A woman, lost, and wandering the streets of New York City, may have committed a murder. She has amnesia and has little recollection of her most recent hours and days. She asks for help from the police, and soon finds herself in a hospital. “Alice,” as she and they learn, is her name, and the police start to question her. After some case publicity on television, her husband comes to the police and explains they were on an extended stay from San Francisco. He was a songwriter looking for someone to sing his compositions. Alice begins to recall her trip, and that the singer was Joyce Carlisle. The police bring her to Carlisle’s apartment to fill in the gaps of her memory. Then the complete story emerges.
It’s a good script and production. The plot is predictable, but is an enjoyable listen. One of the problems with many radio dramas that are constrained budget sustaining programs is that there are not enough characters to spread around suspicion of guilt prior to revealing the killer’s identity at the conclusion.
The script is by radio veteran Jerry D. Lewis. He was the head writer for This Is Your FBI. Lewis left that series to get into television writing, directing, and producing. This is one of two Suspense scripts penned by him.
The original title of the script was “Lost One.”
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THE CAST
Paula Winslowe (Alice Parker / Nurse), Herb Vigran (Police Officer), William Conrad (Lieutenant Mark Neal), John Dehner (Doctor Corday), Tony Barrett (Vance Parker), Larry Thor (Narrator)
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