What happens
Anne Collins, head of a statistics department at an insurance company, returns from Rio de Janeiro to her new husband Tice, a mining engineer who has spent three months in the jungle. Anne has written a pamphlet proposing a practical marriage in which a couple lives separately for four months, and she announces the plan to Tice. Their home soon fills with unexpected guests, including the Peruvian senor Esenio Diestro and his many children, and a lawyer named Charlotte Farrell. The series is Screen Directors Playhouse, and this broadcast of the 1950 film This Thing Called Love aired on February 10, 1950, starring Rosalind Russell as Anne and Stephen Dunn as Tice.
Rio de Janeiro, aboard the SS Cruciutania, and the Collins home near a lake in New York
Characters: Anne Collins, Tice Collins, Gordon Daniels, Senor Esenio Diestro, Charlotte Farrell
Listen for: Anne's plan for a four-month platonic trial marriage, and the arrival of the Diestro family at the Collins home
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.