Suspense - A Guy Gets Lonely (#136)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 01/06/2023

Suspense - 04/05/45, episode 136
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Dane Clark stars as a lonely, down-on-his-luck man who is seeking to make progress in his acting career. He wanders into an arcade where the huckster who runs one of the usual “fixed” shooting games spots as a target for an even bigger score. The scam involves inviting him on a fishing trip where an attractive woman, in on the scam, will pretend to fall in love with him. The scam works, but Clark’s character soon realizes what has happened, and has a plan for revenge. 

The story about the story may actually be more interesting than the broadcast. It’s by a “one-hit wonder” author who was a successful ad agency executive and later had great success in the cable television business.

There are two network recordings, east and west, but they cannot be specifically assigned. One recording is 15 seconds to the network ID, and the other is 38 seconds. The “(15s)” recording is much better sounding than the other.

The “one-hit wonder” writer was Donald Paul Nathanson, an advertising agency executive in Minneapolis with a specialty in radio advertising. He would eventually move on to be a top executive in one of the industry's legendary companies, Grey Advertising. He would also own television stations and be an influential executive in the cable television business,

The cast: DANE CLARK (Eddie Lewis), Lurene Tuttle (Jolie Andrews, alias Joyce Arlen), Howard Duff (Detective), Joe Kearns (Signature Voice / Horace), Wally Maher (Sideshow Barker / 2nd detective)

This is the first known appearance of Howard Duff in a William Spier production.  

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