What happens
Michael Manning, a man accused of murdering his former business partner Leo Garvin, is wrongly pressured into a signed confession after being kept awake for seventy-two hours by Lieutenant Driscoll and Sergeant Cogan. Escaping, he tries to clear his name with the help of his wife Mary and his lawyer cousin Charles Borden. Manning searches for a witness named Benoudi, who claims to have seen him leave Garvin's apartment late that night. The story is a suspense play from the CBS series Suspense, broadcast on September 28, 1950, starring Joseph Cotten.
Mid-century city, 1950s United States, including an apartment, a law office, a theater and a lunch room
Characters: Michael Manning, Lieutenant Driscoll, Sergeant Cogan, Mary Manning, Charles Borden, Leo Garvin, Benoudi, Irene Conway
Listen for: Manning realizing that the letter about the inheritance points to who is behind the frame
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.