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Backseat Driver

Suspense · February 3, 1949 · 29 min · 4,751 words

The transcript of “Backseat Driver”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast February 3, 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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And now, AutoLite and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present... Suspense! Tonight, AutoLite brings you Fibber McGee and Molly in... Backseat Driver, a suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Leader. Yeah, no, looks like old home we can't suspense tonight.

Old home we can't? Well, I wouldn't say that, not with millions of AutoLite resistors spark plugs finding new homes in every make of car in America. I know hello I I'm an old home week because half that just isn't going to be any old or new home for more and more narrow gap spark plugs because they're being

replaced in their old homes by wide gap auto light resistors spark plugs with auto light resistors spark plugs your car my car fibbers car everybody's car idle smoother gives better performance with lean gas mixtures saves gas dollars and and cuts down spark plug interference with radio and television reception.

There's one way for every car to be spark plugged right with auto light resistor spark plugs. Only auto light offers car and truck owners everywhere the sensational advantages of the resistor type spark plug. And now auto light presents Fivermigee and Mully in a tail well calculated to keep you in.

Suspense! It can't happen to you. You read about stuff like that in the papers. Girls murdered and mutilated. Drunks left dying in the gutter for the handful of chains they had in their pockets. Lonesome old men tortured because some hudlem gets the idea.

Their miser's with a pot of gold hidden under the floorboards of the shack. Sure, you know it's real, but it can't happen to you. Oh, you get your fair share of trouble. I've been a professional man here in Los Angeles for 30 years.

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