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Good evening, this is Peter Lawrence. Welcome to another performance dedicated to the shadier side of life, the mysterious, the criminal, the oftentimes murderous side of life. Oh, please understand that this is not that life can be beautiful or love thy neighbor. Oh, no, no, no, my friends, this is the mystery playhouse. There is probably no stranger, no more unexplainable source of mystery than the human mind itself. It twists and turns sometimes in labyrinthine confusion…

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Synopsis

In The Doctor Prescribes Death, Professor Arthur Rugby is a psychologist with a controversial theory: he believes that a person contemplating suicide can be swayed to commit murder instead. This idea, however, is met with skepticism by his publisher, Mr. Hellman, who dismisses Rugby's work as fanciful and illogical. Frustrated by the lack of support for his theory, Rugby storms out of the meeting, determined to prove his hypothesis.

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Whistler, Episode 108

The Doctor Prescribes Death

Sunday, June 11, 1944 · 29:33

Whistler, Episode 108

The Doctor Prescribes Death

Sunday, June 11, 1944 · 29:33

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Professor Arthur Rugby tests a controversial theory about the human mind's connection between suicidal thoughts and the desire to kill. As he experiments, he becomes entangled in a web of obsession and revenge.

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  • 1944 — USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
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