What happens
Harry Andrews, a happy-go-lucky New York man, begins having nightmares in which Aaron Burr taunts him and recalls the duel with Alexander Hamilton. His wife Bess grows worried as his dreams intensify and his behavior changes. Harry becomes obsessed with the old quarrel, and he insists that a pistol and a confrontation are the only way to be free of Burr. Geraldine Fitzgerald and Richard Wharf star in this James Thurber story, broadcast on Suspense on June 15, 1944.
New York City and the Connecticut countryside, in the present day with memories of Burr and Hamilton's duel in 1804
Characters: Harry Andrews, Bess Andrews, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Dr. Fox, Bob Crowley, Alice Crowley
Listen for: Harry's increasingly agitated accounts of his dreams and Bess's growing alarm as he prepares for a shooting contest
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.