Suspense - Dime a Dance (#73)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 2023-03-21

Suspense - 01/13/44, episode 73
Brought to you by the Old Time Radio Researchers, courtesy of The Suspense Project

Lucille Ball plays a “taxi dancer” in a dance hall whose life is in danger. There is a serial killer in town who is targeting young women. Her character, Ginger Allen, gets involved in tracking the killer down.

The original short story was by Cornell Woolrich under his “William Irish” pseudonym and appeared in the February 1938 edition of Black Mask magazine. The story was adapted by Robert Tallman.

The east network recording has survived. An Armed Forces Radio and Television Service recording from the late 1970s/early 1980s release exists. It matches the east network dialogue. The network recording is the much better of the two. 

The cast: LUCILLE BALL (Ginger Allen), Pat McGeehan (Nick Ballister), Hans Conried (Marino), Jeanette Nolan (Mom), Ian Wolfe (First homicide cop), Joe Kearns (Man in Black / Second homicide cop), unknown (Laverne), Kay Thompson? (Singer of “Poor Butterfly”)

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