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Room 418

A smooth-talking man convinces a hotel to let him stay in a room that's already taken at their packed hotel. But trouble starts when the real guest shows up unexpectedly in the middle of the night.

A suave man talks his way into renting a reserved room at a fully-booked hotel. But problems creep up when the rightful owner unexpectedly turns up in the night.

Kent Farrady is at first told there are no rooms available in the resort hotel where he stayed the previous day. But the night clerk, Gloria, is taken by his deep blue eyes and gives him the key to room 418, whose occupant has mysteriously disappeared. The occupant is Kent’s wife, whose body he had stuffed in a closet after shooting her twice. Strangely, she becomes alive and awakens him in the middle of the night. They have words, and he is compelled to shoot her again twice.

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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“Room 418.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, May 9, 1978.

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