Kraft Suspense Theatre: Season 1
Episodes
The Case Against Paul Ryker (1)
Oct 10, 1963
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 t
The Case Against Paul Ryker (2)
Oct 17, 1963
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 grante
The End of the World, Baby
Oct 24, 1963
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 fathe
A Hero for Our Times
Oct 31, 1963
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
Are There Any More Out There Like You?
Nov 7, 1963
A spoiled teenager is implicated in a fatal auto accident.
One Step Down
Nov 14, 1963
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 Machine That Played God
Dec 5, 1963
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 "pro
The Long, Lost Life of Edward Smalley
Dec 12, 1963
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 w
The Hunt
Dec 19, 1963
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
The Name of the Game
Dec 26, 1963
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
The Deep End
Jan 2, 1964
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 lo
A Truce to Terror
Jan 9, 1964
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 Spania
Who is Jennifer?
Jan 16, 1964
A teenager discovers that an old woman may actually be his long-lost mother
Leviathan Five
Jan 30, 1964
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 di
My Enemy, This Town
Feb 6, 1964
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 townsfol
The Action of the Tiger
Feb 20, 1964
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 i
Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am?
Feb 27, 1964
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
The Threatening Eye
Mar 12, 1964
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 re
A Cause of Anger
Mar 19, 1964
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 mil
Knight's Gambit
Mar 26, 1964
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 undercov
One Upon a Savage Knight
Apr 2, 1964
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
Portrait of an Unknown Man
Apr 16, 1964
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 nex
Their Own Executioners
Apr 23, 1964
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 th
The Sweet Taste of Vengeance
Apr 30, 1964
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.
Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly
May 7, 1964
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 fami
The Watchman
May 14, 1964
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.
The Robrioz Ring
May 28, 1964
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
A Cruel and Unusual Night
Jun 4, 1964
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 ag