IDENTITY CRISIS: Who Wants the World’s First Brain Transplant to Fail?

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When a powerful state senator becomes the first human to receive a brain transplant, the operating room becomes a battleground where wives wrestle with losing their husbands, corrupt contractors scheme to protect their secrets, and multiple conspirators work to ensure the surgery fails. As the anesthesia takes hold, the senator has no idea that more people want him dead on the table than alive with a new body. Hear the story in “Identity Crisis!” | #RetroRadio EP0522

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Identity Crisis” (December 10, 1976)
00:46:09.187 = X Minus One, “Wherever You May Be” (June 26, 1956)
01:09:33.381 = The Zero Hour, “A Die In The Country, Part 1” (February 04, 1974)
01:32:58.988 = The Zero Hour, “A Die In The Country, Part 2” (February 05, 1974)
01:55:55.630 = The Zero Hour, “A Die In The Country, Part 3” (February 06, 1974)
02:19:04.712 = The Zero Hour, “A Die In The Country, Part 4” (February 07, 1974)
02:43:23.200 = The Zero Hour, “A Die In The Country, Part 5” (February 08, 1974)
03:06:27.291 = ABC Mystery Time, “Success Story” (1957) ***WD (LQ)
03:30:28.090 = Strange Adventure, “Jinx On The Speedway” (1945)
03:33:47.283 = Appointment With Fear, “Clock Strikes Eight” (May 18, 1944) ***WD
04:02:34.004 = BBC Haunting Women, “The Riding Crop” (October 28, 2005)
04:16:18.500 = Beyond The Green Door, “Alaskan Justice” (1966) ***WD
04:20:01.459 = Challenge of the Yukon/Sgt of the Yukon, “Magnanimous Ghost” (August 28, 1945)
04:34:27.235 = Box 13, “Round Robin” (August 14, 1949)
05:00:58.144 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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