Friday, August 29, 2025

1960-03-13 Revolution

Rosemary Rice and Phil Meeder star in a Peter Fernandez story about a honeymoon couple traveling in Latin America. They get caught in a political uprising and attempted assassination of the faltering dictator striving to stay in power. The husband takes a picture of the dictator at a rally just before shots are fired. Government police find them and confiscate the camera. They are detained until they produce a print of the picture of the incident that shows the identity of the shooters. But their film, implied as being developed and processed by the police, only shows pictures of the happy couple in front of local landmarks. The couple is incarcerated, and suspect that the police are part of the traitor group’s strategy to overthrow the dictator and his government. They are threatened with death unless they produce the picture, but the husband realizes he accidentally left the lens cap on the camera, and there is no picture of the assassination attempt. They can be released, except the police know that the couple figured out that the police are part of the conspiracy. The couple is driven away for their planned elimination. The couple’s terrifying experience eventually has a fortunate ending when a psychological ruse succeeds to free them by an unexpected rescuer.

The program was recorded on Tuesday, March 8, 1960. Rehearsal began at 3:00pm and ended at 6:30pm. Recording was done from 6:30pm to 7:00pm.

Two recordings have survived. The network recording is a WROW aircheck and is very listenable. The Armed Forces Radio Service recording (AFRS#777) has cleaner, richer sound, and is the preferred one of the two.

LISTEN TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP600313

THE CAST

Rosemary Rice (Elizabeth), Santos Ortega (Captain Santos), Jim Boles (Lieutenant Soto), Ralph Camargo (Garcia), Ronald Dawson (Sergeant Rivera / double), Phil Meeder (Bob)

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