T5#245 Ed's War

Episode number: 245

Network broadcast date: Friday, July 9, 1965
Ed's War
Genre: Psychological drama
Author: Romeo Muller
Production number: 246
Production date: Monday, June 14, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: Convinced an underground war between young and old has gripped the country, a paranoid old man takes a young couple hostage in his secluded cabin.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650709+245+Ed's+War.flac

Cast: Paul McGrath, Evie Juster, Ruth Yorke, Cliff Carpenter, Alan Manson

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#244 A Matter of Appearances

Episode number: 244

Network broadcast date: Thursday, July 8, 1965
A Matter of Appearances
Genre: Melodrama
Author: Robert Cenedella
Production number: 244
Production date: Thursday, June 10, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: When a woman catches her husband with another woman, she refuses to believe his story and storms out on him. But when she’s arrested for hitchhiking and the police won’t believe her story, suddenly the shoe is on the other foot.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650708+244+A+Matter+of+Appearances.flac

Cast: Rosemary Rice, Jim Stevens, Stan Watt, Gilbert Mack, Peter Ratray, Michael Ann

Notes:

No opening tease

T5#243 Don't Hesitate to Call

Episode number: 243

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, July 7, 1965
Don't Hesitate to Call
Genre: Human interest melodrama
Author: Jim McGinn
Production number: 243
Production date: Wednesday, June 9, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: Producing a high profile television special for an aging diva seems like the dream job for a TV writer, but it soon becomes a nightmare once he finds himself pulled between the star, the network and his own creative hopes.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650707+243+Don't+Hesitate+to+Call.flac

Cast: Ed Zimmerman, George Petrie, Vicki Vola, Duane Morris, Bonnie Toman

Notes:

Baltimore Sun 1965-07-06 says ABC is ending T5 and will reformulate its radio drama strategy

T5#242 Jailbreak

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

T5#241 Devotion

Episode number: 241

Network broadcast date: Monday, July 5, 1965
Devotion
Genre: Western drama
Author: William Mourne
Production number: 241
Production date: Monday, June 7, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: In the old west, a stranger with a rifle stops a hanging, then takes the condemned man on a dangerous journey across the plains. Fever, dehydration and gunfire can’t stop the stranger — but what score is he trying to settle?

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650705+241+Devotion.flac

Cast: Ralph Bell, Harry Bellaver, Robert Dryden, Dean Carlton, Jack Grimes

Notes:

No opening tease; when Lee Bowman issued new script guidelines with Jack C. Wilson, they said that they would welcome westerns if appropriate for T5. This was the only episode in this genre on the series.

T5#240 Children of Death

Episode number: 240

Network broadcast date: Friday, July 2, 1965
Children of Death
Genre: Suspense melodrama
Author: Frank Thomas
Production number: 240
Production date: Friday, June 4, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: Is the wealthy Mrs. Crane losing her mind or is something more sinister going on? She hires a retired criminologist to investigate the sharks in her family…

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650702+240+Children+of+Death.flac

Cast: Wendy Barrie, David Kerman, George Petrie, Paul McGrath, Jack Manning

T5#239 Teacher, Teacher

Episode number: 239

Network broadcast date: Thursday, July 1, 1965
Teacher, Teacher
Genre: Human interest drama
Author: Adapted by Ian Martin from Helen del Valle's idea
Production number: 239
Production date: Thursday, June 3, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A class of unruly teenagers meet their match with the new substitute teacher and her unique form of discipline.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650701+239+Teacher%2C+Teacher+(sl+clipped+close).flac

Cast: Bryna Raeburn, Evie Juster, Ralph Camargo, William Griffis, Peter Fernandez, Peter Ratray