What happens
Tommy Turner, an associate professor at Midwestern University, and his wife Ellen host a cocktail party for Joe Ferguson, former football hero and Ellen's old admirer, who has returned to campus. The evening goes badly after a dispute over Tommy's plan to read a controversial letter to his class, and the couple quarrel. Joe, Tommy and Ellen, all former students, are caught between old loyalties and new tensions. The Screen Guild Theater broadcast presents the Elliot Nugent and James Thurber stage play The Male Animal, adapted for film, with Olivia de Havilland, Joel McCrea and Jack Carson in the leading roles. The program aired on December 28, 1942.
Midwestern University campus, Tommy and Ellen Turner's home, on the night before and the morning after the homecoming football game
Characters: Tommy Turner, Ellen Turner, Joe Ferguson, Ed Keller, Michael Barnes, Dr. Damon
Listen for: The cocktail party argument between Tommy and Ellen over Joe Ferguson and the controversial letter
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.