Suspense - Finishing School (#71)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 2023-03-19

Suspense - 12/30/43, episode 71
Brought to you by the Old Time Radio Researchers, courtesy of The Suspense Project

A newly hired teacher at a girl’s finishing school discovers a faculty member holds seances to bring the dead to life and that a student had died of fright.

The story is from Ethel Lina White’s 1937 novel The Third Eye. It was presented in the Summer 1942 series of Suspense on 1942-07-22, adapted by Harold Medford.

 There are two recordings that have survived: the Thursday east performance and the Armed Forces Radio Service recording which was derived from the Monday west performance. The AFRS recording has the west coast date; its sound quality is low and harsh. The east recording is the much better of the two. Times of the dialogue difference are approximate.

East is 1:45 “Just as I saw them the very first time”
East is 3:34 “I'll, I'll hear about it...”

AFRS 1:55 “Just as I saw them that very first time”
AFRS 3:36 “I'll hear about it..”

The cast: MARGO (Caroline Watts), ELSA LANCHESTER (Dean Sterling), JANET BEECHER (Melodie), Joe Kearns (Man in Black), unknown (Flora Nash), unknown (Aunt), unknown (Helen), Bill Johnstone (Second character in commercial)

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