Tonight's Topic: Sorry, Wrong Number
ANSWERS = [ A - A|B|C|D - B ] (i.e., AAB, or ABB, or ACB, or ADB)
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It was broadcast on the CBS network (May 25, 1943), as a program in the popular radio anthology series, Suspense.
Actress Agnes Moorehead starred in the lead role as bed-ridden Mrs. Elbert Stevenson, trying to telephone her husband at his office to come home because she is feeling nervous.
During one phonecall attempt, her phone line accidentally crosses with another line, and she overhears a murder plot being planned to kill an unknown man's nagging wife at 11:00 that night.
Frantically trying to get somebody believe her and find out who the intended victim might be, she spends the next 20 minutes relentlessly telephoning the phone company, her husband's office, the police, et al. -- all without results.
So who is the murder victim and will Mrs. Stevenson succeed in saving her, or is she forever destined to hear, "Sorry, Wrong Number"?
Accordingly, we offer for your approval, the 3 questions listed below about the famous radio play, Sorry, Wrong Number?
Please choose your answers from any of the 4 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", "C", or "D" (if applicable!) for each of the following question.
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Question #1: Between 1943 and 1960, all eight radio versions of Sorry, Wrong Number starred Agnes Moorehead in the lead role of Mrs. Elbert Stevenson. True or False?
A. True, or
B. False
All eight versions of "Sorry, Wrong Number" starred Agnes Moorehead in the lead role of Mrs. Elbert Stevenson. (1)
A. The show's star, Agnes Moorehead, is killed and her murderers "get away with it", or
The story goes like this: On an average evening in the apartment
where she lives alone, the bedridden Leona Stevenson picks up the phone
to make a call.
But the telephone operator connects her call incorrectly.
It’s not a friend on the other end of the line — it’s two men plotting a murder.
The intended victim? Stevenson herself.
“The entire show is based around the hysteria of the main character,” says Steve Darnall, editor of Nostalgia Digest.
We’re stuck with the increasingly frantic Stevenson as she tries to stay alive.
But, ultimately, she fails. That’s what makes “Sorry, Wrong Number” so unusual, Darnall says.
“It was one of the first times that someone had had the audacity to go on this national network and present a story in which the killers get away.” (2)
But the telephone operator connects her call incorrectly.
It’s not a friend on the other end of the line — it’s two men plotting a murder.
The intended victim? Stevenson herself.
“The entire show is based around the hysteria of the main character,” says Steve Darnall, editor of Nostalgia Digest.
We’re stuck with the increasingly frantic Stevenson as she tries to stay alive.
But, ultimately, she fails. That’s what makes “Sorry, Wrong Number” so unusual, Darnall says.
“It was one of the first times that someone had had the audacity to go on this national network and present a story in which the killers get away.” (2)
The radio play was written by Lucille Fletcher and, aside from "The
Hitchhiker," it is her best known work.
"Sorry, Wrong Number" was the only Suspense story to be made into a film. (1)
C. The West Coast broadcast of Sorry, Wrong Number (transmitted 3 hours later) contained a different ending than the earlier broadcast East Coast version, or"Sorry, Wrong Number" was the only Suspense story to be made into a film. (1)
The first time this story was presented was on May 25, 1943. In the
East Coast version, there was a flubbed line at the end that made the
end of the story confusing. The performance done for the West Coast has
the correct ending.
. Download suspense_1943.05.25_ Sorry, Wrong Number (EAST COAST).MP3
. Download suspense_1943.05.25_Sorry, Wrong Number (WEST COAST).MP3 (1)
D. The famous actor Orson Welles, whose War of the Worlds radio program caused such an uproar when broadcast in 1939, called Sorry, Wrong Number, "the greatest single radio script ever written.". Download suspense_1943.05.25_ Sorry, Wrong Number (EAST COAST).MP3
. Download suspense_1943.05.25_Sorry, Wrong Number (WEST COAST).MP3 (1)
No less an authority than
Orson Welles called it “the greatest single radio script ever written.”
(2)
A. Samantha's absent-minded Aunt Clara, or
B. Samantha's trouble-making mother, Endorra, or (<--B+ spelling!)
C. Samantha's older sister, Tabitha.
Of course, the genial Agnes Moorehead has been immortalized as Elizabeth Montgomery's
flamboyant witch-mother, Endora, though that was not a role the actress
wished to be remembered for, in spite of several Emmy Award
nominations. (3)
(1) [Source: Escape and Suspense -- November 09, 2008]
(2) [Source: WNYC -- "Sorry, Wrong Number"]
(3) [Source: Agnes Moorehead - Biography - IMDb]
| RELATED LINKS: Audio Archive: 43-05-25_Sorry_Wrong_Number_West_Coast.mp3 Radio script: May 25 1943 -- Sorry, Wrong Number (Agnes Moorehead's personal copy) |
++ QUOTES OF THE DAY ++
-- Mrs. Stevenson (character in radio drama, Sorry Wrong Number, written by Lucille Fletcher): “Operator! Operator! — I — I’m in desperate trouble — I — I don’t dare speak louder. I — There’s someone listening. Can you hear me now? But you’ve got to hear me. Oh — please… You’ve got to help me. There’s someone in this house — someone who’s going to murder me — and you’ve got to get in touch with the — Oh, there it is. Did you hear it? He’s put it down. He’s put down the extension phone. He’s coming up the stairs. Give me the police department. Give me the police. I can hear him. Hurry — hurry AHHHHH!”
-- by Mary Shelley: "Agnes Moorhead's character annoys me to no end in this episode and I usually end up rooting for the bad guys."
[Source: Various citations]
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