Featured tonight are Two Classic Radio Dramas. First aired in 1949, Edward G. Robinson stars in this episode of the CBS Radio series Suspence adapted from the film noir classic Night Has A Thousand Eyes. The original story, by Cornell Woolrich, follows a young couple dealing with a prophecy of empending death. Robinson portrays a sideshow mentalists who discoverys, to his horror, that he can foresee a person's death. Sometimes his warnings can change events. But, other times . . .?
Tonight's second feature was a limited-run radio series first broadcast in the early 1950's. Produced by and starring Jack Webb. Set in Kansas City in the prohibition, speakeasy era of the early 1920's, Webb portrays Pete Kelly, a jazz cornet player, much like Webb's earlier character Pat Novak, whom people always seem to come to when they're in trouble. Tonight, Pete is visited by the police who are looking for an old friend of Pete's who's recently busted out of prison. The bulls believe that the fugitive will come see Pete for money to get out of town. The cornet player doesn't have to be a mentalist to foresee that he could easily end up in some sort of deadly crossfire. Webb would later rework this series into a feature film and a short lived television series.