Kraft Television Theatre Season 9, Episode 47: The Girls Who Saw Too Much

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.

The Beautiful Time

Trucks Welcome

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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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.

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.

Summer's End

Day of Judgment

Once a Genius

Lady Ruth

A Nugget from the Sunrise

A Christmas Dinner

Eleven O'Clock Flight

The Thieving Magpie

The Sears Girl

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.

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.

Five Minutes to Live

Good Old Charlie Faye

The Man on Roller Skates

Snapfinger Creek

Bobbie

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.

The Lost Weekend

A Night to Remember

Paper Foxhole

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.

No Riders

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.

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A Night to Remember

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

Death Is a Spanish Dancer

A Profile in Courage

Bedroom Twelve on the Appalachian Waterfall

Box 704

The Night of May Third

Boy in a Cage

Flying Object at Three O'Clock High

Starfish

Tear Open the Skies

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.

Babies for Sale

Prairie Night

One Way West

Anna Santonello

The Magic Box

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.

Shadow of Evil