Radio Mystery Theater The Thing In The Cave 0054

Original Airdate: March 11, 1974

Episode 0054 "The Thing in the Cave"

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

You know, man is a curious creature. Most of us settle for routine and habit. Eight hours on the job, another seven or eight in bed, and the other eight on some hobby that is neither too physically demanding nor asks for too many mental gymnastics. Few of us stretch ourselves beyond a reasonable limit. We coast through life. Our metal never really tried. But some of us, through harrowing experience, are stretched to the full capacity of our beings. It's then we find out what fiber we are made of.

I don't suppose many of us ever plan to grow up to be speleologists, since most of us are subject to claustrophobia to at least some degree. For the very few of you who don't recognize the Latin terms, let me add that a speleologist, of course, is someone who studies and explores caves. Claustrophobia is that suffocating, pervasive dread of being shut in. This tale concerns itself with four young spelunkers. Those are cave explorers who do it only for fun. and their gruesome experience of being cave-bound. Literally buried alive.

Starring: Robert Kaliban, Marian Seldes, Michael Wager, Teri Keane