2022-09-14

T5#208 Blind Man's Bluff

Episode number: 208

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, May 19, 1965
Blind Man's Bluff
Genre: Criminal & police
Author: George Bamber
Production number:
206
Production date:
Wednesday, April 21, 1965
Director:
Ted Bell
Producer:
not announced

Plotline: A blind newstand operator stays on the mob’s good side by letting the criminals run the street and keeping his mouth shut around the cops. But when he’s falsely accused of ratting out a local hood, the cynical newsie forces a neighbor kid to be his eyes as he desperately tries to survive a night in the slum with a target on his back.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650519+208+Blind+Man's+Bluff.flac

Cast: Staats Cotsworth, George Petrie, Maurice Tarplin, Robert Dryden, Ronald Liss, Carl Caruso, Peter Minor, Ruth Yorke

Notes:

Was originally used on Suspense 1959-04-19 as See How He Runs; Carl Caruso substitutes for Fred Foy as announcer.