2022-03-06

T5#21 The Scream

 

Episode number: 21
Network broadcast date:
Monday, August 31, 1964
The Scream
Genre: Human interest drama
Author: Virginia Radcliffe
Production number:
28
Production date:
Monday, August 3, 1964
Director:
Warren Somerville

Plotline: A crane operator has reservations about taking the wrecking ball to a beautiful old house and when his unsentimental foreman forces him to go through with it, they hear a woman’s scream. No body turns up but after the death of a night watchman and an encounter with a ghostly apparition, the foreman starts to wonder if this house is trying to tell him something.

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Cast: Roger DeKoven, Harry Bellaver, Alan Oppenheimer, Peter Fernandez, Abby Lewis

Notes:

Radcliffe was a 1940s radio writer, mainly for Cavalcade of America; this episode was nominated for a 1965 Writers Guild of America award