T5#256 In Absence of All Intelligent Life

Episode number: 256

Network broadcast date: Monday, July 26, 1965
In Absence of All Intelligent Life
Genre: Science fantasy
Author: George Bamber
Production number: 256
Production date: Wednesday, June 30, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: When explorers land on an alien planet and discover the remains of a dead civilization they seek to uncover what caused its extinction — with shocking results.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650726+256+In+Absence+of+All+Intelligent+Life.flac

Cast: William Redfield, Cliff Carpenter, Guy Sorel, Peter Ratray

Notes:

Was originally used on Suspense 1960-07-10 as Report from a Dead Planet; No opening tease

F5#255 Whatever Happened to the 5:25?

Episode number: 255

Network broadcast date: Friday, July 23, 1965
Whatever Happened to the 5:25?
Genre: Drama
Author: James McGinn
Production number: 255
Production date: Tuesday, June 29, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: When a middle-aged commuter’s usual train home is cancelled, he breaks his routine for the first time in years, grabbing a drink at the terminal bar and striking up a conversation with a wild young woman — who is about to change his life forever. 

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650723+255+Whatever+Happened+to+the+5-25.flac

Cast: Stan Watt, Jerry Hausner, Gilbert Mack, Carol Ann Daniels

Notes:

Fred Foy reads the opening tease.

T5#254 The Jazz Festival

Episode number: 254

Network broadcast date: Thursday, July 22, 1965
The Jazz Festival
Genre: Modern melodrama
Author: Fielden Farrington
Production number: 254
Production date: Monday, June 28, 1965
Director: Ted Bell
Producer: not announced

Plotline: A prizefighter with a gentle soul finds himself pulled into a love triangle with a jazz musician and his manipulative girlfriend.

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650722+254+Jazz+Festival.flac

Cast: Ed Zimmerman, Evie Juster, Teri Keane, Peter Fernandez, Jack Grimes

Notes:

The original script title was "Festival of Jazz"

T5#253 In Time of Trouble

Episode number: 253

Network broadcast date: Wednesday, July 21, 1965
In Time of Trouble
Genre: Topical drama
Author: Lenore Woolf
Production number: 251
Production date: Tuesday, June 22, 1965
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: not announced

Plotline: After witnessing a brutal murder, a woman is forced to keep quiet about it by her husband who doesn’t want to cause any trouble. But trouble finds them anyway…

Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+650721+253+In+Time+of+Trouble.flac

Cast: Eileen Heckart, Ian Martin, Jack Grimes, Bernard Grant, Robert Dryden, Ethel Remey

Notes:

Woolf was an aspiring writer and eventually a bookstore owner in Milwaukee. This is the second episode of the series inspired by Kitty Genovese’s 1964 murder. The other was T5#25 "Cry in the Night" by Raphael David Blau. It is curious that both a new writer and one of the most experienced writers of T5 each used the news story as a springboard for their T5 submissions.

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