Kraft Television Theatre broadcast some 585 episodes on NBC between May 1947 and October 1958. The series ran year-round with no summer breaks, meaning it didn’t have traditional seasons. I’ve aligned this status guide with episode lists and guides available online, like those found at TV.com, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), and the Classic TV Archive (CTVA).
Season 4 of Kraft Television Theatre premiered on September 1950 and ended in September 1951. There were no pre-emptions this season. NBC broadcast 50 episodes, of which 12 are known to exist in their entirety. The Library of Congress has 12 episodes in its collection, one of which can also be found at the Paley Center for Media. The January 10th, 1951 episode (“Kelly”) was originally staged on January 25th, 1950 during Season 3. The Library of Congress, the Museum of Broadcast Communications and the UCLA Film & Television Archive all have copies of the 1951 version. No copies of the 1950 version are known to exist.
Keep in mind that just because the big TV archives/museums only have certain episodes doesn’t mean there aren’t additional episodes of Kraft Television Theatre from the 1950-1951 season out there somewhere.
| Season 4: 1950-1951 | |||
| # | 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/UCLA/MBC |
| 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/Paley |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
Revised April 10th, 2019