What happens
In nineteenth-century London, Mr. Godol and Major Alfred Hammersmith, two ruined gentlemen, accept an offer from a young man with a tray of cream tarts. They are taken to the secret suicide club, a private house where desperate men gather to play cards for their own fate. The Escape series broadcast this episode, and it is adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's story The Young Man with the Cream Tarts. The episode first aired on November 12, 1947, and Paul Fries plays Prince Florizel. Bill Johnstone plays Colonel Geraldine, and Barton Yarborough plays the young man.
London in the last century, including a suicide club house and a nearby strand
Characters: Mr. Godol, Major Alfred Hammersmith, The young man with the cream tarts, Prince Florizel, Colonel Geraldine, Mr. Malthus, The President of the suicide club
Listen for: The card game at the suicide club, where the ace of clubs designates the next killer
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.