8.0/1030 votesLoading...#1 - One Upon a Savage Knight
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/2/1964
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" 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.
Director: Robert Altman
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1098 votesLoading...
#2 - One Step Down
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/1963
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 wagon and swears revenge. With $7 million all to herself, the widow expects to track the temptress down and make her suffer.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1064 votesLoading...
#3 - Leviathan Five
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/30/1964
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 die so the rest can live.After being saved,the four survivors are charged with murder and find the outcome could be fatal.
Director: William P. McGivern
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1054 votesLoading...
#4 - A Hero for Our Times
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/1963
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 what he knows to the police is heightened further when a man he knows to be innocent of the crime is arrested.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1084 votesLoading...
#5 - The Hunt
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/19/1963
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 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".
Director: Robert Altman
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1083 votesLoading...
#6 - Portrait of an Unknown Man
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/16/1964
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 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1021 votesLoading...
#7 - The Case Against Paul Ryker (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/1963
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 granted, but Young is ordered to handle the defense this time.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1042 votesLoading...
#8 - The Name of the Game
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/26/1963
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 casino. If successful they will split the winnings evenly. Complications include the craps players' love interest-and her boyfriend.
Director: N/A
Writer: Frank Fenton
- 7.4/1050 votesLoading...
#9 - The Wine-Dark Sea
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1964
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" is accused of a hold-up and murder-and he changes his life to do it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1048 votesLoading...
#10 - The End of the World, Baby
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/1963
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 father and ends up in trouble.
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: Luther Davis
- 7.3/1065 votesLoading...
#11 - Are There Any More Out There Like You?
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1963
A spoiled teenager is implicated in a fatal auto accident.
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: Luther Davis
- 7.3/1077 votesLoading...
#12 - Who is Jennifer?
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1964
A teenager discovers that an old woman may actually be his long-lost mother
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1050 votesLoading...
#13 - The Threatening Eye
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/12/1964
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 really want from him?
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1049 votesLoading...
#14 - The Jack is High
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1964
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 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.
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1024 votesLoading...
#15 - The Case Against Paul Ryker (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/1963
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 traitor and so persuades a prosecuting attorney to reopen the case and investigate further.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1032 votesLoading...
#16 - Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am?
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1964
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 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?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1048 votesLoading...
#17 - Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/7/1964
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 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.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1038 votesLoading...
#18 - Kill No More
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 4/29/1965
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 his military overseers, who keep pressuring the physicist for quick results, because they fear he'll be nabbed by enemy agents.
Director: Tom Gries
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1078 votesLoading...
#19 - The Machine That Played God
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/5/1963
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 "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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1041 votesLoading...
#20 - Operation Grief
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1964
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 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.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Jerome Ross
- 7.1/1032 votesLoading...
#21 - Four into Zero
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1965
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 train from Chicago to Los Angeles from which the plates are being shipped. An unexpected injury could "derail" their attempt.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Don Brinkley
- 7.1/1019 votesLoading...
#22 - Connery's Hands
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 7/1/1965
A very sick businessman brings his wife's piano playing ex-lover into his home in order to carry out his sadistic plan.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1041 votesLoading...
#23 - The Action of the Tiger
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1964
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 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1029 votesLoading...
#24 - Kill Me on July 20th
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 6/17/1965
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 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.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: George Kirgo
- 6.9/1055 votesLoading...
#25 - A Cruel and Unusual Night
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 6/4/1964
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 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?"
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: David Moessinger
The Best Episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre
Every episode of Kraft Suspense Theatre ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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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Best Episodes Summary
"One Upon a Savage Knight" is the best rated episode of "Kraft Suspense Theatre". It scored 8/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by Robert Altman and written by N/A, it aired on 4/2/1964. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "One Step Down".