What happens
Larry Briggs, a former air corps flyer, learns from a surgeon that his wartime friend Mike Perry has only months to live, and Briggs and Pete Rocco keep the news from him. The two men take Mike to Saigon on a flying job for the mysterious Alex Maris, along with a woman named Susan Cleaver who carries a briefcase. The Screen Director's Playhouse presents this 1949 episode of Saigon, starring Alan Ladd as Larry Briggs and introduced by director Leslie Fenton, first broadcast on July 29, 1949. The group's dealings with Maris and the briefcase draw them into trouble with a police lieutenant in Indochina.
Shanghai, a flight to Indochina, and the city of Saigon
Characters: Larry Briggs, Mike Perry, Pete Rocco, Alex Maris, Susan Cleaver, Lieutenant Chanuk
Listen for: The gradual revelation of Mike Perry's illness and the tension around the briefcase Susan Cleaver carries
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.