What happens
Johnson, a fry cook at Bailey's diner, and his employer Ed Bailey find their business faltering after a disfigured stranger begins eating there every evening. Customers leave uneasy, supplies run short, and Bailey grows increasingly desperate as the trouble mounts. The Suspense broadcast of August 16, 1945 presents the story with Joseph Kearns as Bailey, Conrad Binyon as Johnson and Gerald Moore as the stranger. The episode is written by John F. Sutter and produced by William Spier.
Bailey's diner, a small roadside restaurant in an American town during the 1940s
Characters: Ed Bailey, Johnson, The stranger, Virginia, Officer Ryan, Mr. Tanner, Brady
Listen for: The stranger's repeated visits to the diner and the way the staff reacts to his disfigured face
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.