Charlie, the Actor
Description
Bouncer Dugan, nearing retirement as one of New York City’s finest, is sent to guard King Zophrana of Murania during his visit to the United Nations. Dugan soon becomes suspicious of the king’s regal qualifications, certain he’s seen his face before—as Carleton Billingham Drake, otherwise known as “Charlie,” the Actor, an escaped murderer. His young sergeant thinks Dugan is wrong, until Dugan manages to get the “king’s” fingerprints on a drinking glass.
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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