THE CONE
[SHORT-STORY]
Short story by H. G. Wells, a rare contes cruel for this author, and one of the most gruesome
Guignolesque tales in the English language.
[Program information]
ORIGINATION:
DURATION:
PERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-director—1978, CBS Radio Mystery Theater), Gerald
Keane (scriptwriter—1978, CBS Radio Mystery Theater).
EXTANT RECORDINGS: “Flash Point” (9/1/78, CBS Radio Mystery Theater).
[Program log]
INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES (WJZ, NEW YORK)
[Sunday—
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THE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER (WRVR, NEW YORK)
[???day—10:07-11:00 PM
September 1, 1978 “Flash Point”
[“…Writer John Roth is sent by his editor to a Pennsylvania steel town to
capture in words the ‘beauty’ of the place. While doing his research, he
meets and falls in love with Sarah Horrocks, wife of the man who runs
the blast furnaces. They don’t think her husband realizes what is
happening until he forces Roth to take a walk with him to the steel mill’s
dangerous areas where many others have had fatal accidents.
CAST: Court Benson (Mr. Horrocks), Felicia Farr (Sarah Horrocks),
Kevin McCarthy (John Roth).