Re: Suspense Upgrades

by greybelt 3/25/2021, 7:29 am

This episode was last updated 7+ years ago. No AFRS recording has surfaced.

This is another case where the Suspense TV production was prior to the radio one. The 1953-06-02 TV broadcast kinescope likely has not survived.

1954-06-09 Los Angeles CA Mirror News

Suspense_1953-12-28_TheQueensRing_wJamesMason UPGRADE-2.mp3
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1953-12-27 Detroit MI Free Press

1953-12-27 Shreveport LA Times

1953-12-28 Battle Creek MI Enquirer

1953-12-28 Indianapolis IN Star

1953-12-28 Los Angeles CA Times

1953-12-28 Tucson AZ Daily Star

1953-12-28 Davenport IA Daily Times

by artatoldotr 3/25/2021, 9:03 am

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by greybelt 3/26/2021, 6:01 am

Today's recording has not been upgraded for more than 7 years. No AFRS recording has appeared.

"Christmas Grace" with Frank Lovejoy originally planned for December 21, 1953, but they ran with 'Twas a Night Before Christmas one more time. The Fine & Friedkin "Christmas Grace" script was likely unproduced on Suspense, and possibly never produced on any program. Since Lovejoy was under contract to appear on the series, they slotted him a couple of weeks later into this classic Suspense script written by one-hit-wonder Walter Bazar. Is there any better way to celebrate the hopes and joys of a new year than with a story about two hysterical people lost in the country, trapped in their car in bad weather, worried that there's a homicidal maniac on the loose? Not in Suspense-land, there isn't!

Suspense_1954-01-04_OnACountryRoad_wFrankLovejoy UPGRADE-2.mp3
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1954-01-03 St Louis MO Post-Dispatch

1954-01-04 Des Moines IA Tribune

1954-01-04 Latrobe PA Bulletin

1954-01-04 Tampa Bay FL Times

1954-01-04 Tampa FL Times

1954-12-09 Long Beach CA Independent

by greybelt 3/27/2021, 7:58 am

This episode has not been updated in 10 years. An AFRS recording is known to exist, #470, but a copy has not been located. It is listed in RadioGoldindex. Anyone have a copy lurking somewhere in an old dark corner of their collection?

Suspense_1954-01-11_OneManCrimeWave_wDanaAndrews UPGRADE-3.mp3
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1954-01-10 Rochester NY Democrat & Chronicle

1954-01-11 Battle Creek MI Enquirer

1954-01-11 Latrobe PA Bulletin

1954-01-11 Tampa FL Times

1954-01-11 Tucson AZ Daily Star

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Yesterday it was mentioned that Frank Lovejoy was originally planned to star in a special Suspense broadcast, but instead was rescheduled for the New Year and appeared in On a Country Road. Here are some newspaper clips... does this Fine & Friedkin story seem familiar as a possible performance heard on a different program?

1953-12-17 Kokomo IN Tribune

1953-12-18 Radio Life

1953-12-19 Montreal QB Gazette

1953-12-20 Shreveport LA Times

by artatoldotr 3/27/2021, 8:59 am

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Art

by greybelt 3/28/2021, 5:42 am

The working title of thise episode was "Beat Me, Daddy"! This is not a mistake; it appeared in numerous newspapers in January 1954. See yesterday's post from the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle for One Man Crime Wave as an example.

This was last upgraded two years ago; no AFRS recording has surfaced.

Suspense_1954-02-01_NeverFollowABanjoAct_wEthelMerman UPGRADE-3.mp3
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To see the prior newspaper clippings and more background about the episode, go to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Here is a new one...

1954-02-07 Coshocton OH Tribune

by artatoldotr 3/28/2021, 10:45 am

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Art

by greybelt 3/29/2021, 7:27 am

“Death at Skrikerud Pond” is based on a story by Ted Olson that appeared in the May 1953 issue of Harper's. Any help getting a PDF of the article would be greatly appreciated.

Wikipedia has a summary of the tragic real-life events in Norway that began in Fall 1942, ending with a trial for the murders in 1947.
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The actual pond is Skrikerudtjernet. See its size (seems more like a small lake) and remote location with Google Maps [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
You have to zoom out multiple times to get the feeling that it's a candidate for a "middle of nowhere" designation and why it would have been used in the cover-up.

This is another case of the radio program using a script that was used on Suspense TV. It was broadcast on 1953-10-21 with newscaster Quentin Reynolds as narrator; the kinescope has not survived. Other cast members included Frank Marth, Bart Bums, Herbert Rudley, Louis Sorin, Richard Bishop, Nina Hansen, Will Scholz, Carol Veazie, and Carl White.

1953-10-06 Camden NJ Courier-Post

1953-10-06 Syracuse NY Post-Standard

This episode has not been updated for 10+ years. No AFRS recording has been found.

Suspense_1954-02-08_DeathAtSkrikerudPond_wJeffChandler UPGRADE-2.mp3
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1954-02-07 Shreveport LA Times

1954-02-08 Battle Creek MI Enquirer

1954-02-08 Charlotte NC Observer

1954-02-07 Cedar Rapids IA Gazette

1954-02-07 Knoxville TN Journal

1954-02-09 Rock Island IL Argus

by artatoldotr 3/29/2021, 8:49 am

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Art

by mjnunes84 3/29/2021, 10:00 am

Thanks, greybelt. You'll find a pdf of that issue of Harper's with that story here:
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by greybelt 3/29/2021, 1:52 pm

THANKS so very very much!
You obviously have much more steadfast patience with archive.org than I did when I looked there yesterday.
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by greybelt 3/30/2021, 3:58 am

Today's episode has not been updated in more than 7 years. No AFRS recording has surfaced. It's a re-used 1950 Escape script that originally starred Frank Lovejoy. He'd get to do it once more in 1957 for Suspense.

Going through old reels of programs of the late 1960s/early 1970s period of this hobby, it's clear that this episode was in circulation at that time and had disc skips. No one, even from my most active time in the late 1970s and the early 1980s ever knew the program as having this defect. If you listen carefully to the patched version, it's one of the best "fixes" in OTR collecting history... whoever did it found a very close-sounding intact opening from another episode and patched it it. This is not a digital patch -- someone who knew what they were doing fixed this. If you listen closely, you can hear the fix that was made, and for its time in the hobby and the nature of tape recording, it has gone unnoticed for decades. This is different than so many of the patches that were done in the 1970s, with some of the YTJD patches of the openings of episodes with Mandel Kramer being the absolute worst (which I and others have been removing; the patches of the endings of reconstructed recordings often included wrong casts -- but those are gone from most recent sets). Patched fixes such as this should be noted somewhere, as is here, in the file name, at least among completists. Whichever recording is kept in one's collection is up to the individual collector... this is a hobby, after all!

Suspense_1954-02-15_TheOuterLimit_wWilliamHolden UPGRADE WITH SKIPS AT OPEN.mp3
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1954-02-11 Kokomo IN Tribune

1954-02-14 Lincoln NB Journal Star

1954-02-14 Shreveport LA Times

1954-02-15 Scranton PA Times-Tribune

1954-02-16 Rock Island IL Argus

by artatoldotr 3/30/2021, 8:25 am

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Art

by greybelt 3/31/2021, 6:05 am

This episode has not been updated for 9 years. No AFRS recording has been found.

Suspense_1954-02-22_Murder_By_Jury_wHerbertMarshall UPGRADE-3.mp3
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1954-02-21 Knoxville TN Journal

1954-02-21 Shreveport LA Times

1954-02-22 Charlotte NC Observer

1954-02-22 Dayton OH Journal Herald

1954-02-22 Des Moines IA Tribune

1954-02-22 Tampa FL Times

by artatoldotr 3/31/2021, 9:53 am

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Art

by greybelt 4/1/2021, 5:41 am

This recording has not been updated in 7+ years. No AFRS recording exists for this date.

Suspense_1954-03-15_TheGirlInCar32_wVictorMature UPGRADE-4.mp3
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1954-03-15 Des Moines IA Tribune

1954-03-15 Tampa FL Times

1954-03-14 Knoxville TN Journal

by artatoldotr 4/1/2021, 12:47 pm

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Art

by greybelt 4/2/2021, 9:02 am

Today's episode was last updated two years ago. No AFRS recording has surfaced.

Suspense_1954-03-29_SomebodyHelpMe_wCornellWilde UPGRADE-3.mp3
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Newspaper clippings were posted previously.

by artatoldotr 4/2/2021, 11:10 am

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Art

by greybelt 4/3/2021, 9:19 am

This episode was last updated 2+ years ago. There is no AFRS version available.

Suspense_1954-04-19_The_Card_Game_wRichardWidmark UPGRADE-3.mp3
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Newspaper clippings were posted previously.

by artatoldotr 4/3/2021, 1:03 pm

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Art

by greybelt 4/4/2021, 10:37 am

This episode was last updated 2+ years ago. The link to the AFRS recording is below.

Suspense_1954-04-26_BertillionMethod_wCharlesBoyer UPGRADE-2.mp3
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Newspaper clippings were posted previously.

Bertillion was the inventor of the "mug shot"!
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His techniques were new and therefore crude, and he played a role in the unfortunate conviction of Alfred Dreyfus (the "Dreyfus Affair" [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Fingerprinting proved to be more reliable than some of Bertillion's techniques. His influence in the application of scientific processes to solving crimes is unmistakable. The success of programs like CSI: and the UK's Silent Witness are good examples of how far we have come, and how interesting the topic is to audiences.

by artatoldotr 4/5/2021, 8:48 am

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Art

by greybelt 4/5/2021, 1:36 pm

This file was last updated about 3 years ago. There is no AFRS recording in circulation in the format that we consider appropriate; there is one of those horrid 1980s Frankenstein-like AFRTS recordings around. We can't work up the courage to post it.

This has never been around in the best sound... and now it is much much better...

Suspense_1954-05-10_LastDaysOfJohnDillinger_wVanHeflin UPGRADE-3.mp3
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Newspaper clippings were posted previously.

by artatoldotr 4/6/2021, 8:59 am

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Art

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