The Girl in the Powder Blue Jag: Suspense (August 28, 1960)

“The Girl in the Powder Blue Jag” is an episode of Suspense, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 28, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A young woman wakes after a car crash with no memory of who she is, and a local policeman, Sergeant Hadley, takes charge of her care. Suspense presents this 1960 episode, which first aired on August 28, 1960. A man arrives claiming to be her husband, Clay, and the sergeant grows uneasy as the pair press her to finish a large property purchase. Their story begins to show cracks, and the sergeant starts to test what he has been told.

A summer resort town, at a rented beach cottage and nearby seaside estate

Characters: Kendall Endicott, Sergeant Hadley, Clay, Claire Sims, Ruth Taylor

Listen for: Sergeant Hadley questioning whether the man claiming to be Clay is telling the truth

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.