What happens
Damon Wellington, a stage actor, and his sister Jessica prepare a new play, The Dark Tower, while Jessica is recovering from a long illness. Her husband Stanley Vance, whom Jessica once credited with controlling her, unexpectedly returns to the house, and tensions rise among the family and friends around them. Damon and his friend Ben talk about a past death connected to Jessica, and a mysterious visitor named Max Hartsfeld arrives asking to buy into the play. The episode is a Suspense drama from The Mercury Theatre on the Air, first broadcast on May 4, 1944, and it features Orson Welles in the lead role, adapted from the play by George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott.
A house in the United States, where a theatre production is being prepared.
Characters: Damon Wellington, Jessica Wellington, Ben, Stanley Vance, Max Hartsfeld, Martha, David
Listen for: Pay attention to the conversations between Damon and Stanley Vance, and to the arrival of Max Hartsfeld, whose visit changes the course of the household.
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.