The series returns to a Sunday time slot, 5:30pm Eastern Time, following Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Before it was temporarily moved to Saturday, it was in the 4:30pm slot. The later time means that NFL Football games will not affect its scheduling.
This is also one of the very few live productions of the Robson era.
This is the second broadcast of this very good Elliott Lewis script, and stars Lee Patrick. The story seems to be headed down a familiar path, but then leads to a surprising ending. Lewis used a letter of an elderly woman written to her niece to structure the story. She writes that she has taken the niece’s advice to be more active, and looks for a job. She gets one, and it’s soon clear it’s for an unsavory enterprise. A publisher wants to use a room her house to sequester one of their authors who is behind on their deadline. They don’t want him to be disturbed so he can finally finish his work. That’s the cover story, and reality is far different.
The 1946 production starred Dame May Whitty. Details about that broadcast can be found at
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/07/1946-01-24-my-dear-niece.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP460124 is where recordings can be downloaded and streamed
There are two surviving recordings. The network recording is preferred because it is as originally broadcast. The surviving Armed Forces Radio Service recording is also in very pleasing sound, similar to the network recording.
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TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP581123
THE CAST
LEE PATRICK (Emily), Lillian Buyeff (Mary), Berry Kroeger (Bruce), Barney Phillips (Cop), Jack Kruschen (Al), Norm Alden (Man), George Walsh (Narrator)
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