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Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 It Pays To Be Polite
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'IT is only a small argument between husband and wife when he wants to go fishing and she wants to go somewhere else. But suddenly Velva is sick of Jim, her husband, of his friends, and her whole married life. Blindly Velva strikes out—sees Jim stumble—sees him fall and then realises that she has killed him. Frightened, she sits down to plan—to think what she must do next —how she can escape the consequences of her action. But all her plans come to nothing. Velva doesn’t escape because of one little thing—and then, too late —she finds out just how foolish she has been.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 8 December 1951, p.13.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2UW on 15 December 1951, from 8:30pm.

    Director: John Appleton.

    Cast: John Appleton (as Announcer), Dinah Shearing (as Velva Forest), Richard Ashley (as Jim Forest), Dorothy Mannix (as Helen), Frank Bradley (as Gas Man), Colin McAlister (as Fred), and Harvey Adams (as Officer).

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