Suspense - Cat and Mouse (#84)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 01/04/2023

Suspense - 03/30/44, episode 84
Brought to you by the Old Time Radio Researchers, courtesy of The Suspense Project

The story concerns two "ham" radio operators, who, though they live in widely separated parts of the country, are partners in a valuable invention. They have developed a "secret war weapon" during their shortwave conversations, and wartime enemies want to obtain the invention secret. One of the operators is murdered by mysterious strangers during their conversation; forcing the other, played by Sonny Tufts, to find the killer, protect the invention, and save his own life.

The story was by Hugh Pentecost and adapted by Robert L. Richards.

The east coast network recording has survived and has the best-sounding audio. An Armed Forces Radio and Television Service recording from the late 1970s / early 1980s is available; it was drawn from the east network broadcast.

The cast: SONNY TUFTS (John Guthrie), Lurene Tuttle (Valentine Ames), John McIntire (Garvey), Will Wright (O’Brien), Joe Kearns (Man in Black), Jeanette Nolan (Mrs. Garvey), Eric Snowdon (Dr. Edwin Vaughn alias Hilary Lawrence), Lou Merrill (Howard Lockwood / Conductor)

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