Theater Five — 1964
109 episodes broadcast in 1964.
A small-time gangster's reckless kid brother wades into far deeper trouble than he grasps, on a fog-smothered San Francisco night.
Sealed in a fallout shelter after the bombs fall, a family slowly learns that surviving may be the crueler fate.
Alien minds from the distant world Demos reach across space to invade and seize control of Earth.
A widow becomes convinced her dead husband has come home -- and the footsteps climbing the stairs seem to agree.
A charming male escort's flawless smile turns out to serve a purpose far darker than comforting lonely women.
A schoolteacher uncovers a cabal of mutated students quietly plotting to take over the world.
An aging actor chasing one last role finds himself thoroughly upstaged by a Great Dane.
A young writer inches toward a hotel-roof ledge while his father and his girlfriend flounder to talk him down.
A wink-to-the-audience melodrama that never pretends to be anything but exactly what it is.
A mysterious visitor turns up for a brief stay in this featherweight comedy of manners.
A restless search for the fabled 'Golden People' and their promise of endless pleasure.
What unfolds when the first law of robotics -- that a machine may never harm a human -- is quietly voided.
An anonymous caller torments a woman with obscene calls, and somehow always knows her next move before she makes it.
A U.S. intelligence agent comes face to face with his own exact double -- literally.
A weary tale of spies and their shadows, where the old cloak-and-dagger trade has seen better days.
A hallucinogen-fueled 'trip' curdles into an ordinary murder case in an early radio look at a brand-new drug.
A world-famous author has just died, taking with him the secret of his success: a madman who wrote his every word.
A stuffy fusspot returns from vacation to discover he never left home at all -- and has been having the time of his life.
An astronaut cracks up in orbit and strands the first man ever to walk in space, forever beyond reach.
As a grand old mansion is torn down, the wreckers swear they hear a woman -- a lady far too proud to cry out -- scream.
An astronaut vanishes in space and rematerializes in mission control bearing a message from somewhere beyond.
A desperate addict in agonizing need of a fix tries to hold up the one physician who might help him.
Uncle F.C. and the disturbing collection of heads he keeps -- neatly, in boxes.
Drawn from the Kitty Genovese killing, an older couple watch a woman attacked outside their window while the neighborhood stays silent.
Replaced at work by a machine, a man finds every door to a new job has quietly closed against him.
At a lonely late-night truck stop, a sneering customer needles the frightened patrons about their fear of dying.
A cold-war fable about a little Soviet girl whose one wish is to grow up to be exactly like her mother.
Earth's first lunar landing party is seized by the 'Lunies,' whose notion of world peace proves decidedly odd.
Mutual suspicion curdles through New York's rag trade in a twisty tale of strike-first ethics.
An allegory of a boy who can see the stars in broad daylight -- and of the sins he carries.
A surgeon discovers that the criminal on his operating table, whom he must save, is his own brother.
Given only a short time to live, a man chooses to be frozen until medicine can find a cure.
A frustrated understudy finally gets his big break -- at a steep and unexpected price.
A woman lies murdered and someone in her group-therapy circle did it -- though in the end it hardly seems to matter who.
Sprung after thirty years inside, an old gangster called Big Dolly is determined to pick up right where he left off -- but nothing is the same.
An astronaut has gone missing in orbit, lost somewhere out in the silence of space.
Mysterious signals arrive from deep space, and the long, uneasy work of decoding them begins.
A scientist's tranquilizer could end all crime overnight -- but a world without criminals may not be one anyone can afford.
A blind old man parts with his last treasure, selling it away for a pittance.
The first true conversation between humankind and the dolphins.
What happens when the Law itself decides to take the law into its own hands?
A clever little tale of a red telephone that rings exactly once.
A television producer coaxes a genuine recluse onto a truth-telling game show, with unpredictable results.
A scientist claims his computer can predict any subject's behavior flawlessly -- but can it foresee his own murder?
An East German who escaped to the West slips back across to East Berlin for a thoroughly dishonorable reason.
In an overpopulated tomorrow, citizens may claim plots along the highway medians -- and must kill to hold them.
A strange guest checks into an even stranger hotel in a suspenseful night that never quite pays off.
A thoroughly rotten gangster beats extradition back to the States -- or so he believes.
A rich woman's son schemes to stage his own kidnapping and pocket a $100,000 ransom.
In a youth-obsessed society, the mayor's 'old' father rises up against the rule of the young.
A woman rules her family's every move by any ruthless means she can find -- until a deliciously macabre reckoning.
A pack of young delinquents makes sport of tormenting the elderly Winstead sisters.
A naked, injured man lies in the middle of the highway -- and every passing driver must decide whether to stop.
An old man hires a private eye to find his runaway daughter, who is found but refuses -- for a startling reason -- to come home.
With a transcontinental airliner in danger of going down, one passenger finds he simply can't be bothered to care.
A man wakes in a hospital bed to find he can suddenly read the minds of everyone around him.
A hard-bitten sea captain is utterly transformed after his ship is torpedoed and a strange orange suit becomes his.
Warned by a detective that her husband may be plotting to have her killed, a wife refuses to believe it.
A loyal company man is asked to make a devastating sacrifice -- watch for the biblical echoes and the boss's telling name.
An evening on the town in the big city ends abruptly in gunfire.
A man is hired to pose as another father's long-dead son.
An air-traffic controller who owes money to gangsters is pressured into downing a passenger plane.
A schoolgirl levels an assault accusation at her history teacher -- and dares anyone to doubt her.
A middle-aged man stumbles onto the secret of aging in reverse, growing a year younger with every passing year.
A woman who paid for a ninety-day trip around the world bitterly complains she got only eighty-seven days' worth.
Three unemployed film actors resolve to fake a kidnapping, staging it like a scene from their old pictures.
A man wishes aloud that his quarreling wife would break her neck -- and confesses to murder when she does exactly that.
A boozy, faded film actress signs on for the ultimate publicity gambit -- faking her own death.
You are what you charge -- a warning that only lands once something goes badly wrong.
A man finds a watch engraved with his own name and dedicated to him -- dated a full decade before he was born.
A man who outran old age by forever chasing the international date line westward faces ruin when a car crash threatens to ground his next flight.
A poor Mexican couple receives a wedding gift from a famous artist -- one they do not remotely appreciate.
A businessman abandons his suburban existence; two decades later, a lawyer decides to do the very same.
An alien invasion begins quietly -- the visitors arriving through the body of a teenage boy.
In the business of running a city, efficiency turns out to be absolutely everything.
Hired to gun down an aging judge, a young contract killer finds his target one step ahead of him.
Three miners trapped by a cave-in receive help from a wholly unexpected quarter.
Worn down by endless bickering, a husband meticulously arranges to pass his wife's murder off as suicide.
A couple rob an armored car and hole up in a run-down hotel, where things take a decidedly odd turn.
A man searches high and low for an old friend -- so that he can kill him.
In a spare two-voice drama, human speech itself becomes the fragile music of a civilization slipping away.
Two women each identify the dead man in a hotel room -- and each insists he was her husband.
A quiet neighborhood is rattled by the newcomer in the big house: no car, never eats, and no face at all.
A hospitalized woman wakes inside another woman's body, to the maddening tick of a relentless clock.
You can't swindle an honest man -- but is a con artist himself fair game?
A stream-of-consciousness descent through the mind of an addicted mother whose small daughter is in grave danger.
The Carter family's dream house curdles into a nightmare that offers no happy ending.
A frightened babysitter's only lifeline is the party line she shares with unseen strangers.
A spotless town with no crime, no drink, and no trouble at all -- and the unsettling reason why.
In the jungles of wartime Vietnam, a journalist and photographer are ambushed and rescued by a striking Vietnamese woman who is not what she seems.
A pupil at a strict boarding school pushes back against every rule laid down for her.
Two enemy soldiers, both wounded in the jungle, find themselves facing a shared and deadlier foe.
A woman is nearly murdered -- but the police are far from convinced it happened at all.
When does the ordinary American murder tend to happen? On payday.
The tale of an Alaskan named Lucky, who truly is lucky -- just never in the way you'd expect.
Newlyweds on a deserted road are stalked and menaced by three hot-rodders.
Noises in the night unsettle a household in a slight thriller that never quite earns its scares.
A briefcase left in a phone booth is scooped up by an executive too busy even to look inside -- and it holds a fortune no one is left to claim.
The eternal romantic triangle plays out at a carnival midway shooting gallery.
In a story set in the future, a troubled man seeks out a doctor and a machine that grants wishes.
A washed-up boxer takes one last fight, wins it -- and loses everything that matters.
Five strangers aboard a DC-3 touch down at a destination none of them expected.
An early tale of the 'mechanical brain' era, in which a computer named Charlie learns exactly who is boss.
A pair of baby-snatchers are cornered by a sharp-eyed doctor -- with an assist from the long-dead Gregor Mendel.
A couple of Americans buy a very old Mexican hacienda that comes complete with its own resident ghost.
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Other seasons: 1965