This is CBSRMT at its most comic-bookish; illogical, garish, deliriously over-the-top, and pure pleasure to listen to. Hey, you gotta hand it to 'em!

The fact that logic doesn't play much role here is illustrated by the way in which our hero gets his new hand. Did it cross anyone's mind that hacking off a dead guy's hand and sewing it onto somebody else might be the teensiest bit illegal? No matter. The psychobabble in the third act, designed to provide a "logical" ending, is similarly, well...suspect.

"Hand in Glove" is a great reminder that Himan Brown's best-known OTR credit from earlier days was INNER SANCTUM, a show which ran endless stories like this. I loved the way that the spirit medium showed up for no real reason whatever (the character could have simply decided to take a cruise to try to relax and forget his troubles!). And the little siren-alarms that the people carried around sounded, I swear, exactly like New Year's Eve party favors. It truly doesn't get any better than that.

Creepy-hand stories have a long tradition, going back at least to Maupassant's famed tale "The Hand" and moving right through Hollywood's Golden Age, with movies like THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS. "Hand in Glove" doesn't really add anything to the tradition, but it provided some of the best fun I've had with the RMT in quite awhile.

I say let's give 'em a hand!

A GREAT BIG hand!