Deadline For Death
Description
Johnny Promise is sent to the electric chair after his former partner in crime, Sam Rogers, testifies against him in court. Rogers goes free but has to live with Johnny's last threat—that he'll make sure Sam is killed within a month of his own death. Locked in a hotel room with no company, trusting no one, Sam lives for one month in total seclusion, emerging one month to the hour later. Too late, Sam remembers it's the night to change from daylight saving to standard time.
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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