The Rainbow Man
A fake medicine peddler helps two young lovers who want to reveal crooked cops and get married.
When Doc Meriweather, known as the Rainbow Man, hears how Hank lost his small fortune gambling and now stands to lose the woman he loves to card shark Champ Rutledge, he vows to end the gambler’s threat to the whole town. With Hank as his shill in a minor betting scheme, Doc works his way into a card game with Champ, where the stakes of which include not only the control of the town but also the gamblers’ lives.
A con-artist snake oil salesman helps a young couple who want expose the corrupt police force and marry one another.
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 Rainbow Man.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, September 21, 1976.
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