T5#222 Skeletons

Episode number: 222

Network broadcast date: Tuesday, June 8, 1965
Skeletons
Genre: Crime comedy
Author: Jules Archer
Production number: 222
Production date: Tuesday, May 11, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: An aging bachelor makes the mistake of opening his door to a stranger who turns out to know everything about a terrible kidnapping and murder he was part of years earlier. But the stranger has a secret of his own and nothing about him is what it appears.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650608+222+Skeletons.flac

Cast: Bernard Grant, Stan Watt, Arthur Kohl, Peter Ratray

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#221 Two Came Back

Episode number: 221

Network broadcast date: Monday, June 7, 1965
Two Came Back
Genre: Adventure
Author: Jules Archer
Production number: 221
Production date: Monday, May 10, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: Three explorers hunt for treasure deep in the New Guinea jungle. The poisonous plants and deadly snakes may be dangerous but they’ve got nothing on a flirtatious woman with a jealous husband.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650607+221+Two+Came+Back+(sl+clipped+close).flac

Cast: Ian Martin, George Petrie, Ed Zimmerman, Greta Thyssen

Notes:

Script was originally used on Escape 1950-08-04 and Suspense 1960-06-05 as Two Came Back

T5#220 Untrue Confession

Episode number: 220

Network broadcast date: Friday, June 4, 1965
Untrue Confession
Genre: Human interest drama
Author: Ian Martin
Production number: 220
Production date: Friday, May 7, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: When a teenager kills someone in a hit and run accident, his college professor father takes responsibility for the crime. But what kind of lesson does this teach the kid? And what kind of secret is Dad hiding himself?

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650604+220+Untrue+Confession+LQ.flac

Cast: Ivor Francis, Fran Carlon, Peter Fernandez, Robert Dryden, David Kerman

T5#219 And Dream No More (no recording has been found)

Episode number: 219

Network broadcast date: Thursday, June 3, 1965
And Dream No More
Genre: Psychological melodrama
Author: Nelson Bond
Production number: 219
Production date: Thursday, May 6, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A psychiatrist hypnotizes a patient once too often... and gets shocking results (missing episode, plotline is a composite of newspaper listings)

Listen: NO RECORDING HAS BEEN FOUND

Cast: Conrad Nagel; rest of cast unknown at this time

Notes:

Bond was a veteran radio and TV writer for Dr. Christian, Dimension X, Escape, and TV series such as Tales of Tomorrow; he wrote the Studio One episode The Night America Trembled about the panic related to Orson Welles' War of the Worlds

T5#218 Noose of Pearls

Episode number: 218

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, June 2, 1965
Noose of Pearls
Genre: Human interest drama
Author: Winifred Wolfe
Production number: 218
Production date: Wednesday, May 5, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A spinster missed out on a life of her own, choosing instead to play nursemaid to her domineering aunt, waiting to inherit the cruel old woman’s fortune. But when an old flame reappears in her life, the spinster decides she’s done waiting.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650602+218+Noose+of+Pearls.flac

Cast: Margaret Hamilton, Ralph Camargo, Joan Lorring, George Petrie, Luis Van Rooten

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#217 Mama's Girl

Episode number: 217

Network broadcast date: Tuesday, June 1, 1965
Mama's Girl
Genre: Psychological drama
Author: Romeo Muller
Production number: 217
Production date: Tuesday, May 4, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: Convinced her husband is having an affair with the woman across the street, a housewife confides in her sickly mother, their conversations transforming her fear into an obsession.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650601+217+Mama's+Girl.flac

Cast: Elaine May, William Griffis, Claudia Morgan

T5#216 Lake Toplitz

Episode number: 216

Network broadcast date: Monday, May 31, 1965
Lake Toplitz
Genre: Mystery drama
Author: Jim McGinn
Production number: 216
Production date: Monday, May 3, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: An Austrian innkeeper swears that when she was a child during WWII she witnessed Nazis dumping a trunk full of gold into a nearby lake. Even though it’s almost certainly an urban legend, tourists continue to flock to the small Austrian town — with deadly consequences.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650531+216+Lake+Toplitz+LQ.flac

Cast: Vasek Simek, Lidia Prochnicka, Theo Goetz, Claus Jurgen, Renata Mannhardt

Notes:

This was an Eastern European cast of actors that worked together in many ethnic theatrical productions as well as more mainstream productions. Lake Toplitz is a real lake in Austria, and over the decades a number of people have died searching for Nazi treasure that’s supposed to be hidden at the bottom of it. In October, 1963 a German tourist drowned while diving in the lake and local authorities then banned all diving in Lake Toplitz, which is probably the inspiration for this story.