2022-08-11

T5#179 A Million Miles to Nowhere

 

Episode number: 179
Network broadcast date:
Thursday, April 8, 1965
A Million Miles to Nowhere
Genre: Mystery melodrama
Author: Murray Burnett
Production number:
179
Production date:
Tuesday, March 16, 1965
Director:
William Gately
Producer:
not announced

Plotline: The vice president of a bank steals half a million dollars in a carefully orchestrated heist. But when one tiny detail doesn’t go according to plan, it sends him scrambling to keep the entire thing from crashing down around him.

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Cast: William Griffis, Vicki Vola, Jack Grimes, John Gibson, Ann Houston, Ed Zimmerman

Notes:

No opening tease. "Dr. Somerville" returns at 5:30 (and he’s treating "Ted”, a reference to director Ted Bell)