Radio Mystery Theater The Recluse Episode 0598

Original Airdate: February 10, 1977

Episode 0598 "The Recluse"

Written by Roy Windsor, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A Chinese proverb holds that nobody's family can hang out the sign, nothing the matter here. There's wisdom in that, don't you agree? Think about your own family. Isn't there at least one skeleton lurking in your closet? At some time and for some reason, it will surely reveal itself. The consequences have raised came with ruling powers, business, and even love between two persons. That is why Dr. Tom Lodge, a young resident in a Boston hospital, has long safeguarded a dark family secret from his wife, Nancy.

When we are young, family, especially our immediate family, is to us the world in microcosm. And we know that we are part of a self-contained unit in which we are fed, clothed, and protected. When we become adults, however, we can view our parents and relatives more objectively. Uncle Bill never was really that amusing, was he? And why did father always unthinkingly vote the straight ticket? Because he read only the sport pages. And so family unity becomes subject to the strains of objective thinking, as we are about to find out.

When his estranged grandmother dies Dr Tom Lodge inherits her entire estate, a small inn and 15 acres of land including a small house where Mrs Meggs lives. However, the estate has to be sold and all the money given to the bank to repay the $75,000 that his father had stolen from it when he worked there as assistant cashier. That was six years ago and neither Tom's father or the money have ever been seen since. Dr Tom Lodge is soon to discover that his long missing father had been murdered. Who murdered his Father and what happened to the stolen fortune?

Starring: Tony Roberts, Patricia Elliot, Frances Sternhagen, Court Benson