The Secret Life of Bobby Deland
Description
A couple suffering from the death of their only child take in a young waif to fill the void in their lives. At first the orphan helps alleviate the woman's migraines however, he later repays their kindness by robbing them blind.
A man and woman who lost their child bring home a homeless boy to help heal their broken hearts. The orphan first helps cure the wife's headaches, but then steals everything they own after they showed him love.
Bobby Deland, age 10 and up for adoption, is invited to live with George Carlin and his wife, Anita. Other foster parents have been unable to handle Bobby—he steals little nothings, runs away, and thinks his real mother is a baroness and a movie star. But Carlin is intrigued—even more so when Bobby is able to cure Mrs. Carlin’s migraine headache by giving it to himself.
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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