To None a Deadly Drug

And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense Tonight we bring you transcribe the story of a prescription filled in error We call it to none a deadly drug. So now starring Harry Bartell here is tonight suspense play to none a deadly drug Sometimes it can happen a prescription handed a drugist a slip up somewhere a dead person

When it does occur, it's news, because it is almost unheard of. A drugist is a careful man, tempered in the tough crucible of pharmaceutical college, filtered by a board of examiners, sworn as is a physician to protect those he serves from wrong and harm.

It almost never happens, but when it does, it can ruin a man, and it can ruin his wife. Banksville is on US 99 near the junction of three main arteries. It's a small town, but it supports two drug stores.

One is Foster's pharmacy. It's owned and run by a young XGI pharmacist named Cal Foster. Next to his wife, Marion, he loves his pharmacy more than anything on earth. Cal has a soda fountain, but he lets a kid named Joe handle that.

Cal's heart is with the gleaming scales and the sparkling bottles. That's where he was the evening it happened typing a label for a prescription while Mary and waited impatiently promise It's 630 and you promise okay, honey. I shaved You get my jacket from the cleaners. Yes. It's a half hour drive to the club and it's 630 already

Are you listening? I'll just be a second. This is Peabody lost her digitalis bottles He's about to have a heart attack worrying about it. Oh, she's as healthy as a horse And you said you'd be ready at 6.30.