Playwrights '56 The Day the Trains Stopped Running (Season 1, Episode 8)
TV Episode | Comedy, Drama

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Playwrights '56

The Day the Trains Stopped Running (Season 1, Episode 8)

TV Episode | Comedy, Drama

After fifty years of service to the railroad, Sam Rasher must come to grips with the fact that he is retired and that the railroad will go on without him.

Director

Vincent J. Donehue

Writer

Harry Ridgley

Producer

Fred Coe

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Edit Released

Updated Jan 3, 1956

Release date

Jan 3, 1956 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award.

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Joanna Douglas Woman Woman See fewer	Jacktown (1962)
George Ebeling Taxi Driver Taxi Driver See fewer	The Great White Hope (1970)
Dan Frazer Sailor Sailor See fewer	Take the Money and Run (1969)
Cliff Hall Mac Mac See fewer	The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950)
Frank Overton Will Thompson Will Thompson See fewer	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Elizabeth Patterson Matty Rascher Matty Rascher See fewer	Dinner at Eight (1933)
Joseph Sweeney Sam Rascher Sam Rascher See fewer	12 Angry Men (1957)
Karl Swenson Sy Crandell Sy Crandell See fewer	The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Mary Welch Thelma Thelma See fewer	Park Row (1952)