Lonesome and alone while traveling through Europe, Alfred Parrish encounters an eccentric, retired U.S. Army officer who encourages him to see Russia without a passport. Chaos ensues, resulting in their conviction in a Russian court and a one-way trip to Siberia. (en)
Starring: Tony Roberts, Robert Dryden, Evelyn Juster, Marian Seldes (en)
Set in New York's Bowery neighborhood, c. 1899, this adaptation of H. G. Wells' short story chronicles a man who realizes he can alter fortunes and make wishes reality out of sheer will; it leads to strange miracles coming true... but it also leads to hurbis on the man's part. (en)
Starring: Paul Hecht, Mandel Kramer, Marie Cheatham, Robert Dryden (en)
The captain of a tugboat-turned-fishing charter is implicated by a scheming woman and her beach-bum boyfriend for the murder of the woman's husband. (en)
Police — and the assailant — are on the hunt to find a blind woman who unknowingly witnessed the murder of a pharmacist. (en)
Newly widowed Duchess Margo Baranya longs to a return to her youth. The devilish financier she's been having a dalliance with is gradually granting that wish. (en)
Scientist Dr. John Gilbert is his own test subject for an invisibility serum... which only separates him from his shadow, which goes on a homicidal rampage. (en)
Starring: Tony Roberts, Evie Juster, Bryna Raeburn, Earl Hammond (en)
Ann Fairchild has found happiness with her husband-to-be, Hugh Denning. But the return of Ann's man-hungry older sister, Eve, threatens Ann and Hugh's romantic bliss and rekindles a sibling rivalry. (en)
Rudy Slaymaker discovers that his favorite detective novelist writes tales that predict true crimes. But Rudy must take preemptive action when he discovers the author's lates book about is his own future — in which Rudy's wife conspires with his boss to kill him so that they can marry. (en)
Stressed sales manager Harold K. Starbright becomes even more anxious when he is shown a cemetery tombstone that displays his future death date. (en)
Starring: Larry Haines, Leon Janney, Joan Shay, Court Benson, Sam Gray (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Patricia Bruder, William Redfield, Earl Hammond, Bryna Raeburn (en)
A man with loads of charm proceeds with his bloody ascension to the throne in this vivid rettling of Shakespeare's Richard III (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Arnold Moss, Bryna Raeburn, Robert Kaliban, William Redfield (en)
Starring: Fred Gwynne, Joan Shay, Court Benson, Bill Griffis (en)
After Dan Bowles saves a ranch owner's life, he is immediately hired as a ranch hand and falls for the rancher's daughter. But the ire of more than just the ranch foreman is raised when it is learned that Dan has half-breed Indian ancestry. (en)
Starring: Kristoffer Tabori, Paul Hecht, Evie Juster, Gilbert Mack, Robert Kaliban (en)
A woman takes a caretaker job in a remote castle, where the lord and lady of the house are haunted by a seemingly ghostly image... and a dark family secret. (en)
Richard Paradon has the looks, charm, and smarts to make money in an unsavory way — by bilking beautiful, wealthy women out of theirs. Then he meets a woman who's neither rich nor pretty... but proves hard to leave behind. (en)
A ghostly tale, adapted from Edith Wharton's short story, involving a nouveau riche woman, her husband, his business dealings, and a vengeful spirit. (en)
Unattractive cop Bert turns mass murderer when he kills the women who turn down his sincere offers for dates. When Bert confesses his crimes to the detective assigned to the case, his colleague doesn't believe him. (en)
Nebbish businessman Marc Harrison becomes enthralled by a knife-throwing performer and his assistant/wife — who reciprocates the attention by initiating an affair with Marc. (en)
Starring: Mason Adams, Russell Horton, Joan Shay, Jackson Beck (en)
A talented dancer with a sordid past is murdered in a hotel room. It's a traditional "whodunit" mystery that's highlighted by series host E. G. Marshall stepping in during the final act and inviting listeners to take a guess as to who the murderer may be. (en)
Starring: Bobby Morse, Bryna Reaburn, Robert Dryden, Jason Beck (en)
Starring: Morgan Fairchild, William Redfield, Catherine Byers, Joseph Silver (en)
Starring: Fred Gwynne, Carol Teitel, Jada Rowland, Russell Horton (en)
Starring: Jada Rowland, Guy Sorel, Anne Williams, Kenneth Harvey (en)
A small town doctor's daughter falls in love with a mysterious man who comes to town on the same train every week... and continues to do so even after the town loses its spot on the train schedule. (en)
Starring: Teri Keane, Ann Shepherd, Jack Grimes, Morgan Fairchild (en)
An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's short story about a fugitive, his alter ego, and the ship captain who accommodates them both. (en)
Police work a case of a murdered private eye whose wallet contained five $20 bills, each bearing two zeroes written in red ink. (en)
"There is nothing dark or foreboding about the tunnel Ted and Peg Marshall will drive into. It's a simple, short bridge in New Hampshire." (en)
A rettling of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, in which a Roman politician is beguiled by the queen of Egypt. (en)
Starring: Patricia Elliott, Ian Martin, Paul Hecht, Nat Polen (en)
A rookie police detective and her crotchety veteran partner encounter an apartment building full of peculiar suspects while investigating the murder of a genius chess player's friend and frequent opponent. (en)
Starring: Tony Roberts, Morgan Fairchild, Frances Sternhagen, Jackson Beck, Guy Sorel (en)
Starring: Mercedes McCambridge, Mandel Kramer, Sam Gray (en)
Believing time is as elastic as space, a parapsychology professor transports himself to the early period of the Great Depression. But the trouble he gets in during the past will have drastic ramifactions for his future. (en)
Starring: Howard DaSilva, Ann Pitoniak, Rosemary Rice, Robert Kaliban (en)
Two strangers caught in a rainstorm seek shelter in a well-kept house whose only occupant is a blinded cat. (en)
Starring: Paul Hecht, Marian Seldes, Leon Janney, Ian Martin (en)
With the Civil War concluded, Becky Pryor returns to a Texas ranch and, with a Northerner ranch hand's help, tries to determine if, one year earlier, friend Carrie Conway's death by hanging, one day before her wedding, was suicide or foul play. (en)
Mousy bookkeeper Hubert Purley buys a work horse named Mervin, who may not be the racing thoroughbred Hubert mistook him to be... but who can tell him how to turn a $2 bet at the track into a life-changing windfall. (en)
Jessica Chapman sets out to discover whether a gold-framed, full-length mirror she gave to former college roommate Clare Connor played a part in Clare's descent from "the fairest of them all" into a life of unhappiness and familial dysfunction. (en)
A brain transplant weighs heavily on the doctor performing it, the wives of the donor and the recipient... and the corrupt contractors who want to make sure the surviving brain stays quiet. (en)
Despite clear evidence, police captain Jim Turner can't bring to arrest his daughter, Ginnie, for a rock star's murder. (en)
Starring: Patricia Elliott, Carmen Matthews, Leon Janney (en)
Dr. Werner Diethardt finds a severely injured skyjacker who made off with $2 million... and removes the crook's brain, so that it can tell him where he hid the loot . (en)
A cattle baron hires a gunslinger with a unique mark in his hair and a dark past in his soul; his arrival arouses love in the rancher's daughter, but also anger in her betrothed. (en)
Starring: Court Benson, Patricia Elliott, Russell Horton, Ian Martin (en)
A trio of artists living in abstract poverty in the south of France concocts a scheme to increase the value of their paintings and their sales. The catch: One of them has to play dead. (en)
"Our tale deals with the mind and its fantasies. With acts so foul that only demons can move a man to commit them..." (en)
Starring: Howard Da Silva, Bryna Raeburn, Earl Hammond, William Griffis (en)
Lydia Prentiss loves her boyfriend so much that she takes the rap for his crimes of assult and theft against his employer. But when he abandons her while she is in prison, Lydia plots revenge. (en)
Note: The first of a week-long series of episodes based on the works of Mark Twain . (en)
Starring: Mercedes McCambridge, William Redfield, Ian Martin, Guy Sorel (en)
Adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant (en)
Adapted from a short story by Thomas Hardy (en)
Adapted from a story by H. G. Wells (en)
Adapted from a story by Oscar Wilde (en)
Adapted from an unfinished work by Mark Twain (en)
Adapted from the novel by Ambrose Bierce (en)
Adapted from the short story by Alexander Pushkin (en)
Adapted from the short story by Ambrose Bierce (en)
Adapted from the short story by Mark Twain (en)
An adaptation of a story by Mark Twain (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Russell Horton, Marian Seldes, Evie Juster, Robert Maxwell (en)
His son's death at the hands of mobsters shakes the usually pacifist beliefs of Nick Birko. So he takes matters into his own hands by meeting the mafia don behind the murder... and taking an instant liking to him. (en)
Despite being at an advanced age and suffering from a failing heart, retired judge Justin Travers vows to put his jurisprudence skills one final time to help a past love — one Muriel Parks, who, despite being the daughter of its biggest benefactor, cannot raise the required upfront fee to gain residence into a home for the elderly. (en)
A freak accident that claims the life of an insane asylum inmate leads to an investigation centering on the horrifying familial secrets surrounding another inmate... who's been having clandestine conversations with an unseen visitor. (en)
A middle-aged couple find the house they rented as newlyweds, and rent it again in an aim to rekindle their marriage and recapture the joys of their youth. But unseen voices would prefer that the property not be restored. (en)
A police detective investigates a psychiatrist's murder, with the only clue being an audio tape of the murderer's conversation with the victim. (en)
Starring: Ralph Bell, Joan Shay, Anne Williams, Earl Hammond (en)
Starring: Hurd Hatfield, Patricia Elliott, Joan Shay, Ian Martin (en)
A college professor finds himself the unwilling object of a colleague's obsessive — and violent — romantic advances. (en)
Starring: Court Benson, Russell Horton, Morgan Fairchild, Ian Martin (en)
Starring: Joan Lovejoy, Robert Dryden, Ian Martin, Joseph Silver (en)
A hypochondriac begins to worry when his doctor tells him he has an aortic aneurism. But fear is later fused with anger when the doctor later denies ever giving him the diagnosis. (en)
A supernatural accident causes an ex-police sergeant and a mob-tied con artist to swap bodies. (en)
Starring: Larry Haines, Leon Janney, Marian Hailey, Evelyn Juster (en)
Cash Haliday fills his weekly newspaper column on crime and corruption with predictions that come true. Cash's talent could be a case of uncanny insight, ESP, or just wishing things into reality ... but whatever it is, it just might come in handy when a gangster threatens his life. (en)
At first, Claude & Polly Baxter are delighted to have inherited a castle and a neighboring lake. But joy turns to fright when they discover the castle has been home to a demented embryologist crossing Venus flytraps with birds... and that the lake is home to something even more horrific. (en)
Despite being a celebrated sociologist, John Desmond has been constantly passed over for the highest honor in the field, the Parkhurst Medal. But Desmond has a decision to make when a mysterious man promises him the next Parkhurst will be his... so long as he falsifies his research and murders his superior. (en)
After an American is confronted by a pack of dogs while touring a British castle for a possible purchase, a neighbor clues her in on the history of the castle and its former inhabitants. (en)
For life insurance purposes, Norman Claymore must disclose to his employer's personnel department how is father died. When he learns secret behind the death that his beloved mother kept hidden, Norman becomes a changed man... for the worse. (en)
Starring: Alexander Scourby, Bryna Raeburn, Court Benson, Paul Hecht (en)
Starring: Arnold Moss, Marian Seldes, Ralph Bell (en)
Starring: Bob Kaliban, Joan Shay (en)
Starring: Carmen Matthews (en)
Starring: Court Benson, Evelyn Juster (en)
Starring: Eliot Reid (en)
Starring: Evie Juster, William Redfield (en)
Starring: Frances Sternhagen, Tony Roberts (en)
Starring: Fred Gwynne, Ralph Bell (en)
Starring: Gordon Gould (en)
Starring: Gordon Gould, Teri Keane (en)
Starring: Howard Da Silva (en)
Starring: Howard Da Silva, Larry Haines (en)
Starring: Ian Martin (en)
Starring: Ian Martin, Marian Seldes (en)
Starring: Jack Grimes, Paul Hecht (en)
Starring: Jack Grimes, Robert Dryden, Hetty Galen (en)
Starring: Jada Rowland (en)
Starring: Jada Rowland, Robert Kaliban (en)
Starring: Jennifer Harmon, William Redfield (en)
Starring: Joe Silver, Catherine Byers (en)
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Lois Nettleton (en)
Starring: Kim Hunter, Earl Hammond (en)
Starring: Kristoffer Tabori (en)
Starring: Kristoffer Tabori, Earl Hammond (en)
Starring: Kristoffer Tabori, Morgan Fairchild (en)
Starring: Larry Haines, Evie Juster (en)
Starring: Leon Janney, Jason Beck (en)
Starring: Lois Nettleton (en)
Starring: Mandel Kramer (en)
Starring: Mandel Kramer, Evie Juster (en)
Starring: Mandel Kramer, Marian Seldes (en)
Starring: Marian Seldes (en)
Starring: Marian Seldes, Arnold Moss (en)
Starring: Marian Seldes, Ian Martin (en)
Starring: Marian Seldes, Marian Haley (en)
Starring: Marian Seldes, Michael Wager (en)
Starring: Marian Seldes, Paul Hecht (en)
Starring: Mason Adams (en)
Starring: Michael Tolan (en)
Starring: Michael Wager (en)
Starring: Nat Polen, Bob Kaliban (en)
Starring: Norman Rose (en)
Starring: Norman Rose, Carmen Mathews (en)
Starring: Norman Rose, Ian Martin (en)
Starring: Norman Rose, Larry Haines (en)
Starring: Norman Rose, Mandel Kramer (en)
Starring: Patricia Elliott, Norman Rose (en)
Starring: Patricia Elliott, William Redfield (en)
Starring: Paul Hecht (en)
Starring: Ralph Bell (en)
Starring: Ralph Bell, Lois Nettleton (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Ian Martin (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Marian Hailey (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Marian Seldes (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Norman Rose (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Teri Keane, Jada Rowland (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Teri Keane, Rosemary Rice (en)
Starring: Robert Morse, Ian Martin (en)
Starring: Robert Morse, Robert Dryden (en)
Starring: Rosemary Murphy, Gordon Gould (en)
Starring: Russell Horton (en)
Starring: Tammy Grimes (en)
Starring: Tony Roberts (en)
Starring: Tony Roberts, Arnold Moss (en)
Starring: Tony Roberts, Joe Silver (en)
Starring: Vincent Gardenia, Joan Shay (en)
Starring: William Redfield (en)
Starring: William Redfield, Marian Seldes (en)
A Russian soldier pursues a wealthy countess to seek a secret at winning in faro; bad luck arises instead when the soldier accidentally causes the countess' death. (en)
Police are baffled by a series of murders; the perpetrator appears to be a virtuous woman who can bring the wrath of God down on anyone who approaches her with impure intentions. (en)
Theatrical agent Jake Alexander takes a professional and personal interest in Delphi Carr, whom Jake considers the world's most beautiful woman. Then Delphi marries an actor and asks Jake to represent him before he represents her. Jake is willing to go along... though he has murderous intentions in doing so. (en)
Starring: Rosemary Murphy, Ian Martin, Marian Seldes (en)
A state senator learns his wife is being blackmailed for a fatal hit-and-run accident she committed during her college days. (en)
A reporter investigates the death of a chemical plant's physician, who had uncovered two mysterious fatalities at her factory, which the doctor suspected were related to an illegal susbstance produced at the factory. (en)
Two beautiful women invite Perry Harnishfeger for a night of fun. But the women are actually witches who introduce Perry to the Prince of Darkness, who offers Perry an enticingly murderous proposition. (en)
A years-long business feud ends with a peace offering from chemical company associate Jim Raglan to vice-president Emmet Martindale: A bottle of cognac laced with poison, which instantly kills Martindale's wife. Just who's responsible for the death hangs on inconsistencies in both men's statements to authorities, as well as the question of just how fast poison works. (en)
An American POW escapes his captors and tries to reach a French Underground contact, but encounters friendly faces who may be hiding ulterior loyalties. (en)
A couple's wedding plans are disrupted by the bride's deceased husband, who had supposedly perished while charging up San Juan Hill in the Spanish–American War. (en)
A swindler is saved from a hangman's noose by a woman claiming to be his guardian angel; all she asks is that he go straight... and pull off one last scam to make things right with those he conned. (en)
After a woman in the Dark Ages sees her husband killed on their wedding night, his apparition appears to advise her that she's destined to become Queen of the Khazars... provided she passes a crucial test. (en)
A young shepherd in the shadows of Stonehenge witnesses a killing involving his master and the master's wife... but must prove that he did not see a single thing. (en)
Starring: Paul Hecht, Leon Janney, Morgan Fairchild, Ian Martin (en)
Fondness for the game of chess figures into an insurance investigator's look into who may have stolen priceless gems from a jeweler's shop. (en)
A retired football player is hired to serve as the stand-in for a reclusive, eccentric billionaire. (en)
Two men on a hiking expidition encounter a strange New Mexico town that appears stuck in the 1920s. The inhabitants have a reason for their seclusion. (en)
A man who's ecaped from a mental institution carjacks a schoolteacher and orders her to drive to a deserted Death Valley town to find an old relative. (en)
Scottish warriors Macbeth and Banquo encounter a trio of witches who make a series of chilling prophecies that startingly come true. (en)
Starring: Marian Seldes, Robert Kaliban, William Griffis, Ann Pitoniak, Martha Greenhouse (en)
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Carol Teitel, Russell Horton, Court Benson, William Redfield (en)
Starring: Russell Horton, Evie Juster, Robert Dryden (en)
Just out of prison, Ernie and Sid visit the aunt of a deceased fellow prisoner, who can help open a chest that contains $100,000. But trouble arises when the ex-cons kill the aunt and claim her half of the loot. (en)
During World War V , a doctor who's been imprisoned as a conscientious objector is asked to find why combat shock patients in a military hospital are suddenly disappearing. (en)
A woman is haunted by her twin sister, who died when they were very young. To put the spirit to rest, she must first unravel the mysteries surrounding her twin. (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Earl Hammond, Marian Seldes (en)
Starring: Mason Adams, Joan Lovejoy, Robert Maxwell, Joan Shay, Jackson Beck (en)
Starring: Russell Horton, Ian Martin, Bryna Raeburn, Ken Harvey (en)
Starring: Gordon Gould, William Prince, Ann Sheppard, George Petrie, Gilbert Mack (en)
A college professor indulges his obsession for finding a dead pirate's sunknen treasure. (en)
Tom Reynolds leaves behind his wife, children, and boring job and, upon the advice of a psychiatrist friend, takes a two-week vacation on a remote Caribbean island — a locale that, as evidenced by a seemingly dead woman washing up onshore, appears to hold some sort of magic. (en)
Psychic detective Flaxman Low investigates a manor in Surrey that its owner believes is cursed by a violent poltergeist. (en)
Starring: Celeste Holm, Joan Shay, Ian Martin, Larry Haines, Guy Sorel (en)
While wife Roxanne lands a bank manager's job , out-of-work electrical engineer Walt Robinson begrudgingly does housework. That is, until he learns from an equally down-on-his-luck architect that they, too, can enter the financial industry — by robbing the very bank where Roxanne works. (en)
After witnessing a murder at a train station, an unhappily married woman is hesitant to testify lest her reason for being there be revealed. (en)
After love at first sight, Adam Duncan marries stage actress Joyce Adams. But Adam realizes he married the wrong Adams sister when he meets Joyce's twin. (en)
Starring: Ralph Bell, Ian Martin, Robert Kaliban, Bryna Raeburn (en)
Inspector Blunt of the NYPD leads the investigation after a sacred white elephant belonging to Queen Victoria goes missing; Blunt is certain of one thief's guilt in the crime — but said thief has been dead for years. (en)
Starring: Arnold Moss, Teri Keane, Earl Hammond, Robert Maxwell (en)
A New York hamlet seems to be an idyllic place ... but as an inquiring reporter soon finds out, anyone who distrurbs such bliss, in any way, must pay a steep price. (en)
After Commanche warriors murder her husband and their beet crop and farm are destroyed by a stampede, Ellie Tate Gottenschalk joins an all-male cattle drive. Trouble ensues. (en)
After his business partner walks off with their company's funds and commits suicide, Max Picket plays on a Ouija board with his wife and their friends. What the planchette spells out agitates Max. (en)
A woman is suspected of using her 63 cats to stalk and murder children in a small town. (en)
A carnival owner at the turn of the century creates a lifelike doll, Leonora, that can predict customers' futures. But the barker then falls in love with his own creation, much to the consternation of his wife. (en)
Starring: Larry Haines, Paul Hecht, Ian Martin, Guy Sorel, Betty Winckler (en)
Starring: Robert Phelps, Mason Adams, Ann Shepherd, Guy Sorel, Mandel Kramer (en)
Starring: Tony Roberts, Morgan Fairchild, Robert Dryden, Ian Martin (en)
Rebecca Randolph Owen has mysteriously avoided death more than several times... and discovers those escapes from the Angel of Death's clutches have come with a personal price. (en)
Despite being swindled out of her money, a widow refuses to take action against the grifter who conned her; her children are not acquiescent, however, and find satisfaction when police ascertain the crook's next victim. (en)
Starring: Robert Dryden, Leon Janney, Martha Greenhouse, Earl Hammond, Ian Martin (en)
The fate of a lothario accused of murdering his lover's husband rests in the hands of a jury... in particular David Miller , who didn't want to fulfill his civic duty, but now finds himself struggling to determine whether it was the wife or the lothario who had the more believable testimony. (en)
John Masters has neglected his wife, Margaret, for so long that when he invites newly promoted protogé Marty Carroway home for dinner, Margaret asks Marty to not only start an affair with her, but to kill John and take his place as head of the company. (en)
An arrogant aristocrat learns from a fortune teller that he will carry out the perfect murder and not get caught; he doesn't believe the prediction... but sets out on selecting his victim anyway. (en)
Misplaced jealousy and blind rage drives a military commander to commit the ultimate betrayal against his beloved wife in this adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. (en)
An Old West con artist helps a man who lost his fortune to a cardshark, who's now threatening the town and the man's relationship with his fiancé. (en)
A woman is troubled by a trio of strangers in her home; they do not acknowledge her presence, leading her to believe they are ghosts. (en)
Starring: Morgan Fairchild, William Redfield, Nat Polen, Ann Shepherd (en)
Eddie O'Brian loathes working 9-hour shifts each day as a bus driver. That is, until he is assigned a brand new bus, #2792, and soon gives it more tender loving care than what he provides his wife. (en)
In a post-apocalyptic world where hate rules and men and women live separately in hostile tribes, a High Priest's son reluctantly takes part in a deadly game wherein participants must hunt each other down for the sake of growing, through procreation, their respective tribes. (en)
Hundreds of thousands of years in the future, a woman named Mara is condemned to death for inflicting sorrow on a hate-free, fear-free society; but as she is about to be executed, she is instead sent into the past... and begins to appreciate the blissful life she once had. (en)
A man murders his best friend so that he can marry his wife, but their relationship begins to erode by the weight of their sins. (en)
An upstanding judge finds his reputation on the line when he's pressured to clear a gangster's son of drug possession charges. (en)
Out of work , a lawyer volunteers to fly off to a distant planet and receive training by aliens... and becomes part of their plan to conquer Earth. (en)
Auto mechanic Mike Wilson comes to the aid of a bum who claims to be the billionaire businessman Stanford Spruce. Mike doesn't believe him... until he learns that he's the sole heir of Spruce's entire fortune. (en)
Donald Taylor ends his secret affair with Trudy Nelson and returns to his invalid wife. It leads to Trudy threatening to kill Donald... which leads to Trudy's accidental death. But even in death, Trudy won't leave Donald alone; in fact, she may very well be as close as a phone call. (en)
Thanks to a washed-out bridge, a father and daughter traveling Ireland in the late 19th century are waylaid at an old castle, where a resident tells them a story about another man who sold his offspring, and then his soul, for money. (en)
Starring: Norman Rose, Ann Pitoniak, Leon Janney, William Redfield (en)
A plane crash at sea has one survivor, who cannot remember who he is. A police detective, an airline executive, and a doctor work to find out the man's identity. (en)
Elwood Jarvis longs to be young again and be appreciated for his personality and not his business success. A strange raven-haired woman says she can help make it happen... provided someone is willing to lend Elwood his body. (en)
A jewel thief makes off with a valuable necklace and, with the help of an American tourist, escapes police detection. But the thief can't elude the ire of the goddess who owns the jewelry. (en)
Ignored by her busy father and invalid mother, Halcyon Trent created an imaginary friend named Gerald. Theirs is a companionship that lasts into their teenage years, when Halcyon makes new, real friendships... and Gerald becomes really, and dangerously, jealous. (en)
Starring: Mason Adams, Catherine Byers, Marian Seldes, Earl Hammond (en)
Starring: Larry Haines, Teri Keane, Russell Horton, Robert Maxwell (en)
Starring: William Redfield, Kenneth Harvey, Martha Greenhouse, Robert Dryden, Danny Ocko (en)
After years of pulling practical jokes, Joseph B. Jefferson mends his ways and advises two friends on a potential heirloom sale to royalty... a plan that could possibly be yet another prank. (en)
Against all recommendations from his colleagues, her current husband, and the American consular, the wife of a paratrooper who lost his life in World War II ventures to Paris to search for the French Resistance fighter who betrayed her husband to Nazi forces. (en)
Jodie Barnes is a talented singer on the county fair circuit when he meets talent agent Craig Herbert. Their partnership makes Jodie a national star... but a frightful product that bears Jodie's likeness proves all too much. (en)
Starring: Bob Readick, Roger De Koven, Jack Grimes, Jackson Beck (en)
Starring: Paul Hecht, Russell Horton, Teri Keane, Court Benson (en)
Tom Sawyer grows up, becomes a lawyer, and faces his most difficult case: Prove the innocence of his Uncle Silas in a homicide. (en)
Starring: Paul Hecht, Marian Selbeys, Joan Lovejoy, Ian Martin (en)
An adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, in which a blow to the head during a fight sends Hank Morgan from 19th century Connecticut to the era of Camelot. (en)
Starring: William Redfield, Robert Dryden, Earl Hammond, Mandel Kramer, Rosemary Rice (en)
A sober member of Philadelphia society has long hidden a wilder double life; his fun-loving girlfriend wants him to end the secrecy... and recommends that he murder his ailing mother. (en)
A lawyer for Energy Exploration, Inc. sets up a scheme to entrap the corrupt EEI executive who's sabotaging the company's offshore oil drilling efforts. (en)
Flashbacks to the 16th century convince a defense attorney that he witnessed a murder in a past life. He finds the killer living in the present, and vows to not only prove his current client's innocence, but also seek justice in both the past and present crimes. (en)
As his sons argue over who should receive his estate, and his lawyer's daughter ponders which of the two she's truly in love with, an ailing millionaire has only two faithful servants by his side — his butler, Chadsworth, and his dog, Whiskey, the latter of whom may be smart enough to sort out the estate. (en)
Starring: Mandel Kramer, Earl Hammond, Joan Shay, Gilbert Mack (en)
On a planet where crime is unknown, an organically-constructed android servant becomes tired of his work and goes on a deadly spree of violence. (en)
A Union Army soldier, along with his buddy, is sent on a reconnaissance mission into enemy territory; a freak explosion leaves him with injuries... and visions of his own funeral. (en)
Starring: Nat Polen, Joan Shea, Gordon Gould, Lloyd Battista (en)
Starring: Tammy Grimes, Earl Hammond, Ken Harvey, Leon Janney (en)
Starring: Bob Kaliban, Robert Dryden, Marian Seldes, Russell Horton, Ralph Bell (en)
A retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which an heir to the Danish throne seeks revenge after his murderous uncle claims the crown. (en)
Starring: Ralph Bell, Larry Haines, Marian Hailey, Teri Keane, Marian Seldes (en)
An investigator from the future is sent back to the present day to retrieve a data bank, no bigger than a matchbox, that holds a record of the history of time up until the year 2976 — a 1000-year history that could be wiped out if the device falls into the wrong hands. (en)
A practitioner of black magic charms a young servant girl while in each other's presence, much to the concern of both her mother and her would-be romantic suitor. (en)
Much to his wife's distress, a financial planner ditches his job for a new career as a professional gambler, where he applies his experience in actuarial science to counting cards in blackjack. (en)
Starring: Tammy Grimes, Tony Roberts, Earl Hammond, Marian Haley (en)
A notorious tycoon confesses a heneous crime to his psychiatrist, in an effort to exorcise the murderous demon that possesses him. (en)
Theodore Fischer meets an angel who promises to grant his every desire — an angel named Satan. (en)
A nursing home resident uses the mysterious power of needlepoint embroidery to torment her wicked daughter-in-law. (en)
After spotting a UFO, a vacationing couple report their sighting to the sherrif in a sleepy New Hampshire town... after which they find themselves in deep trouble. (en)
A school principal, a lawyer, and other adults go on a mad search for Stuart Buchanan and his friends; they've disappeared after the 10-year-old Stuart writes a school composition claiming he and his classmates have invented a matter transmitter and other extraordinary devices. (en)
Adapted from the novel Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola (en)
Starring: Patricia Elliott, Vicky Volante, Russell Horton, William Redfield, Ann Pitoniak (en)
Starring: Betsy Palmer, Ian Martin, Russell Horton, Bryna Raeburn (en)
Clairvoyant Madame Sonya recalls how, on the eve of World War II, she read a happy future for an American woman, but a horrifying one for her British fiancé and his father. (en)
Starring: Lois Nettleton, Fred Gwynne, Carmen Matthews, Russell Horton (en)
Telepathy plays into a story of an unfaithful husband whose wife dies in an accidental fall... but her son suspects murder, contending she sent him a mental message that her life was in danger. (en)
Starring: Michael Wager, Patricia Elliott, Court Benson, Ann Pitoniak (en)
"Maybe you'd better turn off the lights, that's the surest way I know of getting rid of shadows..." (en)
On the eve of his retirement, a purchasing manager discovers that a career of being honest and straightforward has left him with no financial reward whatsoever. (en)
Starring: Mercedes McCambridge, Robert Dryden, Robert Kaliban (en)
Dash Saxon becomes obsessively immersed in the study of Beowulf, so much so that evidence connects him to carnage at an animal shelter and a double homicide. But Dash has no memory of either crime. (en)
Starring: Norman Rose, Jada Rowland, Court Benson, Joan Copeland (en)
Distraught over her husband's death at the hands of a drunk driver, Tish Meredith becomes easy prey for a false medium who swindles her into believing he can help her contact her husband... for a fee that, it just so happens, equals the insurance settlement Tish received . (en)
A government agent explores the disturbing deaths of noted scientists, which appear to be connected to a beautiful woman... and a deranged scientist's heinous experiments. (en)
Parallel realities collide when a Wall Street broker can't determine whether his wife is alive or has been murdered. (en)
A small-town newspaper editor tells of how a sack of gold coins left behind by a mysterious stranger corrupts the residents of a town that had prided itself for its honesty. (en)
In lieu of a written suicide note to her husband and children, a distressed yet consummate actress chooses to record on tape her motives and last breaths. But while she'd prefer to "exit, amid general laughter," she soon learns the difficulty of departing in such a scripted way. (en)
Adapted from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, this episode chronicles Caesar's final victories, his murder, and its aftermath. (en)
After small-town Nebraska mailman George Adams is honored as "Mr Good Citizen USA," he and his wife are invited to an all-expenses-paid trip to Mexico City, arranged by a benefactor whose face George finds frighteningly familiar. (en)
Note: The first of a week-long series of episodes based on the tragedies of William Shakespeare (en)
Impressed by its results on her untalented friend , Hilda Turner starts seeing a doctor who claims anyone can attain their heart's desire solely through meditation. The charge for the service is only $100... but in the long run, the results are more than what Hilda bargained for. (en)
Bester adopts his short story "Time is the Traitor" for this futuristic tale about a rock-star business consultant with twin psychological desires: to seek a duplicate of his long-dead girlfriend... and to kill any man who shares the same last name as the man who killed her. (en)
For a $10,000 fee, Beth Stillwell talks ex-con Matt Brewster into posing as her fiancé and drowning the stepmother she contempts. Matt agrees... but can't escape the feeling that he's being watched. (en)
Starring: Howard Da Silva, Ralph Bell, Joan Banks, Court Benson (en)
A man mourning for the woman he dedicated his life to learns the truth about her death in a hard way. (en)
In quick succession, 8-year-old Lisha de Pew Miller loses her parents and then her beloved grandfather, forcing her to live with her two aunts who not only frighten her but want her inheritance. Luckily for Lisha, Grandpa's spirit is still hanging around. (en)
This is an episode list for the 1976 season of the radio drama series CBS Radio Mystery Theater. The series premiered on CBS on January 6, 1974, and ended on December 31, 1982. A set of 1,399 original episodes aired between January 1974 and December 1982. The series was broadcast every day of the week for the first six years with re-runs filling in empty slots starting in February 1974. All episodes are available free at the Internet Archive. (en)