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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Aliens,” episode 448, originally broadcast on March 15, 1976. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, this Cold War mystery stars Paul Hecht and Mandel Kramer.

An American agent and his Soviet counterpart become unwillingly linked by psychic communication tied to classified experiments on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. As the contact intensifies, espionage, secrecy, and a far-reaching threat test the loyalties of both men.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Time Killer,” episode 462, originally broadcast on April 5, 1976. Written by Arnold Moss and produced and directed by Himan Brown, this science-fiction mystery features Mandel Kramer, Rosemary Rice, Jackson Beck, Russell Horton, and Arnold Moss.

Professor Edwin Quailan, a university parapsychology instructor, believes time may be as fluid as space. When an experiment sends him to the years before the Great Depression, his knowledge of what is to come raises troubling questions about consequence, choice, and whether anyone can safely revise a personal past.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Wakeful Ghost,” episode 232, originally broadcast March 3, 1975. Written by Ian Martin and produced and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS Radio Network mystery stars Paul Hecht, Virginia Payne, Jada Rowland, Leon Janney, and Ian Martin.

With a brief respite before his medical internship, Irish-American student Brian Makin travels to Ireland in search of family connections. His visit becomes a romantic, supernatural encounter shaped by old-world folklore, a ghost, and a leprechaun.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Shadow of a Killer,” originally broadcast February 11, 1981, as episode 1158. This contemporary mystery stars Fred Gwynne and was written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown.

When a woman’s husband disappears, she seeks help from an actor known for playing a hard-boiled television detective. As he steps beyond his screen role to investigate a real missing-person case, the boundary between television fiction and reality begins to blur.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “I Am the Killer,” episode 1309, originally broadcast March 31, 1982. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, this historical medical drama stars Keir Dullea as Dr. Ignatz Semmelweis.

In a 19th-century Viennese maternity hospital, a young obstetrician is troubled by an alarming disparity: mothers in the doctors’ ward are dying far more often than those attended by midwives. As he investigates the childbed-fever outbreak, accepted medical practices and the hospital’s daily routines come under searching scrutiny.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Nightmare in Gillette Castle,” originally broadcast July 14, 1980, as episode 1102. Written by Elizabeth Pennell and produced and directed by Himan Brown, it stars Kevin McCarthy as William Gillette.

Sherlock Holmes enthusiast Jim Watson and his wife, Pamela, tour Connecticut’s eccentric Gillette Castle, the real former home of famed Holmes actor William Gillette. Separated from their group, they enter a corridor called Baker Street and find themselves drawn into a mysterious, theatrical world where history and Holmes-like intrigue blur.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Wave of Terror,” originally broadcast November 11, 1974. This is episode 172 of the CBS Radio series, hosted by E. G. Marshall.

On a Hawaiian island, Danny Makahini and Liz Bradley hope to marry despite bitter opposition from their powerful families. As an immense tidal wave moves toward Hawaii, their Romeo-and-Juliet-inspired conflict unfolds against a mounting natural-disaster threat. Written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown, the drama features Paul Hecht, Carmen Matthews, Suzanne Grossman, Gordon Gould, and Ian Martin.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “My Fair Lady Killer,” episode 592, originally broadcast on January 28, 1977. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS mystery features Michael Tolan, Bryna Raeburn, Joan Shay, Ian Martin, and William Griffis.

A police detective investigates a series of deaths involving women whose lives appear to fit a troubling pattern. Set between New York City and its suburbs, the case becomes a tense contemporary procedural as the evidence increasingly challenges the experts’ criminal profile.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Alien Presences,” episode 923, originally broadcast November 27, 1978. Written by Ian Martin, this science-fiction drama features John Beal, Joan Shay, John Lithgow, and Ian Martin.

In rural Nebraska, an older childless couple witnesses a strange crash during a violent storm and finds an unharmed infant near the wreckage. As the boy grows up, his unusual gifts and deep sense of displacement lead him to seek answers about his origins and his place in the world.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “An Identical Murder,” episode 231, originally broadcast February 28, 1975. Written by Murray Burnett and directed by Himan Brown, the drama features Elliot Reid, William Redfield, Roberta Maxwell, and Robert Dryden.

Ann Slater loves one of the Benton identical twins, but the other brother remains an unsettling presence in their lives. After a mountaineering expedition ends in tragedy, Ann is left confronting a chilling uncertainty about the man who returns.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Smell of Murder” (also listed as “The Sweet Smell of Murder”), originally broadcast June 25, 1980, as episode 1097. Written by Sam Dann, the drama stars Bryna Raeburn, Robert Dryden, Evie Juster, and Joe Silver.

A charter-boat captain is discovered with the proceeds of a bank robbery, and the evidence seems overwhelmingly damning. Certain he has been framed, his wife teams with a police investigator to learn how the stolen money found its way to him.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Yesterday’s Murder,” originally broadcast June 27, 1974, as episode 111. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this first-season drama was written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, with Mercedes McCambridge and Patricia Wheel featured in the cast.

Unhappy with the path her life has taken, Dottie Molloy answers an unusual offer promising a chance to change it. The opportunity leads her back to a pivotal moment 21 years earlier, involving stolen money, an office safe, and a choice whose consequences have never truly faded.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “A Horror Story,” episode 929, originally broadcast December 11, 1978. Written by Elspeth Eric and directed by Himan Brown, this gothic mystery features Robert Dryden, Mary Jane Higby, Ian Martin, and Arnold Moss.

In a New Orleans building shared by a celebrated chef’s private dining salon and a renowned shoemaker’s shop, a hidden diary and an unsettling pair of slippers point toward a disturbing connection between two successful trades—and a haunted past.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Resident Killer,” episode 1386, originally broadcast October 25, 1982. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, this far-future drama stars Mason Adams, Russell Horton, and Carol Teitel.

Five centuries from now, Earth has engineered violence—and even violent thought—out of human life. But when an alien threat looms, authorities consider restoring the suppressed brutal instincts of one psychologically reprogrammed man to defend their peaceful world.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Aaron Burr Murder Case,” episode 180, originally broadcast on November 28, 1974. Written by Sam Dann and produced and directed by Himan Brown, the drama features Jack Grimes, Joan Shay, George Petrie, William Redfield, and Leon Janney.

During a film reenactment of the famous 1804 duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, a pistol meant to fire blanks instead delivers a fatal shot. What seems to be a terrible on-set accident draws police scrutiny as the past casts a disturbing shadow over the present.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Deadly Honeymoon,” episode 19, originally broadcast January 24, 1974. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this early installment was written by Henry Slesar and directed by Himan Brown.

Newlyweds Susan and Daniel Carey set out on a cross-country honeymoon, beginning with a flight from New York to Chicago. But when a man claiming to be Lieutenant Gale Harrington warns Susan about Daniel’s past, the journey becomes a tense test of trust. Betsy von Furstenberg and Michael Wager star.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Murder One,” episode 665, originally broadcast on June 14, 1977. This CBS Radio mystery was written by G. Frederick Lewis and produced and directed by Himan Brown.

In the household of a wealthy widow, a maid’s knowledge of a dangerous secret becomes the basis for blackmail—and a desperate effort to shift suspicion elsewhere. Tammy Grimes, Teri Keane, and Leon Janney star in this compact three-character drama.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Star Killers,” episode 601, originally broadcast February 15, 1977. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS Radio Network mystery features Mercedes McCambridge, Norman Rose, Court Benson, and Judith Light.

After disappearing from public life, celebrated nuclear researcher Dr. Mary-Jane Mariset recounts her astonishing past in therapy—including her marriage to a man she believed was an alien and the troubling questions surrounding his death. Is she deluded, concealing something, or describing an impossible truth?

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Cool Killer Karl,” episode 828, originally broadcast on May 5, 1978. Written by G. Frederick Lewis, this E. G. Marshall-era mystery features Mason Adams, Marian Seldes, and Ian Martin.

A fugitive killer, hiding from police, takes a family hostage. As pressure mounts outside, the family’s mother finds herself forming an unexpected connection with the man holding them captive in this tense psychological drama.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” originally broadcast January 7, 1975. Episode 0198 adapts Edgar Allan Poe’s classic detective tale, with Paul Hecht, Guy Sorel, Corrine Orr, and Dan Ocko. Written by George Lowther and directed by Himan Brown.

In 1840 Paris, a brutal double murder inside a seemingly sealed Rue Morgue apartment baffles the authorities. An ambitious young gendarme turns to the unconventional amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin, whose careful attention to the evidence may illuminate an impossible crime.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Honeymoon with Death,” originally broadcast January 11, 1974. Episode 6 of the series’ first week, this psychological crime mystery was produced by Himan Brown for the CBS Radio Network and features Lois Nettleton, Tony Roberts, Teri Keane, and Norman Rose.

Newlywed Jennifer Brady returns from her honeymoon to a terrifying discovery in her apartment—but when Officer Ed Helmut investigates, there seems to be no body, no evidence, and no sign that a crime occurred. As Jennifer’s sister Maggie challenges her account, a few unsettling details, including a red sports car outside, deepen the mystery.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Man With The Claret Mark [episode 913] Broadcast 11/3/1978

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Orient Express [episode 604] Broadcast 2/21/1977

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Crime Of Passion [episode 1059] Broadcast 2/13/1980

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Big City Blues [episode 807] Broadcast 3/30/1978

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Napolean And The Queen Of Sheba [episode 1126] Broadcast 10/13/1980

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Virtue Is Its Own Reward [episode 979] Broadcast 5/14/1979

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Demon Lover [episode 486] Broadcast 5/27/1976

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Killer Crab [episode 1345] Broadcast 6/30/1982

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Frankenstein Revisited [episode 59] Broadcast 3/19/1974

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - A Tale Of Two Worlds [episode 738] Broadcast 11/10/1977

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Did I Say Murder [episode 1177] Broadcast 3/27/1981

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Case Of The Forced Divorce [episode 998] Broadcast 7/18/1979

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Woman From Hell [episode 315] Broadcast 7/25/1975

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Dickens Of Scotland Yard [episode 1283] Broadcast 1/28/1982

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Why Is This Lady Smiling [episode 1333] Broadcast 5/26/1982

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Thracian Lovers [episode 1234] Broadcast 8/17/1981

A classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

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In "The Golem," CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents a classic radio drama featuring suspense, mystery, and atmospheric storytelling.

Episode 193 of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.Explore more classic radio programs at https://oldtimeretroradio.com. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio. Follow the podcast so you never miss an episode.

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In "Hexed," CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents a classic radio drama featuring suspense, mystery, and atmospheric storytelling.

Episode 677 of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.Explore more classic radio programs at https://oldtimeretroradio.com. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio. Follow the podcast so you never miss an episode.

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Presented by Old Time Retro Radio, part of the Forbidden Knowledge Network.Originally broadcast November 20, 1975. In “The Lamps of the Devil,” CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents an atmospheric mystery filled with suspense, danger, and the imagination-driven storytelling of classic radio. Episode 382 of CBS Radio Mystery Theater.Explore more classic radio programs at https://oldtimeretroradio.com. Support Old Time Retro Radio at https://www.patreon.com/oldtimeretroradio. Follow the podcast so you never miss an episode.

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