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In a different 1970s where Japan beat America in World War II, John Quinn works as a top spy from far in the future. He must find a deadly book that caused people to make 100 more books filled with future secrets. His calm focus stands out against the loud, cheerful mood of a bar where he meets the person who owns the book.

In an alternate 1970s where the U.S. lost World War II to Japan, John Quinn, a chief intelligence officer from a distant future, is on a mission to retrieve a dangerous almanac that has led to the creation of 100 others showing future secrets. His quiet determination contrasts with the lively, unaware atmosphere in a tavern where he meets the almanac's owner.

Because the Mark 747 Digitary Master Control Computer malfunctioned, the memory data bank of the year 2976 is returned in time to 1976. John Quinn, chief intelligence officer for the sector, is dispatched by the embarrassed computer to retrieve it because its information, put in the wrong hands, could destroy the civilization of 2976. However, Oliver Wilson Wright, an enterprising 1976 earthling, realizing what possession of the data bank—the size of a matchbox—could mean to him, is in no mood to give it to Quinn.

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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