Suspense · July 28, 1957 · 29 min · 3,595 words
The transcript of “Murder on Mike”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast July 28, 1957. 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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of radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. Directors of radio plays share a common fantasy, an unattainable goal, the dream of producing a broadcast in which murder is actually committed on Mike.
But since they are by and large sane, responsible citizens, their dream is in vain. not so the hero of the upcoming story. He sets out with lethal intent to make his dream come true. Listen, listen then, as Mr. Raymond Burr stars in Murder on Mike, which begins in exactly one minute.
Every man has a right to envision his country as he would like it to be. Dreams foster reality. There are many legends describing the broad reaches of our land, like the one they tell about a Kentuckian who was once asked what he considered the boundaries of the United States.
Why, sir, on the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis. On the east we are bounded by the rising sun. On the south we are bounded by the procession of the equinoxes and on the west by the day of judgment. Folklore belongs to every nation's legendary past and I guess we Americans
have our share of some tall ones like the one about oh but we'll have to save that one for the next time we travel your way see you then and now mr. Raymond Burr in murder on Mike a tail well calculated to keep you in I wanna see me boss man oh yeah Chris come in sit down here the show Sunday no you should
After I get through rewriting that closing scene, it really played. I don't bet. I don't get it, Chris. I don't make you come to rehearsals. You don't have to sit in the control room all day.
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