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The Big Shot

Suspense · September 9, 1948 · 29 min · 5,142 words

The transcript of “The Big Shot”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast September 9, 1948. 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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In just a moment, suspense with Bert Lancaster. You just sit down and make yourself at home, Doc. Mary! Erick who's here, Doc Lewis! Oh, my goodness, who's sick! Oh, golly! Can't a poor doctor make a simple social visit like ordinary horse?

Oh, see! I just finished my last call, so I stopped by to steal Hap's easy chair. Relax and listen to the auto-light suspense show. You sit right down. My car and I have had a tough day.

We have to keep in shape too, you know. Shape two, you know. I suppose you've got to show fire prescriptions for keeping your car in shape, Duck. Oh, you bet. Auto light resistor spark plugs, auto light batteries, and auto light ignition systems.

I wish every case was as easy as that one. Well, you sound like Frank Martin. Is your prescription for tired doctors the auto light suspense show? Yeah, right again. Let's listen. So spend auto light, and at 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills Starring tonight, Mr. Bert Lancaster in Anton Lieder's production of

The Big Shot by Brett Alliday A tale well-calculated to keep you in So spend You gotta be tough to be a Big Shot Especially when you're cursed with yellow curly hair in a pretty baby face I learned about that early when I was a kid, and the other kids started razzing.

I learned that if you bounced a brick off somebody's head, the razzing stopped, and you were somebody. It was a very profitable lesson, which paid off as I grew up, and I found it pays dividends, whether you're on East 10th Street or down in Mexico.

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