The Final Mind

When scientist Justin Day’s “protection curtain” over the United States saves the country from nuclear devastation in the 30th century, he is elected president on a tide of popular appreciation. At the height of his successful administration, Day turns up as a voice in his wife’s mind, claiming to have invented a computer that will be the perfect president.

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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