Friday, October 9, 2015

Sorry, Wrong Number! (SUSP)

A woman is trying to call her husband but the number is busy, so she asks for operator assistance. Unfortunately, the operator misdials the number and the woman overhears a murder being planned!

This is probably the most well-known episode of the long-running Suspense series. It's great radio, though incredibly frustrating to listen to because of the nature of the story and the (intentionally) shrewish voice of the main character. It's really a brilliant set up, because the goal is to drive the audience to the point where they have no sympathy for the character, played brilliantly by Agnes Moorehead, and then drop the other shoe. The writer, Lucille Fletcher, was inspired by a nosy, obnoxious woman she ran into at the local drugstore.

You might also know Agnes Moorehead as Endora, the witchy mother-in-law from the TV show Bewitched.

Suspense #43
Sorry, Wrong Number!
25 May 1943
CBS. AFRS rebroadcast. Agnes Moorehead, Lucille Fletcher (writer), William Spier (producer), Ted Bliss (director), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin (conductor), Joseph Kearns ("The Man In Black")



Agnes Moorehead, looking really stressed out!



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