Suspense - Beware the Quiet Man (#301)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 12/12/2023

Suspense: 08/12/48, episode 301
Brought to you by the Old Time Radio Researchers, courtesy of The Suspense Project

Ann Sothern stars as a young wife who believes that she has successfully prevented her husband from learning about her affair. That is until she meets a big-talking detective in a bar. His sense of confidentiality decreases and his desire to impress increases the more he drinks. She realizes he’s describing the details of her deception! Was he hired by her husband? Is he looking for a blackmail payday? William Conrad plays the detective.

Toby Hall wrote the script and may be a “one-hit wonder” for radio scripting. There is no other script by Hall that can be found or any other sources in print or other media for this name as a writer or other broadcast or literary position.

While not the best of Suspense, this is a very entertaining episode with a good script. Conrad is superb as the detective.

Two recordings have survived. The network recording is the better of the two. The other is an Armed Forces Radio Service recording (#256).

The cast: ANN SOTHERN (Marjie Banning), William Conrad (Lem Closum), Sidney Miller (Charlie), Jerry Hausner (Newsboy), unknown (Arthur Banning), Gail Bonney? (Lorraine), Paul Frees (Signature Voice)

COMMERCIAL: Bill Johnstone (Hap), Gil Stratton, Jr. (Billy), Eleanor Audley (Mae), Ann Morrison (Mary), Sylvia Simms (Operator), Frank Martin (Announcer)

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