What happens
Georgie, a small-time punch board operator, has quarreled with his old rival Julie over territory, and Julie is found dead. Georgie knows Lieutenant Larkin has warned him that the other suspect would be the first to be questioned, so he must scramble to build an alibi before the six o'clock deadline. He tries a bartender, a girl, a hospital patient and his landlady, each of whom refuses or falls through in unexpected ways. The episode is from the Suspense series, first broadcast April 20, 1958, starring Stan Freberg, and it was heard on the program's regular radio schedule.
A city in the 1950s, where Georgie and Julie run punch boards and a police lieutenant is building a case in the hours before a parole check-in.
Characters: Georgie, Julie, Lieutenant Larkin, Leo, Joni, Timmy, Mrs. Ettinger
Listen for: Georgie's frantic search for an alibi, and how each person he approaches responds to his request.
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.