The Silver Shoe: Suspense (August 12, 1962)

“The Silver Shoe” is an episode of Suspense, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 12, 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Sailor Joey becomes convinced that a girl he sees in a drugstore is his dead sweetheart Corey, whose funeral he attended two years earlier. He follows her to a dance hall, where she dances with him and seems to share his memories. Joey begins to notice strange details and recollections he can't explain, and the girl reacts with alarm when he describes a silver medallion. The episode is from the Suspense series, first broadcast August 12, 1962, with Joey's voice and the cast led by William Conrad and the other actors named in the broadcast credits.

A drugstore and a dance hall in a city, and a naval base where Joey is stationed, in the years after Corey's death.

Characters: Joey, Corey, Penny

Listen for: Joey's growing certainty that the girl is Corey, and her unsettling knowledge of his memories and of a silver medallion.

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.