What happens
Columnist Man Jackson of the San Francisco Express finds himself drawn into a murky affair after his cousin-in-law Tony Colucci, a concertina player, is struck on the head while performing on the Oakland ferry. Jackson's friend Dr. Oscar Ames treats Tony, but plainclothes police are waiting at the dock. Aboard the ferry, Jackson discovers a dead man in a lifeboat clutching a gun and a scrap of paper pointing to an International Postcard Shop on Geary Street. This is the 1952 Suspense episode Man Alive, first broadcast November 24, 1952, starring Paul Douglas. Jackson pursues the clues, which lead him into a web of cryptic messages and dangerous men.
San Francisco and the Oakland ferry, late autumn 1952
Characters: Man Jackson, Tony Colucci, Dr. Oscar Ames, Connolly, Lubov, Boris Kargaminski
Listen for: The coded postcard message and the police's account of the lifeboat body
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.