Stacy Harris stars in the second broadcast of this E. Jack Neuman script about a cocky young man who makes a “business” of answering newspaper classified ads for furs. He schmoozes the sellers, and gets their cooperation in a false and flirty negotiation. Then he pulls a gun on them to grab the goods without paying. When one of those scams goes wrong, and husband of a target is killed, he has to go on the run. Using the want ads to buy the car he needs is the beginning of the unraveling of his terrible scheme.
The 1954 production was with Robert Cummings. Want ads have diminished greatly, replaced by eBay, Craigslist, and other services. Details about want ads, once the most profitable aspect of the newspaper business, are in the discussion of that first broadcast which can be found at
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/10/1954-01-25-want-ad.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP540125 which is where the recordings for download or streaming can be found.
The surviving network recordings are all in satisfactory sound, but have wow and flutter at end of the broadcast. This does not affect the drama segments.
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https://archive.org/details/TSP560711
THE CAST
Stacy Harris (Ralph Vernon), Mary Jane Croft (Wilma), Paula Winslowe (Liz Phelps), Joe Kearns (Frank Phelps), Virginia Gregg (Frances), Jack Moyles (Police Sergeant), Lou Krugman (Walter), George Walsh (Narrator)
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