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Don't Call Me Mother

Suspense · January 4, 1959 · 29 min · 4,121 words

The transcript of “Don't Call Me Mother”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast January 4, 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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and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. The ensuing half hour is not intended as propaganda to abolish the relationship between mothers and sons. The twin institutions of phileopiety and motherhood have survived too long and to the eagists of the fourth commandment to stand in any grave danger or dissolution by a single dramatic diatribe.

Now, the tale you are about to hear merely seeks to point out that there can be too much of a good thing, and as someone said, be moderate in all things. We cry forbearance to mothers and beseech sons to render fully unto them only those things which are theirs, reserving all else for the women who will become the mothers of their

children. Listen, listen then as Ms. Agnes Moorhead stars in, Don't Call Me Mother, which begins in just a minute. Here's Frankie Lane. I never feel like singing with a bad cold. So I take wonderful four-way cold tablets to relieve my cold misery fast.

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