The Left Hand of God
Description
When a tale's character comes strangely alive and refuses to accept his fate, Sam Clemens is called in to assist a fellow writer whip his story into shape.
Dudley Everett arrives at his friend Sam Clements’ apartment desperate for help: Tom Ditson, a character in his latest short story, refuses to die as plotted. Clements, fearing for the man’s sanity, agrees to finish the tale. He gets Tom to the scaffold, only to find the fictional murderer refusing to go one step further.
A fictional character mysteriously comes to life and won't accept his destiny, so Sam Clemens gets asked to help another writer fix his troubled story.
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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