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Invited Guests

Oliver’s former girlfriend, Louise, asks church pastor Dr. Mabley to look into why Oliver has refused all her dinner invitations in the two years since she’s been married. Mabley agrees, and finds out that Oliver has been entertaining his parents all the while. Louise is incredulous; she attended their funeral three years ago!

In a small town, whispers of curiosity and concern surround Oliver Prouty, a man with a somber past who lives alone and often talks to himself. When he claims his long-deceased parents are visiting for dinner, neighbor Louise tries to find the truth about Oliver's peculiar behavior. She discovers a buried childhood guilt that drives him to madness.

Oliver Prouty lives by himself in a small town where people wonder about his strange ways and dark history. When Oliver says his dead parents are coming to eat dinner with him, his neighbor Louise decides to find out what's really going on. She learns that Oliver carries a terrible secret from when he was a child, and this guilt has made him lose his mind.

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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“Invited Guests.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, December 22, 1981.

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