2022-02-22

T5#9 Melodrama

 

Episode number: 9
Network broadcast date:
Thursday, August 13, 1964
Melodrama
Genre: Comedy drama
Author: Robert Cenedella
Production number:
8
Production date:
Wednesday, July 1, 1964
Director:
Ted Bell

Plotline: Desperate for a good mystery, a Broadway producer gets more than he bargained for when an aspiring ingenue arrives at his door with a story of fraud and murder.

Cast: Rosemary Rice, George Petrie, Lon Clark

Notes:

Likely adapted from Cenedella's short story that appeared almost 20 years before in the UK publication Blimey [v5 #3, February 1944]

Entertaining banter, happy surprise at the end... and the producer gets his story...