The Voice of Death
Description
A ventriloquist named Janus struggles with declining bookings and commissions a robot dummy from Professor Manzini. Initially successful together, the robot begins expressing dissatisfaction with its subordinate role and desires to become the ventriloquist instead.
Janus, a ventriloquist, distraught when bookings become less and less frequent, persuades Professor Manzini to build him a new dummy. The professor creates Self, a human-sized robot that can perform any physical function except for talking. Janus and Self are an immediate hit until Self begins to express a dissatisfaction with his role. Self, it becomes apparent, would prefer to be the ventriloquist in the act.
His fate takes a turn for the better when a down on his luck ventriloquist comes across an unusual doll. However, a sinister plot is set into motion when he takes the dummy as it's creator plans to take his soul in exchange.
A struggling ventriloquist finds a strange puppet that seems to change his luck, but the doll's maker has a dark plan to steal the man's soul in return.
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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