Kraft Suspense Theatre: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Kraft Suspense Theatre Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The World I Want
Oct 1, 1964
In San Francisco,an elderly cabinet maker has saved $62,000 and does not want his wife to inherit it when he dies.A lawyer explains how the man can leave it to his intended-an orph
Operation Grief
Oct 8, 1964
France 1944 and in a secret camp men prepare for a daring mission. The unusual thing is that they are German soldiers who will masquerade as U.S. troops in order to cause confusion
A Lion Amongst Men
Oct 22, 1964
In tiny Cedar Bay a tightly wound,much decorated Korean War veteran has plans to establish a para-military organization called the U.S. Vigilance Committee. Local teenagers show th
That He Should Weep for Her
Nov 5, 1964
In small-town Hainesville, California a kindly jewelry store owner feels guilty after killing a young Mexican man during a hold-up attempt at his store. The boy's sister is angry a
The Kamchatka Incident
Nov 12, 1964
A military air transport plane on a 15 hour flight from Tokyo to Seattle, Washington has engine and compass problems during a hurricane and wanders into Soviet air space. An emerge
The Jack is High
Nov 19, 1964
Just outside of Reno, Nevada, five men with diversely different backgrounds ambush an armored car truck and make away with $3,000,000 in cash. The men make their getaway to Los Ang
Graffiti
Nov 26, 1964
Gestapo agents pick up resistance leader Bertine, but fail to to recognize the value of their catch. Because Bertine must be silenced before the Nazis realize who he is, his follow
One Tiger to a Hill
Dec 3, 1964
A notorious cat burglar has his activities closely watched by the police so he trains an "apprentice" to carry out his well planned thefts while at the same time providing himself
Threepersons
Dec 10, 1964
A Texas lawman wants Tom Threepersons, a Cherokee Indian with a reputation as a fighter, to work alongside him in a battle against Prohibition racketeers. But before he commits him
The Gun
Dec 24, 1964
Near Bodie Air Force Base, a mild mannered dentist has problems getting respect from his wife and son following a robbery by a junkie over his reluctance to use a gun. Further comp
The Wine-Dark Sea
Dec 31, 1964
A one-time college professor,who lost his wife and children in a home fire,has fallen to the level of being a skid-row drunk.He investigates a "solid citizen" when a fellow "bum" i
In Darkness, Waiting (1)
Jan 14, 1965
A sinister plot to destroy the U.N. by a series of calculated assassinations is discovered.
In Darkness, Waiting (2)
Jan 21, 1965
The intrepid pair, Lt. Lacy and newspaperwoman Karen Lownes, are out to save the United Nations from potential assassinations.
That Time in Havana
Feb 11, 1965
An American wife arrives in Havana,Cuba to beg for the release of her "adventurer" husband who has been jailed on charges of espionage. He actually was in Cuba trying to recover $1
Four into Zero
Feb 18, 1965
Four men with various motives plan to "make use of" printing plates recently made in Chicago for a South American country's currency.They will try to commit the crime while on the
Streetcar, Do You Read Me?
Feb 25, 1965
A S.A.C. (Strategic Air Command) bomber on a routine patrol mission from March Air Force Base in the U.S. to Spain-and-back suffers an on-board fire.The co-pilot,who has dodged the
The Last Clear Chance
Mar 11, 1965
A French underground hero and a young American hope to escape from a German prison cell in France.
Won't It Ever Be Morning
Mar 18, 1965
A story of an insecure jazz singer and her demented manager who is accused of murdering a young girl.
Nobody Will Ever Know
Mar 25, 1965
An industrial research scientist who "married the boss's daughter" feels pressured to gain a promotion so he can afford her. When the chance to make money by selling company secret
The Green Felt Jungle
Apr 1, 1965
When a bomb intended for him kills his wife, DA Paul Maytric resigns to fight the gambling syndicate as a private citizen.
Rapture at Two-Forty
Apr 15, 1965
Paul Bryan, a lawyer with only a short time left to live, decides to spend his days hobnobbing with the jet-set on the French Riviera.
Jungle of Fear
Apr 22, 1965
In Panama, casino operator Rory O'Rourke, a would be railroad builder, becomes involved with a young woman and her son who are fleeing political enemies from China.
Kill No More
Apr 29, 1965
A U.S. scientist obsessed with putting an end to war by creating the ultimate weapon, endangers his marriage by neglecting his much-younger wife. He's a perfectionist, which riles
The Long Ravine
May 6, 1965
After his discharge from the service, Chris Sandoe heads for an almost-abandoned mining town where his sister and brother-in-law are living on credit hoping to strike it rich.
The Easter Breach
May 13, 1965
A man plots to get his pregnant wife out of East Berlin by romancing her American lookalike.
The Safe House
May 20, 1965
Nazi scientist Jeremias Lipp having successfully eluded the War Crimes commission, prepares to leave his Swiss refuge to take a job with a Middle Eastern government. But a group of
Twixt the Cup and the Lip
Jun 3, 1965
The meek and hard working Lester Pennell, who worked at the Alburn Gallery, was displaying the silver spectre of Louie XIV monarch of France, worth two million dollars. Lester lost
The Trains of Silence
Jun 10, 1965
A geologist from Vancouver,Canada comes to the U.S. to see his old college roommate who is now a reclusive Howard Hughes-ish multi-millionaire industrialist. He has a mining invest
Kill Me on July 20th
Jun 17, 1965
A washed-up race car driver named Tony Camion whose beloved brother is killed in a race that he should not have been driving. The brother only drove the car because Tony could not
The Rise and Fall of Eddie Carew
Jun 24, 1965
When a senile VIP is accidentally locked into an "impenatrable" safe, a "reformed" safe cracker is recruited from State Prison to rescue him. The "Human Can Opener" is not enthusia
Connery's Hands
Jul 1, 1965
A very sick businessman brings his wife's piano playing ex-lover into his home in order to carry out his sadistic plan.