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Mystery Theater aired on CBS Radio from 1974 through 1982. It was an hour drama created and directed by Himan Brown who also created and directed the Inner Sanctum Mystery (1941-1952). E. G. Marshall was the host of Mystery Theater until Tammy Grimes took over in the last year of broadcast.
This channel is the culmination of a project to restore all 1,399 Mystery Theater episodes. All episodes will consist of:
If you find any errors in the programs please notify me at cbsrmt-restoration@email.com.
James M. Rader
This channel is the culmination of a project to restore all 1,399 Mystery Theater episodes. All episodes will consist of:
- Original programs with theme music intact
- All segments restored (Intro/Teaser/Preview/Outro)
- No commecials
- No sponsor mentions
- No newscasts
- No late breaking news/sports interruptions
- No station IDs
If you find any errors in the programs please notify me at cbsrmt-restoration@email.com.
James M. Rader
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0390 - Portrait of A Killer (12/4/1975)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Michael Wager; Robert Dryden; Joan Lovejoy; Jada Rowland; Russell Horton.An elderly man stands in quiet fascination at a museum painting believed to be the last remaining artwork of an obscure artist. The man learns he can project himself into the painting and possibly alter the tragic history behind it.
10389 - Promise to Kill (12/3/1975)Written by Henry Slesar. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Gordon Gould; Earl Hammond; Russell Horton; Hetty Galen; Lesley Woods; Roy LeMay.* A Vengeful Dave Farmer arranges to have Vernon White, who killed Farmer's wife and daughter, slain in prison.
0388 - With Malice Aforethought (12/1/1975)Written by Sidney Sloan. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Carlos Carrasco; William Redfield; Marian Seldes; Len Gochman; Robert Maxwell.* Insisting he was fired upon first, police sergeant Gil Robey shoots and kills a suspect during a drug bust. But no drugs or weapon were found.Defects: A little background noise.
0387 - The Frammis (11/28/1975)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Howard DaSilva; Bryna Raeburn; Joan Shay; Ian Martin; Robert Dryden.A diamond-like yet worthless piece of glass makes its way from an honest jeweler's shop to a Royal Army officer to a reigning monarch's priceless collection. But then the king asks for an appraisal on the gem.
0386 - The Dead, Dead Ringer (11/27/1975)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Don Scardino; Evie Juster; Leon Janney; Jackson Beck.Mob boss Mario Procacci asks policeman Bruce Hart to deliver a warning message to the lothario husband of Procacci's daughter, Penny.
0385 - The Lap of the Gods (11/25/1975)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Larry Haines; Martha Greenhouse; Hetty Galen; William Redfield; James McCallion.Drowning his sorrow in alcohol since his wife's death puts Walter Davis into a coma and into a hospital where his spirit transfers from the present day into the body of a sea captain in the 1820s.
0384 - The Serpent's Tooth (11/24/1975)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Norman Rose; Paul Hecht; Ann Sheppard; Robert Dryden.In pre-World War I Vienna, art dealer Jacob Kohn and wife Rachel give temporary shelter to a young, homeless artist who is sickly, behaving oddly and is driven by disturbing visions.
0383 - The Hanging Judgment (11/21/1975)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Mandel Kramer; Leon Janney; Ken Harvey; Evie Juster; Joan Shay; Earl Hammond.Dr. Sam Grant and his girlfriend, Sherril Stafford, are both charged with the murder of Grant's wife. Though they admit to a possible motive the pair swear to their attorney that they did not commit the crime.
0382 - The Lamps of the Devil (11/20/1975)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Kristoffer Tabori; Russell Horton; Ian Martin; Joan Shay.Noah Artwright returns home from fighting in the Civil War to find his fiancée has married someone else and that his job as a whaler has been made obsolete by the discovery of crude oil.
0381 - Fear (11/19/1975)Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Jack Grimes; Marian Seldes; Jane White; Earl Hammond.Diminutive bank teller Edgar Ellerbe is accused of robbing another branch of his own bank.
0380 - The Moonlighter (11/17/1975)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Howard DaSilva; Joan Lovejoy; Bob Kaliban; Robert Dryden.* Needing extra cash to help satiate his wife's extravagant tastes, Stanley Morrison learns from his buddy of a way they can double their incomes.Defects: Background noise.
0379 - The Money Makers (11/14/1975)Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Ralph Bell; Bryna Raeburn; William Redfield; Jack Grimes.Two counterfeiters set up their secret operation in an abandoned house, unaware that it's inhabited by a ghost.
0378 - Home is Where the Ghost Is (11/13/1975)Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Gordon Gould; Patricia Elliott; William Redfield; Gilbert Mack.Dr. Ramsey Joslin is haunted by the ghost of his late wife, Emily, who advises him to be careful in dealing with a defecting Russian scientist.
0377 - Party Girl (11/11/1975)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Mason Adams; Russell Horton; Evie Juster; Earl Hammond; Dan Ocko.A Congressman and gubernatorial candidate tries to cover up the suicide of a prostitute he had a tryst with.
0376 - The Public Avenger (11/10/1975)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Arnold Stang; Marian Haley; Robert Dryden; Leon Janney; Himan Brown (uncredited).A business executive's assistant is alarmed when it's theorized that a mild-mannered colleague may be the vigilante who's been murdering several well-known criminals.CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as an unnamed dry cleaner at the end of act 1 and beginning of act 2.
0375 - Killing Valley (11/7/1975)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Kim Hunter; Joan Shay; Ian Martin; William Redfield.* Polly Preston returns to the small town she grew up in to write a tell-all exposé about the powerful people who ostracized her parents years earlier.Defects: Muffled audio on and off.
0374 - The Edge of the Scalpel (11/5/1975)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Teri Keane; Gordon Gould; Don Scardino; Robert Kaliban; Joan Shay.Dr. Kirk Malcolm faces a dilemma: Perform a complicated yet life-saving surgical procedure on the husband of the nurse he loves.
0373 - The Mortgage (11/3/1975)Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Larry Haines; Marian Seldes; Robert Dryden; Russell Horton; Robert Maxwell.A college professor becomes deeply worried when his picture appears in the newspaper for his doing a good deed: It may lead to his being activated as a Russian double agent, disrupting his happily placid life.
0372 - It's Hell to Pay the Piper (10/31/1975)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Sir Walter Scott.Cast: Ian Martin; Arnold Moss; Bryna Raeburn; Court Benson; Guy Sorel.A poor Scottish farmer pays his rent but fails to get a receipt from his feudal landlord, who later dies. Then the landlord's son demands that the farmer clear his debt.
0371 - Triptych for a Witch (10/30/1975)Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.Cast: Margaret Hamilton; Kristoffer Tabori; Evie Juster; Gilbert Mack; Himan Brown (uncredited).A witch masquerades as the kindly, recently widowed great aunt of a newlywed couple, and moves in to their home along with a pair of peculiarly behaving pets.CBSRMT Trivia: Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz") stars in her only Mystery Theater episode. She plays...a witch, of course.Himan Brown is uncredited as Jake in act 1.
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