A God Named Henry
Description
A modern man finds himself marooned on a primitive island where he is viewed as a god. The villagers, in awe of him, demand he perform a miracle to save a sick child. He uses his limited medical supplies to heal the child, but is then faced with a dilemma when a priestess insists upon a human sacrifice to ensure continued divine favor.
A man from today gets stuck on an old-fashioned island where the people think he's a god. The villagers worship him and want him to work magic to help a dying child. He uses his small first-aid kit to make the child better, but then a religious woman tells him he must kill someone to keep the gods happy.
Henry Clay Fitzsimmons is in trouble at both ends: His boss exploits him mercilessly, and his wife Dora won’t stop nagging him for being such a doormat. But when Henry’s sailboat is caught in a storm and beached in an uncharted cove, things change for the better. He encounters a primitive tribe that thinks he is a god and transforms him into a tiger.
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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