiki.
Kraft Television Theatre is an American anthology drama television series running from 1947 to 1958. It began May 7, 1947 on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year. It first promoted MacLaren's Imperial Cheese, which was advertised nowhere else. In January 1948, it moved to 9pm on Wednesdays, continuing in that timeslot until 1958. Initially produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, the live hour-long series offered television plays with new stories and new characters each week, in addition to adaptations of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Alice in Wonderland. The program was broadcast live from Studio 8-H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, currently the home of Saturday Night Live.
Beginning October 1953, ABC added a separate series (also titled Kraft Television Theatre), created to promote Kraft's new Cheez Whiz product. This series ran for sixteen months, telecast on Thursday evenings at 9:30pm, until January 1955. After Kraft cancelled the second show, the second show changed its sponsor to become Pond's Theatre on ABC-TV from March 1955, while the original Kraft Theatre continued on NBC-TV.