The Last Escape
An elderly escape artist wants to try his hand at the greatest escape - the one that Houdini failed to complete. But his wife and her lover don't want him to succeed in his endeavor.
Because the escape artist trade no longer attracts large audiences, the Great Ferlini, age 49, plans to have himself handcuffed, tied in a canvas bag and dumped in a truck into the middle of the lake. Word of such a feat draws a crowd and provides an opportunity for his young wife—not her lover—to make sure the Great Ferlini gets headlines, not as an escape artist but as a corpse.
An old magician who specializes in escapes decides to attempt the ultimate trick - the one that defeated the famous Houdini. However, his wife and the man she's having an affair with hope he won't make it out alive.
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 Last Escape.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, October 17, 1974.
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