2022-03-13

T5#28 The Decoration

 

Episode number: 28
Network broadcast date:
Wednesday, September 9, 1964
The Decoration
Genre: Melodrama
Author: Joseph Cochran
Production number:
31
Production date:
Thursday, August 6, 1964
Director:
Ted Bell

Plotline: Behind the Iron Curtain, a comrade wears her star-shaped medallion proudly, knowing it proves her staunch loyalty to the Party — after all, she earned it by turning in her own father as a traitor. But as she arrives in the United States on a mission, her loyalty is put into question, and now it’s her own daughter eyeing that star-shaped medallion…

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Cast: Vasek Simek, Kate Wilkinson, Abby Lewis, Mark O'Daniels, Evie Juster, Owen Jordan

Notes:

Cochran was a 1940s writer in radio and expanded his work into television in the 1950s