The Thin Air

"**Whereabouts Unknown**"
"Whereabouts Unknown"
The Kaiser Aluminum Hour episode
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 17
Directed by	Fielder Cook
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	February 26, 1957
Running time	60 mins

"**The Thin Air**"
"The Thin Air"
The Philco Television Playhouse episode
Episode no.	Season 5; Episode 1
Directed by	Vincent J. Donehue
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	September 21, 1952
Running time	60 mins
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"The Thin Air" is a 1952 American television play that was an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse.^[1]^[2]

Premise

A young girl disappears on the night of her engagement party.

Elliott also adapted the script for radio, and a play version was broadcast in Australia in 1954 for The General Motors Hour.^[4]

The Age wrote "it made excellent listening."^[5]

Elliott reworked the material for "Whereabouts Unknown", an episode of The Kaiser Aluminum Hour starring MacDonald Carey and Kim Hunter.^[6]^[7]

The Buffalo News wrote "Kim Hunter had a great role and she lived it up to the hilt... the play built to a poignant finale."^[8]

The Atlanta Journal called it a "superficial drama" which "wasted the talents of Kim Hunter."^[9]

^ "21 September 1953". Ross Reports on Television. 1953.
^ "Tomorrow's Tips". The Buffalo News. September 20, 1952. p. 13.
^ "ARTHUR POLKINGHORNE'S". The Sun. No. 13311. New South Wales, Australia. October 7, 1952. p. 21 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved September 17, 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "COMPLETE GUIDE TO TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMMES". The Courier-mail. Queensland, Australia. June 2, 1954. p. 15. Retrieved September 17, 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "THE WEEK IN WIRELESS--". The Age. No. 30, 923. Victoria, Australia. June 12, 1954. p. 16. Retrieved September 17, 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Picture Tape". Chillicothe Gazette. March 2, 1957. p. 6.
^ "2 Part Whodunit". The Cincinnati Post. February 28, 1957. p. 30.
^ "Radio and TV News". The Buffalo News. February 27, 1957. p. 46.
^ "Drama's revival is a mystery". The Atlanta Journal. February 27, 1957. p. 23.