"Pension Plan" is an example of what I call an undercooked script. It starts promisingly, as a serious drama that I actually found a bit reminiscent of "Death of a Salesman"--an aging man near the end of his working life, bewildered at finding himself with so little. Norman Rose and Leon Janney are my two favorite CBSRMT actors, and their confrontation scenes early on really crackle.

But to me this becomes a different story when the Devil enters. The tone changes, and the promise of psychological depth hinted at in Act 1 disappears. I was left wondering why the Devil would have been so dumb as to not provide the protagonist with a *real* pension plan, thus avoiding all the arguments that come later. And is it believable that in all those years, the protagonist never sought to nail down the details of the pension plan he thought he had?

This is one of those stories that can only move forward if the characters in it act dumber than anyone in real life actually would. Still, it was reasonably entertaining overall, and it kept me listening. Another draft from Mr. Dann, though, might have allowed him to create stronger motivations and more credible situations.