A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Description
In Mark Twain's comic fantasy, a Connecticut Yankee awakens in Camelot and tries to use his scientific knowledge to save himself from a burning at the stake. With the aid of a timid page, he plays off a solar eclipse against the court magician, Merlin, and forces the king to grant him protection and influence in court.
A man from Connecticut wakes up in King Arthur's time and uses science to avoid being burned alive. He teams up with a scared young helper to trick the royal wizard Merlin during a solar eclipse, making the king give him safety and power in the castle.
A two-fisted Connecticut foreman picks a fight with the wrong party and finds himself in King Arthur's court. Judged a sorcerer and condemned to the stake, the Yankee has a good memory, recalling an eclipse of the sun in 538, which he plans to use to save his life.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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