In a likely move to get the next broadcast into production quickly and squeeze budget money for a sustaining series about to end its run, Suspense uses two previously presented popular stories to create an hour broadcast. One of them, Wet Saturday, had been produced only three months earlier! Details about the prior broadcasts are as follows:
Wet Saturday
1942 starring Clarence Derwent
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/01/1942-06-24-wet-saturday.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP420624 is where the recordings can be accessed
1943 starring Charles Laughton
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/1943-12-16-wet-saturday.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP431216 is where the recordings can be accessed
1947 starring Boris Karloff (this recording is still missing)
This broadcast of 1947-12-19 was just three months prior to this performance. An AFRS recording surfaced in the early 2000s and it is still being sought. Network recordings have never been located. Details about how the AFRS recording appeared and was never circulated are at https://sites.google.com/view/1947-wet-saturday/karloff-on-suspense
August Heat
1945 starring Ronald Colman
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/06/1945-05-31-august-heat.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP450531 is where the recordings can be accessed
Dennis Hoey appeared in both of this broadcast’s productions, and three of the four surviving prior broadcasts of these scripts.
LISTEN
TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP480320
THE CAST
Wet Saturday
Dennis Hoey (Frederick Princey), Doris Kemper (Mrs. Princey), Gloria Anne Simpson (Millicent Princey), Hans Conried (George Princey), Erik Rolf (Captain Smollett), Alec Harford (Sergeant Yancy), Bill Johnstone (Signature Voice / Constable Martin),
August Heat
Berry Kroeger (James Clarence Withencroft), Dennis Hoey (Charles Atkinson), Jeanette Nolan (Mrs. Maria Atkinson), Alma Lawton (Cockney boy)
###
