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The Spots of the Leopard

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A dock worker discovers criminals operating inside his workplace and reports them to authorities. To keep the worker and his wife safe, officials give them new identities and move them to a different place. The wife struggles to accept their new life and desperately attempts to go back to their old home.

After exposing a ring of organized crime within the company he was employed with, a dock worker and his wife are placed under the witness protection program to safeguard their lives. Unable to adapt to her new circumstances, his wife vainly tries to return to the life she left behind.

Government agents arrange for businessman Tom Rutledge, whose life is in danger, and his wife Eloise to change their names and move from New York to a remote university town in Wyoming. Rutledge has testified against several underworld figures who have vowed to rub him out. He adapts easily, but Eloise, accustomed to the advantages of big city life, is unhappy. Without telling her husband, she calls her antique dealer in New York, who unbeknownst to her is a former pal of one of the hoods out to get her husband.

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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