Kraft Television Theatre

Kraft Television Theatre
Also known as	Kraft Mystery Theatre
Genre	Anthology drama
Narrated by	Ed Herlihy (1947-55) Charles Stark (1955)
Theme music composer	Norman Cloutier
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	11
No. of episodes	525
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	48–52 minutes
Production companies	J. Walter Thompson Agency Talent Associates
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	May 7, 1947 (1947-05-07) – October 1, 1958 (1958-10-01)

Kraft Television Theatre is an American anthology drama television series that began May 7, 1947 on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year.^[1] It was a live hour-long series offered television plays with new stories and new characters each wee.^[2] The program was broadcast live from Studio 8-H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, currently the home of Saturday Night Live.

References

1. Kraft Foods profile, from AdAge.com
2. Griffith, Benjamin (2002). "Kraft Television Theatre". St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture. Thomas Gale. Archived from the original on 2008-02-17. Retrieved 2008-07-19.