The Special Undertaking
Description
Dr. Hank Fleming and his wife Susannah, while setting up his practice in a country mansion, hear strange stories about its previous occupants—how, childless for years, they finally had a daughter, born blind and mute, whose heart was later broken by the renegade son of their housekeeper. The daughter is presumed dead, but Susannah, hearing a music box amidst eerie cries for help, becomes convinced she’s still alive, somewhere on the vast estate.
A country doctor and his young wife search for answers in an old music box to find out who the unseen person living in their new house really is.
The episode follows a couple establishing a medical practice in a country mansion who encounter troubling local legends about its former occupants. They learn of a blind and mute daughter born to the previous residents, whose heart was broken by the housekeeper's son. Though presumed dead, the wife becomes convinced the daughter survives somewhere on the estate after hearing a music box amidst eerie cries for help.
In order to discover the identity of their new home's invisible resident, a country doctor and his young wife look to an antique music box for clues.
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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