The Best Episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre

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   8.0/10(105 votes)

   #1 - One Step Down

   S1:E611/14/1963

   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:Unknown

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   7.9/10(64 votes)

   #2 - Leviathan Five

   S1:E141/30/1964

   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:Unknown

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   7.8/10(57 votes)

   #3 - A Hero for Our Times

   S1:E410/31/1963

   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:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.8/10(32 votes)

   #4 - One Upon a Savage Knight

   S1:E214/2/1964

   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:Unknown

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   7.7/10(86 votes)

   #5 - The Hunt

   S1:E912/19/1963

   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:Unknown

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   7.6/10(84 votes)

   #6 - Portrait of an Unknown Man

   S1:E224/16/1964

   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:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.5/10(21 votes)

   #7 - The Case Against Paul Ryker (2)

   S1:E210/17/1963

   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:Unknown

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   7.5/10(50 votes)

   #8 - The Jack is High

   S2:E611/19/1964

   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:Unknown

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   7.5/10(53 votes)

   #9 - The Wine-Dark Sea

   S2:E1112/31/1964

   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:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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    7.4/10(59 votes)

    #10 - The Threatening Eye

    S1:E183/12/1964

    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:Unknown

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    7.4/10(49 votes)

    #11 - Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly

    S1:E255/7/1964

    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:Unknown

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    7.3/10(49 votes)

    #12 - The End of the World, Baby

    S1:E310/24/1963

    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

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    Director:Irvin Kershner

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    7.3/10(67 votes)

    #13 - Are There Any More Out There Like You?

    S1:E511/7/1963

    A spoiled teenager is implicated in a fatal auto accident.

    Director:Elliot Silverstein

    Writer:Luther Davis

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    Writer:Luther Davis
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    7.3/10(42 votes)

    #14 - The Name of the Game

    S1:E1012/26/1963

    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:Unknown

    Writer:Frank Fenton

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    Writer:Frank Fenton
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    7.3/10(31 votes)

    #15 - Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am?

    S1:E172/27/1964

    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:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(24 votes)

    #16 - The Case Against Paul Ryker (1)

    S1:E110/10/1963

    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:Unknown

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    7.2/10(83 votes)

    #17 - Who is Jennifer?

    S1:E131/16/1964

    A teenager discovers that an old woman may actually be his long-lost mother

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(42 votes)

    #18 - Operation Grief

    S2:E210/8/1964

    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

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    7.2/10(39 votes)

    #19 - Nobody Will Ever Know

    S2:E193/25/1965

    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 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.

    Director:Don Weis

    Writers:Harry Essex, Richard Fielder

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    Writers:Harry Essex, Richard Fielder
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    7.2/10(32 votes)

    #20 - Kill Me on July 20th

    S2:E296/17/1965

    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

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    Writer:George Kirgo
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    7.2/10(21 votes)

    #21 - Connery's Hands

    S2:E317/1/1965

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

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.1/10(88 votes)

    #22 - The Machine That Played God

    S1:E712/5/1963

    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:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.1/10(33 votes)

    #23 - Four into Zero

    S2:E152/18/1965

    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

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    Writer:Don Brinkley
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    7.1/10(59 votes)

    #24 - Streetcar, Do You Read Me?

    S2:E162/25/1965

    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 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?

    Director:Leon Benson

    Writer:Hank Searls

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    Writer:Hank Searls
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    7.1/10(40 votes)

    #25 - Kill No More

    S2:E234/29/1965

    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:Unknown

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