Kraft Television Theatre The Man Who Didn't Fly

16 Jul 1958 Director: Michael Dreyfusss Writers: Jacqueline Babbi, Margot Bennett, Jerome Coopersmith William Shatner, Patricia Bosworth, Walter Brooke, Jonathan Harris Private charter plane carrying two businessmen crashes and kills all aboard. While investigating the crash, police discover that a third passenger never boarded the plane, and begin to suspect that the crash may have not have been an accident after all but a scheme by the third passenger to fake his own death. Kraft Television Theatre is an American anthology drama television series running from 1947 to 1958. It began May 7, 1947 on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year. It first promoted MacLaren's Imperial Cheese, which was advertised nowhere else.[1] In January 1948, it moved to 9pm on Wednesdays, continuing in that timeslot until 1958. Initially produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, the live hour-long series offered television plays with new stories and new characters each week,[2] in addition to adaptations of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Alice in Wonderland. The program was broadcast live from Studio 8-H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, currently the home of Saturday Night Live. Beginning October 1953, ABC added a separate series (also titled Kraft Television Theatre), created to promote Kraft's new Cheez Whiz product. This series ran for sixteen months, telecast on Thursday evenings at 9:30pm, until January 1955. After Kraft cancelled the second show, the second show changed its sponsor to become Pond's Theatre on ABC-TV from March 1955, while the original Kraft Theatre continued on NBC-TV. (Wikipedia)