2022-09-07

T5#201 Lift to Beyond

Episode number: 201

Network broadcast date: Monday, May 10, 1965
Lift to Beyond
Genre: Human interest
Author: Nancy Moore
Production number:
199
Production date:
Tuesday, April 13, 1965
Director:
Warren Somerville
Producer:
not announced

Plotline: Losing his job to automation, an aging elevator operator spends his final day reminiscing about the past forty years he served proudly. But when the crew arrives early to replace the classic mahogany lift with cold steel, they find the building’s tenants and the elevator “herself” standing up for the kind old man they’ve grown to love.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650510+201+Lift+to+Beyond+WLS-Chicago+AIRCHECK.flac

Cast: Edgar Stehli, Ian Martin, Betty Garde, James McCallion, Peter Ratray, George Petrie

Notes:

CBSRMT 1979-09-03, Tomorrow Will Never Come; surviving copy is WLS-Chicago aircheck