What happens
Danny Clark, a slick confidence man, is acquitted of theft but faces a second trial and needs a sympathetic angle. After a photograph of a happy family appears in a shop window, he adopts a mother and two children to win sympathy, and the plan begins to turn against him. Part one of the Screen Guild Theater broadcast of November 24, 1940, stars Errol Flynn, Nan Gray, Jane Wyman and Alan Hale. Danny's lies draw in his unexpected family, a persistent detective named Tim Burnett, and his secretary JoJo, and the complications multiply.
A city apartment and the courthouse, with a photographer's window and a dinner party in the apartment.
Characters: Danny Clark, Vivian, JoJo, Tim Burnett, Max, Helen, Bobby, Mrs. O'Grady
Listen for: Danny's attempts to pass off a fake family as his own, and the growing trouble they bring him.
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.