"The Thin Air" | |
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Philco Television Playhouse episode | |
Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 1 |
Directed by | Vincent J. Donehue |
Written by | Sumner Locke Elliott |
Original air date | September 21, 1952 |
Running time | 60 mins |
The Thin Air is a 1952 American television play that was an episode of Philco Television Playhouse . [1] [2]
It was based on the real life disappearance of Dorothy Arnold. [3]
A young girl disappears on the night of her engagement party.
Elliott also adapted the script for radio, and a play version was broadcast in Australia in 1954 for The General Motors Hour. [4]
The Age wrote "it made excellent listening." [5]
Elliott reworked the material for Whereabouts Uknown, an episode of The Kaiser Aluminum Hour starring MacDonald Carey and Kim Hunter. [6]
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