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

T5#251 Summer's End

Episode number: 251

Network broadcast date: Monday, July 19, 1965
Summer's End
Genre: Teen-age drama
Author: Virginia Marie Cooke
Production number: 252
Production date: Wednesday, June 23, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: When a grade school teacher’s summer fling with a Malibu surfer dude hits the rocks, she has to choose between moving on or plotting her revenge.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650719+251+Summer's+End.flac

Cast: Hildy Parks, Jack Grimes, Ed Zimmerman, Evie Juster, Peter Ratray

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#250 Flies with Honey

Episode number: 250

Network broadcast date: Friday, July 16, 1965
Flies with Honey
Genre: Crime comedy
Author: Robert Cenedella
Production number: 249
Production date: 1965-06-??
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: As a scatter-brained insurance agent investigates a client’s suicide, it becomes clear her flakey demeanor is hiding a shrewd intuition.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650716+250+Flies+with+Honey.flac

Cast: Joan Lovejoy, Melville Ruick, Larry Haines, Lesley Woods, John Griggs

Notes:

Story was likely rewritten decades later as a short story in the April 1992 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine; Ruick was a busy actor in radio and television and was also the announcer for Lux Radio Theatre for six years

T5#249 The Big Waves

Episode number: 249

Network broadcast date: Thursday, July 15, 1965
The Big Waves
Genre: Psychological drama
Author: John M. Young
Production number: 250
Production date: Monday, June 21, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: After a series of jewelry store robberies have the police stumped, they look for help from a woman who claims to have a psychic connection to the thief. 

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650715+249+The+Big+Waves.flac

Cast: Natalie Priest, John Gibson, George Petrie, Mark O'Daniels, Mary Ann Hoxsworth

Notes:

Soap opera writer for Second Mrs. Burton, Road of Life, and The Right to Happiness; No opening tease

T5#248 The Walls of Poison Ivy

Episode number: 248

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, July 14, 1965
The Walls of Poison Ivy
Genre: Human interest drama
Author: Albert G. Miller
Production number: 248
Production date: Wednesday, June 16, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: Three old friends reconnect at their 25th college reunion, exposing long-buried secrets and grudges — with tragic results.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650714+248+The+Walls+of+Poison+Ivy.flac

Cast: Elliott Reid, Guy Sorel, George Petrie, Helen Choate

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#247 The Marked Man

Episode number: 247

Network broadcast date: Tuesday, July 13, 1965
The Marked Man
Genre: Psychological drama
Author: Jim McGinn
Production number: 247
Production date: Tuesday, June 15, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A college football player is seriously injured in a game and wants to call it quits. His powerful coach has other ideas…

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650713+247+The+Marked+Man.flac

Cast: Ralph Bell, Ronald Liss, Donald Buka, Corrine Orr, Peter Ratray, Fred Foy (a non-announcing role)

 

T5#246 Casualty of a Small War

Episode number: 246

Network broadcast date: Monday, July 12, 1965
Casualty of a Small War
Genre: Topical melodrama
Author: Fielden Farrington
Production number: 245
Production date: Friday, June 11, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A couple with a son fighting in Vietnam kidnap a senator in a wild attempt to get the President to bring their boy home.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650712+246+Casualty+of+a+Small+War.flac

Cast: William Griffis, Elizabeth Morgan, Walter Greaza

Notes: