Catch Me If You Can: Suspense (February 17, 1949)

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“Catch Me If You Can” is an episode of Suspense, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 17, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Margo Weatherby and her sick husband Phil are snowbound at a remote mountain inn in Colorado after the season has ended. When Phil dies in his sleep, Margo must deal with the suspicions of the guests who have arrived, including a man named Mike Sheldon and a visitor named Charlie Miller. Believing that a detective named Rocky Rhodes is among them, she is determined to recover the pills Phil hid. The story is from the Suspense series, broadcast on CBS on February 17, 1949, starring Jane Wyman.

A remote mountain inn in Colorado, snowbound after Labor Day season

Characters: Margo Weatherby, Phil Weatherby, Mike Sheldon, Charlie Miller, Susan Quinn, Dr. Landers, Joe, Rocky Rhodes

Listen for: Margo's private monologue as she searches for the hidden pills while the guests circle around her

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.