Tyrone Power makes his only appearance on the series in a Morton Fine and David Friedkin script. He plays a young man on a Southern California vacation where he and his wife can enjoy surfing together. Unfortunately, she breaks her hip in a fall from a surfboard at the start of the trip. She has to stay in their room, but she tells him it’s okay for him to go surfing alone. It is then that he meets Karen, who pretends she can't carry her surfboard from her car to the beach, and they strike up an acquaintance the seems like it is on a path to a romantic fling. Power's character tries to brush her off, and that leads to trying to cut off the relationship in an ugly scene, witnessed by a bartender. A few hours later she is murdered, her body found floating in seaweed. The husband is innocent, but knows he is regarded as the only logical suspect. A close friend, played by William Conrad, offers to give him an alibi (Really? The story gets predictable from here). The bartender gets involved in the story as he tries to blackmail the husband (Doesn’t he know that being a bartender is like the seal of a confessional or patient-client privilege? How dare he!). It may be a predictable story, but this one has a certain delight in letting it play out and claiming you figured it out and you knew it all along.
The dramatic portion of the story was recorded on Tuesday, March 9, 1954. Rehearsal began at 2:00pm and the tape session started at 6:30pm, concluding at 7:00pm.
Two recordings have survived, and the network recording is the significantly better of the two. The other recording is from a release by the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) from sometime in the 1980s. That recording has some distortions and narrow range.
This episode was Tyrone Power’s sole Suspense appearance. He had performed on radio many times through the years on movie-related programs and variety shows. Frederic Ziv cast him in the lead of a successful 1950s syndicated radio series, Freedom USA, which dramatized the backroom negotiations and personal and political life of a US Senator. The Power story ends tragically, having a fatal heart attack while filming a movie in Spain in 1958. He was noted for his military service in WW2 and his many successful movies. Wikipedia has a summary of his life and career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Power
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THE CAST
TYRONE POWER (Jeff Marlowe), Cathy Lewis (Janey Marlowe), William Conrad (Lou Foster), Charlotte Lawrence (Karen Lawrence / Phyllis George), Frank Nelson (Norm Sloan), Jack Kruschen (Detective Anders), Larry Thor (Narrator)
COMMERCIAL: Harlow Wilcox (Announcer), Jerry Hausner (Marty, the Kaiser dealer)
GUEST FOR THE AUTO-LITE CHARITY PROMOTION: The charity headliner this episode is a five-star Admiral William Halsey. He was the fleet admiral in the Pacific during WW2. He was very well known by the public, and was a choice of the National Mental Health Association’s fundraising. He had just taken this position for the 1954 campaign. His main job was to find big corporate sponsors. Since so many of the top executives and their staff members had served in the military, he was a very good choice. You don’t want to disobey orders from a five star admiral, do you? His long career is detailed at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Halsey_Jr.
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