Kraft Television Theatre Season 9 Episode release dates & where to watch

1. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

A prep school student named Percy Washington becomes friends with his schoolmate John Unger. Percy invites John to spend the holidays at his family's isolated Montana mansion. It sits atop a mountain of solid diamond. John begins to worry about his safety when he learns the the father, Mr. Washington, is paranoid about his wealth. He shoots down planes that fly over the house and then kills the pilots. The crazed patriarch does the same with children who drop in.

2. The Beautiful Time

3. Trucks Welcome

4. I, Mrs. Bibb

Despite having no political aspirations or experience, Mrs. Bibb is asked to fill the seat of her deceased husband. Aiding her is her husband's assistant, Ned, who is engaged to the Bibbs' daughter. Events take an ugly turn when it Ned is suspected of having taken a bribe from a contractor.

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6. Number Four with Flowers

The bullet-riddled body of a big-time gambler is brought to the morgue in this tongue-in-cheek comedy. Out of the blue, a naive young waitress steps forward to claim the dead man's remains. Soon, she finds herself with three boyfriends: a mortician, a tough police officer and the murdered crook's business partner. Soon she's being taken on her "last ride" and she manages to even charm the gunman.

7. The Ticket and the Tempest

A delicatessen owner who buys an Irish Sweepstakes ticket in a friend's name. When it wins $28,000, trouble abounds for the poor man.

8. Summer's End

9. Day of Judgment

10. Once a Genius

11. Lady Ruth

12. A Nugget from the Sunrise

13. A Christmas Dinner

14. Eleven O'Clock Flight

15. The Thieving Magpie

16. The Sears Girl

17. The Devil as a Roaring Lion

A young boy finds a wounded, dying man hiding in his family's boat house. The man, a prospector who has just killed his partner in a dispute, at first frightens the boy, but as the two begin to get to know each other, they become friends. Eventually the boy suspects that the man might not be all he claims to be.

18. Home Is the Hero

A man who in a drunken rage killed a neighbor is released from prison after serving five years. Paddo returns home and takes out his rage on his friends and family members. His son Willie stands up to the brute and proves that Paddo is neither needed nor wanted by the family.

19. Five Minutes to Live

20. Good Old Charlie Faye

21. The Man on Roller Skates

22. Snapfinger Creek

23. Bobbie

24. The Fool Killer

The Fool Killer is a mythical figure who chops the heads off of those who make fools of themselves. In the days after the American Civil War, a young boy who is haunted by this creature in his dreams. When he runs away from home he encounters the beast in the flesh.

25. The Lost Weekend

26. A Night to Remember

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

27. Paper Foxhole

28. The Last Showdown

A big city real estate mogul gets involved in a shady tax deal. Facing exposure, he plans to flee the country, leaving his son-in-law behind to take the blame. His daughter learns of his scheme and puts a stop to it.

29. No Riders

30. The Gentle Grafter

Jeff Peters uses his personal magnetism to fleece the mayor of a hick town, run a shady matrimonial agency and establish a monopoly on the rot-gut whiskey business. Peters is joined in these schemes by a right-hand man and a beautiful widow. The trio thinks that they are unstoppable until they meet up with a former master of the con game.

31. A Night to Remember

On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

32. Death Is a Spanish Dancer

33. A Profile in Courage

34. Bedroom Twelve on the Appalachian Waterfall

35. Box 704

36. The Night of May Third

37. Boy in a Cage

38. Flying Object at Three O'Clock High

39. Starfish

40. Tear Open the Skies

41. Long Arm

An attractive young woman flirts with a store clerk at a pawn shop, inviting him to join her for lunch. While he's gone, the store is robbed and the owner is killed. The clerk is without an alibi because the woman with whom he dined worked for the criminals.

42. Babies for Sale

43. Prairie Night

44. One Way West

45. Anna Santonello

46. The Magic Box

47. The Girls Who Saw Too Much

48. Mock Trial

As part of its law school training, a college stages mock trials for students to gain experience. One of its mock trials turns real when the city's mayor is put on the stand and the misuse of taxpayers' money is revealed.

49. Shadow of Evil