2022-06-19

T5#126 Where Art Thou, Romeo?

Episode number: 126

Network broadcast date: Monday, January 25, 1965
Where Art Thou, Romeo?
Genre: Crime melodrama
Author: Leonard Stadd
Production number:
131
Production date:
Tuesday, January 12, 1965
Director:
Warren Somerville
Producer:
Warren Somerville

Plotline: A gangster fakes his own death by taking an experimental drug that puts him in suspended animation for three days. What could go wrong?

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650125+126+Where+Art+Thou%2C+Romeo.flac

Cast: James Monks, Ivor Francis, Robert Dryden, Gilbert Mack

Notes:

No executive producer mentioned in credits; no opening tease in surviving recording.

Suspended animation was a topic in the news of the era, especially as the difficult issues of space travel were being confronted in the US space program.