Time Bomb (The Philco Television Playhouse)

Episode of The Philco Television Playhouse

"Time Bomb"
The Philco Television Playhouse episode
Directed by	Robert Mulligan
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	October 3, 1954 (1954-10-03)
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"Time Bomb" is a 1954 American television play written by Sumner Locke Elliott and directed by Robert Mulligan.

Premise

A man, Rickey Calbot, plots to murder his wife. He is loved by his employee Cora Lynch but he does not love her. Rickey falls for Gillian Reeves, a wealthy woman.

Cast

John Ireland as Rickey Calbot
Nancy Kelly as Cora Lynch
Katharine Bard as Gillian Reeves
Rebecca Dark
David White

References

"Television talk". The Post-Standard. 3 October 1954. p. 18.
"Television this week". The Kansas City Star. 3 October 1954. p. 2E.
"Husbands plot to kill wife backfires". Altoona Tribune. 28 September 1954. p. 10.

External links

"Time Bomb" at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Robert Mulligan
Feature films	Fear Strikes Out (1957) The Rat Race (1960) The Great Impostor (1961) Come September (1961) The Spiral Road (1962) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) Inside Daisy Clover (1965) Up the Down Staircase (1967) The Stalking Moon (1968) The Pursuit of Happiness (1971) Summer of '42 (1971) The Other (1972) The Nickel Ride (1974) Bloodbrothers (1978) Same Time, Next Year (1978) Kiss Me Goodbye (1982) Clara's Heart (1988) The Man in the Moon (1991)
TV plays	Run Girl Run (1954) Time Bomb (1954) Love at Fourth Sight (1957) The Defender (1957) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1958) The Moon and Sixpence (1959)

Films directed by Robert Mulligan

Feature films

TV plays

v t e Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
Novels	Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) Some Doves and Pythons (1966) Edens Lost (1969) The Man Who Got Away (1972) Going (1975) Water Under the Bridge (1977) Signs of Life (1981) About Tilly Beamis (1984) Waiting for Childhood (1987) Fairyland (1990) Radio Days (1993)
Plays	The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937) Interval (1939) The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940) Goodbye to the Music (1942) Your Obedient Servant (1943) The Invisible Circus (1946) Wicked Is the Vine (1948) Rusty Bugles (1948) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951) John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
TV scripts	Wicked Is the Vine (1949) The Crater (1949) Pengallen's Bell (1949) Of Human Bondage (1949) Jane Eyre (1949) The Willow Cabin (1950) The Passionate Pilgrim (1950) The Shadow of a Man (1950) Little Women (1950) The Rose Garden (1951) The Devil in Velvet (1952) The Thin Air (1952) Dusty Portrait (1952) Miss Hargreaves (1952) We Were Children (1952) Elegy (1953) Wish on the Moon (1953) Before I Wake (1953) The Shadow of a Man (1953) The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Moment of Panic (1954) Friday the 13th (1954) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1954) Time Bomb (1954) Run Girl Run (1954) The Women (1955) Beloved Stranger (1955) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Peter Pan (1955) Daisy, Daisy (1955) You and Me and the Gatepost (1956) Keyhole (1956) Company Manners (1956) Peter Pan (1956) Love at Fourth Sight (1957) Whereabouts Unknown (1957) Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957) Babe in the Woods (1957) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) The Winslow Boy (1958) We Haven't Seen Her Lately (1958) The Laughing Willow (1958) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US) Peter Pan (1960) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust) The Prisoner of Zenda (1961) Notorious (1961) Spellbound (1962)
Adaptations	Rusty Bugles (1965) Water Under the Bridge (1980) Rusty Bugles (1981) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
Radio	Crazy Family (1939) Tradesman's Entrance (1941) Jezebel's Daughter (1941) Grand City (1942) Girl of the Ballet (1942) The Man in the Dark (1944) The Army Hour (1944) Lily Parker (1947) Scarlet Rhapsody (1947) Wicked Is the Vine (1947) Ride a Cock Horse (1948) The Crater (1948) The Rose Garden (1950) Dusty Portrait (1953) The Thin Air (1954) We Were Children (1954) Friday the 13th (1955)

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