Today's Suspense episode is "The Palmer Method" (April 20, 1944) starring Ed Gardner! It seems appropriate that Gardner would appear on Suspense considering that of all the pilot shows featured in the first year of Forecast, only Suspense and Gardner's show Duffy's Tavern were picked up as series. Gardner played Archie the bartender on Duffy's Tavern through radio (1941-1951), film (1945) and TV (1954) and was better-known as "Archie" than as himself.
Gardner plays Joe Palmer, a forger who heads into the Spanish Civil War. He takes on the identity of another man but, as is so often the case in such stories, didn't know as much about his new identity as he should have.
Gardner's Palmer is very much the same type of person as Archie, if Archie went in for murder. The part suits Gardner, naturally.
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