2022-10-24

T5#252 Flights of Angels

Episode number: 252

Network broadcast date: Tuesday, July 20, 1965
Flights of Angels
Genre: Poetic melodrama
Author: Burr McCloskey
Production number:
253
Production date:
Thursday, June 24, 1965
Director:
Ted Bell
Producer:
not announced

Plotline: A once-great actor now spends his days getting drunk and bloviating at the bar. One fateful evening, a mysterious woman takes a seat next to him, matching wits (and shots) with the has-been. 

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650720+252+Flights+of+Angels.flac

Cast: Arlene Francis, Ralph Bell, Martin Gabel, Ruth Yorke, Arthur Kohl

Notes:

Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel were married in 1946 until his death in 1986; No opening tease