Details about the prior 1943-04-27 broadcast of this Lucille Fletcher script, with plot background, are at https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/02/1943-04-27-diary-of-sophronia-winters.html
Mercury Theater veterans Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins are in the cast once more. CBS publicity teased the episode as “weird tale of oddly assorted couple on a honeymoon which soon takes on macabre overtones.” The more straightforward tease was “The drama concerns an old maid who falls prey to an attentive man, marries him and he plots to kill her because she reminds him of his sister-in-law.”
There are newspaper items that imply that this is the Sophronia Winters episode in which sound effects artist Berne Surrey accidentally stuck his hand with an ice pick and required stitches. There is no information about whether that occurred during the east or west broadcast. Surrey went to medical school in his “free time” and became an MD in the 1950s.
Only the east network broadcast has survived. There are two recordings. The complete recording has the opening “Now, Roma Wines present…” but is in low quality (marked “LQ”). The much better recording lacks that opening but is otherwise intact, and should be preferred for listening enjoyment.
LISTEN
TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP440817
THE CAST
AGNES MOOREHEAD (Sophronia), RAY COLLINS (Hiram Johnson), Joe Kearns (Man in Black), unknown (Nurse)
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