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Kraft Suspense Theatre

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American television anthology series
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Also known asCrisis
Suspense Theatre
GenreAnthology
Theme music composerJohn Williams
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes60 (all episodes in color)
Production
Executive producerFrank P. Rosenberg
ProducersFrank Telford
Robert Blees
Luther Davis
Joel Rogosin
Thomas Fitzroy
Leon Benson
Arthur H. Nadel
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time48 mins.
Production companiesRoncom Films, Inc.
Universal Television
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseOctober 10, 1963 (1963年10月10日) –
July 1, 1965 (1965年07月01日)
Kraft Suspense Theatre Press Photos featuring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, Sammee Tong, and Jack Weston

The Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American television anthology series that was produced and broadcast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC.[1] Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. (The company name, "Roncom Films" came from "RONnie COMo," Perry's son, who was in his early 20s when this series premiered). Writer, editor, critic, and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series.

Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series then broadcast in color. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season. It was also packaged with episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre under the title Universal Star Time.

In Britain, BBC2 screened episodes of this series and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre under the banner of Impact.

Overview

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Ben Cooper, Richard Crenna, John Forsythe, Ron Foster, Vivi Janiss, Brad Johnson, Jack Kelly, Robert Loggia, Ida Lupino, Martin Milner, Ellen McRae (who later changed her name to "Ellen Burstyn" and appeared as twin sisters in "The Deep End" with Clu Gulager and Aldo Ray), Leslie Nielsen, Larry Pennell, Mickey Rooney, James Whitmore, Jeffrey Hunter, Tippi Hedren, Telly Savalas, and Robert Ryan were among the actors and actresses cast on Kraft Suspense Theatre.

Directors included prominent names in television and later features, examples being Robert Altman, Richard L. Bare, Roy Huggins, Buzz Kulik, David Lowell Rich, Ida Lupino, Sydney Pollack, Elliot Silverstein, Jack Smight, Ralph Senensky, and Paul Wendkos.

Some episodes doubled as pilots for potential series. The episode "Rapture At Two-Forty", in particular, was the pilot for the series Run for Your Life, which premiered on NBC in the fall of 1965 and ran till 1968.

The 1968 theatrical film Sergeant Ryker , starring Lee Marvin, was a two-part made-for-television film that was first broadcast on Kraft Suspense Theatre under the title "The Case Against Paul Ryker". It also served as a pilot for the 1966 series Court Martial , which ABC would broadcast. Other episodes that were later expanded into theatrical films (initially for European release) included "Once Upon a Savage Night", released as Nightmare in Chicago , and "In Darkness, Waiting", which was released as Strategy of Terror .

Episodes

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Pilot: 1963

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Season 1: 1963–64

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  1. The Case Against Paul Ryker: Part 1 (1963年10月10日) (starring Lee Marvin, Bradford Dillman, Peter Graves, Vera Miles, and Lloyd Nolan; first half of pilot for Court Martial )
  2. The Case Against Paul Ryker: Part 2 (1963年10月17日)
  3. The End of the World, Baby (1963年10月24日) (starring Gig Young, Nina Foch, Katherine Crawford, and Peter Lorre)
  4. A Hero for Our Times (1963年10月31日) (starring Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Geraldine Brooks, and Sandra Church)
  5. Are There Any More Out There Like You? (1963年11月07日) (starring Robert Ryan, Katharine Ross, and Adam Roarke)
  6. One Step Down (1963年11月14日) (starring Gena Rowlands, Leslie Nielsen, Jack Weston, and Ida Lupino)
  7. The Machine That Played God (1963年12月05日) (starring Anne Francis and Gary Merrill)
  8. The Long, Lost Life of Edward Smalley (1963年12月12日) (starring James Whitmore and Richard Crenna)
  9. The Hunt (1963年12月19日) (starring Mickey Rooney, James Caan, Harry Townes, and Bruce Dern)
  10. The Name of the Game (1963年12月26日) (starring Jack Kelly and Pat Hingle)
  11. The Deep End (1964年01月02日) (starring Aldo Ray, Clu Gulager, and Tina Louise)
  12. A Truce to Terror (1964年01月09日) (starring Steve Forrest and John Gavin)
  13. Who is Jennifer? (1964年01月16日) (starring Gloria Swanson, Dan Duryea, David Brian, and Brenda Scott)
  14. Leviathan Five (1964年01月30日) (starring Arthur Kennedy, Robert Webber, and Andrew Duggan)
  15. My Enemy, This Town (1964年02月06日) (starring Scott Marlowe, Diane McBain, and Philip Carey)
  16. The Action of the Tiger (1964年02月20日) (starring Telly Savalas, Ulla Jacobsson, Peter Brown, and Stephen McNally)
  17. Doesn't Anyone Know Who I Am? (1964年02月27日) (starring Cornel Wilde, Kathryn Crosby, and Martha Hyer)
  18. The Threatening Eye (1964年03月12日) (starring Jack Klugman, Annie Farge, Pat O'Brien, and Phyllis Thaxter)
  19. A Cause of Anger (1964年03月19日) (starring Brian Keith, Nancy Malone, and Audrey Totter)
  20. Knight's Gambit (1964年03月26日) (starring Eleanor Parker, Roger Smith, and Chester Morris)
  21. Once Upon a Savage Night (1964年04月02日) (starring Charles McGraw, Robert Ridgely, Ted Knight, Philip Abbott, and Barbara Turner)
  22. Portrait of an Unknown Man (1964年04月16日) (starring Clint Walker, Mala Powers, Robert Duvall, and Jay C. Flippen)
  23. Their Own Executioners (1964年04月23日) (starring Dean Stockwell, Lilia Skala, and Herschel Bernardi)
  24. The Sweet Taste of Vengeance (1964年04月30日) (starring John Forsythe, Diana Hyland, and Jack Weston)
  25. Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly (1964年05月07日) (starring Keenan Wynn, Beverly Garland, and Richard Kiley)
  26. The Watchman (1964年05月14日) (starring Jack Warden, Victoria Shaw, and Telly Savalas)
  27. The Robrioz Ring (1964年05月28日) (starring Julie Harris and Robert Loggia)
  28. A Cruel and Unusual Night (1964年06月04日) (starring Ronald Reagan, Scott Marlowe, and Anne Helm)

Season 2: 1964–65

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John T. Williams's theme music was revised for this season.

  1. The World I Want (1964年10月01日) (starring Jo Van Fleet, Albert Dekker, Sal Mineo, and Leonard Nimoy)
  2. Operation Greif (1964年10月08日) (starring Robert Goulet and Claude Akins)
  3. A Lion Amongst Men (1964年10月22日) (starring James Whitmore and Tommy Sands)
  4. That He Should Weep for Her (1964年11月05日) (starring Milton Berle and Carol Lawrence)
  5. The Kamchatka Incident (1964年11月12日) (starring John Forsythe, Roger Perry, and Leslie Parrish)
  6. The Jack Is High (1964年11月19日) (starring Edd Byrnes, Pat O'Brien, and Henry Jones)
  7. Graffiti (1964年11月26日) (starring Richard Angarola, Robert Ellenstein, and Philippe Forquet)
  8. One Tiger to a Hill (1964年12月03日) (starring Barry Nelson, James Gregory, Diane McBain, and Peter Brown)
  9. Threepersons (1964年12月10日) (starring John Gavin and Ralph Meeker)
  10. The Gun (1964年12月24日) (starring Eddie Albert, Dina Merrill, and Peter Lazer)
  11. The Wine-Dark Sea (1964年12月31日) (starring Roddy McDowall, Myrna Fahey, and John Larkin)
  12. In Darkness, Waiting: Part 1 (1965年01月14日) (starring Val Avery, Jeff Cooper, and Will Corry)
  13. In Darkness, Waiting: Part 2 (1965年01月21日)
  14. That Time in Havana (1965年02月11日) (starring Steve Forrest, Victor Jory, and Dana Wynter)
  15. Four into Zero (1965年02月18日) (starring Jack Kelly, Martha Hyer, and Robert Conrad)
  16. Streetcar, Do You Read Me? (1965年02月25日) (starring Martin Milner, Richard Long, and Jack Ging)
  17. The Last Clear Chance (1965年03月11日) (starring Bruce Bennett.Leslie Bradley, and Alan Caillou)
  18. Won't It Ever Be Morning? (1965年03月18日) (starring John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, and Jack Klugman)
  19. Nobody Will Ever Know (1965年03月25日) (starring Tom Tryon)
  20. The Green Felt Jungle (1965年04月01日) (starring Leslie Nielsen, MacDonald Carey, and Richard Conte)
  21. Rapture at Two-Forty (1965年04月15日) (starring Ben Gazzara, Katherine Crawford, and Michael Rennie; pilot for Run for Your Life )
  22. Jungle of Fear (1965年04月22日) (starring Robert Fuller, Robert Loggia, and Ann Blyth)
  23. Kill No More (1965年04月29日) (starring Lew Ayres, Robert Webber, Julie Adams, and Leonard Nimoy)
  24. The Long Ravine (1965年05月06日) (starring Jack Lord, Andrew Prine, and Broderick Crawford)
  25. The Easter Breach (1965年05月13日) (starring Richard Beymer and Katherine Crawford)
  26. The Safe House (1965年05月20日) (starring Steven Hill and Francis Lederer)
  27. Twixt the Cup and the Lip (1965年06月03日) (starring Ethel Merman and Larry Blyden)
  28. The Trains of Silence (1965年06月10日) (starring Jeffrey Hunter, Tippi Hedren, Warren Stevens, and Lloyd Bochner)
  29. Kill Me on July 20 (1965年06月17日) (starring Jack Kelly and Kathryn Hays)
  30. The Rise and Fall of Eddie Carew (1965年06月24日) (starring Dean Jones and Sheila Wills)
  31. Connery's Hands (1965年07月01日) (starring Gary Lockwood, Don Gordon, Sally Kellerman, and Peter Breck)

*pilot for unsold series

Syndication

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Reruns of the series have been shown under the name Suspense Theatre, although many prints of episodes have had the syndicated rerun title Crisis. In the 1990s, Sci-Fi Channel aired the series under the Suspense Theatre and Crisis titles as part of its late-night primetime programming lineup. Retro TV and Antenna TV, the small broadcast networks, ran the series in the early 2010s.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Kraft Suspense Theatre, imdb.com. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
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