That Real Crazy Infinity: Suspense (May 27, 1962)

“That Real Crazy Infinity” is an episode of Suspense, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 27, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Two jazz musicians, Lou and Bud, stranded in a small town, accept ten dollars from a shopkeeper named Charlie Olin to deliver electronic equipment to an eccentric scientist, Professor Norval Hagen, who lives in an isolated house. The professor shows them his invention, the Infinifone, which he claims can tune into sounds from the past. Bud and Lou soon see a chance to profit from it. The episode is part of the Suspense series, first aired on 1962-05-27, and stars Jack Grimes and Richard Holland.

A small town and an isolated house outside it, present-day 1960s America

Characters: Lou, Bud, Charlie Olin, Jenny, Professor Norval Hagen, Max Wesson

Listen for: The Infinifone's sounds from the past and the musicians' plan to profit from them

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.