Suspense - Wet Saturday & August Heat (#288)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 2023-11-18

Suspense: 03/20/48, episode 288
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In a likely move to get the next broadcast into production quickly and squeeze budget money for a sustaining series about to end its run, Suspense uses two previously presented popular stories to create an hour-long broadcast. One of them, Wet Saturday, had been produced only three months earlier! Details about the prior broadcasts are as follows:

Wet Saturday

1942 starring Clarence Derwent

https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/01/1942-06-24-wet-saturday.html

1943 starring Charles Laughton

https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/03/1943-12-16-wet-saturday.html

1947 starring Boris Karloff (this recording is still missing)

This broadcast of 1947-12-19 was just three months prior to this performance. An AFRS recording surfaced in the early 2000s and was never widely circulated among collectors. It is still being sought. Network recordings have never been located. 

August Heat

1945 starring Ronald Colman

https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/06/1945-05-31-august-heat.html

Dennis Hoey appeared in both of this broadcast’s productions, and three of the four surviving prior broadcasts of these scripts.

The casts:

Wet Saturday

Dennis Hoey (Frederick Princey), Doris Kemper (Mrs. Princey), Gloria Anne Simpson (Millicent Princey), Hans Conried (George Princey), Erik Rolf (Captain Smollett), Alec Harford (Sergeant Yancy), Bill Johnstone (Signature Voice / Constable Martin),

August Heat

Berry Kroeger (James Clarence Withencroft), Dennis Hoey (Charles Atkinson), Jeanette Nolan (Mrs. Maria Atkinson), Alma Lawton (Cockney boy)

For more information visit https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/11/1948-03-20-wet-saturday-august-heat.html