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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Michael Dreyfuss | 2 | 07/16/1958 - 10/01/1958 | |
| Robert Penn Warren | 2 | 05/14/1958 - 05/21/1958 | |
| Walter Lord | 2 | 03/28/1956 - 05/02/1956 | |
| Frank Pacelli | 2 | 01/16/1957 - 02/05/1958 | |
| John Patrick | 2 | 03/23/1955 | |
| Edna Ferber | 2 | 05/05/1948 - 05/19/1948 | |
| Evan Hunter | 2 | 06/11/1958 - 06/25/1958 | |
| 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 | |
| J.M.T. Badouin d'Aubigny | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
| Ward Hawkins | 1 | 11/21/1956 | |
| Anna Mary Wells | 1 | 06/06/1956 | |
| Honore de Balzac | 1 | 03/12/1958 | |
| James Aswell | 1 | 09/12/1956 | |
| Fred Carney | 1 | 03/20/1957 | |
| Irvin S. Cobb | 1 | 01/26/1955 | |
| Edward Padula | 1 | 10/06/1948 | |
| Hermann Field | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
| Lewis Carroll | 1 | 05/05/1954 | |
| Ben Benson | 1 | 12/05/1956 | |
| Francis Didelot | 1 | 01/09/1957 | |
| Norman Lloyd | 1 | 04/24/1957 | |
| David Orrick McDearmon | 1 | 01/29/1958 | |
| Robert Foster | 1 | 07/03/1957 | |
| Bret Harte | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
| Cynthia Asquith | 1 | 02/05/1958 | |
| John F. Kennedy | 1 | 05/16/1956 | |
| Henry Van Dyke | 1 | 12/25/1957 | |
| Samuel Grafton | 1 | 09/05/1956 | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1 | 09/01/1954 | |
| John Galsworthy | 1 | 06/29/1955 | |
| Margot Bennett | 1 | 07/16/1958 | |
| David Alexander | 1 | 11/13/1957 | |
| Christine Arnothy | 1 | 10/17/1956 | |
| John Hawkins | 1 | 11/21/1956 | |
| Alex Segal | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
| Charles Jackson | 1 | 03/21/1956 | |
| Paul Stanley | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1 | 04/30/1958 | |
| Helen Eustis | 1 | 03/07/1956 | |
| Holly Roth | 1 | 08/29/1956 | |
| William Shakespeare | 1 | 12/07/1949 | |
| Margaret Manners | 1 | 02/26/1958 | |
| Edith Grafton | 1 | 09/05/1956 | |
| Louis-Charles Caigniez | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
| William Iversen | 1 | 09/17/1958 | |
| Piet Bakker | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
| Daniel Petrie | 1 | 06/04/1958 | |
| Richard Goode | 1 | 01/15/1958 | |
| Stanislaw Mierzenski | 1 | 04/23/1958 | |
| Frank Telford | 1 | 12/05/1956 | |
| Murray Golden | 1 | 08/01/1956 | |
| Goerge Weber | 1 | 07/11/1956 | |
| William Corrigan | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
| John Van Druten | 1 | 11/25/1953 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Howard Lindsey | 18 | 12/01/1948 - 08/31/1955 | |
| 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 | |
| Wendell Mayes | 2 | 05/09/1956 - 05/16/1956 | |
| John Gay | 2 | 01/18/1956 - 07/25/1956 | |
| George H. Faulkner | 2 | 09/01/1954 - 07/11/1956 | |
| William Noble | 2 | 02/22/1956 - 06/27/1956 | |
| Paul Monash | 2 | 06/13/1956 - 01/30/1957 | |
| Don M. Mankiewicz | 2 | 05/14/1958 - 05/21/1958 | |
| Gertrude Schweitzer | 2 | 10/31/1956 - 11/14/1956 | |
| Arthur Hailey | 2 | 11/07/1956 - 11/28/1956 | |
| William Mourne | 2 | 05/11/1955 - 09/19/1956 | |
| Victor Wolfson | 2 | 01/11/1956 - 10/17/1956 | |
| David Davidson | 2 | 01/08/1958 - 04/23/1958 | |
| Nicholas E. Baehr | 2 | 10/03/1956 - 11/21/1956 | |
| Jack Klugman | 2 | 07/17/1957 - 01/15/1958 | |
| Dewitt Copp | 2 | 06/20/1956 - 07/03/1957 | |
| Alvin Boretz | 2 | 06/11/1958 - 09/17/1958 | |
| Robert J. Shaw | 2 | 06/06/1956 - 08/29/1956 | |
| Will Lorin | 2 | 03/21/1956 - 12/05/1956 | |
| Edward Mabley | 1 | 02/26/1958 | |
| Harry Julian Fink | 1 | 10/01/1958 | |
| John Howard Lindsey | 1 | 11/25/1953 | |
| Frank D. Gilroy | 1 | 10/24/1956 | |
| Lester Powell | 1 | 03/20/1957 | |
| John J. Morin | 1 | 08/07/1957 | |
| Jack Laird | 1 | 12/15/1954 | |
| Palmer Thompson | 1 | 02/01/1956 | |
| Terrence Kilpatrick | 1 | 06/22/1955 | |
| David Karp | 1 | 02/08/1956 | |
| Robert Van Scoyk | 1 | 01/01/1958 | |
| Marjorie Faulkner | 1 | 07/11/1956 | |
| Henry Denker | 1 | 02/19/1958 | |
| Harry Muheim | 1 | 05/23/1956 | |
| Paul Crabtree | 1 | 10/19/1955 | |
| James P. Cavanaugh | 1 | 06/04/1958 | |
| Leslie Stevens | 1 | 03/06/1957 | |
| Tennessee Williams | 1 | 04/16/1958 | |
| James Edwards I | 1 | 04/04/1956 | |
| Norman Katkov | 1 | 07/18/1956 | |
| J.P. Miller | 1 | 05/28/1958 | |
| Calvin Tomkins | 1 | 09/12/1956 | |
| Susan Glaspell | 1 | 10/06/1948 | |
| Rufus Henry | 1 | 03/19/1958 | |
| Marc Brandel | 1 | 04/02/1958 | |
| Francis Wilson | 1 | 07/04/1956 | |
| Jerome Coopersmith | 1 | 07/16/1958 | |
| O. Henry | 1 | 04/25/1956 | |
| Newton Meltzer | 1 | 11/13/1957 | |
| Phil Reisman, Jr. | 1 | 05/07/1958 | |
| Horton Foote | 1 | 06/20/1951 | |
| John Cecil Holm | 1 | 03/30/1955 | |
| Jerry De Bono | 1 | 12/28/1955 | |
| Junius Eddy | 1 | 01/16/1957 | |
| Don Ettlinger | 1 | 12/26/1956 | |
| Harold Gast | 1 | 04/11/1956 | |
| Jack Roche | 1 | 05/05/1954 | |
| Leo Lieberman | 1 | 01/04/1956 | |
| James Leo Herlihy | 1 | 05/30/1956 | |
| Grace Garment | 1 | 09/26/1956 | |
| James Costigan | 1 | 04/15/1953 | |
| Bruce Bassett | 1 | 10/02/1957 | |
| 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 | |
| William Hodapp | 1 | 09/28/1955 | |
| Narda Stokes | 1 | 02/29/1956 | |
| Raphael Hayes | 1 | 06/30/1954 | |
| Katrina Ettlinger | 1 | 12/26/1956 | |
| Larry Cohen | 1 | 06/25/1958 | |
| Alfred Brenner | 1 | 03/26/1958 | |
| Sam Dann | 1 | 01/22/1958 |
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