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Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 Strong Hands
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'ELLWOOD PARSONS worked in Obermyer’s garage. His mother couldn’t afford to send him to college or to let him do any of the things that most of the boys in the town did. So Elwood went to work with dreams of some day doing something that would make people talk about him. And then suddenly fear struck the little town where Elwood lived. A fiend walked the streets—dealing out death to an old man and a young girl, terrorising the community until every man walked the streets armed. The part Elwood Parsons played in this suspenseful drama of the town’s hunt for a killer is told in this play.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 15 December 1951, p.12.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2UW on 22 December 1951, from 8:30pm.

    Director: John Appleton.

    Cast:John Appleton (as Announcer), Harp McGuire (as Elwood), Geraldine Lowe (as Miss Wilson), Bobbie Hunt (as Mother), Joe McCormick (as Mr Obermyer), Paddy Turner (as Winnie), Frank Bradley (as Krantz), and Ralph Barry (as Dick).

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