Weekend for Three: Screen Guild Theater (September 2, 1946)

“Weekend for Three” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 2, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Jim Craig returns home one Saturday to find an old college friend, Randy Bloodworth, staying in his house, invited for the weekend by his wife Ellen. Randy turns out to have been her former beau, and he settles in with no sign of leaving. Jim grows increasingly frustrated as the weekend stretches on, and he and Ellen scheme to get rid of their unwelcome guest. This is an episode of the radio series Screen Guild Theater, broadcast on September 2, 1946, based on the RKO comedy Weekend for Three, with Lynn Barry, Dennis O'Keefe and Harry Von Zell in the leading roles.

The Craig home and nearby Cleveland, over a weekend

Characters: Jim Craig, Ellen Craig, Randy Bloodworth, Fred Stonebreaker, Anna, Junior

Listen for: Jim's growing exasperation as Randy overstays his welcome

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.