The Imposter

A woman gets help from a dead actor's ghost to write a complete play, even though she knows nothing about theater. When she tries to claim she wrote the whole thing herself, the ghost gets angry and demands his name go on the show instead of hers. On the night the play opens, the woman tells everyone who really wrote the hit show.

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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