Episode
number: 225
Network broadcast date: Friday,
June 11, 1965
The
Bottom of the Bottle
Genre: Social drama
Author: Albert G. Miller
Production number: 225
Production date: Friday,
May 14, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: Lee Bowman
Plotline: While at a dress shop, the highly valuable necklace of a prominent customer is unknowingly taken home in a bag by the shop's sales-girl. She is accused of stealing the necklace but it was misplaced at the couple's home by the customer's drunken husband. He can't remember where he hid it. Later he gets $9k which he claims is from a crap game, but others say he pawned the necklace. He leaves his wife, takes $8K, gives her $1K, and goes to a hotel where he is arrested for stealing the necklace. While eluding police, he falls down the stairs, breaks his neck and dies. Later, police and his widow search the home one more time. She takes his last half-filled bottle of booze in the apartment and pours it down the drain. What's in the bottom of the bottle? It's the necklace, hidden all this time by the booze.
Cast: Maggie Hayes, Court Benson, Anne Seymour, Ed Zimmerman, Geraldine Hanning
Notes:
Hayes was in a 1956 movie of the same name but was a much different story. The movie starred Van Johnson and Joseph Cotten. Maggie Hayes was in a minor supporting role. Karl Schadow supplied the plotline based on his research at the Library of Congress.