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Nervous Wreck

Screen Guild Theater · August 14, 1944 · 29 min · 5,240 words

The transcript of “Nervous Wreck”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast August 14, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Guild Theater plays Screen Guild Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Lady Esther presents The Screen Guild Players. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Play Tonight, The Nervous Wreck. The Starring Players. This is Edward Everett Houghton. This is Mary Esther. And this is her Good Kennedy.

The Nervous Wreck. famous play by Owen Davis. It stars Mary Esther as Sally Morgan, Edward Everett Horton as Henry, and Edgar Kennedy as Jerome K. Underwood. The Lady Esther Screen Guild players in the nervous wreck. Oh it's no use I'm afraid absolutely no use this fliver just will not run. Are you sure you checked everything Mr.

Williams? Don't ask me a question like that. Of course I have the horn, the carburetor, the piston rod, gas, the timer, the can chef, the gas. Did you say gas? I I just had a look.

Yes? The tank is empty. Zagel, Zagel, Zagel, Zagel. Fine thing, alright. Stuck out here on a mountain road, the loneliest spot in Arizona. Well really, Miss Sally, I'm the one that should complain. After all, I'm a very sick man, and this night air, it won't do me any good... Oh dear, oh dear.

Did I take my pills or my tonic at six o'clock? How should I know? Well, I mentioned it, didn't I? That's all you've mentioned since we left Pod Ranch, powders and pulses and pills and eels.

I know, don't tell me. I took the little pink pills, therefore my heart. Yes, it's time for my green capsules now. Aren't you afraid to mix colors like that? Oh, that's the trouble. When you have a lot of diseases, you've got to be fair to all of them.

You see these green capsules, these are for my nerves. I'm very nervous, you know, very... You'll be worse when Bob Wells catches up with us. Bob Wells, the sheriff? Mm, I've been engaged to Bob for three years now.

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