George Petrie stars in a Peter Fernandez script about a bank employee whose wife and child are held hostage by two people looking to steal $50,000 from the bank where he works. They threaten to murder his wife being murdered unless he participates in the plan using a bogus loan application. One of the extortionists confronts the official at the bank, and she demands a loan approval, in cash. The other pretends to be a bank officer conducting an interview, terrorizes the wife at home. Things go out of control for the bank employee who ends up arrested and on trial for embezzlement, but always protesting that he is innocent. There is a not-so-surprise ending where it all turns out fine. It is a rather pedestrian and unremarkable story that for some reason needed 12 performers. It could have been heard on most any mystery or crime program, such as FBI in Peace and War at some earlier time. But Suspense was literally the only show in town by this point.
The program was recorded on Tuesday, May 24, 1960. Rehearsal began at 3:00pm and ended at 6:30pm. Recording was done from 6:30pm to 7:00pm.
Two recordings of this episode have survived. The network recording is an aircheck from WROW, and is the better of the two. The recording begins with a local Utica Club beer commercial. The recording has a somewhat narrow range, but is very listenable. The Armed Forces Radio Service recording (AFRS) is in very low quality sound.
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THE CAST
George Petrie (Henry Travers), Paul Potter (Cromwell), Elizabeth Lawrence (Shirley Brisbane), Patsy Bruder (Elizabeth Travers), Jim Boles (Jason Collins), Kermit Kegley (Guard), Bill Redfield (Frisbie), Carl Frank (Grant), Arthur Kohl (Lieutenant), Bill Smith (Judge), Ronald Dawson (Russell), John Seymour (Prosecutor)
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