Network broadcast date: Thursday,
October 29, 1964
Nightmare
Genre: Topical melodrama
Author: Frances Rickett
Production number: 62
Production date: Wednesday,
September 30, 1964
Director: Ted Bell
Plotline: A high school history teacher tries to save a student from an assault and ends up being accused of the attack himself. The more he does to clear his name, the deeper he’s pulled into the student’s twisted prank.
Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+641029+064+A+Nightmare.flac
Cast: Rosemary Rice, George Baxter, Peter Fernandez, Stan Watt, Lorraine MacMartin, George Petrie
Notes:
Rickett was a TV soap opera writer, but also a mystery novelist whose "The Prowler" was a finalist in the 1964 Edgar Awards for Best First Novel