Sorry, Wrong Number

Here to introduce Columbia's program, suspense. Tonight as we premiere our new Saturday evening series on the air, Ms. Agnes Morehead returns to our stage to appear in the study in terror by Lucille Fletcher, called, sorry, wrong number.

This story of a woman who accidentally overheard a conversation with death, and who's thrilled frantically to prevent murder from claiming an innocent victim, is being repeated by popular request as tonight's tale of suspense. If you've been with us before, you will know that suspense is compounded with mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure.

In this series, our tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. And so it is with the story sorry wrong number and the performance of Ms. Agnes Moorhead.

We again hope to keep you in. The spend. Operator, I've been dialing Murray Hill 70093 now for the last three quarters of an hour and the line is always busy.

I don't see how it could be busy that long. Will you try it for me please? I will be glad to try that number for you. One moment please. I don't see how it could be busy all this time.

It's my husband's office. He's working late tonight and I'm all alone here in the house. My health is very poor and I've been feeling so nervous all day. Power Hill 7 0093. Is Mr. Stevenson there?

Hello? Am I calling please? I'm here with our client. On goes around to the bar on Secknay Avenue for a beer. That's right at 11 o'clock.

I will make sure that all the lights downstairs are out. There should be only one light visible from the street. Yeah, yeah, I know. At 11.15 a train crosses the bridge. Make the noise in case her window is open and she's so scream.