Dan O’Herlihy stars in the third production of this Robert Esson story. He 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 other two broadcasts were well done, and the 1951 has an interesting history.
1951 Van Johnson: The initial broadcast of this episode was on 1951-03-15 and starred Van Johnson. No broadcast recording was available until a recently found aircheck from WJR in Detroit became available. For more details about that broadcast and 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
1955 John Dehner: The second broadcast was very well done with an excellent performance by John Dehner. For background on that performance, go to
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2025/01/1955-09-06-strange-for-killer.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP550906 which is where the recordings can be downloaded or streamed
The program was recorded on Wednesday, June 4, 1958. Rehearsal began at 2:00pm and ended at 4:30pm. Recording and in-studio edits began at that time and concluded at 6:00pm. Additional production edits were completed at 8:00pm.
The only surviving recording of this episode is from the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS#984) and is in excellent sound. No network recording is available. Of the four ad spots, it is known that GMC Trucks had one of them. The other three were allocated shortly before broadcast.
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https://archive.org/details/TSP580615
THE CAST
DAN O’HERLIHY (Henry Haydon), Joan Banks (Jessy Haydon), Jack Moyles (Police Sergeant Case), Ted de Corsia (Roy Djaleska), George Walsh (Narrator)
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