A Good Neighbor: Suspense (March 31, 1957)

“A Good Neighbor” is an episode of Suspense, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 31, 1957. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Andrew Burt, a man who has just stolen $150,000 in diamonds from his employer in New York, drives toward a remote house on the coast to hide and plan his escape. On a foggy back road before dawn he meets Mrs. Poe, an elderly woman who claims a sense of foresight and who helps him clear a fallen branch. At his isolated house he begins breaking up the jewelry and searching for a way to conceal the steel box that holds the stolen gems. Suspense is a radio anthology series, and this episode of 1957 features Jeff Chandler in the lead role of this dramatic story.

A foggy, windswept stretch of coast near a lonely house on a bluff above the sea, with a back road, a rutted driveway, a village nearby, and a dry well in the grass

Characters: Andrew Burt, Joseph Dunlop, Mrs. Poe, Mr. Radcliffe

Listen for: Mrs. Poe's claims of second sight and her unsettling warnings to Andrew Burt

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.