 Next to modern mystery classic Agnes Moore has eight suspense performance of sorry wrong number on the CBS radio network Radio 59 WROW first on the dial serving Albany Troy and Schenectady radio 59 times six five thirty On May 25th, 1943 a great radio play was performed on suspense and carried on CBS radio That now famous radio play has been transferred to other media as well Television motion pictures recordings and the stage the title was sorry wrong number And it was written by Lucille Fletcher and originally starred Agnes Moorehead We revived that radio classic now with the same star of 17 years ago Listened then to Agnes Moorehead in sorry wrong number which begins in one minute Remember how much racket automobiles used to make time was you practically had to bellow to make yourself heard above the chatter and roar of the Engine the howl of the wind rushing by and the rattling a rough road gave your poor old buggy and brains Well nowadays with vastly improved automotive engineering and magnificent news super highways You literally per along the road Now this is a vast improvement, but one that can offer danger if you're not alert You're sitting behind the wheel with the miles of highway unrolling smoothly before you Suddenly a sharp curve jumps in front of you and you find you have to use the skill of a professional racer To navigate the curve without getting into real big trouble Your car was so quiet that your speed had crept up stealthily during those long miles of straightaway You were burning along without realizing it The point here a simple one is this Your speedometer was put there for a purpose a purpose you can't afford to forget keep alert take care and Get there and now Sorry wrong number Starring Miss Agnes Moorehead a tail well calculated to keep you in Suspense Operator I've been dialing Murray Hill 405 9 9 now for the last week quarters of an hour and the line is always busy I don't see how it could be busy that long. Will you try it for me, please? I will be glad to try that number for you one moment, please You see it's my husband's office. He's working late tonight. I'm all alone here in the house My health is very poor, and I've been feeling so nervous Ringing Murray Hill 405 9 9 Stevenson there. Oh number is this please What number is this please? How unspeakably Why was supposed to be Murray Hill 405 9 9 but it wasn't some wires must have got crossed and I was cut into a wrong number And I I've just heard the most dreadful things something about a murder and operator You'll simply have to trace that call at once. What was the number? Well, I don't know it was a wrong number and these two men they were cold-blooded fiends and they were going to murder somebody some poor Innocence woman who was all alone in a house near a bridge and we've got to stop them We've just got to be calling. Well, that doesn't matter. It was a wrong number I'll look it was obviously a case of some little sip of the finger I asked you to get me Murray Hill 405 9 9 who dialed it but your finger must have slipped and I was connected with some other Number I I could hear them, but they couldn't hear me I simply feel to see why you couldn't make that same mistake again on purpose why you couldn't try to die Murray Hill 405 9 9 in the same sort of guys way Murray Hill 405 9 9 I will try to get it for you. Well, thank you But operator yes, ma'am, you didn't try to get that wrong number at all I asked you explicitly and all you did was dial correctly. I'm sorry. I will connect you with the supervisor. Well, please The supervisor may I help you? Yes, I I want you to trace a call a telephone call immediately I don't know where it came from or who was making it But it's absolutely necessary to be traced because it was about a murder that someone's planning a terrible cold-blooded murder of a poor Innocent woman tonight at 1115. I see. Well, can you trace it for me? Can you track down those men? I'm not certain. I can try may I have your name? Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Albert Stevenson, but but listen Plaza three seven five nine nine, but if you go on wasting all this time you want this call trees, please why? Well, I told you why these men sounded like killers. They're dangerous They're going to murder this woman at 1115 tonight. I thought the police ought to know have you reported this to the police? Well, no not yet. You want this call check purely as a private individual? Well, yes, but meanwhile, I'm sorry Mrs. Stevenson But I'm afraid we couldn't trace the call just on your say. So as a private individual We'd have to have something more official for heaven's sake. Well, all right. I'll call the police. 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Thank you. I will connect you with the police department Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. Albert smite Stevenson of 53 North Sutton Place I'm calling up to report a murder. I mean the murder hasn't been committed yet But I just I overheard plans for it over the telephone over a wrong number that the operator gave me Yes, ma'am. It was a perfectly definite murder. I heard their plans distinctly Two men were talking and they were going to murder some woman at 11 15 tonight. She lived in a house near a bridge Are you listening to me? Yes, ma'am, and there was a private patrolman on the street He was going to go around for a beer on 2nd Avenue And there was some third man a client who was paying to have this poor woman murdered They were going to take her rings and bracelets and use a knife Well, it's just a nerve me dreadfully and I'm not well About eight minutes ago, but that wasn't the number I overheard I mean Murray Hill 405 99 It's my husband's office. He's working late tonight, and I was trying to reach him to come home I'm an invalid, you know, and it's the maid's night off and I hate to be alone Even though he says I'm perfectly safe as long as I have the telephone right beside my bed Well, we can check it with the telephone coming check it. I've already taken care of that Yes, and personally I feel you want to do something far more immediate and drastic than just check the call I'd say the whole thing calls for a search the complete and thorough search of the whole city I'm very near the bridge, and I'm not far from 2nd Avenue And I know I feel a whole lot better if you sent around a radio car to this neighborhood at once And what makes you think the murder is going to be committed in your neighborhood ma'am? Well, I well, I don't know only the coincidence is so horrible 2nd Avenue the patrolman the bridge look lady. Why don't you look at it this way? Would you I suppose not only it's on the sewing human so cold-blooded. Oh, no No, I hardly think so. I I think why should anybody I'm alone all day and night I see nobody except my maid Eloise. She's a big girl. She weighs 200 pounds She's too lazy to bring up my breakfast tray, and the only other person is my husband the Albert He says it's crazy about me. He just adores me waits on me hand and foot is scarcely left my side since I took six 12 years ago Just leave the rest of this to us. We'll take care of it. What will you do? It's so late It's nearly 11 now. We'll take care of it lady Well, will you broadcast it all over the city and send out squads and warn your radio cars to watch out especially in suspicious neighborhoods like mine Look lady. I said we take care of it. Just now. I've got a couple of trunks here that require my immediate attention Good night, ma'am, and thank you. Oh you you Idiot. Now why did I have the phone like that? Now you'll think I am a fool It doesn't elbert come home operator for heaven's sake. Will you ring that muriel 405 9 9 number again? I can't think what's keeping him so long. I will try it for you Hear it. You don't have to tell me. I know it's busy I can only get out of this bed for a little while If I could just get a breath of fresh air or just lean out of the window and see this tree With his telephone tonight, but it's positively driving me crazy. I've never seen such inefficient miserable service Now look, I'm an invalid and I'm very nervous and I'm not supposed to be annoyed But if this keeps on much longer, what seems to be the trouble, please This evening the whole world could be murdered for all you people care and now my phone keeps ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing every five Seconds of money picking up this over there. I'm sorry. If you will hang up. I will test it for you I don't want you to test it for me. I want you to put that call through whoever it is. It won't I'm afraid I can't do that. You can't. Oh you can't and why why may I ask the dial system is automatic Automatic if you're in my bed suffering every time that phone rings imagining everything. I will try to check the trouble for you Heaven stop bringing me. I'm going to call the police. You hear it. It's beyond mankind's capacity to guess What will occupy the attention of cbs radio's bob and ray tomorrow night? It's possible. They may be investigating such matters as the molecular structure of money Or giving the recipe for vulcanized bison Perhaps distinguished correspondent walley balloon may take us via the magic of radio to the broom garage of a witch Or we may receive a report on our feathered friends from the bird lady whose discourse on the drag tail blockbuster Recently created unparalleled apathy among bird watchers from coast to coast Actually, you may not hear any of these matters If you're courageous though take potluck with the boys Anything they serve up is full of chocolates that's bob and ray weeknights at this spot on your radio dial Life along too with amos and andy andy griffith and burns and alan on comedy time monday through friday on cbs radio And now We continue with act three of sorry wrong number Starring miss agnes moorhead A tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense Hello, is this plaza three seven five nine nine? Oh, yes Yes, i'm sorry. This is plaza three seven five nine nine. This is western union. I have a telegram here for mrs. albert stevensson. Oh, well I'm mrs. stevensson the telegram is a second. I'll go The 70s it's a very small private and the exclusive hospital where I had my appendix out two years ago. Henshlee, he Will please hurry and please what is the time To one oh for heaven's sake. I've no time to be dialing The hensley hospital is butterfield eight Two five three at once. I want to train nurse. I want to hire her immediately for the night I bring in companionship. You see my my husband is away In charge I'm a sick woman. I'm I'm I'm very upset. I'm alone in this house and I'm an invalid and and tonight I overheard a telephone conversation that upset me dreadfully In fact, if someone doesn't come at once, I'm either police department Give me the police department moorhead starred in william and robeson's production of Sorry wrong number Written by lucille fletcher in a moment the names of our supporting players and a word about next week's story of Suspense irregular Then help yourself get back in tune with keloch's all brand when keloch's all brand goes gently to work Relieves constipation due to lack of bulk by supplying your system with bulk forming whole brand Yes, a daily bowl full of keloch's all brand with milk helps put you right back in tune The natural way the good tasting way too Fact is keloch's all brand is the one brand cereal that combines proved effectiveness With appetizing taste and crispness. It never gets mushy and milk. 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