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The Best Episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre

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The Best Episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three...

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  1. Background image for The Jack is High
    7.3/10(49 votes)

    #1 - The Jack is High

    S2:E6

    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 Angeles using a gas tanker truck in which the money and three of the men are hidden inside. The trip is full of uncertainty as they fight amongst themselves while, unknown to them, a veteran police inspector is cleverly piecing clues together.

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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Wine-Dark Sea
    7.3/10(52 votes)

    #2 - The Wine-Dark Sea

    S2:E11

    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" is accused of a hold-up and murder-and he changes his life to do it.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Kill No More
    7.2/10(39 votes)

    #3 - Kill No More

    S2:E23

    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 his military overseers, who keep pressuring the physicist for quick results, because they fear he'll be nabbed by enemy agents.

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    Director:Tom Gries
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Operation Grief
    7.1/10(42 votes)

    #4 - Operation Grief

    S2:E2

    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 and buy time for a last gasp German Offensive. Later,five U.S. G.I.'s travel toward the front lines and begin to suspect each other of being a German infiltrator.

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    Director:Jack Smight
  5. Background image for Connery's Hands
    7.1/10(19 votes)

    #5 - Connery's Hands

    S2:E31

    A very sick businessman brings his wife's piano playing ex-lover into his home in order to carry out his sadistic plan.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Streetcar, Do You Read Me?
    7.0/10(53 votes)

    #6 - Streetcar, Do You Read Me?

    S2:E16

    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 responsibility of becoming a lead pilot,is suddenly thrust into command when the pilot is severely injured due to the fire.Can the co-pilot conquer his fears and master his inadequacies?

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    Director:Leon Benson
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  8. Background image for Nobody Will Ever Know
    7.0/10(38 votes)

    #7 - Nobody Will Ever Know

    S2:E19

    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 secrets is offered he takes it. Later,to his regret,he finds the choice is no longer his-he will continue to provide information or his wife will die.

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  9. Background image for The Long Ravine
    6.9/10(44 votes)

    #8 - The Long Ravine

    S2:E24

    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.

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    Director:Leon Benson
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for A Lion Amongst Men
    6.8/10(43 votes)

    #9 - A Lion Amongst Men

    S2:E3

    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 the man no respect and later decide to play a Halloween "prank" on him.The prank causes the re-awakening of a bad experience the man suffered during the war-and may lead to death.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Four into Zero
    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #10 - Four into Zero

    S2:E15

    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 train from Chicago to Los Angeles from which the plates are being shipped. An unexpected injury could "derail" their attempt.

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    Director:Don Weis
  12. Background image for The Trains of Silence
    6.8/10(67 votes)

    #11 - The Trains of Silence

    S2:E28

    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 investment to propose but is not allowed to see his friend,is rudely treated by the man's staff and is almost murdered.After being "bought off", he persists and finds an unexpected result.

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    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Kill Me on July 20th
    6.8/10(30 votes)

    #12 - Kill Me on July 20th

    S2:E29

    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 do it himself. In an effort to redeem himself to his brother's family, Tony changes his life insurance policy to make his brother's family the beneficiary and hires an unknown hit man to kill him on July 20th. He then sets about making sure his brother's family has everything they need prior to his demise.

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  14. Background image for The World I Want
    6.6/10(30 votes)

    #13 - The World I Want

    S2:E1

    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 orphaned niece.The man fears his wife is trying to kill him and wants to provide for his niece and her love,an abused deaf and dumb cousin.The man is right-he is murdered.The cousin is blamed and later saves the niece from the murderous wife.

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  15. Background image for Rapture at Two-Forty
    6.6/10(35 votes)

    #14 - Rapture at Two-Forty

    S2:E21

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Twixt the Cup and the Lip
    6.6/10(27 votes)

    #15 - Twixt the Cup and the Lip

    S2:E27

    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 his job by being too honest and being a ""doormat"".Lester struck back in order to impress his girlfriend and change his wimpy image,by undermining a complicated and interesting plan to break in and steal the spectre.

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    Director:Leon Benson
  17. Background image for The Kamchatka Incident
    6.5/10(32 votes)

    #16 - The Kamchatka Incident

    S2:E5

    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 emergency landing on uninhabited Russian soil with rough terrain is complicated further by the fact that one of the plane's passengers is an important Soviet defector.

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  18. Background image for The Gun
    6.5/10(36 votes)

    #17 - The Gun

    S2:E10

    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 complicating his life is his slightly mentally disabled son, who finds perverse joy in teasing a somewhat touched and lonely old lady neighbor.

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for That He Should Weep for Her
    6.4/10(35 votes)

    #18 - That He Should Weep for Her

    S2:E4

    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 and wants revenge. She takes advantage of the jeweler's compassion and loneliness and gets close to him-a little too close for both of them. Later, she finds the man who truly was to blame for her brother's death.

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  20. Background image for One Tiger to a Hill
    6.4/10(32 votes)

    #19 - One Tiger to a Hill

    S2:E8

    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 with safe alibis.When the cocky trainee finds he enjoys the money and lifestyle being a "high class thief" brings,he decides to go into business for himself and eliminate the old pro.

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    Director:Jack Arnold
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Won't It Ever Be Morning
    6.3/10(25 votes)

    #20 - Won't It Ever Be Morning

    S2:E18

    A story of an insecure jazz singer and her demented manager who is accused of murdering a young girl.

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    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Rise and Fall of Eddie Carew
    6.3/10(33 votes)

    #21 - The Rise and Fall of Eddie Carew

    S2:E30

    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 enthusiastic about the offer and, despite his loyal girlfriend, hatches a rescue plan with a twist.

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  23. Background image for The Safe House
    6.1/10(23 votes)

    #22 - The Safe House

    S2:E26

    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 Israeli agents have no intention of allowing Lipp to continue his activities. They spearhead the scheme to kidnap Lipp and deliver him to his accusers.

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    Director:Tom Gries
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Threepersons
    6.0/10(31 votes)

    #23 - Threepersons

    S2:E9

    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 himself, Tom decides to cross the border into Mexico to see what the other side has to offer.

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    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for That Time in Havana
    6.0/10(29 votes)

    #24 - That Time in Havana

    S2:E14

    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 $1,000,000 in Mafia money left behind after The 1958 Revolution. The Communist authorities want the money and the woman enlists a reporter to help her find it and clear her husband. Meanwhile, anti-Castro patriots lurk in the background.

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    Director:Alex March
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Green Felt Jungle
    6.0/10(22 votes)

    #25 - The Green Felt Jungle

    S2:E20

    When a bomb intended for him kills his wife, DA Paul Maytric resigns to fight the gambling syndicate as a private citizen.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Jack is High" is the best rated episode of "Kraft Suspense Theatre". It scored 7.3/10 based on 49 votes. Directed by Ralph Senensky and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/19/1964. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Wine-Dark Sea".