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My Dad has this on tape and played it for me when I was a kid (I'm 38 now, I was like 8 or 9 at the time I think). Super spooky. He'd always play it at night too, like right before it was time for bed. Needless to say, I was wide awake for an hour.
She was a huge star for years and years on radio and stage. Hollywood loved her too and she had a wonderful reputation. She was the best in the business.
This one is my absolute favorite Suspense episode. I found her acting to be so believable!! I was terrified for her and frustrated for her and I almost started crying. I’m almost 40 and I have a lot of serious health problems. I think about how I’ll progressively get worse and I might be bed bound and one day my husband might get tired of taking care of me 💔
I'm so sorry to hear about all your illnesses🥺 Please don't feel your husband will be like this radio program. I can't imagine how hard it is for you and for you and your husband but I'm praying and sending hugs for you both and to be strong. I know it may sound dumb for me to say this since I have no clue what you're going through, but I had to say something to you. I hope at least knowing that someone that read your comment felt for you and took time out to try to make you feel better🥺💕💖🩵💜 much love from Toledo Ohio
Back in the early 80's, a California radio station would air these on Sundays. Dad would record them and we played the tapes on our family vacations. Wish I still had them.
Same here in Chicago. In college I remembered them and scoured the bookstores and bought whatever cassettes they had. I've long since lost them but essentially every episode is on YT. This episode and "On a country road" with Cary Grant are my faves. I play them on my phone going to sleep some nights until my wife shuts them off!
I listened to this radio show in school, and i think that it's a pretty cool idea to listen instead of watching a movie because you have to think of the visualization in your head, which is exciting and i think there should be more of these while your driving and listening to story drama
In early popular television, a lot of actors, directors, and watchers pined for the old days of radio. You get the benefit of sound and a steady plot, but you have to imagine the whole thing in your head. Just more interactive I think than watching television.
"Sorry, Wrong Number"was written by Lucille Fletcher. Her husband Bernard Hermann scored the music (and many other radio shows including Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho"). "Sorry, Wrong Number" is probably the most popular radio drama of all time. It was also done on "SUSPENSE" 8 times from 1943 until 1961 when the show ended. All of those performances starred Agnes Moorehead in a 30 minute version. In 1955, Miriam Hopkins flew to Sydney, Australia and performed it for the Australian LUX Radio Theatre in the only 60 minute radio version known to exist. It is extremely well done and the plot is more developed due to the longer time slot. Miriam Hopkins is ably assisted by the creme of Australian radio actors of the time. The 60 minute restored version is available through Radio Archives in their Archives Treasures Volume 23.
This is great acting. I felt sorry for her. Than i got irritated by her. I understand how frusterating she was. The operators can only do so much. She shouldn't have called her stupid. Great story.
Love this episode! This version in particular is my favorite because this is the one i first heard back when i was a kid. I’ve always wondered who voiced the two hitman since they sound so cool and mysterious.
We watched the radio and movie during our drama unit in ELA, and I played the lead role as Mrs Stevenson. everyone would talk about how much emotion and realism I put in my acting even though I messed up a little, and it was really fun!
This was a great program, but it's also fascinating. There are probably modern listeners, younger people, who don't even know what a dial-tone or rotary phone sounds like being dialed.
I really like the Mr Sinister RUclips channel. They are more supernatural horror, but fantastically well done, and very creepy. I recommend the Cabin episode, as well as all of the wendigo episodes. He came out with a three hour wendigo story compilation episode recently, a terrific listen.
This is the very first performance of Sorry Wrong Number broadcast live in May 1943, complete with an unfortunate flub by the actor playing the killer at the end!
@@melanix- lol Good to see students are still traumatized by old Suspense episodes. We had to listen to The Hitchhiker in English many decades ago, and it scared the life out of me.
@@IImitateVince it has been 2 months since we have talked to each other haha. But in those two months, I have finished the first book of Thornheart! It has been a successful write but I don't know where to go after
To all you Agnes Morehead fans or at least those of you who are familiar with her; do you see the creepy irony in this? I mean what is she well known for playing the mother of Samantha in Bewitched and who is her daughter married to Stephens and her character's last name in display is Stevenson I mean that's just weird
Yep and the 1948 film adaptation is itself a film noir classic, even if the plot is far too padded out in the film. Stanwyck was great in the movie, and Burt Lancaster played the husband.
They changed the name of the episode. At the end of the last episode when announcing this one, they said it was called "She overheard murder speaking."
I listened to this after watching the movie. I find this radio play just too hysterical ("hello ... hello ... hello ... hello ??? Operator ... operator"). But I love the concept, the story in real time.
This call made me anxious! She was such a busy b*tch! Things I noticed tho: U don't hear the word 'invalid' too often these days. So grateful we don't use annoying operators anymore & can turn our phones on silent! Definitely don't miss dialing with rotary phones. Lotdt! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My grandparents called me an invalid when I was sick in the 80s as a kid. It was just a matter of fact, if you couldn't walk, that's what older people called you. I guess later on it became a derogatory word. I know at least in the 80s it wasn't considered very offensive.
He did it. The film adaptation implicates the husband. He hired someone to kill her, make it look like a botched robbery and collect on her life insurance policy.
Stop asking "is anyone here for school" because you know most of the people here are for school. If you ask this people will know your just begging for likes.
@@WhatHaveIDoneWithMyLife Yes, she is irritating, but she’s trying to do the right thing. This reminds me of Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched. She got a lot of grief but she was telling the truth.
My Dad has this on tape and played it for me when I was a kid (I'm 38 now, I was like 8 or 9 at the time I think). Super spooky. He'd always play it at night too, like right before it was time for bed. Needless to say, I was wide awake for an hour.
When I was a kid I was introduced to Radio Reruns at Spencer Gifts. I loved this episode. My Mom loved the radio shows and I fell in love with most.
we had a Norwegian version of it and my father showed it to me when i was about that ages to. Scared the life out of me aswell LOL
I have it on vinyl 7''
I just found it by my self no dad required lol sorry thought I'd make a joke
Your dad rocks
Agnes Moorehead is so underrated. She did everything- radio, movies, plays, TV- and was brilliant. Any radio show with her is worth listening to.
Too bad she may only be remembered as Edora, Samantha's mother in "Bewitched."
She was a huge star for years and years on radio and stage. Hollywood loved her too and she had a wonderful reputation. She was the best in the business.
When I heard her performance in this episode, I searched out everything I could find. She was incredibly talented.
@@0tt0z In the 1940s Life Magazine did a picture feature of her doing this again. Our school library had almost every issue bound.
Agnes Morehead was a member of Mercury Theater headed up by Orson Wells. They were all standouts in their day.
This one is my absolute favorite Suspense episode. I found her acting to be so believable!! I was terrified for her and frustrated for her and I almost started crying. I’m almost 40 and I have a lot of serious health problems. I think about how I’ll progressively get worse and I might be bed bound and one day my husband might get tired of taking care of me 💔
I'm so sorry to hear about all your illnesses🥺 Please don't feel your husband will be like this radio program. I can't imagine how hard it is for you and for you and your husband but I'm praying and sending hugs for you both and to be strong. I know it may sound dumb for me to say this since I have no clue what you're going through, but I had to say something to you. I hope at least knowing that someone that read your comment felt for you and took time out to try to make you feel better🥺💕💖🩵💜 much love from Toledo Ohio
How they predicted all customer service call centers so well.
Back in the early 80's, a California radio station would air these on Sundays. Dad would record them and we played the tapes on our family vacations. Wish I still had them.
Same here in Chicago. In college I remembered them and scoured the bookstores and bought whatever cassettes they had. I've long since lost them but essentially every episode is on YT. This episode and "On a country road" with Cary Grant are my faves. I play them on my phone going to sleep some nights until my wife shuts them off!
I listened to this radio show in school, and i think that it's a pretty cool idea to listen instead of watching a movie because you have to think of the visualization in your head, which is exciting and i think there should be more of these while your driving and listening to story drama
In early popular television, a lot of actors, directors, and watchers pined for the old days of radio. You get the benefit of sound and a steady plot, but you have to imagine the whole thing in your head. Just more interactive I think than watching television.
It's so nice of you to upload these shows. I'm getting obsessed with shows from the golden age of radio. These productions were excellent.
I’ve become obsessed too! Lol. I listen to them all the time, way more than I listen to music anymore.
"Sorry, Wrong Number"was written by Lucille Fletcher. Her husband Bernard Hermann scored the music (and many other radio shows including Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho"). "Sorry, Wrong Number" is probably the most popular radio drama of all time. It was also done on "SUSPENSE" 8 times from 1943 until 1961 when the show ended. All of those performances starred Agnes Moorehead in a 30 minute version. In 1955, Miriam Hopkins flew to Sydney, Australia and performed it for the Australian LUX Radio Theatre in the only 60 minute radio version known to exist.
It is extremely well done and the plot is more developed due to the longer time slot. Miriam Hopkins is ably assisted by the creme of Australian radio actors of the time. The 60 minute restored version is available through Radio Archives in their Archives Treasures Volume 23.
wow thank you so much for the info.
Richard McLeod my high-school theater group is doing this for a theatre competition this year I’m exited, I’m one of the bad guys
Nice!
bruh, this does sound like a Hitchcock film!
Just so you guys know the 60min version is more based on the Film adaptation and includes elements from it.
Had to watch this as a class assignment for theater, but I'm not complaining. These are kind of addicting
I also had to watch this as an assignment and almost peed my pants when she got killed
@@SugarDaYamperQueen lol it wasn't that scary for me, but it was nice suspense and twist
@@SugarDaYamperQueen Good to know these old shows still have power with a younger audience!
She was a good actress!!!!!
My dad had this whole cd set and I'm glad I found this.
My grandfather had the set, too, he had just about every old radio show on tape in the 90s.
We listened to this today at school in my ELA class
Same
Same
This is great acting. I felt sorry for her. Than i got irritated by her. I understand how frusterating she was. The operators can only do so much. She shouldn't have called her stupid. Great story.
This was a great episode and famous one too. So well done!!
Love this episode! This version in particular is my favorite because this is the one i first heard back when i was a kid. I’ve always wondered who voiced the two hitman since they sound so cool and mysterious.
Her character may strike out, but Agnes hits it out of the park- a peerless performance!
Love it. One of my favorite old time radio shows, one of my favorite eps, too.
Thank you for sharing this!
Had to watch this during school and it's great!
Fax
Listening to help my 12 year old with her assignment. I actually liked it
This is an excellent episode
I've started listening to these and others a month ago. They are corny sometimes but addictive.
THIS IS SO GOOD WTH IM SO GLAD THEY REQUIRED US TO LISTEN TO THIS
I'm glad I wasn't! This was pure torture! Anxiously entertaining tho😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
We watched the radio and movie during our drama unit in ELA, and I played the lead role as Mrs Stevenson. everyone would talk about how much emotion and realism I put in my acting even though I messed up a little, and it was really fun!
Sounds like an awesome class. Props
to you and your teacher!
@@otrarchive Thanks, man!
This and the War of the Worlds broadcast are my favorites. Fibber McGee and Molly is my favorite show. I like Suspense better than Lights Out.
This was a great program, but it's also fascinating. There are probably modern listeners, younger people, who don't even know what a dial-tone or rotary phone sounds like being dialed.
Who is here cause of school
me
Yeah it’s sucks
@@Shadow-bz9ye me
school sucks
me
I listened to this in English class. I loved it!
I listened to it in 8th grade when I was young, too (long, long time ago). It's cool to see they still use these in some classes.
Bruh that scream tho
I wish they made quality audio stories like this I’ve tried finding narrative podcasts but they all suck compared to this 😩😭
I really like the Mr Sinister RUclips channel. They are more supernatural horror, but fantastically well done, and very creepy.
I recommend the Cabin episode, as well as all of the wendigo episodes.
He came out with a three hour wendigo story compilation episode recently, a terrific listen.
@@thefutureofscience8365 ty!!
This is the very first performance of Sorry Wrong Number broadcast live in May 1943, complete with an unfortunate flub by the actor playing the killer at the end!
But she repeated this several times-and I think it was always live!😊
Operator has the patience of a saint
An iconic series and an exceptional episode.
Gotta do this for drama class, wish me luck cuz I gotta write a paragraph of this
Goddamn masterpiece with a killer twist ending.
Wasn't any twist. It was obvious she was gonna be the intended victim
@@Robbie_S It is a twist in the film adaptation starring Barbara Stanwyck!
Awesome as always
A classic!!! ♥️☺️
I love the upbeat pace of the radio version than the 1947 movie version.
We use to listen to these in my English class! And I don’t remember why we did 😂😂
We listened to this one and The Hitchhiker. I like the radio version so much better than the Twilight Zone one, even though it was popular too.
Lily Tomlin's Ernestine character might have REALLY driven Miss Moorehead's character crazy!!
I had to listen to this in my theater class today
And did you like it?!
@@otrarchive yesss
@@otrarchive it’s really good but I was traumatized at the end lol
@@melanix- lol Good to see students are still traumatized by old Suspense episodes. We had to listen to The Hitchhiker in English many decades ago, and it scared the life out of me.
The scariest part is that the bureaucracy got worse. You don't even get to talk to a person anymore
My maid Eloise is a big girl…then calls her lazy. Can’t write stuff like this anymore! Love Agnes Moorhead!
I’m I the only 14year old how watches radio dramas😌
You're not alone. Also 14 here
I also did when I was 14.
May be a sign that you two have gifts of writing or just a love of classic entertainment.
@@IImitateVince I am writing my own novel called Thronheart now so,pretty accurate
@@e_grxyszxaaa great.
One word of advice.
Don't ever throw away anything you write. You will be glad you kept everything!!
@@IImitateVince it has been 2 months since we have talked to each other haha. But in those two months, I have finished the first book of Thornheart! It has been a successful write but I don't know where to go after
We’re doing this online next week with our local theatre using the Zoom app.
Share the link!
" *PERFECTLY* ridiculous" hahaha this lady is so hilarious
I had to listen to this for a school assignment
Me too
My teacher had me listen to this on our own and when I finished I looked at her and she smiled at me. That scared me
If everyone likes this radio version, you should all watch the movie version with Barbara stanwyck.
To all you Agnes Morehead fans or at least those of you who are familiar with her; do you see the creepy irony in this? I mean what is she well known for playing the mother of Samantha in Bewitched and who is her daughter married to Stephens and her character's last name in display is Stevenson I mean that's just weird
I appreciated her more after this. Nice to put a face to the victim.
Fantastic actress!
This is cool
i am stuck doing this for ELA, I'm sad
@Julius Gantz what
Why??? It's a fucking masterpiece! Should be glad they're teaching you to watch good classic films and radio plays.
Didn't Barbara Stanwyck play in a film adaptation?
Yep and the 1948 film adaptation is itself a film noir classic, even if the plot is far too padded out in the film.
Stanwyck was great in the movie, and Burt Lancaster played the husband.
i'm watching this for school 😔
Why so sad? This is one of the greatest radio play's ever.
I listened to this for school in the 6th grade in 1983.
"They don't want them to suffer, as little blood as possible."
"Would a knife be okay?"
"Sure."
Randomly remembered this
They changed the name of the episode. At the end of the last episode when announcing this one, they said it was called "She overheard murder speaking."
Thanks english teacher.
Thanks Mr.Abate
Didn't know I will enjoy listening to this lmao
Might be my favorite episode.
Poor, long suffering Elbert.
He’s probably the one who planned his wife’s murder
I listened to this after watching the movie. I find this radio play just too hysterical ("hello ... hello ... hello ... hello ??? Operator ... operator"). But I love the concept, the story in real time.
But the radio play really captured how women talk.
Someone is about to be murdered. Do you think she's hysterical? I mean what would be justification for getting hysterical? Already being murdered?
Two people didn't survive this episode. Mrs. Elbert Stevenson, and that trumpet player who clammed the high note at the end.
😄
I'M NOT HERE FOR SCHOOL.
“Moral of the story here is that if you see a murder being committed you should immediately call them a boomer”
-Technoblade
What does he use for brains?
rip
It starts at 2:54
I required soothing companionship after listening to this ! I need a male nurse. A big fine one! 🥵🥵🥵🥵🤣🤣🤣🤣
Agnes is a wonderful actress...but dang, poor Elbert.
28:02 happy music plays to close the episode, ding dong the witch is dead 🤣
This call made me anxious! She was such a busy b*tch! Things I noticed tho: U don't hear the word 'invalid' too often these days. So grateful we don't use annoying operators anymore & can turn our phones on silent! Definitely don't miss dialing with rotary phones. Lotdt! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m old enough to have experienced all of this primitive technology. Fun times.
My grandparents called me an invalid when I was sick in the 80s as a kid. It was just a matter of fact, if you couldn't walk, that's what older people called you. I guess later on it became a derogatory word. I know at least in the 80s it wasn't considered very offensive.
Have not heard this original version before, I think they put one of the repeat performances on the CD.
I’m not the only one here for school right?
anyone else watching this for theatre?
im doing this for school
Gee, I wonder why Elbert didn't want to go home......lol. This lady is CRAZY!! I wouldn't have gone home, either!!
Well for me, i think Albert is the one who pays to murder his wife you know. Lol
Oh I totally understand why he did it. Hell I put 5 on it.
He did it. The film adaptation implicates the husband. He hired someone to kill her, make it look like a botched robbery and collect on her life insurance policy.
RIGHT!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bro she heard a literal murder plan and she has major anxiety you cant blame her
I like the radio version, not the movie.
we get it, its for school
im watching this for school
same
this is the newest comment 😎
Was a famous and popular one act play too.
School brought me here
Today Agnes Morehead here would be described as a "Karen"....
Here because of school...
My sister sent me hear bkuz I'm addicted to true crime & swear her estranged husband is the next chris watts 🙄🙄😫😫
Can i ask what sound effects is that
Good old inside job from the husband.
Yep. It's confirmed in the film Adaptation.
oh my god what the
22:54
pogger moment
27:09
Why???
Kaway kaway sa mga grade 9 dyan
Anyone feel sorry for the husband?
its his fault. he married a annoying woman
Well I would but...mission accomplished so....😆
Why he was the one who hired the killers to do the job
Stop asking "is anyone here for school" because you know most of the people here are for school. If you ask this people will know your just begging for likes.
So annoying!
I listened to otr before I was even in school
@@mizzjade2052 this was 2 years ago. This I'm a bit older now and I realise this comment sucks lmao
@@mizzjade2052 not yours, mine
Did people really talk like that in the 40's, or was it an affectation for entertainment?
I wasn't alive in the 40s, but my grandparents would have been, and yes, they had a different way of speaking, more formal.
Yes, people really spoke like that. It was an affectation that was called a "mid Atlantic accent".
21:10
The main character is such a Karen. It' makes you hope for the ending
She heard a literal murder plan of course she would be freaking out
@@WhatHaveIDoneWithMyLife Yes, she is irritating, but she’s trying to do the right thing. This reminds me of Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched. She got a lot of grief but she was telling the truth.
9:00
Copernicusssssss
Who’s here because of seventh grade English class 😂