First Childhood

) While staying at an ocean resort, Walter Owens, a lawyer, meets Regina Summerfield, a philosophical but strange woman who invites him to her mansion to meet her husband, Everett. Owens soon realizes that Everett was killed at Pearl Harbor, although Mrs. Summerfield still talks to him, and the “mansion” is a dilapidated old house. But when Mrs. Summerfield’s niece tries to have her committed to an institution and take her house, Owens attempts to defend the eccentric lady, and it’s her strange childhood that provides the key to her defense.

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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