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Dead Wrong

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Debutante ghost Elmer Potts is ordered to summon the spirit of Peter B. Pell of 25 Sperling Drive and to accompany him in his departure. But, en route to Mr. Pell’s house, Potts mislays the invoice and ends up at Peter P. Bell’s home at 25 Sterling Street. Despite Bell’s resistance, Potts claims his soul. However, on the way to heaven, Potts finds the invoice and, realizing his blunder, knows that he must either convince the unwilling Bell to play dead or convince the unassuming Pell that he is better off dead.

Peter P. Bell gets confused when he dies and ends up in a strange afterlife by mistake. He loves his wife Marge back on earth. His arrival messes up how things normally work in this weird place. Then a clumsy messenger and another man with a similar name make everything more complicated. When the two men argue, it shows they are both scared of what they don't understand.

In a surreal and whimsical afterlife, Peter P. Bell finds himself bewildered by a clerical mistake. He is married to Marge, whom he treasures. His arrival in the afterlife disrupts their routine until a bumbling emissary and a similarly named newcomer complicate matters. A heated exchange shows both men's fears of the unknown.

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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