2022-06-22

T5#129 The Hostage

Episode number: 129

Network broadcast date: Thursday, January 28, 1965
The Hostage
Genre: Melodrama
Author: Fielden Farrington
Production number:
127
Production date:
Wednesday, January 6, 1965
Director:
Warren Somerville
Producer:
Warren Somerville

Plotline: A pair of deli owners are held hostage by a kid who just robbed a liquor store. As the police close in, the old couple try to calm things down, with unexpected results.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650128+129+The+Hostage.flac

Cast: Jack Grimes, Ethel Everett, Jackson Beck, Lon Clark

Notes:

Final surviving complete recording that identifies Ted Bell as Executive Producer