This episode re-uses Peter Barry’s Shadow script Nightmare at Gaelsbury (1941-02-02). His script was used again in the Shadow series with the title Terror at Wolf's Head Knoll (1948-02-15). Barry had a long writing career outside of numerous The Shadow scripts extending into television programs such as Studio One, Combat!, and Man from UNCLE. His Suspense script, Suspicion, which he adapted from the original Dorothy L. Sayers story, was presented on radio and on the Suspense television series.
Christine Miller, author of the Escape and Suspense! blog, says that this episode “is one of Suspense’s classic early episodes. So classic, it borders on parody.” This is one of those “mad scientist” episodes that was a popular horror and science fiction theme in the mid-1900s in movies and films, and that the scientist is ostracized by peers because they are jealous of his new medical techniques.
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THE CAST
GLORIA STUART (Claire Winton), John Gibson (Leslie Winton), Roger DeKoven (Doctor Kettler), Winfield Hoeny (Kato), Ralph Smiley (Caffrey / Arturo Alvarez), Martha Falkner (Miss Carter), Guy Repp (Dr. Morrisey / Radio Voice), Berry Kroeger (Narrator)
Guy Repp and Roger DeKoven are two of the five actors to appear in the Summer 1942 season of Suspense and in its final season.
There were no newspaper listings for this broadcast. This implies that the series had not been renewed and that CBS publicity efforts were being used elsewhere, such as the promotion of the new Fall 1942 schedule.
