The Worst Episodes of Kraft Suspense Theatre

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   #1 - The Sweet Taste of Vengeance

   S1:E244/30/1964

   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. Private eye Forsythe is hired to bring her back. And just to keep Forsythe honest, a second private eye is engaged to bring him back.

   Director:Roy Huggins

   Writer:Unknown

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   #2 - Graffiti

   S2:E711/26/1964

   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 followers arrange for a young assassin to be arrested and place in his cell.

   Director:Unknown

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   #3 - In Darkness, Waiting (1)

   S2:E121/14/1965

   A sinister plot to destroy the U.N. by a series of calculated assassinations is discovered.

   Director:Jack Smight

   Writer:Unknown

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   #4 - In Darkness, Waiting (2)

   S2:E131/21/1965

   The intrepid pair, Lt. Lacy and newspaperwoman Karen Lownes, are out to save the United Nations from potential assassinations.

   Director:Jack Smight

   Writer:Unknown

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   #5 - The Last Clear Chance

   S2:E173/11/1965

   A French underground hero and a young American hope to escape from a German prison cell in France.

   Director:Unknown

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   5.5/10(42 votes)

   #6 - The Watchman

   S1:E265/14/1964

   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.

   Director:Leslie Stevens

   Writer:Unknown

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   5.8/10(30 votes)

   #7 - The Easter Breach

   S2:E255/13/1965

   A man plots to get his pregnant wife out of East Berlin by romancing her American lookalike.

   Director:Ralph Senensky

   Writer:Unknown

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   6.1/10(30 votes)

   #8 - That Time in Havana

   S2:E142/11/1965

   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 $1,000,000 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.

   Director:Alex March

   Writer:Unknown

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   6.2/10(57 votes)

   #9 - A Cause of Anger

   S1:E193/19/1964

   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 military installation in Kansas for diagnosis. During the journey several odd incidents occur and eventually the boy is missing. Is it kidnapping or foul play?

   Director:Richard L. Bare

   Writer:Unknown

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    6.2/10(20 votes)

    #10 - Knight's Gambit

    S1:E203/26/1964

    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 undercover operative - an international playboy worth 18 million dollars. The playboy begins the search for evidence by romancing the Special Envoy's secretary.

    Director:Walter Grauman

    Writer:Lorenzo Semple Jr.

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    6.2/10(48 votes)

    #11 - Their Own Executioners

    S1:E234/23/1964

    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 there is a more to the case than premeditated murder. He finds there are motives involving the man's "pure" mother and "tramp" wife. Helping this man brings peace to the dying attorney.

    Director:Walter Grauman

    Writer:Luther Davis

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    6.2/10(32 votes)

    #12 - Threepersons

    S2:E912/10/1964

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

    Director:Alex March

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.2/10(25 votes)

    #13 - Won't It Ever Be Morning

    S2:E183/18/1965

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

    Director:David Lowell Rich

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.2/10(23 votes)

    #14 - The Green Felt Jungle

    S2:E204/1/1965

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

    Director:Irving J. Moore

    Writer:Howard Browne

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    Director:Irving J. Moore

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    6.3/10(28 votes)

    #15 - Jungle of Fear

    S2:E224/22/1965

    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.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.4/10(23 votes)

    #16 - The Safe House

    S2:E265/20/1965

    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 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.

    Director:Tom Gries

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.5/10(42 votes)

    #17 - The Robrioz Ring

    S1:E275/28/1964

    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 the ring at a gift shop and the man, just too late to buy it back, decides to romance her to recover the good luck piece. As time passes the relationship becomes more important than the ring.

    Director:David Lowell Rich

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.5/10(36 votes)

    #18 - The Gun

    S2:E1012/24/1964

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

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.6/10(32 votes)

    #19 - One Tiger to a Hill

    S2:E812/3/1964

    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 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.

    Director:Jack Arnold

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.6/10(36 votes)

    #20 - Rapture at Two-Forty

    S2:E214/15/1965

    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.

    Director:William A. Graham

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.7/10(40 votes)

    #21 - The Long, Lost Life of Edward Smalley

    S1:E812/12/1963

    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 when Smalley had been accused of treason, and Bean was his court-appointed military attorney. The trial was cancelled before Smalley was given a chance to exonerate himself; the charges were dropped, but the accused man feels that he has never truly been cleared.

    Director:Robert Altman

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.7/10(29 votes)

    #22 - The World I Want

    S2:E110/1/1964

    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 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.

    Director:Elliot Silverstein

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.7/10(36 votes)

    #23 - That He Should Weep for Her

    S2:E411/5/1964

    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 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.

    Director:Bernard Girard

    Writer:George Kirgo

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    Writer:George Kirgo
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    6.7/10(37 votes)

    #24 - The Rise and Fall of Eddie Carew

    S2:E306/24/1965

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

    Director:Joseph Pevney

    Writer:Don Brinkley

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    6.8/10(40 votes)

    #25 - My Enemy, This Town

    S1:E152/6/1964

    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 townsfolk.What no one will believe is that he is innocent.His "plan" to clear himself runs into a problem-he is set up to take a fall again.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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