2022-08-24

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.