What happens
Christopher Warner, a young man who has spent two months in the Venezuelan back country, is ready to ship a live bushmaster snake to New York for a museum. He is aboard the ship with Captain Wood and the crew, and the captain has forbidden any risk to passengers. After a storm, the crate is found smashed and the snake is missing somewhere aboard. Christopher, the captain, and the chief steward Mr. Bowman search the ship as the passengers grow uneasy and the crew tense. The story is told in the first person by Christopher, and the series is Suspense, first broadcast on April 3, 1960. Lead actors: Bernard Grant as Chris and Inga Swenson as Mother Willis.
A cargo ship sailing from South America toward New York, and the jungle near the headwaters of the Orinoco.
Characters: Christopher Warner, Captain Wood, Mother Willis, Mr. Bowman, Sanchez
Listen for: Listen for the search of the ship for the missing bushmaster and the crew's growing fear as the voyage continues.
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.