What happens
Joe Watson, newly released from prison on Christmas, returns to the city wanting revenge on Charlie Jones, the man whose testimony sent him away. He learns from Charlie that Lucille, the woman Joe once loved, has since married Mike Malloy, a police officer. Joe asks Charlie for a gun and the loan of a Santa Claus suit, and sets out on Christmas Eve to confront the couple at their home. The story is an episode of the radio drama Suspense, first broadcast on December 21, 1958, starring Raymond Burr.
A city at Christmastime, including a saloon, Charlie's rooming house, and a suburban house where Malloy and Lucille live.
Characters: Joe Watson, Charlie Jones, Lucille, Mike Malloy
Listen for: Joe's plan to disguise himself as Santa Claus and what he finds when he reaches the house.
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.