What happens
Johnny Morrison, a naval officer back from the South Pacific, returns home to find his wife Helen with another man at a loud party, and walks out into the rain. Picked up by a stranger named Eddie Howard, he spends the night in conversation and later learns that his wife has been found shot dead at the Boulevard Hotel. Screen Guild Theater presents this 1949 adaptation of The Blue Dahlia, broadcast on April 21, 1949, with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in the lead roles. Johnny is suspected by police, and he sets out to find out who was responsible while trying to clear his name.
Los Angeles and the coast near Malibu, 1940s Hollywood
Characters: Johnny Morrison, Eddie Howard, Helena Howard, Dan Newell, Captain Hendrickson, Laura, Joey
Listen for: Johnny's account of the party and his walk out into the rain, and the police questioning that follows the discovery of his wife's body.
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.