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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP154—003: Stars On Suspense In 1944—The Show Moves To Hollywood; Sorry Wrong Number
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Bill Spier’s Hollywood Suspense episodes got good reviews. He returned to New York for seven more shows while he got the green light to move Suspense to the West Coast. The first permanent Hollywood show was “Fear Paints a Picture” on April 13th, 1943.
John Dickson Carr continued as writer until June, but Spier began to look for other voices, like Lucille Fletcher, who followed up “The Hitch-hiker” with “The Diary of Sophronia Winters,” starring Agnes Moorehead. The two would reunite a month later, on May 25th, 1943, for the most famous Suspense episo...