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

T5#228 Incident at Simbarundi

Episode number: 228

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, June 16, 1965
Incident at Simbarundi
Genre: Adventure drama
Author: Don Lamb
Production number: 228
Production date: Wednesday, May 19, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: Two foreign correspondents learn that Chinese Communists are behind a native rebellion in a small African country, but when they attempt to confirm the story, they end up as prisoners of an infamous war lord.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650616+228+Incident+at+Simbarundi+(sl+clipped+close).flac

Cast: Ed Zimmerman, Wayne Tippit, Ian Martin, Ralph Camargo

T5#227 A Bad Day's Work

Episode number: 227

Network broadcast date: Tuesday, June 15, 1965
A Bad Day's Work
Genre: Social drama
Author: Fielden Farrington
Production number: 227
Production date: Tuesday, May 18, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A rookie patrolman kills a purse snatcher on his first day in Harlem. The shooting may have been by-the-book, but as public anger builds into a riot and the cop is forced to lay low in a motel, he starts to realize the Academy and the street have two very different rulebooks.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650615+227+A+Bad+Day's+Work.flac

Cast: Alan Alda, Natalie Priest, Frederick O'Neal, Bob Hastings

T5#226 The Manor House

Episode number: 226

Network broadcast date: Monday, June 14, 1965
The Manor House
Genre: Melodrama
Author: Robert Cenedella
Production number: 226
Production date: Monday, May 17, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: The heir to a wealthy dynasty finds herself living in poverty now that the family fortune has dried up. But when a man from her past arrives at her door flush with New Money, offering to buy her old estate and proposing marriage, she sees a way out of the poorhouse.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650614+226+The+Manor+House+AFRTS+LQ.flac

Cast: Barbara Britton, George Petrie

Notes:

circulating copy is AFRTS version with announcements geared to military service personnel; no opening tease

T5#225 The Bottom of the Bottle (no recording has been found)

Episode number: 225

Network broadcast date: Friday, June 11, 1965
The Bottom of the Bottle
Genre: Social drama
Author: Albert G. Miller
Production number: 225
Production date: Friday, May 14, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: Lee Bowman

Plotline: While at a dress shop, the highly valuable necklace of a prominent customer is unknowingly taken home in a bag by the shop's sales-girl. She is accused of stealing the necklace but it was misplaced at the couple's home by the customer's drunken husband. He can't remember where he hid it. Later he gets $9k which he claims is from a crap game, but others say he pawned the necklace. He leaves his wife, takes $8K, gives her $1K, and goes to a hotel where he is arrested for stealing the necklace. While eluding police, he falls down the stairs, breaks his neck and dies. Later, police and his widow search the home one more time. She takes his last half-filled bottle of booze in the apartment and pours it down the drain. What's in the bottom of the bottle? It's the necklace, hidden all this time by the booze.

Cast: Maggie Hayes, Court Benson, Anne Seymour, Ed Zimmerman, Geraldine Hanning

Notes:

Hayes was in a 1956 movie of the same name but was a much different story. The movie starred Van Johnson and Joseph Cotten. Maggie Hayes was in a minor supporting role. Karl Schadow supplied the plotline based on his research at the Library of Congress.

T5#224 The Wishing Stone

Episode number: 224

Network broadcast date: Thursday, June 10, 1965
The Wishing Stone
Genre: Human interest drama
Author: Ian Martin
Production number: 224
Production date: Thursday, May 13, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A young girl and her brother find a sparkling rock down by the river and become convinced it can make their wishes come true. That’s bad news for their deadbeat dad.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650610+224+The+Wishing+Stone.flac

Cast: Alan Howard, Mary Jane Higby, Susan Melvin, Leon Janney, George Petrie

Notes:

CBSRMT 1974-10-23, same title

T5#223 The Big Lonely (no recording has been found)

Episode number: 223

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, June 9, 1965
The Big Lonely
Genre: Contemporary drama
Author: Virginia Marie Cooke
Production number: 223
Production date: Wednesday, May 12, 1965
Director: unknown at this time
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A young girl in a small town falls in love with a member of a rowdy motocycle gang that is passing through town (missing episode, plotline is a composite of newspaper listings)

Listen: NO RECORDING HAS BEEN FOUND

Cast: Rosemary Rice; rest of cast unknown at this time