2022-04-22

T5#68 Body Without the Crime

Episode number: 68

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, November 4, 1964
Body Without the Crime
Genre: Mystery
Author: Joseph Cochran
Production number:
68
Production date:
Wednesday, October 7, 1964
Director:
Ted Bell
Producer:
Ted Bell

Plotline: It’s not against the law to wish your wife were dead, but when a guilt-ridden man turns himself into the police, confessing to doing just that before she was killed in a car accident, the cops find themselves in the awkward position of trying to talk him OUT of a confession.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+641104+068+Body+Without+the+Crime+(sl+clipped+close).flac

Cast: Frank Thomas, Lenka Peterson, Ralph Camargo, Luis Van Rooten, Robert Dryden

Notes:

Episode opens with a spoken plot description rather than an opening scene, and does not have Foy announcing over opening music; at about 18:50 "Mr. District Attorney" is said, which may have created a grin with Ed Byron and others as they read the script since that was his big claim to fame in his early career, likely placed in the script as a mild in-joke