2022-04-09

T5#55 The Captive Spirit

Episode number: 55
Network broadcast date:
Friday, October 16, 1964
The Captive Spirit
Genre: Melodrama
Author: Don Haring
Production number:
56
Production date:
Tuesday, September 22, 1964
Director:
Warren Somerville

Plotline: A PI has his suspicions when he's hired to track down a rich man's daughter who has only been gone for five hours. But when a well-meaning journalist comes across the terrified girl hiding on a train and lets her lay low in his hotel room, that’s when the real mystery begins.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+641016+055+The+Captive+Spirit.flac

Cast: Paul McGrath, Joan Lorring, Ian Martin, Stan Watt, Yaphet Kotto

Notes:

25-year-old Yaphet Kotto, yet to become famous for his roles in the movies Live and Let Die as villain Mr. Big (1973), Alien (1979), and as Lt. Giardello on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street, makes the first of two T5 appearances