What happens
Bill and Amy Lawrence, a married couple in Glenville, Indiana, struggle with money and everyday worries when a phone call tells Bill he may have won a $24,000 jackpot on a radio quiz. Their household is thrown into turmoil as they try to identify the mystery husband, a question that becomes more complicated after the prize arrives. This episode of Screen Directors Playhouse presents a comedy satirizing giveaway programs, with Margaret Truman as Amy and James Stewart as Bill. The broadcast is from April 26, 1951.
Glenville, Indiana, in the 1950s
Characters: Bill Lawrence, Amy Lawrence, Phyllis, Tommy, Hank Summers, Hilda Jones, Leslie, Larry Haynes
Listen for: Bill's phone call from the quiz program and the Lawrences' attempts to name the mystery husband
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.