The Shock of His Life
Description
After getting shocked while repairing his TV, a man who can't stop betting discovers he can see who will win sports games before they happen. He uses this gift to make lots of money, but everything goes terribly wrong.
Bar and grill owner Herbie Boggs, furious because his television set goes black just as a Sunday football game is about to begin, tries to fix the set himself The result is an electric shock that sends him to the hospital. When he recovers, he discovers that he can predict what will happen the next day. Sadie, his wife, without being electrified, but with a woman’s intuition, foresees nothing but trouble ahead for both of them. It doesn’t take long for her prediction to come true.
A gambling addict receives the power to predict the outcome of sporting events when he is electrocuted while fixing his television. He uses his new powers to get rich with disastrous consequences.
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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