The Deserter
Description
Tom Roberts, a newspaper reporter, is driving his wife, Eve, and 1-year-old son, Johnny, through the rugged California Sierras. Suddenly, they find themselves isolated by a landslide. While trying to prevent the family camper from rolling off a cliff, Tom is pinned beneath it. A mountaineer, Chad Walker, comes to their aid, sets Tom’s damaged legs, builds a fire and a lean-to, provides food, but refuses absolutely to take them down the mountain to the nearest open road.
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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