2022-03-01

T5#16 A Caller at Midnight

 

Episode number: 16
Network broadcast date:
Monday, August 24, 1964
A Caller at Midnight
Genre: Detective mystery
Author: Robert A. Arthur
Production number:
17
Production date:
Wednesday, July 15, 1964
Director:
Ted Bell

Plotline: When a reporter nabs an exclusive interview with a former spy, she’s disappointed to learn just how dull espionage is in reality. But once a counterspy crashes their interview, she’s desperate for a little less excitement.

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Cast: Jackson Beck, Ivor Francis, Mitzi Gould, Gilbert Mack

Notes:

Arthur was a long-time radio writer known mainly for Mysterious Traveler and its related programs such as Strange Dr. Weird and The Sealed Book. Some of his scripts were re-used when Suspense returned to New York productions from 1959 to 1962.

Others may remember him for the 1960s juvenile detection book series Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators.