Episode number: 241
Network broadcast date: Monday,
July 5, 1965
Devotion
Genre: Western drama
Author: William Mourne
Production number: 241
Production date: Monday,
June 7, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced
Plotline: In the old west, a stranger
with a rifle stops a hanging, then takes the condemned man on a dangerous
journey across the plains. Fever, dehydration and gunfire can’t stop the
stranger — but what score is he trying to settle?
Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650705+241+Devotion.flac
Cast: Ralph Bell, Harry Bellaver,
Robert Dryden, Dean Carlton, Jack Grimes
Notes:
No opening tease; when Lee
Bowman issued new script guidelines with Jack C. Wilson, they said that they
would welcome westerns if appropriate for T5. This was the only episode in this
genre on the series.