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Suspense: Arctic Rescue

Suspense · December 22, 1952 · 29 min · 3,820 words

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Suspense presents Arctic Rescue, first broadcast December 22, 1952, starring Joseph Cotton. In 1852, Captain Jonathan Blake and first mate Gerald Stewart leave New York aboard the Jessica to search for Sir John Franklin and his lost ships, the Erebus and Terror, at the request of Lady Franklin. Their voyage takes them north past Greenland and into the Arctic, where they hear of Franklin's men and find a naval button and a message left behind. Ice closes in around the ship, and by September the Jessica is frozen fast in the pack. The crew endures a brutal winter, the deaths of many men, and a second Christmas in the ice, with the ship's fate still uncertain.

Characters: Captain Jonathan Blake, Gerald Stewart, Lady Franklin, Miss Craycroft, Patrick Hanson, Halliday

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Auto-light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Joseph Cotton in tonight's presentation of... ...Suspense! One hundred years ago this week, a group of brave men risked their lives in a desperate effort to save their fellow men.

Tonight, Auto-light honors this centennial with a dramatic recreation of their attempted Arctic rescue. Our star, Mr. Joseph Cotton. Hello, what's in the packing? Now the world's best Christmas present app, who for whom? My car! It's an auto-light stay-full battery, the famous battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car you make

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And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. And now auto light presents a dramatic recreation of Arctic rescue starring Joseph Cotton, hoping once again to keep you in suspense. Picture this if you can, Christmas night, miles and miles of endless empty broken white ice, an ice flow drifting somewhere in the vicinity of the 73rd parallel north of the

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Next week, a story from your morning newspaper, the dramatic exposé of narcotics peddling among teenagers, as reported in Melody in Dreams, our star Mr. John Lund. That's next week on suspense. Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, the music composed by Lucian Morowick and conducted by Lubb Blaskin. Arctic rescue was written for suspense by Gus C. Bayes.

Featured in tonight's cast were Joseph Kearns, Norma Varden, Lillian Bieth, Brett McKay, Barney Phillips, Clayton Post and Ben Wright. Joseph Cotton can currently be seen in the Bert Friedlow production the steel trap for 20th century Fox release. Remember next week John Lund in Melody in Dreams. Eight million Americans are suffering from arthritis or rheumatism.

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