Call My Dead Wife, is loosely based on the true story of Almon Strowger, inventor of the Automatic Telephone Exchange. The year is 1890, and after the death of his wife, Alice, Almon Strowger, a school principal from Penfield, NY, purchases a mortuary in Kansas City, MO under the care of Susan Simmons. Soon after, Strowger discovers that a sudden decline in business is due to calls being directed to the rival undertaker by his wife, the telephone operator. With the help of his nephew, Walter, a conniving accountant (Joseph Harris) and the accountant’s eccentric wife (Macey Harris), the device is invented, but not without things going terribly awry.