John Dehner stars in the second production of this Robert Esson story. Dehner plays an ordinary family man who is dropped off from his work ride-share partner and starts walking home. A police officer stops him. The entire block where he lives is surrounded by police. A wanted killer is on the run from the police and is now holed up in an apartment… his own home! The killer is holding his wife and baby hostage. He finds a way to get into the building and strives to save his family from obvious danger.
The first broadcast of this episode was on 1951-03-15 and starred Van Johnson. For decades, the only copy that was available was the pre-recorded drama portion of the program. That would be broadcast and the commercials and music would be added live. Thankfully, a nearly complete home tape recorded aircheck of the broadcast recently became available. For more details about that broadcast and further background about the script, go to
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/05/1951-03-15-strange-for-killer.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP510315 which is where the recordings can be downloaded or streamed
The surviving recording has slight wow and flutter at its end from a problem with the tape recorder used to copy from the network master tape. The issue is in all circulating copies, indicating that they are from the same original source. It does not affect the dramatic portion of the program.
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https://archive.org/details/TSP550906
THE CAST
John Dehner (Henry Haydon), Tony Barrett (Roy Djaleska), Eve McVeagh (Jessy Haydon), Jack Kruschen (Police Lt. Case), Leonard Weinrib (Buck), Charles Seel (Roeder), Tom McKee (Charlie), Larry Thor (Narrator)
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