T5#194 Junior

Episode number: 194

Network broadcast date: Thursday, April 29, 1965
Junior
Genre: Human interest melodrama
Author: Phyllis Coe
Production number: 195
Production date: Wednesday, April 7, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A domineering mother ferociously protects her son, even though he’s almost 30 years old. But when he becomes the primary suspect in a brutal killing, her interference causes more harm than good.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650429+194+Junior.flac

Cast: Eleanor Phelps, Joan Lorring, Court Benson, Cliff Carpenter

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#193 The Beneficiary

Episode number: 193

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, April 28, 1965
The Beneficiary
Genre: Comedy
Author: George Bamber
Production number: 196
Production date: Saturday, April 3, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: When an unsatisfied man inherits $3.5 million from his childhood sweetheart, he wastes no time ditching his loyal wife to chase a string of gorgeous young women. But when he finally reads the fine print of his inheritance, he’s in for a terrible surprise.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650428+193+The+Beneficiary.flac

Cast: Paul McGrath, George Petrie, Vera Ellen, Ann Hilton, Abby Lewis

Notes:

No opening tease; the man inherits $3.5 million, which is almost $33 million in 2022 $US

T5#192 Lorna is a Strange Child

 

Episode number: 192
Network broadcast date: Tuesday, April 27, 1965
Lorna is a Strange Child
Genre: Mystery fantasy
Author: Romeo Muller
Production number: 192
Production date: Friday, April 2, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A high school English teacher becomes concerned about his odd new student who refuses to share any details about herself, hiding where she lives and even her last name. When he decides to solve the mystery himself, he uncovers a horrifying family secret going back centuries and meets a shocking end.

Listen:  https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650427+192+Lorna+is+a+Strange+Child.flac

Cast: Rosemary Rice, Abby Lewis, Stan Watt, Maurice Tarplin, John Seymour, Dulcie Jordan

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#191 Greener Pastures

Episode number: 191

Network broadcast date: Monday, April 26, 1965
Greener Pastures
Genre: Crime comedy
Author: Albert G. Miller
Production number: 191
Production date: Thursday, April 1, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A chance encounter in the park sparks a May-to-December love affair between a young widow and a henpecked married man. Too bad it then becomes a battle of wills between the two women — ultimately culminating in murder!

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650426+191+Greener+Pastures.flac

Cast: Mary Jane Higby, Bryna Raeburn, George Petrie, Jim Stevens, Peter Ratray

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#190 Poor Little Greek Girl

Episode number: 190

Network broadcast date: Friday, April 23, 1965
Poor Little Greek Girl
Genre: Detective drama
Author: Jim McGinn
Production number: 190
Production date: Wednesday, March 31, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: After a young Greek woman’s brutal drowning, a grizzled police sergeant and his rookie partner venture into the city’s underbelly, interrogating hustlers and junkies in a search for justice.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650423+190+Poor+Little+Greek+Girl.flac

Cast: Bernard Grant, Wayne Tippit, George Petrie, Jackson Beck, Evie Juster, Ira Lewis, Barbara Berjer

 

T5#189 Said the Spider

Episode number: 189

Network broadcast date: Thursday, April 22, 1965
Said the Spider
Genre: Drama
Author: Richard McCracken
Production number: 187
Production date: Friday, March 26, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: On a long drive to Oregon, a girl, her mother and grandmother are terrorized by a snowy blizzard and a psychotic killer.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650422+189+Said+the+Spider.flac

Cast: Vicki Vola, Joyce Gordon, Ralph Camargo, Susan Melvin, Ivor Francis, Peter Ratray

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#188 The Wonderful Stamps from El Dorado

Episode number: 188

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, April 21, 1965
The Wonderful Stamps from El Dorado
Genre: Comedy fantasy
Author: Robert A. Arthur
Production number: 188
Production date: Monday, March 29, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A math teacher who’s built his life on data and facts must rethink everything he believes when he inherits his uncle’s magical stamp collection. Just slap on a stamp and you’re magically transported wherever you want to go! But when he pushes his experiments a bit too far, he finds himself under arrest for his friend’s mysterious disappearance.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650421+188+The+Wonderful+Stamps+from+El+Dorado.flac

Cast: Court Benson, Stan Watt, Guy Sorel, Robert Dryden, Jim Campbell

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#187 You Gotta Cry Sometime

Episode number: 187

Network broadcast date: Tuesday, April 20, 1965
You Gotta Cry Sometime
Genre: Human interest
Author: Robert Cenedella
Production number: 186
Production date: Thursday, March 25, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A tomboy goes from being mocked at high school to winning gold medals at the Olympics. But when a golf superstar challenges her to a tennis match and then romances her, it becomes clear that her toughest opponent is internal.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650420+187+You+Gotta+Cry+Sometime.flac

Cast: Maggie McNamara, David Kerman, Ed Zimmerman

Notes:

No opening tease. Centers around an unlikely tennis match between a man and woman, eight years before the famous “Battle of the Sexes” match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973.

T5#186 Incident in Ceylon

Episode number: 186

Network broadcast date: Monday, April 19, 1965
Incident in Ceylon
Genre: Mystery melodrama
Author: Nancy Moore
Production number: 189
Production date: Tuesday, March 30, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: Devil dances, fire walkers and white witches. Ceylon may have been colonized by the British, but its ancient superstitions are alive and well. That’s bad news for the wife of a tea plantation owner who becomes convinced the locals have put a curse on her.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650419+186+Incident+in+Ceylon.flac

Cast: Mary K. Wells, Guy Sorel, Ed Zimmerman, Ian Martin

Notes:

CBSRMT 1977-07-05, Hexed; no opening tease

T5#185 He Was a Good Boy

Episode number: 185

Network broadcast date: Friday, April 16, 1965
He Was a Good Boy
Genre: Social melodrama
Author: Richard Lortz
Production number: 184
Production date: Tuesday, March 23, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: When her wayward grandson suddenly dies, an elderly woman refuses to believe it was caused by a drug overdose, despite all the obvious signs.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650416+185+He+was+a+Good+Boy.flac

Cast: Alice Yourman, Natalie Priest, Larry Robinson, George Petrie, Hal Studer, Ronald Liss

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#184 Panic

Episode number: 184

Network broadcast date: Thursday, April 15, 1965
Panic
Genre: Melodrama
Author: George Lowther
Production number: 183
Production date: Monday, March 22, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: Cora’s convinced she sees figures in a painting who aren’t there, completely forgets conversations she just had and is certain she went to a dinner no one else remembers. Worried she’s losing her mind, her fiancé insists she see a psychiatrist — but maybe there’s something more sinister going on.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650415+184+Panic.flac

Cast: Augusta Dabney, Nat Polen, Jim Dukas, Owen Jordan

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#183 Come Home Daughter, All is Forbidden

Episode number: 183

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, April 14, 1965
Come Home Daughter, All is Forbidden
Genre: Topical comedy
Author: Ian Martin
Production number: 182
Production date: Friday, March 19, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A rebellious young woman living in Rome flaunts her affair with a well-known criminal, knowing it will drive her senator-father crazy back in America. But when the senator sends her old flame to track her down, suddenly she’s the one losing her mind.

Listen:

 https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650414+183+Come+Home+Daughter%2C+All+is+Forbidden.flac

Cast: Bethel Leslie, Elliott Reid, Gilbert Mack, Bernard Grant, Jack Grimes

Notes:

CBSRMT 1974-10-23, See Naples and Die

T5#182 The Lion Who Wasn't There

Episode number: 182

Network broadcast date: Tuesday, April 13, 1965
The Lion Who Wasn't There
Genre: Crime adventure
Author: Murray Burnett
Production number: 181
Production date: Thursday, March 18, 1965
Director: William Gately
Producer: William Gately

Plotline: Business is bad for an ex-pat’s safari company in Nairobi. Even worse, his wife is plotting his murder with the company’s rugged guide. But while their plan to kill him on a hunting expedition seems foolproof, the African bush has plans of its own…

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650413+182+The+Lion+Who+Wasn't+There.flac

Cast: Joan Lovejoy, Peter Gerald, Ralph Camargo, Guy Sorel, Scott Cunningham

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#181 A Matter of Pride

Episode number: 181

Network broadcast date: Monday, April 12, 1965
A Matter of Pride
Genre: Melodrama
Author: Ian Martin
Production number: 185
Production date: Wednesday, March 24, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A terrible accident left a construction worker blind and full of self-hatred now that he can’t work and his wife is forced to be the breadwinner. But when they’re taken hostage by a crazed gunman, will he get his chance to prove that he’s not useless after all?

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650412+181+A+Matter+of+Pride.flac

Cast: Arlene Walker, Jack Grimes, Jim Dukas, Ruth Yorke, Alan Bergman

Notes:

CBSRMT 1974-09-25, The Deadly Blind Man's Bluff; no opening tease

T5#180 It's My Funeral

 

Episode number: 180
Network broadcast date: Friday, April 9, 1965
It's My Funeral
Genre: Human interest
Author: Leonard Stadd
Production number: 180
Production date: Wednesday, March 17, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: An elderly widow on public assistance refuses to sign a release for life-saving surgery. Her doctors are baffled, but the more they encourage her, the more they come to understand why this decision means so much to her.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650409+180+It's+My+Funeral.flac

Cast: Abby Lewis, Stan Watt, Bryna Raeburn, George Petrie

Notes:

"Dr. Warren" called for over intercom about 1 min in. Perhaps "Dr. Somerville" was booked? Yet another way of sneaking director Warren Somerville's name into the production.