Kraft Television Theatre Season 11

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Season 11

Air date: 1957-09-25

Episodes: 29

Episodes

E1: Vengeance

Air date: 1957-09-25

E2: Barefoot Soldier

Air date: 1957-10-02

E3: Smart Boy

Air date: 1957-10-09

E4: A Cook for Mr. General

Air date: 1957-10-16

E5: Man in a Trance

Air date: 1957-10-23

E10: Come to Me

Air date: 1957-12-04

E12: Polka

The Polish-American father of three daughters takes great pride in entering the annual polka contest each year with one of the girls. Last year, when his oldest daughter married, the second daughter Theckla danced and won the contest with Papa. However, this year, Theckla is in love, and she refuses to put on the old-country costume and dance.

Air date: 1957-12-18

E13: The Story of the Other Wise Man

Air date: 1957-12-25

E14: The Battle for Wednesday Night

Air date: 1958-01-01

E15: The Velvet Trap

Air date: 1958-01-08

E17: Eddie

A well-liked policeman dreams that he will have a shoot-out with a criminal on a specific day. While walking his beat on that night, he encounters the thug of his dreams.

Air date: 1958-01-22

E19: The Spell of the Tigress

Air date: 1958-02-05

E20: Material Witness

An average citizen witnesses a murder. His family then faces intimidation from the killer.

Air date: 1958-02-19

E22: Dog in a Bush Tunnel

Air date: 1958-03-05

E25: Angry Angel

Air date: 1958-03-26

E26: The Man in Authority

Air date: 1958-04-02

E27: Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: Moony's Kid Don't Cry/The Last of My Solid Gold Watches/This Property Is Condemned

Air date: 1958-04-16

E29: Fifty Grand

Air date: 1958-04-30

E30: The Outcasts of Poker Flat

A group of shady characters from a mining town wind up stuck in a blizzard with a naive young couple. The situation brings out the best, and worst, in everyone.

Air date: 1958-05-07

E31: All the King's Men: Part 1

The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.

Air date: 1958-05-14

E32: All the King's Men: Part 2

Air date: 1958-05-21

E38: Next Door to Death

Air date: 1958-07-02

E42: Death Wears Many Faces

Two college students hitching their way back to school. A fierce storm arises, and they take shelter in a local farmer's barn. The next day on the radio they hear that the daughter of the farmer who gave them shelter has been murdered, and the boys are shocked to hear that a description of the killers matches them perfectly.

Air date: 1958-07-30

E44: Night Cry

A tough veteran cop, expecting to be promoted to a supervisor position, is passed over, and finds himself assigned to a homicide by the man who took what he considered to be his job. His new boss warns him against using the brutal tactics he is infamous for, but the cop soon ditches his partner and pays a visit to the suspect in the case, in order to "interrogate" him--alone.

Air date: 1958-08-13

E45: We Haven't Seen Her Lately

Elderly Aunt Violet lets it be known that she's particularly afraid of one of her heirs, who she thinks is greedy enough to do away with her to get her money. Not long after hiring a new gardener, Violet disappears. Her friends and neighbors suspect that she has been killed by the greedy heir, but her niece Helen decides to search the entire countryside to find out what happened to her aunt.

Air date: 1958-08-20

E48: Trick or Treat

Air date: 1958-09-10

E49: A Cup of Kindness

Air date: 1958-09-17

E50: Riddle of a Lady

A sophisticated, upper-crust British lawyer turns to a much shadier colleague to clear him when he's charged with murdering a somewhat disreputable woman.

Air date: 1958-09-24

E51: Presumption of Innocence

Air date: 1958-10-01