What happens
Terry McKay, a nightclub singer, meets Michael Mornay aboard a ship from Rio to New York. Though Terry is engaged to Kenneth, she and Michael are drawn to each other and agree to meet atop the Empire State Building in six months to see whether their love can last. The story is presented as part of the Screen Guild Theater series, first broadcast on October 11, 1943, with a cast led by Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce and Louis Alberni. The episode in this transcript covers the early part of the story, including the shipboard romance and the planned reunion.
A passenger ship from Rio to New York, then New York City in the months that follow.
Characters: Terry McKay, Michael Mornay, Kenneth, Courbet
Listen for: The shipboard conversation in which Terry and Michael agree to meet on top of the Empire State Building on July 1st.
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.