The Big Story: The Miracle Phone Call (EP5062)
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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
34 min
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5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Yeah. Nyt on kova tapahtuma. Ahaa. Täällä on siis ihan kaikki. Lähden mukaan! Nämä on siis uuden veken avajaiset! Okei, mä oon vartissa siellä. Veke on avannut uuden huonekalumyymälän Helsingin lanternaan. Avajaistarjoukset ovat hyvä syy lähteä kotoa. Aiet. Vihdoin yksin. Kesellä korpea. Fidestelen rauassa. Hei! Termarissa on kaakao. Tässä täällä teet. Mä lämmitä meille kaasuktimä hernenokat, kun hän ensin kansaa teeltan. Luovutaan ei sulta saa rauhaa missä. No, hän on periksi! Sillä itse asiassa. Itse asiassa. Edulliset välineet hommaa kuin hommaa. Oli kysymys sitten omasta tai kaverin projektista. Itse asiassa.
Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of the big story. But first, I want to encourage you, if you're enjoying the podcast, to follow us using your favorite podcast software. Your listener support and appreciation campaign continues. You can become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month. Just go to patreon.greatdetectives. Now I should say before we play today's episode that it was actually an Easter episode. Had I known that, I might have played it at Easter instead of now. But it's pretty rare for a detective program to do an Easter themed episode. I think this is only the second one we've ever played.
But at any rate, from April the first, nineteen fifty-three, here is the miracle phone call. The big story.
Patterson, New Jersey. The story is it actually happened. Dorothy Patterson's story As she lived it.
You, Dorothy Patterson, are a newspaper woman. With equal emphasis on newspaper and woman. It's rough competition in this man's business. You've got to be good. And You are. But still you're a woman, and sometimes you take a razzing because of it. Hey Dorothy, you busy?
Uh huh. Something important on your mind, Ted, or can't it wait?
Uh it's pretty important. Can you hold it a moment?
What's up?
I'm depending on you for the answer to this. I don't think anyone else can help me.
Sounds like a pretty big order.
It is. Dorothy, when are you gonna throw away those dead flowers on your desk?
What That's the big question, hmm? And me right in the middle of my column for two cents.
Two cents? What? You don't get the picture. This is a big money operation. We've got an office pool on how long you'll keep those flowers there just because you're too much of a softie to throw 'em out.
I'll give up. You guys don't let me get away with anything, do you?
Maybe it's not all for jokes, Dobbie.
What do you mean?
Well, you are a salty. You go through life believing everybody's thinking about everybody else. Watching out for everybody else. It ain't so.
Oh, I don't know.
I do. Maybe that's why I worry sometimes.
What is the “miracle phone call” that starts the episode?
I'd hate to see you lead with that soft ripple chin someday and get slugged, just because you have the idea that everybody's as nice as you want.
Do you have to be a cynic to be a reporter?
No, but uh it's like being crazy. You don't have to be, but it helps.
Dog eat dogs. That's your theory, hmm?
I've been around
The wrong places. It's not true. You can depend on people, Ted. Honestly you can. You just have to give them a chance.
That, Dorothy Patterson, is your credo. You can depend on people. And in another part of the city Something is happening that will soon put that credo to a test. Something that will decide whether or not you can really depend on people.
Jim, said you?
Yeah, it's me.
All right, tell me.
Nothing to tell.
But you went to
I said there's nothing to tell.
Didn't you go see them? Didn't you explain? I
went. I went to every hospital, every nursing home, every welfare agency, and I I told them over and over again the same thing. My son, Johnny, five years old. He's got nephritis. He's gonna die. He's all swelled up so he can't even move, and he's gonna die unless we can get the money for this new sale. They didn't have the money.
Somebody must have
it. Three thousand dollars? Murray, it's too much to ask for. It's it's too much when the doctors say it probably won't help anyway.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:05
2
What is the “miracle phone call” that starts the episode?
4:05–6:59
3
How does Dorothy Patterson first learn about Johnny McDermott’s illness?
6:59–9:05
4
Why does Dorothy decide to use her newspaper column to raise money?
9:05–13:56
5
What obstacles do Dorothy and the mother face in funding the experimental treatment?
13:56–34:02