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Commuter's Ticket

Suspense · August 1, 1946 · 29 min · 5,041 words

The transcript of “Commuter's Ticket”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast August 1, 1946. 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, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world, Roma Wines present... Suspense! Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. J. Carol Nash, a star of Commuter's Ticket, a suspense play produced edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spier.

Suspense! Radios Outstanding Theater Thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. R-O-M-A, Roma Wine. Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. To your happiness in entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals.

Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma wines bring you J. Carol Nash in a remarkable tale of... Suspense! Ever ride a commuting train? If you have, you probably don't take anything of it.

Not if you're one of the regulars. Commuters are just people coming from one place and on their way to going someplace else. What happens in between doesn't mean a thing. They don't remember it afterwards.

They don't see the scenery. They look right at faces beside them and don't see them. I know. I used to ride the 815 into the city to work every morning in the 545 home in the evenings.

Yeah, I used to ride the train. Could I bother you for a match? Huh? Oh man. Yeah, left mind at the office. Where I work, consolidated press. The wire service, you know. service, you know.

Don't say. Oh, I'm not one of the reporters. Here's a book of Manchester's keeping. Thanks. Now I repair teletype machines. You know, the machines that print the news when it comes in and relay it out to the newspapers all over the country.

Don't say. Funny trace people get it. Now me, I was a speed typist. I fell on my ship as a telephone man. Both lined up in the same place for a pair of teletype printers.

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