Escape and Suspense! Mailbox--Looking for an episode...

As you know, we love to hear from our readers, and we are always ready to help them find the title to a Suspense episode.

That is, if we can identify it. If not, we like to ask for help from our readers!

We all know what it is like to remember the plot of an old time radio episode, but not know the title.

Here is an e-mail we received this week from Deb, who agreed to let us open her question to our audience.

"I am looking for the synopsis and title of a certain Suspense episode. I heard most of it on a satellite radio station, but missed the end. I’m sure Hans Conried was in it. Ok, so I think that Hans was a criminal and came upon a doctor who had some kind of serum or pill – something that can prolong life. The criminal thought he could get away with crime since he took this pill or serum. Well, he became very, very sensitive to little sounds. A clock ticking, for example, was deafening. I remember an upsetting scene in which the doctor shows the criminal (Conried?) his dog that the doctor keeps in a basement. The dog is whimpering – and that sound is deafening, too. The dog was given this serum and because of the sounds in his own environment, he is “…slowly going insane…"

Does this sound at all familiar to you? If so, do you know the title? Do you happen to know how it ends? It’s driving me crazy and I no longer get satellite radio!"

 So, does anyone recognize the plot of this episode? If so, let us know!

 

Comments

[Michael Hoskin]

This is not an episode of Suspense - it's actually the Sealed Book episode "King of the World," which you can find here: http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/sealedbook.htm

Like all Sealed Book episodes, it was originally done on the Mysterious Traveler.

[cmillinsf]

Michael,
I would have never guessed that. Thank you so much for your help! --Christine

[Joe Schmidt]

There was an episode of The Sealed Book titled King of the World that follows that plot.

[cmillinsf]

Thanks, Joe! See, I have enough trouble keeping up with Suspense, so I can't know about all of these other OTR shows, too. I appreciate the help! --Christine