The Forever Alley
Description
The night Bobby Clover vanished, his brother-in-law, police lieutenant Joe Mulvaney, had met him in the bowling alley to discuss a personal matter. According to Joe, Bobby told him to wait in his car while he paid his bill, but Bobby neither left the alley nor remained inside—he just disappeared. After conducting an investigation, Joe believes he knows where Bobby is—only his theory is so incredible he fears he has lost his sanity. Dr. Martha Underhill, a police psychiatrist, doesn’t quite agree. She thinks Joe may have murdered his brother-in-law.
A police detective wants to make his bowling-crazy brother-in-law pay attention to his family instead of just playing games. But the detective doesn't know his brother-in-law plans to take his bowling love much further. When the brother-in-law disappears at a bowling alley one day, the detective finds out he might still be trapped there - but in a different world that exists in another dimension.
A law-enforcement investigator tries to shame his bowling obsessed brother-in-law into paying heed to his family. But he is as yet unaware that the man is prepared to take his obsession to far greater heights. One day, the brother-in-law vanishes in a bowling alley and the investigator discovers that he might still be there - but in an alternate plane of consciousness.
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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