Shotgun Wedding

Machinist Gus Virko decides that Charley Demerest, a co-worker and respectable bachelor, is going to meet and marry the “girl of his dreams”: Gus’ daughter, Elaine. Despite Charley’s protests, Gus insists on taking Charley at gun-point to propose to Elaine, and as if in a dream, Charley falls instantly in love with her. But, suddenly, the whole affair becomes a nightmare when Charley discovers that ten years earlier, Elaine and her first fiancé were killed in a fire started by her jealous father.

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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