This live anthology drama series was the first weekly commercial network program. From May to December 1947, NBC aired the show on Wednesday, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.; for the rest of its run, it was broadcast on Wednesday, 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. From 1953 to 1955, another series of the same name was shown on ABC concurrently with the one on NBC. For a short time in 1958, the series abandoned its anthology format and ran with recurring characters and situations. From April to September 1958, the show was known as "Kraft Mystery Theatre." This program was a prestigious showcase for its sponsor, Kraft, winning many awards and becoming a Wednesday night institution. By the end of its run, more than 650 plays, drama and comedy productions, both original and adaptations for TV, had been presented. One of the most awarded episodes was "Patterns" written by Rod Serling and directed by Fielder Cook with performances from Ed Begley, Everett Sloane, and Richard Kiley.
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | 1 | ||
| Season 1 | May 1947 | May 1948 | 11 |
| Season 2 | September 1948 | September 1949 | 53 |
| Season 3 | September 1949 | September 1950 | 53 |
| Season 4 | September 1950 | September 1951 | 50 |
| Season 5 | September 1951 | September 1952 | 53 |
| Season 6 | October 1952 | August 1953 | 47 |
| Season 7 | September 1953 | September 1954 | 56 |
| Season 8 | September 1954 | September 1955 | 52 |
| Season 9 | September 1955 | September 1956 | 48 |
| Season 10 | September 1956 | September 1957 | 52 |
| Season 11 | September 1957 | October 1958 | 51 |
| Unassigned Episodes | 0 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specials | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 527 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 527 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Howard Lindsey | 82 | 12/01/1948 - 04/24/1957 | |
| Dale Wasserman | 5 | 01/26/1955 - 03/19/1958 | |
| Rod Serling | 5 | 04/08/1953 - 02/09/1955 | |
| James Lee Barrett | 4 | 10/10/1956 - 03/05/1958 | |
| Robert Crean | 4 | 08/08/1956 - 12/25/1957 | |
| Arthur Heinemann | 3 | 08/29/1956 - 10/17/1956 | |
| Louis Pelletier | 3 | 11/02/1955 - 08/01/1956 | |
| John Whedon | 3 | 03/28/1956 - 01/09/1957 | |
| Carey Wilber | 3 | 01/07/1953 - 05/13/1953 | |
| Wendell Mayes | 2 | 05/09/1956 - 05/16/1956 | |
| John Gay | 2 | 01/18/1956 - 07/25/1956 | |
| William Mourne | 2 | 05/11/1955 - 09/19/1956 | |
| Victor Wolfson | 2 | 01/11/1956 - 10/17/1956 | |
| Paul Monash | 2 | 06/13/1956 - 01/30/1957 | |
| Dewitt Copp | 2 | 06/20/1956 - 07/03/1957 | |
| Robert J. Shaw | 2 | 06/06/1956 - 08/29/1956 | |
| Arthur Hailey | 2 | 11/07/1956 - 11/28/1956 | |
| David Davidson | 2 | 01/08/1958 - 04/23/1958 | |
| Nicholas E. Baehr | 2 | 10/03/1956 - 11/21/1956 | |
| Will Lorin | 2 | 03/21/1956 - 12/05/1956 | |
| Jack Klugman | 2 | 07/17/1957 - 01/15/1958 | |
| Alvin Boretz | 2 | 06/11/1958 - 09/17/1958 | |
| George H. Faulkner | 2 | 09/01/1954 - 07/11/1956 | |
| William Noble | 2 | 02/22/1956 - 06/27/1956 | |
| Don M. Mankiewicz | 2 | 05/14/1958 - 05/21/1958 | |
| Gertrude Schweitzer | 2 | 10/31/1956 - 11/14/1956 | |
| Harry Julian Fink | 1 | 10/01/1958 | |
| James P. Cavanaugh | 1 | 06/04/1958 | |
| Frank D. Gilroy | 1 | 10/24/1956 | |
| Paul Crabtree | 1 | 10/19/1955 | |
| James Edwards I | 1 | 04/04/1956 | |
| Lester Powell | 1 | 03/20/1957 | |
| Calvin Tomkins | 1 | 09/12/1956 | |
| Jack Laird | 1 | 12/15/1954 | |
| Susan Glaspell | 1 | 10/06/1948 | |
| Rufus Henry | 1 | 03/19/1958 | |
| Palmer Thompson | 1 | 02/01/1956 | |
| David Karp | 1 | 02/08/1956 | |
| Robert Van Scoyk | 1 | 01/01/1958 | |
| Francis Wilson | 1 | 07/04/1956 | |
| Henry Denker | 1 | 02/19/1958 | |
| Newton Meltzer | 1 | 11/13/1957 | |
| Phil Reisman, Jr. | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
| Leslie Stevens | 1 | 03/06/1957 | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1 | 04/16/1958 | |
| Norman Katkov | 1 | 07/18/1956 | |
| J.P. Miller | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
| Jerry De Bono | 1 | 12/28/1955 | |
| Junius Eddy | 1 | 01/16/1957 | |
| Jack Roche | 1 | 05/05/1954 | |
| Marc Brandel | 1 | 04/02/1958 | |
| Jerome Coopersmith | 1 | 07/16/1958 | |
| O. Henry | 1 | 04/25/1956 | |
| Grace Garment | 1 | 09/26/1956 | |
| Bruce Bassett | 1 | 10/02/1957 | |
| Horton Foote | 1 | 06/20/1951 | |
| William Hodapp | 1 | 09/28/1955 | |
| John Cecil Holm | 1 | 03/30/1955 | |
| Narda Stokes | 1 | 02/29/1956 | |
| Katrina Ettlinger | 1 | 12/26/1956 | |
| Don Ettlinger | 1 | 12/26/1956 | |
| Sam Dann | 1 | 01/22/1958 | |
| Edward Mabley | 1 | 02/26/1958 | |
| Harold Gast | 1 | 04/11/1956 | |
| John Howard Lindsey | 1 | 11/25/1953 | |
| Leo Lieberman | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
| James Leo Herlihy | 1 | 05/30/1956 | |
| James Costigan | 1 | 04/15/1953 | |
| John J. Morin | 1 | 08/07/1957 | |
| Walter Macken | 1 | 01/25/1956 | |
| Shimon Wincelberg | 1 | 03/12/1958 | |
| Michael Dyne | 1 | 02/05/1958 | |
| A.E. Hotchner | 1 | 04/30/1958 | |
| Terrence Kilpatrick | 1 | 06/22/1955 | |
| Raphael Hayes | 1 | 06/30/1954 | |
| Marjorie Faulkner | 1 | 07/11/1956 | |
| Larry Cohen | 1 | 06/25/1958 | |
| Alfred Brenner | 1 | 03/26/1958 | |
| Harry Muheim | 1 | 05/23/1956 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| William A. Graham | 23 | 06/29/1955 - 09/17/1958 | |
| Maurice Holland | 12 | 02/04/1953 - 02/15/1956 | |
| Harry Herrmann | 12 | 05/05/1948 - 11/28/1956 | |
| Richard Dunlap | 11 | 11/11/1953 - 11/07/1956 | |
| Fielder Cook | 10 | 01/12/1955 - 04/02/1958 | |
| George Roy Hill | 8 | 10/14/1953 - 05/02/1956 | |
| Paul Bogart | 6 | 01/09/1957 - 06/25/1958 | |
| Sidney Lumet | 5 | 03/05/1958 - 05/21/1958 | |
| Stanley Quinn | 4 | 12/07/1949 - 05/20/1953 | |
| Norman Morgan | 3 | 09/28/1955 - 12/25/1957 | |
| Alan Anderson | 3 | 06/20/1956 - 12/19/1956 | |
| Don Medford | 2 | 01/08/1958 - 02/19/1958 | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 2 | 05/14/1958 - 05/21/1958 | |
| Frank Pacelli | 2 | 01/16/1957 - 02/05/1958 | |
| Walter Lord | 2 | 03/28/1956 - 05/02/1956 | |
| John Patrick | 2 | 03/23/1955 | |
| Edna Ferber | 2 | 05/05/1948 - 05/19/1948 | |
| Evan Hunter | 2 | 06/11/1958 - 06/25/1958 | |
| Michael Dreyfuss | 2 | 07/16/1958 - 10/01/1958 | |
| Marc Daniels | 2 | 06/27/1956 - 07/25/1956 | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 2 | 09/28/1955 - 06/04/1958 | |
| George S. Kaufman | 2 | 05/05/1948 - 05/19/1948 | |
| David Orrick McDearmon | 1 | 01/29/1958 | |
| Ward Hawkins | 1 | 11/21/1956 | |
| Cynthia Asquith | 1 | 02/05/1958 | |
| Henry Van Dyke | 1 | 12/25/1957 | |
| Fred Carney | 1 | 03/20/1957 | |
| Irvin S. Cobb | 1 | 01/26/1955 | |
| Lewis Carroll | 1 | 05/05/1954 | |
| Ben Benson | 1 | 12/05/1956 | |
| Francis Didelot | 1 | 01/09/1957 | |
| Norman Lloyd | 1 | 04/24/1957 | |
| Christine Arnothy | 1 | 10/17/1956 | |
| Robert Foster | 1 | 07/03/1957 | |
| Bret Harte | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
| Helen Eustis | 1 | 03/07/1956 | |
| John F. Kennedy | 1 | 05/16/1956 | |
| Holly Roth | 1 | 08/29/1956 | |
| Samuel Grafton | 1 | 09/05/1956 | |
| Margaret Manners | 1 | 02/26/1958 | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1 | 09/01/1954 | |
| John Galsworthy | 1 | 06/29/1955 | |
| William Iversen | 1 | 09/17/1958 | |
| Margot Bennett | 1 | 07/16/1958 | |
| Louis-Charles Caigniez | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
| David Alexander | 1 | 11/13/1957 | |
| Richard Goode | 1 | 01/15/1958 | |
| John Hawkins | 1 | 11/21/1956 | |
| Alex Segal | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
| Charles Jackson | 1 | 03/21/1956 | |
| Stanislaw Mierzenski | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
| Paul Stanley | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1 | 04/30/1958 | |
| Murray Golden | 1 | 08/01/1956 | |
| William Corrigan | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
| Goerge Weber | 1 | 07/11/1956 | |
| William Shakespeare | 1 | 12/07/1949 | |
| Edith Grafton | 1 | 09/05/1956 | |
| Piet Bakker | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
| J.M.T. Badouin d'Aubigny | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
| Honore de Balzac | 1 | 03/12/1958 | |
| Anna Mary Wells | 1 | 06/06/1956 | |
| Daniel Petrie | 1 | 06/04/1958 | |
| James Aswell | 1 | 09/12/1956 | |
| Edward Padula | 1 | 10/06/1948 | |
| Hermann Field | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
| Frank Telford | 1 | 12/05/1956 | |
| John Van Druten | 1 | 11/25/1953 |
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