Suspense | Ep244 | "Dead Ernest"

[@dbsommers1]

Enjoyed this one.

[@IImitateVince]

Air Date:05.08.1947 ( May 8, 1947) Plot:+ "Dead Ernest". Sponsored by: Roma Wines, Cresta Blanca Wines. An unusual, and classically suspenseful tale about a cataleptic who is mistaken for dead, and is about to be embalmed alive. CBS vice president Dick Thornburgh announces that the show has won the 1946 Peabody Award for drama. Truman Bradley introduces him as "Don" Thornburgh. The story was previously produced on "Suspense" on August 8, 1946 and subsequently on March 24, 1949 and on "The Grip Of Teror" in 1977. + Ernest Bowers is badly injured in a car accident, but there is a problem. Earnest is a cataleptic. Catalepsy is a disease of the nerves and mind. The physical conditions when a cataleptic has a spell closely resemble death and include the primary stages of rigor mortis. Ernest carries a note at all times inside his coat pocket stating that he is a cataleptic and that in the event of seeming death his wife or Doctor should be notified. The letter also requested that no autopsy or embalming should be performed on his body for 72 hours although in his particular case the duration of the attacks were usually four hours or less. Ernest Bowers also wore a sterling silver bracelet with an inscription reading do not embalm me I am not dead. Unfortunately, somebody steals the jacket containing the letter as Ernest lays injured and the silver bracelet he wore had snapped and fallen to the pavement and is picked up by two children. www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/thriller/suspense/dead-ernest-1947-05-08

[@blaqkdymondinc]

He needs a tattoo😅. Definitely need popcorn listening to these great episodes during pandemic 2020. June Oakland, CA

[@amarrulesin]

Great comment...love from India

[@david9783]

I was thinking of him needing a tatto, too. Right across the chest, in 10 different languages.

[@TheJFish94]

I was in a one-off live reading of this episode. I played the role of Henry Prince (Hank Prince in the television adaptation). Do you know who's playing him? Also, one of the boys in this play sounds like Bobby Driscoll (who is in Disney's Treasure Island and Peter Pan)

[@jeffreyberkin-ez3uh]

Elliott Lewis plays Prince. I don't know the kid's name.

[@simonmcgrath4112]

I need a 'stiff' drink wa wa waaa!!! Great episode as per usual

[@jeffreyberkin-ez3uh]

I'm glad they saved the man's life, but I thought the narration was a little overdramatic. Also, I couldn't understand - did Cathy Lewis play Bower's wife, or girlfriend? Please explain.

[@Robbie_S]

Another ditto repeat episodes

[@jeffreyberkin-ez3uh]

Also done a 3rd time, plus once on the TV version.

[@bradsspit2870]

do not enbalmam me hahaha