Ordeal By Fire

A man who calls himself Promos displays a strange control over fire and demands $1 million for his secret Promethean Society from corporation chief Vern Marcus. Marcus digs into history to learn that the secret society is dedicated to doing something about the lack of morality in the world today. Those who refuse Promos, Marcus and his daughter Ava learn, wind up in wheelchairs with third degree burns. Notes: This marked Julie Newmar’s first appearance on Theater. Newmar’s television credits range from the female robot Rhoda Miller on My Living Doll to Cat Woman (for one year) on Batman.

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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