It Happened on Fifth Avenue: Lux Radio Theatre (May 19, 1947)

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“It Happened on Fifth Avenue” is an episode of Lux Radio Theatre, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 19, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Michael J. O'Connor, a wealthy New York man, is away in Virginia when a drifter named McKeever moves into his empty Fifth Avenue mansion each autumn. McKeever is accompanied by Jim Bullock, and when a young woman named Trudy Smith is discovered inside, the two men face a difficult choice about what to do with her. The story follows the unusual household that forms in the house, with its many guests and their plans. The episode is the Lux Radio Theatre production of It Happened on Fifth Avenue, broadcast on May 19, 1947, and it stars Victor Moore, Don DeFore, Charlie Ruggles and Gale Storm.

New York City, in an empty Fifth Avenue mansion, a park bench, and a second-hand clothing store.

Characters: Michael J. O'Connor, McKeever, Jim Bullock, Trudy Smith, Trudy O'Connor, Whitey Johnson, Hank Anderson

Listen for: The moment McKeever and Jim discover the young woman inside the O'Connor house and must decide what to do with her.

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.