Suspense - A Week Ago Wednesday (#168)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 03/07/2023

Suspense - 11/29/45, episode 168
Brought to you by the Old Time Radio Researchers, courtesy of The Suspense Project

Nancy Kelly is back on Suspense and her character is having nightmares that her husband has plans to kill her. He’s not, but the dreams are so vivid and detailed that she is convinced he is. Eventually, she believes that the dreams are reliable premonitions. No matter how her husband behaves, there’s a sinister aspect to it and she knows his true motives. It does not turn out well.

The author is New York-based scriptwriter Winifred Wolfe who wrote for many series and also 1950s television. This story was later repeated on the syndicated Murder at Midnight, episode #48. No audio is available of that episode. Why mention New York? The radio era had two persons named "Winifred Wolfe" in its history: this writer (1923-1981), and Hollywood had an actress with the same name (1922-2022). She appeared on One Man's Family as "Teddy" with a married name of Winifred Beck.

Three recordings have survived. An aircheck of KQW, a west coast station in San Jose, California, is an obvious marker for that coast’s broadcast. It has a 13-second time to network ID. The east coast broadcast is the best-sounding recording; it has a 40-second delay to broadcast. The Armed Forces Radio Service recording (#131) is derived from the east coast broadcast. Times are approximate:

EC 26:02 “I know now what wrong I've done.”

WC 26:40 “I know now what I've....what I've done is wrong.”

AFRS 23:01 “I know now what wrong I've done.”

The cast: NANCY KELLY (Maude Haskin), Gloria Gordon (Old Woman), Verna Felton (Woman in Apartment 3B), Bill Johnstone (Harry Haskin), Elliott Lewis (Signature Voice / Short order cook / Priest), Henry Blair? (Little Boy)

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