Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
Description
Professor Harry Scrim, serving 20 years of hard labor in Alcatraz, which has been reactivated for conscientious objectors to World War V (2175 A.D.), is released temporarily to help solve the mystery of the 24 shock casualties confined to Ward J of a military hospital. They don’t eat or sleep and, when confronted by doctors or military officers, disappear with a champagne cork–like pop.
The President needs information about time travelers: In World War 5, tired soldiers from battle are sending themselves back through time to today.
The President wants to know the details of time travelers: During World War 5, soldiers experiencing combat fatigue are transport themselves back in time to the present.
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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