Mother Knows Best

When Joe Dawson can’t find a job, two hoods offer to let him in on their get-rich-quick scheme, providing he invest a grand. So Joe goes to his wealthy but miserly Uncle Frank to ask for a loan, but becomes outraged by his uncle’s patronizing attitude and is overheard by neighbors as he threatens to kill him. Shortly after returning home with the money, Joe is arrested for robbing and murdering his uncle. But Joe swears that when he left his uncle he was alive—a story only his mother believes.

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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