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AFRS recordings have proven to be very important to the collection of Suspense from completion and sound quality perspectives. So many AFRS/AFRTS discs have surfaced over this past decade that it's hard to keep track of what's available and what might be new to help replace some poor sounding home recordings that are common 1957 to the end. This spreadsheet that can help the process when used in conjunction with a series log. If you run into AFRS/AFRTS discs and all you have is the program number, this can be very helpful in determining if the recording already exists and if it does not, what the likely episode is. The sheet also shows how haphazard the numbering can be toward the end of the series. Disc collectors have been very very helpful to me and others as we work to research the series. Thank you all.

US old time radio has an international following, and Suspense is usually among the top favorite series. Many AFRS/AFRTS discs have been found over the years in Japan, Australia and elsewhere in Asia, as well as in Europe. There are some programs we have today that are the result of international fans of US OTR seeking to help their fellow fans stateside. I have been assured many times by AFRS experts that there are still many discs around the world waiting to be found in record shops, basements, attics, and many other places.

One of the more disappointing stories I have ever heard was from a collector working for the US services in Germany forty years ago. He was in the same building as AFRTS and asked if it might be possible for him to see some of their stacks and perhaps record some programs. He was sternly told "no" and that they were being destroyed. And they were, he learned... one at a time... at the target range... every day.

There is a page in this online spreadsheet that lists the likely numbers of some missing single-performance shows. We are now down to 14 missing single-performance episodes, which is incredible considering the twenty years of broadcasts and the hodgepodge of studio transcriptions, studio tape, professional airchecks, airchecks from office recorders, home recording, AFRS/AFRTS, and others. It is an amazing story of the diligence of OTR fans over many many years, starting in the late 1950s, many of whom have passed away. The fruits of their efforts are still with us; we owe them much. Working to get these last 14 episodes, about 2/3 of which were probably issued as AFRS transcriptions at some time, honors their affection for OTR and thanks them for their their hard work which we now enjoy so easily in digital form.
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