This program is a very good play centered on a woman, her husband, and a gentleman she meets that looks virtually identical to her husband. Prepare yourself for some interesting listening.

Set in 1931, a young police officer is about to lose his job due to cuts in the department. It must be New York City because as a "last job", his superior asks the officer to transport a mobster cross-country from Sing Sing to Alcatraz. As they travel by train, handcuffed together, the officer and the prisoner talk. The mobster tells the officer that he looks exactly like his right hand man (see the title), who just happens to be married to his daughter, although she does not know she is his daughter. Make sense so far? As they travel along, the prisoner asks the officer to do him a favor after he drops him off at Alcatraz. All of this you learn at the outset, and this is the beginning of the adventure. Does the rest of the action occur in San Francisco? This is just too goofy.

A woman finds a man who looks exactly like her husband. She uses him to help murder her husband.

A bright young policeman is facing lay-off when his commander sends him off on one last mission - to escort a famous criminal to a more secure prison via train. En route, the detective is asked to send a message to the criminal’s daughter. Asking why him, he learns that he bears an uncanny resemblance to someone else which would add strength to the message.

When the policeman decides, with little justification, to help the woman and pose as her husband, it reminded me of the scene in "Amazon Women on the Moon" in which a spaceman says "It's only a hunch...." and then proceeds to remove his helmet on an alien planet. I enjoyed the part where the cop decides to store the body in the freezer.

"Smell that H2O!" Eek eek

I like the extended news broadcast before and after the show . . . more on that later. Maybe real cops don't follow "type" at all, but I'm sorry . . . the voice of Howie the Cop just didn't work for me. He sounded like a shoe salesman, or a piano teacher, or a Quaker pastor. (My appologies to all salesmen, teachers and pastors.) He sounded like, in a room of a hundred people, the gentlest soul in the whole group. But then again, Columbo isn't your typical hard-nosed cop either. The news and commercials were very good, and today I miss the public service announcements so common back then; I guess these days radio stations don't have to do them and we, the public, don't need them. ??? But I almost choked on my coffee at the beginning! Right after E.G.'s intro and before Act I we get the commercials. An ad for Miller beer which was pretty typical at the time; followed by a short-story Public Service announcement. Poor boy begging for food (won't you help him?) and then this; "George W. is an alcoholic, but wishes he wasn't." I know that I shouldn't spend so much time on commercials, when RMT stories really are the main thing here; and I shouldn't get political . . . but gawd I found that funny!

AAAAAAGREE!!! I LOVE the news commentary and commercials..that's about 98% for my being back here for 6 years E v e r y single night.. 📻 ❤

Not a great listen for me. The plot, as C. Charlie put it, is "just too goofy". On top of that the beginning when the cop is on the train and there is a bunch of dialog between the two I just got bored and stopped listening. After that it was more interesting, but still goofy. I usually like Ian Martin shows, but not this one.

Private detective Bruce Hart accepts underworld boss Mario Procacci’s offer of $1,000 to deliver the message, “You can be replaced,” to his playboy son-in-law, Howie Marsden. After arriving at the Marsden home, Hart finds Procacci’s daughter, Penny, innocent though she is, holding a gun over her dead husband’s body. When Hart sees the uncanny resemblance between Marsden and himself, he quickly switches identities, hoping that the real murderer will try to strike again.