Heck, in "Life Blood" alone there were some lines that I just wouldn't expect todays scriptwriters to include:



(Not verbatim, but pretty close as I've listened to this more than once now)

(At a restaurant)

HARRY WILKERSON: "Who is 'Amelia'? What is she? Where did she come from?"

AMELIA: "I'm just a woman, Harry. Just a simple, predictable woman.



We're in a time when such a line would be interpreted by many as an insult to femininity.

(On a subnote, with "Amelia's" earlier reaction to the word "robot", one almost wonders how confused she was programmed to be on this subject.)

I loved the voice of Marian Seldes. All the regular RMT female performers seemed to have the ability to have both a feminine voice and a tough feminine voice. Even when she was in the latter category, (as in a very interesting show I'm listening to now "The search for Myra", where she plays a housewife who was apparently married only for her money) she could always sound so vulnerable. In movies or the small screen that might not be as noticeable, but in radio it worked so well for her, IMO, as an actress.

I just listened to "The Primrose path"...not a bad show.

tremendous comparison! I remember "Under grave suspicion". It's funny you should mention that show, because I thought Ralph Bell in "Life Blood" basically played a reprise of that role...both in "Blood" and "Grave Suspicion" he was a well-educated "modern" who didn't care that much for the sanctity of marriage (remember, he said in "Life Blood" that he made a similar vow to his then-wife to be Nita Raven that they "wouldn't stop living" (a.k.a. sleeping around) in the same way that in "under grave suspicion" he and his wife agreed to have an "open" marriage.) In both shows, he comes to the realization that he wants one woman, and comes unhinged and then kills her.

I'd thought of the similarities between these two shows before but had forgotten about it before you jarred my memory on this thread...