Network broadcast date: Tuesday, November 24, 1964
The
Talkers
Genre: Adventure
Author: Burr McCloskey
Production number: 82
Production date: Thursday,
November 5, 1964
Director: Ted Bell
Producer:
Plotline: Years after a nuclear holocaust, two survivors live deep in the ground, hiding from radiation and the giant insects that have taken over the Earth. Their only relief comes from occasionally crawling out of their underground tunnels to reminisce about the good old days. Little do they know, but bad as things are, they’re about to get a lot worse.
Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+641124+082+The+Talkers.flac
Cast: Donald Buka, Robert Dryden
Notes:
McCloskey was a writer and poet, but also a union activist, an advertising executive, and political campaign manager, and even ran as a third party candidate for Vice President in the 1956 election.
Fred Foy reads the opening tease.
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