Latest / Suspense - Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills
The Cellar Door
Originally Aired: January 24, 1956
Suspense #634, "The Cellar Door," presents a parent's worst nightmare in this taut domestic thriller. Joe and Anne are enjoying a quiet Sunday at home with their precocious toddler Sandy, who isn't quite two years old. While Anne prepares to give Sandy his bath, Joe heads down to the basement to drain the water heater. When Anne comes partway down the cellar stairs to hand Joe a pair of pliers, disaster strikes: the cellar door swings shut and locks behind her, trapping both parents in the basement. Upstairs, little Sandy is alone in a house filled with…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.