Suspense - The Hangman Won't Wait (part 1 only) (#27)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 2023-02-09

Suspense - 02/09/43, episode 27
Brought to you by the Old Time Radio Researchers, courtesy of The Suspense Project

If John Dickson Carr was on Suspense, it was likely that one of his characters, Dr. Gideon Fell, would be there too. Fourteen of the twenty-four novels for this character were published by the time of this broadcast. The plotline has a woman waking from amnesia and finding herself in a jail cell and learning that she is scheduled for execution the next morning.

Unfortunately, only the first half of the broadcast is available. But the script survives, and there have been two recreations of the program, and a 1944 performance on the BBC’s Appointment with Fear has survived.

The cast: SYDNEY GREENSTREET (Dr. Gideon Fell), Vicki Marsden? (Helen Barton), unknown (Anna), Raymond Lawrence (Warder Harris), Gloria Gordon (Matron), unknown (Colonel Andrews), Joe Kearns (Man in Black), others

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