The Heavenly Body: Screen Guild Theater (June 4, 1945)

“The Heavenly Body” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 4, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Professor William Whitley, an astronomer, and his wife Vicki live a strained life after she becomes devoted to her horoscopes and their predictions. When Vicki announces that a stranger from far places will enter her life, Bill grows suspicious and jealous. A new air raid warden, Lloyd Hunter, arrives at the house, and Vicki's sense of destiny deepens. The episode is part of the Screen Guild Theater series, and it was broadcast on June 4, 1945, with William Powell, Anne Southern and Reed Hadley in the leading roles.

A home and an observatory in a town, with a nearby hill where the air raid warden is posted

Characters: Professor William Whitley, Vicki Whitley, Lloyd Hunter, Mrs. Sibble, Professor Stowe, Delilah

Listen for: Vicki's horoscope predictions and Bill's growing suspicion when the air raid warden appears at the house

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.