Original Airdate: January 06, 1974, Episode 0001 "The Old Ones Are Hard To Kill"*Includes CBS News Clip about new radio drama seriesOriginal Story by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Hosted by EG MarshallIn the story you are about to hear the heroine is a young woman of 77 who has reached her golden years with her sense of independence in tact, with a spryness to her limbs, very good vision and excellent hearing. But as you are about to learn there are times when hearing well is not a blessing… A kindly old woman whose lodger confesses to a murder on his deathbed, and tells her that the man convicted of the crime is innocent. She begins to investigate, hoping to clear the name of the wrongly convicted man, but soon discovers that sinister forces are still at work! What is the truth behind this murder? What was it that made her lodger sick in the first place?Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Leon Janny, Roger DeKoven **Many of You May Remember Agnes Moorehead as Samantha's Interferring Mother on "Bewitched*"
Original Airdate May 20, 1974Episode 0094 "The Crack in the Wall"Written by Sidney Sloan, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallA couple grieves the loss of their daughter in a house fire. A crack in the basement wall of their new house can not be repaired despite several attempts. They begin to hear the cries of their deceased daughter through that crack and meet a strange creature in their basement offering them the ability to bring their daughter back to life. The wife becomes obsessed with the trying to bring the daughter back to life.Welcome to the terrifying world of your imagination. I have an unusual story for you about a crack in a cellar wall that resists all efforts to repair it. Despite all the learning through the ages, despite the world's great progress in physics, chemistry, biology, there are certain matters which cannot be explained by our computers or our wise men. Matters which may never have a logical explanation. Mr. Carroll, the contractor, is the first to admit that the crack in the wall was beyond him. It was a cold, rainy, windy day when Paul and Nora Sanford laid their child to rest in Green Tree Cemetery. Despite all the soothing words of friends and relatives, Nora's despair was inconsolable. She felt that nothing could ease the pain in her heart caused by the loss of her only child.Starring: Ann Costello, Robert Maxwell, Robert Dryden, Celeste Holm, Wesley Addy
Original Airdate: March 13, 1974Episode 0056 "A Little Night Murder"Written by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallPeter Jackson seeks revenge on witnesses of his father's murder during a robbery at a grocery store when he was a child. Years later, he believes the witnesses are responsible for his father's death. After killing one of the four witnesses, a dictating machine catches his voice, revealing who his next victim will be. Police are on the hunt for the killer before he can kill again.There are people who suddenly find themselves tortured and taunted by a fragile wisp of a memory. It's intangible and veiled, and it hovers uncertainly somewhere around the hazy borders of the conscious mind. It's a memory of something they may have said, or something they think they did. Exactly what it was has been long forgotten. But now it must be paid for and the price? Life itself. Downtown at night, the city is a deserted place. The lofty office buildings, those gleaming towers of glass and steel, stand quiet, empty and foreboding, like ancient temples and like the ancient temples, they also have their priestesses. These are the ladies who enter at night with mops and brooms and vacuum cleaners to clear away the debris of the day's worship and purify the offices for tomorrow's rituals. We are concerned now with one of these. A sturdy middle -aged woman named Mary Margaret Cannon. Steady, hard -working, no nonsense. But on this Friday evening something seems amiss. Mary Margaret is pale. She's nervous. And every now and then she stops working and just listens.Starring: Tony Roberts, Suzanne Grossman, Robert Dryden, Bryna Raeburn, Jack Grimes
Original Airdate: November 18, 1974Episode 0175 "The Strange Voyage of The Lady Dee"Written by Mary Jane Higby, Directed by Himan Brown, Hosted by EG MarshallA young couple and their daughter lose their way in the fog on their new boat and are lured to a mysterious island by the spirit of a long dead woman. There, they encounter the island's lone resident who may not have their best interest at heart.Starring: Paul Hecht, Augusta Dabney, Corrine Orr, Margaret Baker, Dan Ocko
Original Airdate: February 13, 1974Episode 0037 "Dig Me Deadly"Written by S.J. Rosen,Directed by Himan Brown, Hosted by EG MarshallFollowing the unearthing of a oddly decomposed body by archaeology students in the Arizona desert. A vacationing LA detective named Claudia Trubshaw is brought in to unravel the mystery.It gives me a fiendish delight to invite you on a very unusual expedition. For in our tale to come, we are going to travel not to distant shores, not to outer space, but instead, backwards in time. Time as the archaeologist knows it. The depths of time. Strange thing about Archaeology. It seeks to understand life by thestudy of death. You and I know that death is no respecter of time. It often comes unbidden, unexpectedly, even fiercely and murderously. So, get your pith helmets, your sunglasses, your axes, shovels,and all the other paraphernalia you will need to join us in Dig Me Deadly. Starring: Starring: Louise Larabee, Mason Adams, Ralph Bell, Corrine Orr, Ann Costello, Kristopher Tibori
Original Airdate: January 07, 1974Episode 0002 "Return of the Moresbys" Original Story by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall The story you are about to hear concerns a question which has been asked since the first men on earth were born and died. Is there a life after death? Is there a way to return from the grave and if there is can we come back in the body of a living creature even one that has claws instead of fingernails? Here is one chilling answerStarring: Patrick O'Neill, Marian Seldes, Dan Ocko, Nick Pryor
Original Airdate: April 4, 1974Episode 0069 "The Thing Inside"Story by Robert Newman, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallAn artist and his wife acquire a glass paperweight at an antique shop. The artist is convinced there is something inside the ball and develops an obsession with it. After he breaks the ball there are suddenly two murders near by. His wife suspects that her husband has been taken over by an evil spirit. I'm afraid the chairs aren't very comfortable, but that doesn't matter because in just a moment you'll be sitting on the edge of them. For we'll be bringing you the tale of the thing inside. A strange and potent force sealed up and held in check that cried to be released and once it was freed, brought terror and death to a whole countryside. What is evil? Is it abstract or concrete? Does it seek us out, or do we seek it? Either way, there is something in all of us that senses its presence, and when we do, most of us draw back from it in fear. But occasionally, for reasons we do not always understand, we are attracted to it and come under its spell, thus freeing it to work its destruction on an unsuspecting world. Our story begins as John and Sarah Farrar get out of their car and walk towards a rather shabby and rundown antique shop in a small New England village. Starring: Ralph Bell, Bryna Raeburn, Robert Kaliban, Leon Janny
Original Airdate: January 8, 1974Episode 0003 "The Bullet"Written by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host EG MarshallGerry was a young man of twenty when he fought in the war and now ten years later he is receiving visits from a friend of his who died in the war. He cannot explain it but it feels so real. Gerry believes that there’s a bullet and it’s designed especially for you and if it’s your bullet it will find you no matter where you are, you can’t evade it, you can’t avoid it, it was meant for you, it was meant to be.Starring: Larry Haines, Evie Juster, Leon Janny, Martin Newman, Ralph Bell, Dan Ocho
Original Airdate: January 09, 1974Episode 0004 "Lost Dog"Written by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host EG MarshallA petty thug torments his wife who is afraid of dogs by buying a doberman and trying to make her live with it. She has different ideas.Welcome to the world of mystery. To the world of terrifying imagination. The story you are about to hear is called Lost Dog. Yes, a dog story. But please don't expect a charming family tale about man's best friend. In fact... You may even decide that the dog in this story is man's worst enemy. It all depends on whether or not you share the particular terror of our heroine, Miss Julia Smollett. Our story begins in the quiet parlor of a small suburban house at the end of Elm Street. Well, not completely quiet, since young Ronnie Hughes is once again practicing his scales under the gentle, watchful eyes of his piano teacher, Mrs. Julia Smollett.Starring: Kim Hunter, George Matthews, Robert Dryden, Gilbert Mack, Mandy PatinkinKim Hunter's most famous role was in "Streetcar Named Desire" she appeared in 23 episode of the CBSRMT" *Mandy Patinkin played the young boy. He was 20 Years Old at the time*
Original Airdate: January 10, 1974Episode 0005 "No Hiding Place"Original Story by Sidney Sloan, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallOur story deals with fate. Some call it luck. Whatever it is, it works in the strangest ways to reward us or defeat us. Fate walked into Charles Powell's life in the person of Clint Libitz.Everything looked right to Charles Powell that crisp September morning when he walked into his executive office at the J. P. McCready Company. And why shouldn't it? Charlie Powell was a big shot there. At thirty -seven, executive vice president of one of the largest manufacturers of heavy construction equipment in the country, and he had done it all in less than twelve years. It was a real -life Horatio Alger story. Even to his being engaged to JP McCready's daughter, Allison. How could anything go wrong?Starring: Larry Haines, Jackson Beck, Anne Meecham, Sydney Walker, Tom Keena**Jackson Beck was quite the Voice Actor. He voiced such cartoons as Bluto in the Popeye cartoons, Little Lulu's father, the fox in the Baby Huey cartoons, and Buzzy the Crow, who was a foil for Katnip the Cat in a number of cartoons. He was also the voice of King Leonardo in the 1960s TV cartoon series of the same name. He also had a part in the Peanuts 1977 film Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown as the snickering cat, Brutus. He narrated the 1980s G.I. Joe animated TV series. His other voice work included network TV promos (a series of promos for NBC's NFL coverage for much of the 1980s), narration for sketches on Saturday Night Live, movie trailers, and commercials for everything from toys to shampoo (one of Beck's very last commercials was for Infusium Shampoo).**
Original Airdate: January 11, 1974Episode 0006 "Honeymoon With Death"Original Story by George Lowther, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallA psychiatrist once said that the human brain is like a spider's web. Together all the strands are strong. But taken one by one, each can easily be broken and the web destroyed. There are countless cases of human brains broken and smashed in just this way, step by step, strand by strand. And I can't help wondering, is this what happened to young Jennifer Brady?What makes Jennifer Brady think she's going out of her mind? What strange thing happened that couldn't have happened? Starring: Lois Nettleton, Tony Roberts, Teri Keane, Norman Rose
Original Airdate: January 12, 1974Episode 0007 "I Warn You Three Times"Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallI Warn You Three Times is a tale of Witches who are young and beautiful and who even fall in love. When one man discovers that his wife is a witch he tells a newspaper that he is going to kill her. What do you think about witches? Not the bony hags and atrocious crones of Shakespeare and legend or the poor unfortunates of Salem. But witches who are young. Witches. What beautiful witches who even fall in love. It's one of those miserable stormy nights in the dead of winter. A thick, clinging, wet snow seems determined to smother the entire earth and everyone on it. You'd think that most people would choose the cheerful indoors, a warming fire, a relaxing drink, a comfortable bed. That's the problem with most people. You can't figure them. For instance, consider that line of cars crawling down Main Street, bumper to bumper, skidding, sliding. Where is everybody headed on a night like this? Have we become a race of lemmings? Do we follow some mysterious, unconscious drive? An interesting speculation, but we won't pursue it.Starring: Starring: Joan Loring, Mason Adams, Tom Keena, Alan Manson, Sam Gray
Original Airdate: January 13, 1974Episode 0008 "Cold Storage"Original Story by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallI am a man normally filled with the milk of human kindness, but prepared, I'm afraid, to curdle your blood with a tale not of life and death, but rather death and life. I offer you one small comfort. It could hardly happen today. But in the last century, on the old Montgomery estate in Maryland, in the great dark rambling house called Westerly, it was easier to be marked for death than in this one. Some ghouls robbing a grave. Many years before, Buford Montgomery found himself engaged in essentially the same activity, where every bit is shocked when the corpse whose rings they were tearing off suddenly sat up, alive. An epileptic seizure in other times could counterfeit death. The ghouls, of course, had a recourse. They ran away. Buford Montgomery has to stay and face his problem. Starring: Ruby Dee, John Baragray, Bryna Raeburn, Roxy Roker
Original Airdate: January 14, 1974Episode 0009 "Death Rides a Stallion"Original Story by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. MarshallFor the next 52 minutes, I will be your trainer I say trainer because we are concerned with a horse a remarkable powerful stallion who not only runs but who thinks and what does he think about? You know a spine-tingling tail. He will think most about revenge. He's a big five -year -old chestnut stallion. He's in the prime of his glorious life. He has fire in his eyes and steel springs in his legs. The powerful muscles ripple beneath his shiny, velvety coat. And he also has a mind of his own. He's a rebel who acknowledges no master. That's why he's called Spartacus. But if he has no master, he does have a mistress. A slender, freckle -faced girl named Emily. and he will respond to her slightest touch, her softest whisper.Starring: Mason Adams, Marian Seldes, Paul McGraff, Barbara Worthington, Henry Belevar
Original Airdate: January 15, 1974Episode 0010 "The Resident"Original Story by Elsbeth Eric, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallWhat is the nature of danger? Is it a clear threat to our safety? Or is it a murky product of our imagination? What is safety? Do we ever really possess it? Isn't there always danger? Our tale is about a little old lady who ran from danger. and was pursued by a cat. It's hard to live with danger. Hard if you're old, elderly. Hard if you're a woman and hardest if you're alone Miss Malvina Thrip is elderly a woman and alone.Starring: Mason Adams, Marian Seldes, Paul McGraff, Barbara Worthington, Henry Belevar
Original Airdate: January 16, 1974Episode 0011 "Accounts Receivable"Original Story by Sidney Sloan, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallI have an unusual story about a father and son. You know, it is said that love and hate are two sides of the same coin. If this is so,Phil, the son, never believed it. His hatred blinded him to the extent that he lost all humanity and compassion for his father, his is Phil tColeman. A son bringing his ailing, paroled father home from the hospital. Meanwhile, he must find $15000 to buy out his business partner or lose his business.Starring: William Prince, Joseph Julian, Ralph Carter, Joan Lovejoy, Robert Dryden, Ian Martin
Original Airdate: January 17, 1974Episode 0012 "You Can Die Again"Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallIt used to be that only the mystics believed you could go back and relive your life. But didn't so eminent a scientist as Albert Einstein say that the past, the present, and the future are all intermingled somehow? Then why should we question a gentleman named Spencer Chadwick who is asking a very vital question?This evening we're concerned with bright young men. That is, those who began as bright young men, like Spencer Chadwick. Bright young Spencer Chadwick married his boss's daughter, but that was twenty -three years ago. And today young Spencer has arrived at comfortable middle age.Starring: Richard Mulligan, Mandel Kramer, Marian Seldes, Bryna Raeburn, Gilbert Mack
Original Airdate: January 18, 1974Episode 0013 "A Ring of Roses"Original Story by S.J. Wilson, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallOur tale is a blood-freezing story inspired by a nursery rhyme, a sweet, simple song. Ring a ring of roses, a pocketful of poses. Achoo! Achoo! We all fall down. It sounds young and innocent, doesn't it? But it is very old and very sinister. For the ring-a-ring of roses were the splotches that first appeared on the faces of those afflicted during the Black Plague. The pocketful of poses were the herbs that were carried, hopefully to ward off the fatal disease. The sneezing sounds, achoo, achoo, were the sounds of the final spasms. And we all fall down was, well, you can guess.Science has brought most plagues under control, but not so those other epidemics of the past. Those that plague us with their unseen, unknown, and unexpected terrors. Such is the tale of terror you are about to hear. Draw close to the guttering candle, for you will receive no warmth fStarring: rom a ring of roses.Glynnis O'Connor, George Petrie, Sydney Walker, Elspeth Eric, Hollan Taylor, Carol Hilliard
Original Airdate: January 19, 1974Episode 0014 "The Girl Who Found Things"Original Story by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. MarshallIn the next 52 minutes, you'll hear a story about a girl with a most unusual talent. A talent for finding lost dolls? Or dead bodies? You may not be glad you met Iris Lloyd, but we don't think you'll forget her.It begins serenely enough in the pleasant little town of Medvale, but with a woman who is preparing to leave it, just as soon as her taxi arrives.Starring: Norman Rose, Bryna Raeburn, Ann Costello, Robert Dryden, Barbara Caruso.
Original Airdate: January 20, 1974Episode 0013 "The Chinaman Button"Original Story by Henry Sleasar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall The story you're about to hear might be called a morality play. It's a story whichhas a question you can ask yourself. What is your price tag for killing a man? If you think you don't have one, listen to the story of Walter Van Haas and the Chinaman Button.And now, Act One of The Chinaman Button. But it does not begin in China. It begins in New York City on the executive floor of a bustling advertising agency.Starring: Mason Adams, Paul Hecht, Evie Juster, Ralph Bell, Will Hare