Episode
number: 18
Network broadcast date: Wednesday,
August 26, 1964
The
Late Matthew Dillard
Genre: Melodrama
Author: Robert Cenedella
Production number: 21
Production date: Tuesday,
July 21, 1964
Plotline: A handful of elite literary types have gathered to celebrate the life and work of Nobel Prize winning novelist Matthew Dillard. But when Dillard’s mentally ill old friend shows up and it becomes clear he’s really the one behind the author’s celebrated work, it puts the legitimacy of their entire community into question.
Cast: Jack Grimes, Roger de Koven, John Gibson, Ann Teeman
NOTES:
Nick Palmer, who is writing the plotline summaries for the blog, included this production in his list of top episodes of the series.