2022-08-12

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.