Episode
number: 76
Network broadcast date: Monday,
November 16, 1964
The
City Manager
Genre: Science comedy
Author: Robert Cenedella
Production number: 79
Production date: Monday,
October 26, 1964
Director: Ted Bell
Plotline: An affably tyrannical city manager goes to any length to ensure the progress of his city, no matter what the consequences to its citizens. Only one councilman fights back, and while the city manager uses all his power to maintain control, it’s ultimately his own obsession with automation and efficiency that does him in.
Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+641116+076+The+City+Manager.flac
Cast: Leon Janney, Charles Randall, Owen Jordan, Jack Hurdle
Notes:
Hybrid opening with teaser scene followed by Foy teasing the plotline