Armstrong Circle Theatre Season 7 Man in Shadow 1956
Docudrama of a mentally ill man and the effort to help him recover. Paul Foster had to give up an engineering career to take over his father's insurance business because it was expected of him. He was ill-suited to the work and when the drama opens, the business is failing. Outwardly at the age of 31, he is a normal young man with a wife, Ruth, and a child.... Suddenly, he hits his secretary and accuses her of spying. Diagnosis by a psychiatrist finds he has suffered a mental breakdown, a schizophrenic reaction with marked paranoid tendencies. His mother refuses to believe it. His wife faces the facts and has him committed to a state hospital for treatment, which does not go well at first. But with the support of his family and with new drugs, Paul can communicate his problems and fears and return to his place in society.
- Released: 1956-03-06
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Douglas Edwards, Sandy Becker, John Cameron Swayze, Henry Hamilton
- Director: David Susskind, George Lowther
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1. The Strange War of Sergeant Kreuzer 1955-09-27
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3. Minding Our Own Business 1955-11-01
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4. Saturday Visit 1955-11-15
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5. The Town that Refused to Die 1955-11-29
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6. I Was Accused: The George Voskovec Story 1955-12-13
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7. Nightmare in Red 1955-12-27
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9. Hitchhike 1956-01-24
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10. The Third Ear 1956-02-07
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11. Terror at My Heels 1956-02-21
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12. Man in Shadow 1956-03-06
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13. Five Who Shook the Mighty 1956-03-23
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14. A Baby Named X 1956-04-03
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15. The Case of Colonel Petrov 1956-04-17
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16. Seventy-Three Seconds Into Space 1956-05-01
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17. Devil at the Door 1956-05-15
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18. The Second Family 1956-05-29
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19. H.R. 8438: The Story of a Lost Boy 1956-06-12
