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Detour to Terror

Inner Sanctum Mysteries · May 21, 1946 · 29 min · 3,693 words

The transcript of “Detour to Terror”, an episode of Inner Sanctum Mysteries first broadcast May 21, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Inner Sanctum Mysteries plays Inner Sanctum Mysteries free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Lipton tea and lipton soups present in a sanctum mystery. Good evening, friends of the Una Sanctum. This is your host waiting to act as your guide through the squeaking door. Unespecially prepared travel art.

First we'll take a little jaunt with the jeopardy along the path of peril, where we'll prowl with panic until we take the left turn into horror highway, and thence via terra tern pike straight into the road to ruin.

I don't think I like you're a tenerary, Mr. Host. If you don't mind, I'd much rather take a shortcut to the highway of happiness via the kitchen. And pray tell us by what signpost shall we recognize your blitheome highway of happiness, Mary?

Well, you'll just know you're headed for pleasure when you take your first taste of swell, lipton tea, because, ah, what a world of contentment there is in every cupful. What flavor? What wide awake flavor? No wonder the tea expert said there's only one word to describe liptons, and that's brisk. No wonder more folks enjoy

liptons than any other brand of tea in the world. It's because lipton tea never tastes dull, flat, or dreary. It's always lively and cheery. Yes, liptons is the world's favorite tea and it will be your favorite too once you taste that brisk, lipton flavor. So be sure you try lipton tea. Listen now to the strange tale of a boy and his twin sister and their dog and the

records of Hurricane Colvin. It's called Detour to Terror, an original radio play written especially for Ere Sanctum by Emil Tepelman. And here is Mason Adams as Jerry Watson to tell you the story himself. I had a strange uneasy feeling all evening after Linda left to drive to Hurricane Cole. Somehow I had a presentiment of danger. Linda and I were twins and always in some uncanny

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