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The Deadly Double

An evil twin escapes from mental asylum to hijack her sane sister's life and switch places with her. But can she carry out her role even with her sister's boyfriend as her sister tries to claw her way out of the asylum?

Five years ago, a budding artist named Anita Gregory found it necessary to place her twin sister Susan in a mental institution. When Susan escapes, she calls on her sister, meets her in a lonely locale, knocks her unconscious, changes clothes and purses and drives away in her car. Anita is found by Sheriff Wiley and taken back to the institution where everyone thinks she is Susan. When Anita warns them that Susan is likely to commit murder, the authorities still won't listen to her.

A dangerous twin breaks out of a mental hospital to steal her normal sister's identity and take over her life. But will she be able to fool her sister's boyfriend while her trapped sister fights to escape the asylum?

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 Deadly Double.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, March 24, 1975.

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