Close Shave

Rich but lonely Elwood Fenris III plays charades in his fancy living room when the mysterious Algernon Pepper talks him into pretending to be the king of made-up Dalziel. Colonel Salaba and casino woman Lolly help with the trick, but Elwood figures out the game and wins love for being foolish.

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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