Network broadcast date: Wednesday,
December 9, 1964
The
Weapons at Hand
Genre: Melodrama
Author: Fielden Farrington
Production number: 93
Production date: Friday,
November 20, 1964
Director: Ted Bell
Plotline: A wounded war reporter and his cameraman are rescued by a local nurse in Vietnam. Her house may be bombed out and she may have lost her entire family, but she shows them how rich she is in other ways.
Listen:
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Cast: Wayne Tippit, Frances Spanier, Jack Manning
Notes:
Farrington was an announcer on Green Hornet, Romance of Helen Trent, and Just Plain Bill. He also wrote novels, The Big Noise (1946) and Street of Brass (1961). Theater Five appears to be his first radio scripts. His novels A Little Game (1968) and Strangers in 7A (1971) became TV movies. He continued to write 21 scripts for CBSRMT and also wrote for TV's General Hospital