Climax: Sorry, Wrong Number
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Sorry, Wrong Number
- 4.
- Season: 1
- Episode: 4
- First Aired: 11/4/1954
A neurotic invalid whose only contact with the outside world is her phone. One night, because of a crossed wire, she hears plans for a murder which turns out to be her own. Her frantic efforts to get help and her growing terror and realisation of the truth chill you to the bone. Add a recap »
- The script was initially rejected by the PCA because of its focus on illegal drug traffic. Reacting to an early draft of the script, a March 12, 1947 PCA memo also commented that "the present ending of the story indicates a criminal, the husband, going off scot free and an unacceptable scene in which a doctor urges divorce as a cure for a wife's hysteria. edit »
- The original story was titled "Murder on the Telephone." Lucille Fletcher published a novelization of her radio play and screenplay in 1948, co-authored by Allan Ullman. edit »
- The show was so popular that it was re-broadcast every year for ten years on Suspense radio, and in 1947, Hal Wallis commissioned author Lucille Fletcher to expand her radio play into a full-length screenplay. edit »
- On the first original East coast broadcast of Sorry, Wrong Number on May 25, 1943 an actor missed his cue at one of the most important moments during the phone call to the police department where he was to say, ""Police department, Precinct 43. Sergeant Martin speaking", and say, "Sorry. Musta been a wrong number", and put the phone down. This caused even more suspense for the audience as they listened, the problem was corrected though for the West coast transmission. edit »
- Sorry, Wrong Number was made into a television play on a local New York station starring Mildred Natwick on January 30, 1946. edit »
- On January 9, 1950, Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster re-created their film roles for the "Lux Radio Program" of Sorry, Wrong Number. edit »
- The 1943 radio play Sorry, Wrong Number starred Agnes Moorehead as Leona Stevenson. edit »
- From the 1948 motion picture Sorry, Wrong Number which starred Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster. edit »
- Based on Lucille Fletcher's radio play Sorry, Wrong Number (Suspense, CBS, May 25, 1943).
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