2022-05-22

T5#98 An Average American Murder

Episode number: 98

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, December 16, 1964
An Average American Murder
Genre: Crime melodrama
Author: Jim McGinn
Production number:
98
Production date:
Friday, November 27, 1964
Director:
Ted Bell
Producer:
Ted Bell

Plotline: It’s Friday night and Sam’s eager to get home to his wife for their weekly candlelit pork chop dinner. But the more things don’t go his way, the clearer it becomes that Sam’s a walking time bomb, ready to explode.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+641216+098+An+Average+American+Murder+(short+garble+at+open%2C+sl+clipped+close).flac

Cast: George Petrie, Robert Dryden, Arlene Walker, Humphrey Davis

Notes:

McGinn was a TV writer; there is no scene tease at the open as Fred Foy reads murder statistics as the show open