Episode
number: 25
Network broadcast date: Friday,
September 4, 1964
Cry in
the Night
Genre: Topical melodrama
Author: Raphael David Blau
Production number: 12
Production date: Wednesday,
August 26, 1964
Director: Ted Bell
Plotline: The screams of a girl being assaulted in a Brooklyn courtyard set off a moral debate between a man and his wife. Inspired by the murder of Kitty Genovese which took place just six months before the broadcast.
Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+640904+025+Cry+in+the+Night+AFRTS.flac
Cast: Vicki Vola, Luis Van Rooten, Ben Yaffe, Marilyn Moore
Notes:
The surviving recording is from AFRTS
The ABC log identifies this production as "12A" indicating there must have been issues that required a second production five weeks later:
(Remake) (Orig. made 7/17/64 #12)
The story was inspired by the Kitty Genovese murder in March 1964
The second AFRTS PSA features Hans Conried