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Happy Death Day

Paul Verner, married to an overweight but wealthy Marge, is secretly courting her half sister, Valerie. Scheming to do away with Marge, Paul concocts an elaborate plot involving hypnosis, under the influence of which Marge begins to believe that she will commit suicide on her next birthday. Convinced she is going mad, Marge visits a psychiatrist who, after several interviews, is able to get an inkling of what Paul and Valerie are up to.

In a dimly lit parlor, Marge lives with her husband, Paul, and stepsister, Val. The air is thick with tension. Marge, a gentle soul troubled by ominous dreams, trusts her family. Paul, charming yet deceitful, and Val, sly and enigmatic, share whispered secrets. Their life seems ordinary, but beneath the surface, shadows lurk. Marge's nights are restless, haunted by dreams of her demise, casting a pall over their home.

Marge shares a dark house with her husband Paul and stepsister Val, where trouble fills every room. Sweet but worried Marge has scary dreams and believes her family cares about her. Paul acts nice but lies, while Val stays quiet and sneaky - they whisper secrets together. Everything looks normal during the day, but something bad hides underneath. Marge can't sleep well because her dreams show her own death, making their whole house feel cursed.

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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“Happy Death Day.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, January 21, 1977.

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