What happens
On Black Tuesday in 1929, stockbroker Jim Emerson loses his fortune and considers suicide. Earlier, as a young army officer, he met Mary Lane, a nineteen-year-old in Virginia, and they married quickly before he shipped out. Her story is told in flashback, from their brief wedding through the birth of their son and her move to New York. The episode is a Screen Directors Playhouse production, starring Jeff Chandler and Mercedes McCambridge, broadcast on NBC. The original air date was July 5, 1951.
New York City and Virginia, from 1917 through 1929
Characters: Jim Emerson, Mary Lane, Talbot, Phyllis, Julia, Mary's father, Mary's mother, Eddie Vincent
Listen for: The contrast between Jim's ruined stock market day in 1929 and Mary's memories of their wartime courtship
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.