I'm Rod Serling. You're listening to the zero hour. Rest your eyes.

Exercise your imagination. This week, Charles Larsen's inside story of television murder, someone's death.

Starring George Kennedy.

Joyce Boula Front. Font. And Robert Reed.

In Elliot Lewis, in Elliot Lewis's production of the Zero Hour.

The mutual broadcasting system presents the Zero Hour.

Sponsored in part by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Hallmark

Greetings cards and the makers of VA Juice.

This is the Zero Hour on mutual radio. Television producer knows Frederick Blixen is an expert at solving murders of the fictional variety, but he's found

that it's nothing at all like the real thing.

The real thing keeps you awake nights, drives you in endless endless circles and cannot be solved in a half hour time slot.

The police have taken away his young female casting director, Joanna Redfern,

so at this point has been cast herself in the leading role in a very real murder.

But for Newell's Frederick Blixen, Joanna is all wrong for the part, even though he now knows she's plated once before someone's death

continues in a moment. Hi this is Frankie Lane do you remember this song?

I believe for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows.

Yes I believe.

I believe.

Well, if you do, you can also remember when there were no such things as artificial heart valves or synthetic arteries.

Nobody ever heard of the heart-lung machine or open heart

surgery. Today they're commonplace in your contributions help bring them about.

But with all these and other advances heart disease is still not conquered.

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