Episode number: 242
Network broadcast date: Tuesday,
July 6, 1965
Jailbreak
Genre: Suspense drama
Author: Bryce Walton
Production number: 242
Production date: Tuesday,
June 8, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced
Plotline: When an out-of-towner is
sentenced to death for a murder he didn’t commit, the small town sheriff
reaches his limit, plotting an elaborate jailbreak for the man he’s due to
hang.
Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650706+242+Jailbreak.flac
Cast: Jackson Beck, Bob Readick,
Margaret Hamilton, Jack Grimes, Roger DeKoven
Notes:
This was originally a short
story in the December 1956 edition of Trapped Detective Magazine; the script
was later used on the Beyond Midnight episode The Sheriff's Wife as well as
CBSRMT 1982-04-26 The Hanging Sheriff; Walton was an established fiction writer
(especially sci-fi pulps) who also wrote in early television and also Alfred
Hitchcock Presents; No opening tease