The Hands of Mrs. Mallory
Description
After her husband dies, Mrs. Mallory suddenly can't control her hands for no clear reason. In Central Park, she meets a woman who lost the use of her legs the same strange way. Mrs. Mallory goes to see her doctor, but what happens next is more shocking than she ever imagined.
Shortly after the death of her husband, Mrs. Mallory loses control of both her hands mysteriously. She meets a woman in Central Park who seems to have lost her legs in a similar manner and decides to consult her doctor. The consequences are beyond her expectations.
After giving up all hope of having her paralyzed hands cured, Ida Mallory, a wealthy widow, meets a young woman whose spine is paralyzed. Ida hears about the amazing Dr. Griff who thinks he can cure Melinda West’s spine with the “Water of Faith,” a very expensive drug. When Melinda begins to walk again, Ida decides to pay the doctor anything he wants if he’ll cure her too. Fortunately, Ida’s personal physician is skeptical.
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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