Suspense - The Argyle Album (#260)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 2023-10-23

Suspense: 09/04/47, episode 260
Brought to you by the Old Time Radio Researchers, courtesy of The Suspense Project

This episode is a new performance of the Cyril Endfield script that was broadcast in December 1945 with Robert Taylor. This broadcast stars Edmond O’Brien who brings a stronger presence to the role. The script also became a movie, The Argyle Secrets. Details of the script, its history, and Endfield are athttps://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/07/1945-12-13-argyle-album.html

This date was originally planned for another performance of John Dickson Carr’s Pit and the Pendulum, with Edmond O'Brien. Something may have happened in rehearsals that made them switch. The change did not make it to most newspapers in time. Pit would be held until the week after the Roma contract expired and broadcast in December.

This is the only recording that is known to survive, with no indication of the intended coast. It is direct to the network ID (“dirID”).

The cast: EDMOND O’BRIEN (Mitchell), Wally Maher (Alan Peers / Haggerty), Joe Kearns (Signature Voice / Mr. Winter, alias Gerald Avery), Lurene Tuttle (Marla / Secretary), Harry Lang (Police Lt. “Horse-lip” Samson), Jerry Hausner (Melvin “Pinky” Pincus), Hans Conried (Jor Brod), Eric Snowdon (Dr. Van Selvin), Joe Granby (Gil), Peggy Rea (Nurse)

For more information visit https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/10/1947-09-04-argyle-album.html