Kraft Television Theatre (1953)

In the final episode of Pond's Theater, a domineering father tries to rule the life of his Southern belle daughter and, in the process, destroys both of them.

A doomed woman sees her destiny in the form of a flamenco dancer.

A big-talking schemer, always full of grand plans but always flat broke, is loved by his friends--even after burning them with one of his sure-fire horse betting strategies.

Having inherited her domineering nature from her mother, a young woman tries to rule the lives of her married sister and her mousy, spinster sibling.

A rich Long Islander learns that his property, deeded to his great-great-grandfather by Congress, is tax free. He sets up his own country and suceeds in running it into the ground.

A middle-aged psychiatrist who's an expert on father-daughter relationships marries a woman young enough to be his daughter.

A well-known playwright has written but one play. Though his students at the college where he teaches admire him, his aged mother believes his talent is already played out.

U.S. Military Intelligence asks a scientist's young protege to risk his life to rescue his elderly mentor who is being held captive behind the Iron Curtain.

A married London attorney becomes entangled in romance with a shopgirl.

In this comedy of complications set in 1903 Vienna, the maid, Marie, fools the prince into thinking she's royalty. The prince, meanwhile, has his valet masquerade as him to fool the maid.

In the Kentucky Hills during the 1920s, legends have grown about the Coxes, the surviving family of an old mountain feud. One day their self-imposed isolation is rudely threatened by the arrest of the son on a charge of murder.

An embittered idealist becomes a lighthouse keeper to escape a world gone mad. In his solitude, he creates a ghost world peopled with undefeated idealists of a previous age.

The death of their child almost wrecks the marriage of a truck driver and his wife. Then one night he goes against company regulations and picks up a Mexican waif on the road.

A high school teacher and one of her students are writing a book. The amount of time they're spending together has the set the town's tongues wagging.

A sucessful comedy writer desperately wants to write a tragic drama. He hatches a bold plan to fake a tragedy from Shakespeare and have the play mounted.

On vacation in Europe, a shy schoolteacher experiences a bittersweet romance. She can't decide whether to pursure her relationship with an Alpine innkeeper or to return home.

A wealthy young man, while drunk, steals a woman's purse and later a silver cigarette box. This drama asks if justice treats the poor as fairly as it does the wealthy.

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, a good-hearted young man is pressed into service aboard a Royal Naval vessel. Loved by fellow crew members, he's tormented mercilessly by the ship's sadistic master-at-arms, Claggert.

To shield his daughter from the sea, which he considers evil, a tough Swedish captain sends his daughter away to be raised far from the ocean. Years later, a grown-up Anna returns with a shameful past to her credit.

A Korean war veteran who lost a leg contends with a father who still demands he become a world class athlete.

The Dover Road is a path traditionally taken by couples on their way to elope. A wealthy man who lives on the road stops couples and forces them to see what real home life is like at his house.

This sentimental biography of the young Abe Lincoln takes place long before his fame and influence. He's keeping store in New Salem, Illinois, courting Ann Rutledge, and just begining his political activities.

Rapidly approaching 30-years-old, a woman teams up with her mother to squeeze a marriage proposal out of her boyfriend.

A former prize fighter faces his biggest challenge: financing an operation to save his son who was injured in a boxing match.

A mapmaker learns a few things about about love and work from his housekeeper.

In the series premiere of the rechristened Ponds Theatre, the relationship between a famous writer, his daughter and his ex-wife is dramatized.

The the final Thursday edition of Kraft Television Theatre, a young clergyman's heart is broken and his career almost destroyed by his wife's infidelity.

In this famous fantasy, Death spends three days on Earth to find out why we fear him so much. While he's visiting, no one dies.

A young minister is eager to put an end to a drought and stages a mass prayer for rain. He's surprised by the results he gets.

A U. S. diplomat in a backwater Central American country takes his duties very seriously. He risks dismissal by standing up to a millionaire yacht owner and his Senator passenger who demand he ignore local quarantine rules and let them through.

During the 1920s, a young woman determined to improve her social status begins an affair with a man who's part of proper Philadelphia society.

Newlyweds find themselves flat broke on their honeymoon. When a horserace bet they made for the bride's millionaire uncle pays $18,000, they consider keeping the cash and telling him that his bet was a bust.

The widow of a doctor pointlessly dreams that one of her two sons will carry on the work of their deceased father.

A dentist and his wife live in his hometown in this episode featuring two casts. Told in flashbacks of 30 years ago, the doctor's old sweetheart and the man who stole her away decades earlier return to town. The dentist plots his revenge when the interloper develops a toothache.

Following a robbery, a pair of criminals, their gun moll and a hostage hide out out in a diner operated by two crazy, wacky women.

The Kirby family makes a car trip with their two children from Newark to Camden, New Jersey. On their way to visit their married eldest daughter, the group deals with life's many joys and the sadness the comes from the loss of loved ones.

A former convict at Devil's Island is now running an antique shop in London. When his dedicated assistant discovers that the business is just a front for stolen goods, he becomes the target of blackmail and murder.

An English professor has been writing stories for years but has never bothered to publish any of them. He's surprised when his work suddenly appears in print.

In this comedy, a nobody perpetrates a major hoax that makes him famous and amuses the Kaiser.

During the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, a French doctor suffers the consequences of upholding his Hippocratic oath, attracting the unwanted attention of the Germans.