A man survives being poisoned but doesn’t know whether it was his cook or his wife who did it. There are suspicions when they hear that police are concerned about a cook named “Mrs. Andrews” has been murdering her employers. Can you collect unemployment when you do that?
Suspicion was adapted from a Dorothy L. Sayers short story by Peter Barry. He wrote many scripts for The Shadow. This is the second time this script was used on Suspense. It was originally used in the Summer 1942 season, and Spier is taking advantage of the new and larger audience of the Roma sponsorship to use scripts that played to the small audiences of that 1942 Summer season. No recordings of that broadcast have survived.
Only the east network recording has survived. There is an Armed Forces Radio Service recording (#39) that is drawn from the west broadcast of 1944-02-14 and is labeled as such. Times are approximate:
East at 17:32 "Tomorrow or next day, when he’s quite well, mind you, I’d like to have you….have him….come down to the office…"
AFRS at 15:49 "Now, tomorrow or next day, when he’s quite well, mind you, I’d like to have him come to my office…"
The AFRS recording is slightly better than the network recording.
This is the second and final appearance of Charlie Ruggles on Suspense. He starred in the first episode, Burning Court.
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THE CAST
CHARLES RUGGLES (Hubert Mummery), Hans Conried (Brooks), Joe Kearns (Man in Black), Bill Johnstone (Wellbeck / Officer), John McIntire (Dr. Maysbrey), Alec Harford (Thomas), unknown (Penny), Esta Mason? (Sutton), unknown (Helen, alias Caroline Andrews)
Publicity for the broadcast included a note that the program should “not to be confused with Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name.” Hitch’s movie starred Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, and was released in November 1941. The Sayers short story was from 1939.
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