Radio Mystery Theater The Bleeding Statue 0096

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Original Airdate: May 23, 1974
Episode 0096 "The Bleeding Statue"

Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

A magician speaks to his heirs from the grave via tape. When he disappoints most of them by leaving his entire estate to his daughter, he promises her protection via a statue in the courtyard.

Welcome to the exciting world of your own imagination. The live body, muscles rippling, seems suspended in air, twisted in its last agony. The goat legs flexed in their last spring. The beautiful boy's face transformed by a snarl of agony as the arrow bites through the back flesh to bury itself deep in the heart. This is a legendary bronze statue called the Dying Fawn. Legendary in more ways than one.

What is more mystical than a statue? The wounded fawn. No one is sure that it was not originally chiseled in marble. That the bronze we know today was not taken from a long-lost original. Where it comes from, no one knows. Where it was perhaps best known to the public at large was in its last appearance, or disappearance, on the stage of the Palace Theatre as the climax of the farewell tour of prior Abbott, the Merlin of the Magicians.

Starring: Patricia Elliot, Paul Hecht, Tony Roberts, Grace Mathews, Kurt Bent

Chapters:
00:00:00-00:02:17 Opening
00:02:18-00:16:44 Act One
00:16:45-00:31:41 Act Two
00:31:42-00:43:39 Act Three
00:43:40-00:45:24 Closing