Suspense: Fragile, Contents: Death (EP4154s)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 22, 1956
Stars: Victor Perin, Herb Ellis, Frank Gershwin, Vivi Janis, Helen Kleeb, John Larkin, Leonard Weinrib, Richard Peel, and Ted Bliss,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the great attack |
| 0:29.9 | activities of old time radio from boysy Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment email it to me box 13 at great detectives.net. Follow us on Twitter at radio detectives and check us out on Instagram Instagram.com.com slash great detectives. If you are enjoying this podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. |
| 0:57.9 | Well, it is our 4,150th episode special, and today I'm bringing you an episode of Suspense. |
| 1:06.8 | The original air date is May the 22nd, 1956, and the title is fragile, content's death. |
| 1:15.8 | And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills, Suspense. |
| 1:39.1 | Tonight, we bring you a story of a postmaster and his desperate search for an unwelcome package. |
| 1:45.2 | We call it fragile, content's death. |
| 1:48.6 | So now, starring Victor Perrin, here is tonight's Suspense Play, fragile, content's death. |
| 2:11.3 | All it took was a phone call. |
| 2:13.9 | Until it came that morning, everything at the post office was the same as it had always |
| 2:17.5 | been. |
| 2:18.5 | I was just another postmaster, 40 years old, with the postal problems of some 80,000 people |
| 2:24.3 | to look after. |
| 2:26.5 | All it took was that call to make things a nightmare. |
| 2:30.8 | As I said, the day was just a day. |
| 2:33.8 | I remember I was making up my mind to get busy on the stuff piled on my desk. |
| 2:37.9 | It was nine-fifteen. |
| 2:43.4 | Morning, Mr. Jordan. |
| 2:44.4 | Oh, morning, Hartley. |
| 2:45.4 | I'm just going to send for you. |
| 2:47.4 | Don't tell me all this, this heap is for me. |
| 2:50.8 | That's right. |
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