CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)

0689 - The Rocket's Red Glare (7/26/1977)

Written by Percy Granger. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Mason Adams; Robert Dryden; Catherine Byers; Sam Gray.

* A scientist working on a top-secret weapons project takes his own life in full view of his colleagues. But a local cop suspects foul play.

0688 - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (7/25/1977)

Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cast: Kevin McCarthy; Court Benson; William Griffis; Lloyd Battista; Himan Brown (uncredited).

A hat and a Christmas goose containing a valuable gemstone send Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on a hunt for who was gifted the goose.

CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as Peterson in act 1.

0687 - The Secret of the Aztecs (7/22/1977)

Written by Percy Granger. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Mason Adams; Bob Dryden; Ken Harvey; Court Benson.

A ghost instructs a man, stranded in the desert with a broken-down car, to protect an ancient Aztec treasure from a "savage" being.

0686 - Rendezvous with Death (7/21/1977)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori; Roberta Maxwell; Mandel Kramer; Arnold Moss; Ann Pitoniak.

A football player with incurable cancer goes mountain climbing and meets a mysterious woman who provides him love and comfort.

0685 - The Mysterious Island (7/19/1977)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Jules Verne.

Cast: Earl Hammond; Leon Janney; Jackson Beck; Roger Baron; Himan Brown (uncredited).

After escaping a Confederate prison camp via hot air balloon, two Union soldiers and a reporter land on a mysterious island.

CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited in act 3.

0684 - The Bisara of Pooree (7/18/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Cast: Paul Hecht; Ralph Bell; Marian Seldes; William Griffis.

A British soldier buys a small, mysterious jewelry box that gives him bad luck.

Defects: Occasional static.

0683 - The Kingdom Below (7/15/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Phyllis Newman; Fred Gwynne; Paul Hecht; Bryna Raeburn; Roger Baron.

A wealthy American financier and his wife travel to Europe to help their daughter find a husband. The hope is that their daughter will marry an aristocrat.

0682 - A Matter of Conscience (7/14/1977)

Written by Arnold Moss. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Ambrose Bierce.

Cast: Kristoffer Tabori; Arnold Moss; Evie Juster; Earl Hammond; Robert Dryden.

Defying his parents who are loyal to the Confederacy, a young Kentuckian joins the Union Army and is sent to spy on a Rebel regiment.

0681 - The Colonel Chabert (7/12/1977)

Written by Karen Thorsen. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Honore de Balzac.

Cast: Alexander Scourby; Lori March; Larry Haines; Dan Ocko.

A supposedly dead French colonel reemerges and tries to recover part of his fortune from his since-remarried wife.

0680 - A Scandal in Bohemia (7/11/1977)

Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cast: Kevin McCarthy; Court Benson; Marian Seldes; William Griffis; Himan Brown (uncredited).

Sherlock Holmes meets a cunning and deductive equal while seeking to recover a scandalous photo for a Bohemian monarch.

CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as Boris in act 2.

0679 - The Gift (7/8/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Ralph Bell; Robert Dryden; Evie Juster; Sam Gray.

Rita Holland and Walter Powers pull off the long-planned murder of Rita's husband.

CBSRMT Trivia: CBSRMT Trivia: The cast credits for today's episode, "The Gift," are read by an unknown person.

0678 - A Stranger Among Us (7/7/1977)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Bryce Bond.

Cast: Marian Seldes; Court Benson; Lloyd Battista.

Based on the actual documented story of one "Lisa X," this tale finds a woman arrested for auto theft, but claims she is a victim of an alien abduction.

CBSRMT Trivia: CBSRMT Trivia: The cast credits for today's episode, "A Stranger Among Us," are read by an unknown person.

0677 - Hexed (7/5/1977)

Written by Nancy Moore. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Roberta Maxwell; Paul Hecht; Ian Martin.

A newlywed tries to convince her husband to sell their plantation and move, all due to her belief that his resentful manservant is trying to put a curse on her.

CBSRMT Trivia: The cast credits for today's episode, "Hexed," are read by an unknown person.

0676 - Boomerang (7/4/1977)

Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Corrine Orr; Ann Sheppard; Norman Rose; Michael Wager.

A young witch enlists the Devil's help in casting spells on the man who continues to spurn her romantic advances.

CBSRMT Trivia: The closing cast credits for the next four episodes are read by someone other than E.G. Marshall. The cast credits for today's episode, "Boomerang," are read by Himan Brown.

Defects: Poor audio quality.

0675 - Revenge (7/1/1977)

Written by Percy Granger. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Gordon Heath; Robert Dryden; Leon Janney; Bryna Raeburn; Gilbert Mack.

A wealthy man arrives in an Old West town bent to gain revenge on the three men who wronged him many years prior.

0674 - Dead Men Do Tell Tales (6/30/1977)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Mason Adams; Howard Ross; Bob Kaliban; Marian Seldes.

As a pair of detectives pursue his killer, a dead man recounts how he played conscience for a group of men who committed a horrible act 20 years earlier.

CBSRMT Trivia: Ian Martin is missing from the acting credits in "Dead Men Do Tell Tales."

0673 - The Adventure of the Speckled Band (6/28/1977)

Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cast: Kevin McCarthy; Court Benson; Patricia Elliott; Jackson Beck.

A young heiress hires Sherlock Holmes to find out who killed her sister in a sealed-room murder, and what her sibling's dying words signified.

0672 - Come, Fill My Cup (6/27/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: William Griffis; Larry Haines; Russell Horton; Earl Hammond.

A commuter train conductor recounts how a regular poker game on one train's club car turned into murder by poison.

0671 - Fan Mail (6/24/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Teri Keane; Ann Williams; Mandel Kramer; Ian Martin; William Griffis.

A tale of husband-and-wife soap opera actors whose show's storyline finds one of their characters killed off, and an overly obsessed fan who can't separate real life from fantasy.

0670 - The Red Circle (6/23/1977)

Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Ann Pitoniak; Robert Dryden; Catherine Byers; Joe Silver.

A housewife receives an unexpected visitor, an old friend whom she hasn't seen in years but has an incredible tale to tell her.

0669 - Tomorrow, Cloudy and Cold (6/21/1977)

Written by Bob Juhren. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Norman Rose; Russell Horton; Bryna Raeburn; Morgan Fairchild; Ralph Bell.

Dr. Herman Bruno subjects a young drifter to experiments that can allow the young man to control the weather with just his emotions.

0668 - The Birthmark (6/20/1977)

Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Cast: Tony Roberts; Gordon Heath; Marian Seldes.

A scientist develops a means of removing a birthmark on his wife's cheek, a blemish he believes to be holding her back from perfect beauty.

0667 - Two Motives for Murder (6/17/1977)

Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Don Scardino; Evie Juster; Bob Dryden; Ian Martin.

A young broker believes he's in hot water when $100,000 in bonds entrusted to him goes missing. But his troubles really begin when his boss invites him on his yacht to discuss the matter.

0666 - Little Lucy's Lethal Libation (6/16/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Larry Haines; Bryna Raeburn; Joan Shay; Earl Hammond.

* A male ad executive is assigned to an account with an overbearing, publicity-shy female client and soon starts to believe he's the victim of a plot by women to take over the world.

0665 - Murder One (6/14/1977)

Written by G. Frederick Lewis. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Tammy Grimes; Teri Keane; Leon Janney.

A wealthy widow is blackmailed by her maid for killing her husband, so she tries to turn the tables and frame the maid for her own crime.

0664 - First Woman in Space (6/13/1977)

Written by Victoria Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Phyllis Newman; Marian Seldes; Lloyd Battista; Hans Conried.

A pioneering female astronaut returns to Earth with a passenger, an alien living inside her and fighting to control her body in order to survive.

0663 - The Night We Died (6/10/1977)

Written by Henry Slesar. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Bob Readick; Joan Shay; William Griffis; Jackson Beck.

A veteran of a "lunar revolt" tries to scam a war widow in this story that blends elements of sci-fi, con artistry, and murder mystery.

0662 - Dialogue with Death (6/9/1977)

Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Paul Hecht; Fred Gwynne; Evie Juster.

A man reunites with a childhood love, but soon finds difficulty dealing with her peculiar habit of talking to her parents and her horse who are all deceased.

0661 - The Curse of Conscience (6/7/1977)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Tony Roberts; Mary Jane Higby; Bryna Raeburn; Earl Hammond; Himan Brown (uncredited).

A hustler encounters an elderly woman who tries to put him on the straight and narrow. But when he winds up in a bind, he takes advantage of her.

CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as the policeman in act 3.

0660 - The Blood Red Wine (6/6/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Joan Lovejoy; Ralph Bell; Robert Dryden; Marian Seldes.

Joel and Myra welcome into their home a stranger caught in a storm. But when the man dies of a heart attack, the couple ponder what to do.

0659 - The Two-Dollar Murders (6/3/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Robert Dryden; Larry Haines; Bryna Raeburn; Joan Shay.

A man kills a cop in an effort to cover up a romantic affair and a murder, but his plan is uncovered in the unlikeliest of manners.

0658 - A God Named Smith (6/2/1977)

Written by Henry Slesar. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Norman Rose; Russell Horton; Evie Juster; Bob Kaliban; Himan Brown (uncredited).

A child prodigy creates an entire planet of his own, and establishes himself as its god, in the intent to make it a better world than Earth.

CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as financial editor Lou Briggs in act 2.

0657 - The Boscombe Pool Mystery (5/31/1977)

Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cast: Kevin McCarthy; Court Benson; Patricia Elliott; Ian Martin; Dennis Coke.

Sherlock Holmes investigates when the son of a wealthy landowner is murdered; despite irrefutable evidence against the lad, Holmes doubts his guilt.

0656 - The Silent Witness (5/30/1977)

Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Ralph Bell; Marian Seldes; Lloyd Battista; Earl Hammond.

Visions of an open grave, and memories triggered by his new assistant's fiancée, plague a banker in Hawaii.

0655 - Guilty Secret (5/27/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Mandel Kramer; Leon Janney; Evie Juster; Teri Keane.

A U.S. Senator is worried that an indescretion from his past will be used against him while he campaigns for the presidency.

0654 - The Countess (5/26/1977)

Written by Gerry Keane. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Honore de Balzac.

Cast: Marian Seldes; Roberta Maxwell; William Griffis; Court Benson; Russell Horton.

A French countess recounts her brief attraction to a Spanish prisoner of war and her marriage to a brutal French dignitary.

0653 - Transmutation, Incorporated (5/24/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Norman Rose; Robert Dryden; Bryna Raeburn.

* Small-time gambler Bones Terwilliger must decide between good and evil when he does an act of kindness for a man who reveals himself as the Devil.

0652 - The Briefcase Blunder (5/23/1977)

Written by Karen Thorsen. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Paul Hecht; Ann Williams; Ian Martin; Jackson Beck; Himan Brown (uncredited).

* Harry finds a briefcase full of money in the back of his cab, but trouble befalls him when he turns it in to the police.

CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as an unnamed policeman in act 1.

0651 - Wine, Women, and Murder (5/20/1977)

Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Robert Dryden; Carol Teitel; Bob Kaliban; William Griffis.

A mild-mannered book seller is framed for murder while attending a literary festival in Germany.

0650 - A Matter of Customs (5/19/1977)

Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.

Cast: Mary Jane Higby; Court Benson; Joan Copeland; Leon Janney; Himan Brown (uncredited).

A detective novel enthusiast and her husband go on a sea cruise, where they repeatedly encounter another couple. But one couple's constant changing of husbands arouses suspicion in the other.

CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as the policeman in act 3.