The Hitchhiker

The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you... ...sustaining, headed by William Spear, and stored by Bernard Herman.

The notable Nalodramas from Stage and Screen, Fiction and Radio, presented each week to bring you to the edge of your chair. Be back in the United States and back on the Columbia Network, even for so short a visit as this one.

Back with old friends like Johnny Deets, who's tonight's director, Bernard Herman. The Mercury Theater presented tonight's radio play for the first time last year. They came right out there and inhaled it as a classic of the medium.

Nobody argued the point. A lot of people asked us to do it again, so it's gratifying to get the chance down, and to find a favorite of ours in this distinguished anthology of spook shows.

Personally, I never met anybody who didn't like a good ghost story, but I know a lot of people who think there are a lot of people people who don't like a good ghost story. For the benefit of these, at least I go on record at the outset of this evening's entertainment with a sober assurance that although blood may be curdled on this program, none will

be spilt. There's no shooting, nighting, throttling, axing, or poisoning here. No clanking chains, no cobwebs, no bony andor hairy hands appearing from secret panels or better yet bedroom curtains if it's any part of that d r o's phosphorous and foolishness that people who don't like ghost stories don't like that again i promise you we haven't got about tonight what we do have a

thriller saffas good as we think it is you can call it a shocker already been called a real orson well story now frankly i don't know what this means i've been on the air directing and acting in my own shows are quite a while now i don't suppose i've done more than half a dozen thrillers and all that time.