2022-08-02

T5#170 The Widow

Episode number: 170

Network broadcast date: Friday, March 26, 1965
The Widow
Genre: Horror drama
Author: Richard Lortz
Production number:
172
Production date:
Friday, March 5, 1965
Director:
Ted Bell
Producer:
Ted Bell

Plotline: Teenaged Emmy Lou and her strange mother pressure a neighbor boy into helping them shoot their dying dog out in the barn. But instead of a dog he discovers a dead man… and a whole lot of trouble.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650326+170+The+Widow.flac

Cast: Alix Elias, Helen Carew, George Petrie, Larry Robinson, Corrine Orr

Notes:

Lortz was a playwright and novelist who also wrote for 1950s television, including the television version of Suspense; no opening tease in surviving recording