2022-02-18

T5#5 The $245,000 Smile

 

Episode number: 5
Network broadcast date:
Friday, August 7, 1964
The $245,000 Smile
Genre: Crime comedy
Author: Richard Holland
Production number:
6
Production date:
Monday, June 29, 1964
Director:
Ted Bell

Plotline: A woman arrives at an escort service looking for a gigolo with very particular features. Why? Because she and her husband have very particular plans for his corpse.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+640807+005+The+245%2C000+Dollar+Smile+(sl+clipped+close).flac

Cast: Connie Lemke, Bryna Raeburn, Bob Dryden, Merrill Joels

Notes:

Richard Holland was a 1950s TV writer and actor.

This recording has some mild station drift and some crosstalk. 

The means of escaping detection that is a key element of the plot of this episode would not work with modern DNA forensics.