Back in ye old 1948, the hottest thing to watch on television was NBC's
Kraft Television Theatre, an hour-long "televised play" that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC (and later, CBS). The show was famous for a bunch of different reasons that are still relevant today, like the fact that
it was the first televised hour-long drama that would appear weekly to its unapologetic form of sponsored content ("Tonight's episode was brought to you by Cheez Whiz!") and its solicitation and employment of
young playwrights.