Shotgun Wedding
Machinist Gus Virko decides that Charley Demerest, a co-worker and respectable bachelor, is going to meet and marry the “girl of his dreams”: Gus’ daughter, Elaine. Despite Charley’s protests, Gus insists on taking Charley at gun-point to propose to Elaine, and as if in a dream, Charley falls instantly in love with her. But, suddenly, the whole affair becomes a nightmare when Charley discovers that ten years earlier, Elaine and her first fiancé were killed in a fire started by her jealous father.
Gus, who works with Charlie, asks his thirty-year-old friend to come meet his daughter. Gus thinks Charlie will fall for Elaine right away. When Charlie meets her, he does fall in love. But then weird things start happening. Charlie returns to see the woman he loves, but discovers the house is empty and everyone has disappeared.
Charlie, a man of about 30, is invited by his co-worker, Gus, to meet his daughter. Gus feels that Charlie will fall instantly in love with Elaine. When Charlie meets her, he does fall in love with her. Then things begin to get strange. Charlie goes back to visit his beloved, but he finds the house and its occupants gone.
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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“Shotgun Wedding.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, July 29, 1976.
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