Thirteen-year-old Sherry Jackson stars in the second broadcast of this Ray Bradbury story. The script was originally presented in 1948 and the story was adapted for the series by Silvia Richards.
A murderous husband disposes of his wife’s body prematurely. A young neighborhood girl hears her screams under ground at a nearby dumping ground. No one else seems to hear her. She is dismissed and told it’s just her imagination. She persists to search for the woman to save her. Her simple investigation works… but now she’s in danger, herself.
Jackson was a very busy actor but might be best known among nostalgia fans for her role in the first season of Star Trek where she played an android named “Andrea” in the notable episode What Are Little Girls Made Of? Her very long career began in childhood, and she was especially known for her role as the older daughter in the Danny Thomas TV series, Make Room for Daddy. The are many more details about her life and career at her Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Jackson
The original broadcast of 1948-11-25 starred twelve-year-old Margaret O’Brien. Details about the broadcast can be found at these resources:
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/12/1948-11-25-screaming-woman.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP481125 has the recordings that can be downloaded or streamed.
The program was pre-recorded on Friday, February 25, 1955. Rehearsals began at Noon, and final recording was done from 4:30pm to 5:00pm. Final music, announcing, and narration were recorded on Tuesday, March 1, 1955 starting at 3:15pm and concluded in time for the 5:00pm PST broadcast.
Two recordings of this episode have survived, and both are in excellent sound. The network recording is the slightly better of the two. The Armed Forces Radio Service recording (AFRS#522) is new to circulation and there is some slight sibilance in the recording (also known as “essing”).
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https://archive.org/details/TSP550301
THE CAST
Sherry Jackson (Margaret Leary), Paula Winslowe (Mama), John Dehner (Dad), Richard Beals (Dippy Smith), Howard McNear (Kelly), Joe Cranston (Police Officer), Herb Butterfield (Charles Nesbitt), Eve McVeagh (Anna Kelly / Helen Nesbitt the screaming woman), Larry Thor (Narrator)
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