DIARY OF A MADMAN
[SHORT-STORY]
Based on an 1885 story by Guy de Maupassant.
[CHRONOLOGY]
THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER (WRVR, NEW YORK—CBS)
[???day—10:07-11:00 PM]
March 25, 1974 “Diary of a Madman”
[“…A judge who murders because he thinks he’s ‘obeying the laws of
nature’ later sits in judgment of innocents accused of his crimes and
keeps a record of his misdeeds in a diary. In order to continue his mad
adventures he keeps the diary safely (he hopes) locked up in a desk
drawer…”]
SCRIPT: Sam Dunn (adapted from the story by Guy de Maupassant).
PERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-director).
CAST: Bob Dryden (Pete Simmons), Larry Haines (Frank Wallis), Evelyn
Juster (Estelle Wallis), William Redfield (Jim Downard).
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