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