2022-04-28

T5#74 A Brand New Life

Episode number: 74

Network broadcast date: Thursday, November 12, 1964
A Brand New Life
Genre: Social comedy
Author: Robert Cenedella
Production number:
74
Production date:
Monday, October 19, 1964
Director:
Ted Bell

Plotline: A successful businessman with a loving wife and young son leaves it all behind for the excitement of a life free from responsibility. Years later, on the cusp of their son’s graduation, his wife sends a lawyer to track him down and ask if he’s ready to come back. But with the lawyer going through a midlife crisis of his own, the real question is whether the former businessman has room for another swinging divorcee.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+641112+074+A+Brand+New+Life+(sl+clipped+close).flac

Cast: George Petrie, Joan Shea, Court Benson, Ruth Yorke, Ben Yaffe

Notes:

One of the last episodes that opens with a spoken plot description rather than an opening scene, and does not have Foy announcing over opening music. 

Aircheck from WFAA radio ID (Dallas)

One of T5's top episodes.