Overview
Ben Cooper, Richard Crenna, John Forsythe, Ron Foster, Brad Johnson, Robert Loggia, Martin Milner, Leslie Nielsen, Mickey Rooney, James Whitmore, Jeffrey Hunter, Tippi Hedren, and Michael Winkelman were among the actors cast on Kraft Suspense Theatre.
Some episodes doubled as pilots for potential series. The episode "Rapture at Two-Forty" was the pilot for the series Run for Your Life, which premiered on NBC in the fall of 1965.
The 1968 theatrical film Sergeant Ryker, starring Lee Marvin, was a two-part made-for-television film that first aired on Kraft Suspense Theatre as The Case Against Paul Ryker. It also served as a pilot for the 1966 series Court Martial, that would air on ABC-TV. Other episodes that were later expanded into theatrical films (initially for European release) included "Once Upon a Savage Night" (released as Nightmare In Chicago) and "In Darkness, Waiting" (Strategy of Terror).
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