Network broadcast date: Friday,
January 15, 1965
The
Trophy
Genre: Human interest
Author: Virginia Marie Cooke
Production number: 118
Production date: Wednesday,
December 23, 1964
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: Warren Somerville
Plotline: A newspaper reporter pieces together a strange but touching story of an old man found dying in a boarding house.
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Cast: Evie Juster, George Petrie, Ian Martin, Ethel Everett, Bill Griffis, Jeff David, Marty Meyers
Notes:
Cooke wrote episodes of Family Theater as well as many 1950s TV series, and books in the 1960s; her radio writing went back as far as the late 1930s series Speed Gibson.
This recording is in poor sound.