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Theatre 5: 11/24/64, episode 082
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Genre: Adventure
Author: Burr McCloskey
Production number 82; produced on Thursday, November 5, 1964
Director: Ted Bell; Producer: not announced

Plotline: Years after a nuclear holocaust, two survivors live deep in the ground, hiding from radiation and the giant insects that have taken over the Earth. Their only relief comes from occasionally crawling out of their underground tunnels to reminisce about the good old days. Little do they know, but bad as things are, they’re about to get a lot worse.

Cast: Donald Buka, Robert Dryden

McCloskey was a writer and poet, but also a union activist, an advertising executive, and a political campaign manager, and even ran as a third-party candidate for Vice President in the 1956 election.