2022-09-15

T5#209 Death of an Old Flame

Episode number: 209

Network broadcast date: Thursday, May 20, 1965
Death of an Old Flame
Genre: Romantic melodrama
Author: George Bamber
Production number:
209
Production date:
Friday, April 23, 1965
Director:
Warren Somerville
Producer:
not announced

Plotline: A hard-nosed piano player gets roped into a fur heist with his ex-wife and her shady new man. But when the robbery becomes an arson job, the fur shop won't be the only thing getting burned.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650520+209+Death+of+an+Old+Flame.flac

Cast: Sammy Davis Jr., Bernard Grant, Joan Lovejoy, Ralph Bell, Evie Juster

Notes:

Was originally used on Suspense 1961-10-29 as Death of an Old Flame; the appearance of Davis was highly publicized by ABC, more than any other single episode; no opening tease.