Status Guide – “Kraft Television Theatre” Season Four
I’ve written a brief overview of NBC’s long-running Kraft Television Theatre — which ran from 1947 to 1958 — and the status of its hundreds of episodes, which you can read here. Because the show ran year-round, I initially considered each season to run from May to May (in other words, the first season would have run from May of 1947 to May of 1948). However, I eventually decided to align my status guides with various episode guides available online: TV.com, the Internet Movie Database and the Classic TV Database.
The fourth season of Kraft Television Theatre premiered on September 27th, 1950 with the 177th episode of the series and ended on September 5th, 1951 with the 226th episode. The Library of Congress holds twelve episodes in its collection. Excerpts from the March 21st, 1951 episode (“Of Famous Memory”) were included in the sixth anniversary show broadcast on May 6th, 1953; both UCLA’s Film & Television Archive and the Library of Congress have copies of this episode.
Neither the Museum of Broadcasting nor The Paley Center for Media have any episodes from this season in their collections.
| Season Four: 1950-1951 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ep. # | Episode Title | Airdate | Status | 177. | “The Green Pack” | 09/27/1950 |
| 178. | “I Like It Here” | 10/04/1950 | |
| 179. | “The Great Broxopp” | 10/11/1950 | |
| 180. | “Old Lady Robbins” | 10/18/1950 | LoC |
| 181. | “Truant in Park Lane” | 10/25/1950 | |
| 182. | “Dolphin’s Reach” | 11/01/1950 | |
| 183. | “Sixteen” | 11/08/1950 | |
| 184. | “The Romantic Age” | 11/15/1950 | |
| 185. | “The Romantic Young Lady” | 11/22/1950 | |
| 186. | “Windows” | 11/29/1950 | LoC |
| 187. | “Short Story” | 12/06/1950 | |
| 188. | “Michael and Mary” | 12/13/1950 | |
| 189. | “The Village Green” | 12/13/1950 | |
| 190. | “Rip Van Winkle” | 12/27/1950 | LoC |
| 191. | “Paper Moon” | 01/03/1951 | LoC |
| 192. | “Kelly” | 01/10/1951 | LoC |
| 193. | “Best Years” | 01/17/1951 | LoC |
| 194. | “The Spring Green” | 01/24/1951 | |
| 195. | “The Sound of Hunting” | 01/31/1951 | |
| 196. | “The Glass Mountain | 02/07/1951 | |
| 197. | “Engaged” | 02/14/1951 | |
| 198. | “The Fortune Hunter” | 02/21/1951 | LoC |
| 199. | “Jane Eyre” | 02/28/1951 | |
| 200. | “Delicate Story” | 03/07/1951 | |
| 201. | “On Stage” | 03/14/1951 | LoC |
| 202. | “Of Famous Memory” (Excerpts) | 03/21/1951 | LoC |
| 203. | “The Silent Room” | 03/28/1951 | |
| 204. | “Yours Truly” | 04/04/1951 | |
| 205. | “Mrs. Dane’s Defense” | 04/11/1951 | LoC |
| 206. | “Mr. Mergenthwirker’s Lobblies” | 04/18/1951 | |
| 207. | “Brief Music” | 04/25/1951 | |
| 208. | “Brief Candle” | 05/02/1951 | |
| 209. | “Till Death Do Us Part” | 05/09/1951 | |
| 210. | “The Intimate Strangers” | 05/16/1951 | |
| 211. | “A Play for Mary” | 05/23/1951 | |
| 212. | “Ben Franklin” | 05/30/1951 | |
| 213. | “A Seacoast in Behemia” | 06/06/1951 | LoC |
| 214. | “Stranglehold” | 06/13/1951 | |
| 215. | “Only the Heart” | 06/20/1951 | LoC |
| 216. | “Merry Madness” | 06/27/1951 | |
| 217. | “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” | 07/04/1951 | |
| 218. | “Vienna Dateline” | 07/11/1951 | |
| 219. | “Zone Four” | 07/18/1951 | LoC |
| 220. | “Bright Shadow” | 07/25/1951 | |
| 221. | “Kilda McKay” | 08/01/1951 | |
| 222. | “Old Doc” | 08/08/1951 | |
| 223. | “John Wilkes Booth” | 08/15/1951 | |
| 224. | “Pigs” | 08/22/1951 | |
| 225. | “Ashes in the Wind” | 08/29/1951 | |
| 226. | “The Easy Mark” | 09/05/1951 | |
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