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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've listened to some of the old radio shows and one that really stands out for me, "Sorry Wrong Number" with Agnes Moorehead presented by the Lux Radio Theater. It is so good. It's a simple story but it's one that really draws you in. I've also seen the move and the movie was nowhere near as good as the radio drama.
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If you liked that the first episode of Radio City Playhouse was "Long Distance" starting Jan Miner. Like "Sorry Wrong Number" it became pretty famous.
Lux Radio Theater was movies brought to radio but in the case of "Sorry Wrong Number" it was a radio show first on "Suspense". Then it became a movie and then they did it on Lux Radio Theater.
These are a couple of maybe half a dozen radio shows that really stand out in my memory. I listen to "Long Distance" at least once a year. It's that good.
By the way, the star, Jan Miner, used to participate in an OTR listserve I was in and because she was there that show was talked about quite a bit. That was a couple decades ago so I don't recall anything that was said.
An interesting thing about Agnes Moorhead (the mother in Bewitched) was that she was in more OTR episodes than any other performer. Number two, and not a close second, was William Conrad, known as Canon on TV. He was also the original Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke, which was on the radio a few years before it made it to TV.
Barry