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Death Has a Shadow

Suspense · May 5, 1949 · 29 min · 4,688 words

The transcript of “Death Has a Shadow”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast May 5, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Now, auto-light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present... Suspens! Tonight, auto-light brings you Bob Hope in... Death as a shadow, a suspense play, produced and directed by Anton M. Leader. Friends, those April showers that bring May flowers have nothing on an auto-light stay-full battery.

Why, the extra water in an auto-light-stay-full battery makes those April showers look like a drought in the Goby Desert. Why an auto-light-stay-full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use? Yes, sir, an auto-light-stay-full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use.

And in addition, an auto-light-stay-full battery has extra plates for extra power, protected by fiberglass insulation for stronger life and longer life. By and recent tests conducted according to the Society of Automotive Engineers' life-cycle standards, auto-light stay-full batteries gave 70% longer average life than batteries without all these features.

So remember, you're right with auto-light. And now, auto-light presents Bob Hope in a tale well-calculated to keep you in suspend. Don't ever answer a telephone just because you've got nothing else to do, just because you're I was sitting in my big red leather swivel chair.

My feet on the largest mahogany desk money could buy. A bottle of the best scotch balance between my special custom-built shoes. Everything the best. That's the way I liked operating. The gold lettering across my office window, spelling out Harvey Warren, counselor at law.

I liked it that way. It had dignity. Yeah, I had everything. I had a house that rambled for 14 rooms. I built that house for Lily. Lily, she was beautiful. From the top of her Auburn hair to the tip of her pretty little toes.

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