What happens
Costello arrives at Dr. Peter Lorre's remote sanitarium after catching a cold and being urged there by Abbott. Costello becomes increasingly uneasy as the staff show a series of odd, alarming habits, and he is pressed into a series of treatments he never asked for. Abbott tries to keep him calm while Costello insists he is not sick. The episode is an Abbott and Costello comedy from the Abbott and Costello series, first broadcast on NBC and ABC on 13 January 1944, with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the leads, and Peter Lorre, Joe Kirk, Elvia Allman and Connie Haines also appearing.
A cold winter-season evening at Dr. Lorre's isolated sanitarium out in the woods, reached late at night after a drive from town.
Characters: Costello, Abbott, Peter Lorre, Ken Niles, Mrs. Niles, Hercules
Listen for: Costello's running argument about his cold, and the sanitarium's sinister staff and the doctor's increasingly odd treatments.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.