The Second Chance
Description
A businessman, recovering from a heart attack, suddenly believes he is an architect who died in a St. Louis accident. In his new identity, he recalls a dangerous flaw in one of his buildings, and despite his frail condition, he races against time to warn the architect's widow and avert disaster.
George Carswell, who went into the hospital unconscious, wakes claiming he is Henry Marlin, a St. Louis architect. Skeptical doctors think Carswell suffered brain damage, but a phone call to St. Louis proves a Henry Marlin died three days earlier. Marlin decides to use his new insight to warn of a dangerous flaw in one of his firm’s buildings, but Carswell’s feeble body may not hold out.
After a heart attack, a businessman starts thinking he's a dead architect from St. Louis. He remembers that one of the architect's buildings has a deadly problem, so he fights his weak body to find the architect's wife and stop a disaster before it's too late.
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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