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The Better Half

Powerless and in constant fear of losing his grasp on a promising career superior, a PR man kills his brilliant wife and then succumbs to her ghostly dominance.

Bobby Boyle and Jeannie Frye are married partners in a prosperous public relations business. Jeannie possesses the real creative ability, though, and when this becomes evident to their clients, Bobby, in a fit of rage, shoots her. That night he sees and hears her. She hasn’t come back from the dead for revenge. Because she still loves him, she has come back to make sure he doesn’t get accused of her murder.

A weak PR executive, terrified of losing his successful boss, murders his smart wife but then falls under the control of her vengeful spirit.

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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“The Better Half.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, January 14, 1980.

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