What happens
A late-night carhop named Mildred serves a customer at a Hollywood drive-in on a rainy night, and she notices blood on the car window. The driver, who calls himself Dr. Morgan, offers her a ride home, but he takes her on a frightening detour up Laurel Canyon. Mildred is left alone with a dangerous man, and she must find a way to get away from him. The episode is from the Suspense series, first broadcast on November 21, 1946, starring Judy Garland.
Hollywood and the Laurel Canyon road above Los Angeles, on a rainy night in the 1940s
Characters: Mildred, Ruth, Mel, Dr. Morgan, Raymond E. Lewis
Listen for: The sound of the rain, the car engine, and the tense exchanges between Mildred and the driver as the car climbs the canyon.
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.