The Other Self

A factory owner hires a psychiatrist, Dr. Wilma Heckman, to find out why Oliver Townsend is the only contented worker in a boring assembly line job. It is because, she soon discovers, he is living in two worlds—one his job, the other a constant reconstruction in his mind and with toy soldiers of the Battle of Shiloh. However, as the anniversary date (April 6-7) of the battle approaches, Oliver becomes so certain he will be killed that he starts taking days off from his job for the first time in eight years.

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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