Shirley Mitchell plays a vaudeville dancer looking for a good time after her final performance in yet another town on the show’s tour. Vic Perrin plays the blind date who traps her in her dressing room. He seems interesting and refined at the beginning, but when uses his knife to open a bottle of wine, she gets the sense that things may not go as planned and she could be in serious danger.
The script is by E. Jack Neuman with Harrison Negley.
The 1949 production starred June Havoc and Charles Laughton. Details about that production and the original script are at these resources:
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/02/1949-09-29-blind-date.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP490929 also has links for downloading and streaming the recordings.
There is an inside joke at about 9:55 when she claims she got a fur from “Mr. John Meston.” He was Gunsmoke’s most prolific and important writer.
This episode was recorded on Wednesday, November 17, 1954. Rehearsal began at 11:30am and the recording session began at 4:15pm and ended at 5:00pm.
LISTEN TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP541118
THE CAST
Vic Perrin (Vincent Hawthorne), Shirley Mitchell (Gloria LeFay), Lee Millar (Bill the Stage manager), Larry Thor (Narrator)
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