2022-10-02

T5#229 Country Boy

Episode number: 229

Network broadcast date: Thursday, June 17, 1965
Country Boy
Genre: Suspense melodrama
Author: Romeo Muller
Production number:
229
Production date:
Thursday, May 20, 1965
Director:
Warren Somerville
Producer:
not announced

Plotline: After taking part in a civil rights demonstration, a big city college girl finds herself stranded in a small southern town where she’s forced to get help from one of the local “hicks” she’s dismissed. But she learns her assumptions about this mechanic are all wrong — he’s even more dangerous than she suspected!

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650617+229+Country+Boy.flac

Cast: Joan Lorring, Bob Hastings

Notes:

Nominated for a 1966 Writers Guild of America award; No opening tease