Fay Bainter reprises her role in this Bob Tallman story about a no-good son who schemes to collect an innocent person’s life insurance. It was originally broadcast on 1944-02-17. Details about that broadcast are at:
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/1944-02-17-life-ends-at-midnight.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP440217 which is where the recording can be found.
Though this episode was broadcast during the Suspense hour-long period, it is only 30 minutes long. CBS aired a 30 minute Anti-Defamation League special after this broadcast. It was a drama, “A More Perfect Union,” and starred Robert Young and Edward G. Robinson. Awards were presented by Eleanor Roosevelt (accepted by her son, James), Charles Wilson, Darryl F. Zanuck, Barney Balaban, and Dore Schary.
The Suspense hour-long era ends with the next week’s broadcast, a Cornell Woolrich story, Deadline at Dawn.
LISTEN
TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP480508
THE CAST
FAY BAINTER (Mrs. Bates), Tony Barrett (Walter Bates), Norman Field (Mr. Chalmers / Flanagan), Don Diamond (Heating Man / Joe the newsboy), Bill Johnstone (Signature Voice / Nick)
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