Gene Lockhart stars in one of the pre-Roma scripts that now gets the full-budget treatment. Lockhart starred in that earlier performance as well. The blogpost for that performance of 1943-11-02 includes details about the comic book and magazine adaptations. The blogpost is at https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/1943-11-02-statement-of-employee-henry.html and the recordings and documents are at https://archive.org/details/TSP431102
The plotline deals with Henry Wilson’s unhappiness about being questioned about his office work. He decides that killing his boss is a solution to the problem. Guess what: it’s not.
There is only one surviving network recording and it is not known if it is the east or west broadcast. The delay to the network ID is 26 seconds (“26s”).
The author is John Shaw, who became a trusted, but not prolific, writer for William Spier on Suspense and also his year producing Philip Morris Playhouse. Shaw left scripting in the early 1950s and took a government job in his native Rhode Island for steadier income despite his obvious potential.
Gene Lockhart was one of the actors whose child also appeared on Suspense, though many years later when they had their own adult careers. There are four such pairings:
- Gene and June Lockhart
- Frank and Bob Readick
- Antony and Georgia Ellis and their son Jonathan (Kaleidoscope, and is the only episode to have all of the family members in the same production)
- Ralph and Claudia Morgan. Claudia appeared in a 1960s New York Suspense.
LISTEN
TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP460926
THE CAST
GENE LOCKHART (Henry Wilson), Cathy Lewis (Mrs. Dodds), Wally Maher (Tom Higby / Lieutenant), Jerry Hausner (Jim, the elevator boy), Joe Kearns (Signature Voice / Larkin / Judge), Bill Johnstone (Detective Lewis), Ted Von Eltz (Dodds)
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