Each of us not only needs a ghost but has a ghost. We cannot see it or touch it or hear it, but it is there and keeps us company when there is no one else. A ghost, perhaps, is no more than a memory of someone once well loved.
The Intruders, first broadcast by CBS Radio Mystery Theater, March 30, 1976. Written by Elspeth Eric.
The narrator is Lois Nettleton. She studied acting at the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago before beginning a long career in television, appearing in episodes of The Twilight Zone, Naked City, Route 66, Mr. Novak, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Eleventh Hour, Hawaii Five-O, Dr. Kildare, Twelve O'Clock High, The Fugitive, The F.B.I., Cannon, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Virginian, Kung Fu, Daniel Boone and The Mary Tyler Moore Show and others.
Nettleton was the first caller to raconteur Jean Shepherd's late-night radio program on WOR, later becoming his wife. She was a regular guest, known to the audience as "the listener."
A secondary role in this play is portrayed by Fred Gwynne, who lived a varied life, at one point being a radio operator on a Navy sub chaser, was a cartoonist for The Harvard Lampoon, one of his cartoons causing the Middlesex County district attorney to try to ban the publication on grounds of obscenity. He worked as a copywriter for J. Walter Thompson, got into acting with some minor Broadway roles, then into the movies with a brief appearance in On the Waterfront, then got into television with roles on The Phil Silvers Show, which led to a starring role in Car 54 Where Are You? and then to his most remembered role as Herman Munster in The Munsters.
