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Radio program fans--help! (Looking for a program)

posted 10 years ago by sidgirl
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I don't know if anyone can help me with this, but I figured this is probably one of the best places to ask, especially since there are so many fans (like me) of the original "Sorry, Wrong Number" radioplay.

Several years ago (around 2000, while driving unfamiliar roads in the middle of the night, eek!) I was listening to the radio and they were playing old radio suspense programs--I'm not sure if it actually was the SUSPENSE show or not. Anyway, the show I heard was about a man and a woman who picked up a female hitchhiker, and then they heard something about a woman escaped from a local asylum; the escapee was homicidal. The woman became convinced that their hitcher was the escapee, I think.

I don't remember how it ended; my memory of the whole thing may be a bit faulty, because it scared the pants off me! But I remember the woman talking about how their hitcher's eyes were gleaming.

It's definitely not SUSPENSE's "The Hitchhiker." (Unfortunately, when I try to Google this show, that's the only thing that comes up.)

Does anyone have any ideas what it might have been?

Thanks in advance, if you do.

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[–] Midgegirl 10 years ago

It's here on Youtube (well it is here in the UK- good luck)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vGz_Jbn54

[–] vilafire 10 years ago

Was the other comment's link the show you were looking for? I also am a big radio fan, especially Suspense (Cabin B-13 is tops in my book.)

If you're a fan of the movie check out one of the radio shows with Agnes Moorehead, or even the one by Lux starring the same actors of the film. Good stuff that really recalls the era even better than the film.

[–] MsELLERYqueen2 10 years ago

I love Cabin B-13 as well. In fact, most of the plays written by John Dickson Carr were top-notch. Their endings were generally not so obvious. I heard quite a few radio plays last winter, and I found that some of the ones written by authors other than Carr were too predictable.

There's one starring Agnes Moorehead called The Diary of Sophronia Winters (or something like that) which was written by the same person who wrote Sorry, Wrong Number. That's one of my faves, too.

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