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The Signalman

Suspense · March 23, 1953 · 28 min · 3,907 words

The transcript of “The Signalman”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast March 23, 1953. 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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Auto-life and its 98,000 dealers bring you Miss Agnes Morehead in tonight's presentation of... Suspense! Tonight, Auto-life presents a story in the classic tradition of suspense. A new version of Charles Dickens' terrifying short story, The Signal Man.

Our star, the first lady of suspense, Miss Agnes Morehead. Why, it's Oscar, the super smooth and scintillating sedans! Super smooth is right, Harlow. I'm equipped with an auto-light electrical system. Ah, there's none better, Oscar, and it's because your auto-light electrical system is designed to operate as a team with all units and component parts

related by auto-light engineering design and manufacturing skill to give you the smoothest performance money can buy. I know how important the electrical system is, Harlow. Hello. Sure you do, Oscar, and you know too how important it is to have only auto light original service parts used when replacements are needed, because only these parts are designed by auto light

engineers who design complete electrical systems used as original equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors. So friends, always insist on auto light original service parts for your auto light equipped car.

It pays in performance. Remember, from Bonfer to Tail Light, you're always right with AutoLite. And now, AutoLite presents transcribed, the signal man, starring Miss Agnes Morehead, hoping once again to keep you in suspense. It smashed by like a wounded monster, screaming in pain and disappeared into the dark tunnel.

In those brief seconds, I had relived the emotions of my childhood. I still trembled with the child's terror and fascination that had surged through me the many times I stood here twenty years before. Nothing had changed. The steep, dripping wet walls of jagged stone that led down to the tracks.

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