Suspense · May 3, 1959 · 24 min · 3,992 words
The transcript of “The Amateur”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast May 3, 1959. 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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suspense. And the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and the plencher William N. Robeson. In spite of the sometimes discouraging evidence to the contrary, crime really doesn't pay. The chaser of the fast buck always slips upon a banana peel of retribution and ends up with his nose to the grindstone of penal servitude, if we
may be permitted to mangle a metaphor. Upon this moral precept hangs a tail which you are about to hear. Listen, then as Jackie Cooper stars in the amateur, which begins in just a moment. This is Frank Knight speaking for the world's most honored watch, L'onjean. The name L'onjean on the dial of a watch is an accepted symbol of excellence, decade after decade for almost
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And here is a suggestion. For Mother on Mother's Day, why not a lawn-gene watch? Your authorized lawn-gene that no jeweler will be honored to serve you. And now, the amateur starring Mr. Jackie Cooper. tail well calculated to keep you in.
Sauce Spence. You see, me and Boots always been buddies, right Boots? Right, Jerry. And, you know, we're always looking for an easy way to a fast buck, so when this here thing happens, well, I mean, we ain't exactly amateurs, you know.
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