Evelyn Rudie follows up her successful performance in Dog Star about six months earlier, and stars in this new production of the Escape and Suspense favorite. It is a Ray Bradbury story, adapted by Antony Ellis. The plot involves an invasion of Earth that relies on the cooperation of children and the cluelessness of their parents.
Details about the first Suspense broadcast of Zero Hour starring Isa Ashdown and further background can be found at
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/12/suspense-1955-04-05-zero-hour.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP550405 and is where recordings can be downloaded and streamed.
The program was recorded on Wednesday, May 7, 1958. Rehearsal began at 2:00pm, and recording began at 4:30pm. That session, which included some studio edits, concluded at 6:00pm. The production staff had its separate editing session from that time until 8:00pm. Music was edited in on Sunday, May 11.
No network recording has survived. Two of the ads on the program were for GM Trucks and Shinola shoe polish. Two ad segments were allocated later.
The surviving recording is from an Armed Forces Radio Service transcription (AFRS#980), and is in excellent sound. Prior recordings were from an aircheck of an Armed Forces Radio station, in subpar sound, and heavily edited.
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TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
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https://archive.org/details/TSP580518
THE CAST
EVELYN RUDIE (Mink Morris), Lillian Buyeff (Mary Morris / Anna), Ellen Morgan (Helen / Operator), Karl Swenson (Narrator), Vic Perrin (Henry Morris), George Walsh (Suspense Narrator)
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