What happens
Frank Bigelow, a Banning accountant, leaves his secretary Paula after a quarrel and travels to San Francisco. There he is slipped a drink at a nightclub and learns he has been poisoned with a substance that cannot be cured. Knowing he has only days to live, he returns to Los Angeles to find out why Eugene Phillips tried urgently to reach him. Screen Director's Playhouse presents this 1951 broadcast of D.O.A. on NBC, starring Edmond O'Brien as Bigelow and Peggy Castle as Paula. The story follows Bigelow as he begins to piece together the connection with Phillips.
Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1950s
Characters: Frank Bigelow, Paula, Eugene Phillips, Sam Haskell, Dr. McDonald, Halliday, Miss Foster, Stanley Phillips
Listen for: Bigelow's discovery of the poison and his search for the reason Phillips wanted to reach him
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.