Margaret Whiting stars in the second broadcast of an E. Jack Neuman and John Michael Hayes collaboration. She plays a highly successful, but moody, narcissistic, business executive. She falls in love with a successful businessman but when it becomes clear their relationship will not go in the direction she intends, she wants revenge on him and his fiancée. She carries out her violent plan, and in the end, she suffers the worst humiliation of all.
The first broadcast starred Eve Arden. Details and background about that production can be found at
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/05/1951-01-18-well-dressed-corpse.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP510118 and is also where recordings can be downloaded and streamed.
The episode was recorded on Tuesday, October 1, 1957. Rehearsal began at 2:30pm and ended at 5:00pm. Recording began at that time and concluded with editing at 7:30pm.
There are two surviving recordings, both from the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS#652 and AFRS#954). The better recording is AFRS#954. No network recording is known to survive.
The AFRS recordings can be differentiated by the announcements after the Robson opening monologue:
AFRS#652: Forms of government: monarchies, oligarchies, republics;
AFRS#954: Social Security benefits after military service.
For decades, there were no complete recordings of this episode. There were only edited AFRS recordings in sub-par sound.
LISTEN
TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP571013
THE CAST
Margaret Whiting (Ruth Franklin), Howard McNear (Percy Hamilton / Neighbor), John Dehner (Roy Mason), Jack Moyles (Eddie), Jack Kruschen (Police Captain), Shirley Mitchell (Petey Wright / Elsie the woman in the alley), Lou Merrill (Lieutenant Rourke / Tony the bartender), Larry Dobkin (Police Officer at end), Lou Krugman (Eddie’s pal Joe), George Walsh (Narrator)
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