The Bittersweet Honeymoon
Description
A couple out on honeymoon think they have landed an amazing stroke of luck when a cruise-line mess-up ends up accommodating them in a super luxury suite on the ship. But their gladness soon disappears when a man with nine fingers breaks into their suite.
Because of a mix-up in the booking of their passages from Italy, honeymooners Jim and Mary Shelton are given the ship’s most expensive suite, vacated at the last minute by a Middle Eastern shah. As Jim carries Mary into the sumptuous quarters, he is knocked unconscious by an assailant who manages to get away before Mary can get a good look at him. The ship’s purser figures the shah was the assailant’s intended victim, but Jim and Mary are not at all convinced.
Newlyweds on their honeymoon believe they hit the jackpot when a cruise ship mistake puts them in a fancy luxury room. But their joy quickly turns to fear when a nine-fingered man breaks into their cabin.
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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