Wet Saturday

The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you... suspense, suspense. A new series of programs with one strict purpose in view. Your entertainment. Each week at this time, CBS sets aside 30 minutes to excite you, to mystify you, and on occasion to horrify you, with a catalogue of the world's great thrillers.

Dramas from the stage and screen, from fiction and radio. Dramas that bring you... The second offering of a new series is a unique one. Certainly it is one of the very few pieces of suspense literature that somehow manages to tickle your funny bone while busily engaged in tingling your spine.

Make no mistake though, nobody's kidding. CBS presents its adaptation of John Collier's well-known short story, Wet Saturday. Yes, it's a wet Saturday. Never so drink harder. I'm Princey, Frederick Princey, just an ordinary family man.

I have a son, a daughter, and a wife. I'd be out golfing now if it hadn't been for the rain. I plan to drive over to the nurseries this afternoon, for the barbitus, the borders you know.

Oh, the whole lot of them make me sick. Yes, I'm George, son of the air. I had a date to go punting. Puntings. Couldn't find the blasted punting as well as so I'm home to...

Hey, crookie. That's how I happened to him. And that it. Yes, that's the Princey family. We find them at home. Mrs. Princey, Millicent, George, sprawled on a couch. a couch, Mr. Frenzy biting on a dry pipe. Their living room is dull and overstuffed.

Rain beats at the windows. They are any middle-class family at home on a wet day, except for one small item. As you sit with them in the living room, you can see through the door to the sun porch a pair of men's feet encased in black boots. They look like the feet of a curate.