THEATER 5 was ABC's attempt to revive radio drama during the early
60's.  It got it's name from it's time slot, 5:00 PM.  Running Monday
through Friday, it was an anthology of short stories, each about 20
minutes long.  News programs and commercials filled out the full 30
minutes.

Some of the journeymen actors of old time radio took part, as well as
some who had apparently never acted before the microphone before.

There was a good bit of science fiction. For example, there was one
episode about a stranded astronaut was called "Incident at Apogee".
Some of the plots seemed to have been taken from today's newspaper,
such as "Jump! Jump!", which was about a suicidal man on a ledge
being egged on by the crowd below.

Fred Foy, of THE LONE RANGER fame, was an ABC staff announcer in the
early '60s who (among other duties) did THEATER 5. (1)