What happens
Jeffrey Troy, a novelist, and his wife Nancy move into a basement apartment at 39 Gay Street in Greenwich Village, New York. Strange noises and a crawling thing unsettle them from the start. That evening at a restaurant, Jeff gets into a fight with a scarred man who later turns up dead in their garden. The Screen Guild Theater presents this 1944 play, with Brian Donlevy as Jeff and Lucille Ball as Nancy. Inspector Hankins begins questioning the residents of the building.
Greenwich Village, New York City, in the 1940s
Characters: Jeffrey Troy, Nancy Troy, Inspector Hankins, Polly, Mr. Turner, Mr. Lingo, Lewis Kaufman
Listen for: The strange noises in the basement apartment and the mystery of the man found dead in the garden.
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.