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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Bright Golden Murders,” originally broadcast October 15, 1980, as episode 1127. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, the drama features Tammy Grimes, Russell Horton, Martha Greenhouse, and Ray Owens.

When a nuclear scientist dies, his widow suspects that his work on a potentially world-changing metallurgical discovery may have made him a target. As she seeks help from one of his friends and the local police, scientific ambition, reputation, and criminal suspicion cloud the search for the truth.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Avenging Ghost of Kitty Morgan,” episode 875, originally broadcast on August 4, 1978. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, this supernatural drama features Mandel Kramer, Evie Juster, Bryna Raeburn, and Sam Gray.

After Kitty Morgan is betrayed by the man for whom she created a home, her vow to haunt the residence endures through generations. When the old family house offers a new chance to settle its lingering grievance, the past begins to press in on those who inherit its legacy.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Old Maid Murders,” originally broadcast June 30, 1980, as episode 1098. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS Radio Network suspense drama stars Tammy Grimes.

A middle-aged secretary, quietly devoted to her boss, learns he may be involved in dangerous espionage. Caught between personal loyalty and her conscience, she must confront the risks surrounding the man she loves.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Precious Killer,” episode 208, originally broadcast on January 20, 1975. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS Radio Network mystery stars Arnold Moss and Beatrice Straight.

In the oppressive fictional European republic of Rourania, celebrated scientist and former revolutionary Karel Vortic finds his belief in the ruling regime shattered. Accused of theft and treason, he faces mounting pressure, political betrayal, and the perilous possibility of escape.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Million Dollar Murder,” originally broadcast October 21, 1975, as episode 365. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this CBS Radio Network drama was written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown.

Furniture-company owner Dick Nelson is facing the liquidation of his business when a wealthy woman makes an unthinkable offer: one million dollars to kill a close friend. As financial desperation collides with loyalty, the proposal raises troubling questions about the price of survival. The cast includes Mandel Kramer and Patricia Elliott.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghostly Private Eye,” originally broadcast September 27, 1976, as episode 525. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this installment was written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown.

At nineteenth-century Yand Manor House in Surrey, occult investigator Dr. Flaxman Low is summoned to confront a violent, unexplained force that has made part of the estate uninhabitable. Joined by the skeptical Professor Jean Thierry, Low investigates a chilling country-house mystery adapted from “The Story of Yand Manor House” by E. and H. Heron. The cast includes Larry Haines, Paul Hecht, Betty Winkler, Guy Sorel, and Ian Martin.<...

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Reflected Terror,” episode 780, originally broadcast February 10, 1978. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this Gothic mystery was written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown.

A young woman, Emily Falkirk, enters service at an isolated country manor ruled by a brooding lord—and discovers that mirrors are forbidden throughout the house. As the estate’s uneasy silences and old secrets close in, the strange prohibition takes on an increasingly ominous meaning. The cast includes Marian Seldes and Russell Horton.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Markheim Man or Monster,” episode 279, originally broadcast on May 23, 1975. This CBS Radio Network suspense drama adapts Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story “Markheim,” with Kevin McCarthy starring as Karl Markheim. Written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown.

Denied an inheritance by his wealthy great-uncle, the manipulative Markheim turns toward his wife and father-in-law as potential sources of money. As his plans intensify, an uncanny presence behind a mirror seems to be watching in this domestic Gothic tale of greed, conscience, and mounting dread.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Ghost at High Noon,” episode 124, originally broadcast on July 29, 1974. Written by Elizabeth Pennell and directed by Himan Brown, this daytime ghost story stars Celeste Holm and Frances Sternhagen.

After taking Marion Jeffries’s son to summer camp, Marion and her friend Janet Marston are stranded on a scorching, isolated western highway. A ride from an elderly man in a covered wagon leads them to the remote town of Mirado, where relief gradually gives way to an unsettling sense that they may not be welcome to leave.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Killer of the Year,” episode 248, originally broadcast on March 31, 1975. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS mystery stars Norman Rose and Teri Keane.

A successful businessman is fascinated by his town’s newly arrived librarian—until he realizes she is the woman at the center of a sensational murder trial that gripped him years before. As old memories and new attraction collide, the past proves more dangerous than it first appears.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Lovers and Killers,” Episode 504, originally broadcast on August 5, 1976. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, the drama features Robert Dryden, Russell Horton, Marian Seldes, Evie Juster, and Robert Maxwell.

A young lothario is tried for the murder of a married woman’s husband after an encounter tied to a singles bar. As conflicting testimony unfolds, reluctant juror David Miller, Juror No. 2, must weigh the competing versions of events in this courtroom-centered mystery.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Green-Eyed Monster,” episode 473, originally broadcast April 22, 1976. This adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello was written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown.

In Venice and Cyprus, a celebrated military commander’s marriage is threatened as jealousy, suspicion, and carefully planted doubts begin to undermine love and loyalty. Arnold Moss, Marian Seldes, and Ralph Bell star in this Shakespearean tragedy of intrigue and mistrust.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “It’s Murder Mr Lincoln,” originally broadcast March 18, 1975, as episode 241. Written by Sam Dann and produced and directed by Himan Brown, this historical legal mystery stars Keir Dullea as a young Abraham Lincoln.

In 1837 Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln takes on the defense of Franklin Jones, accused of murder after making a public threat against a local businessman. With the evidence seemingly stacked against his client, the young lawyer must search beyond appearances for the truth.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Murder Preferred,” originally broadcast July 16, 1980, as episode 1103. This original script by Henry Slesar was directed by Himan Brown and stars Tony Roberts.

On the eve of a Senate campaign announcement, prominent politician Walter Haven is found shot in his study, and Tony Gerard is jailed for the crime. Haven’s widow, Adrian, believes Gerard is innocent and turns to attorney Tom Hendricks to untangle a politically charged case where the truth may be far from simple.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Memory Killers,” episode 404, originally broadcast December 29, 1975. This original drama was written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown.

New York marketing executive Henry Clay Courtland travels to Munich to pursue a major automobile account, but the business trip draws him into the powerful Volker family’s world—and awakens disturbing memories of his wartime imprisonment. As past and present begin to overlap, Courtland questions whether a figure from those dark years has entered his new life. The cast includes Ralph Bell, Patricia Wheel, Robert Dryden, and Nat Polen.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Grey Ghost,” episode 323, originally broadcast on August 8, 1975. Written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown, the drama stars Betsy Palmer and William Redfield.

After the death of her race-car-driver father, Kate Richards leaves her husband and travels to Italy. There, her encounter with a gifted driver draws her back into the high-speed world of motor racing—and toward lingering questions surrounding her father’s fatal crash.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Sealed Room Murder,” originally broadcast October 23, 1975, as episode 366. Adapted by Ian Martin from Melville Davisson Post’s “The Doomdorf Mystery,” this pioneer-era Virginia locked-room drama features Howard DaSilva and Fred Gwynne.

In an isolated mountain community, a much-disliked resident is found dead in a room apparently sealed from within. As local investigators look past the town’s easy explanations, the victim’s bitter history and the impossible crime scene point toward a deeper mystery.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Ghost Talk,” episode 207, originally broadcast January 17, 1975. Written by Elspeth Eric and directed by Himan Brown, this romantic supernatural drama stars Lenka Peterson, Elliot Reid, Gordon Gould, and Robert Dryden.

After Paul’s death, his devoted widow Melba struggles to let go of the life they shared. When communication seems possible across the boundary between life and death, an angelic messenger introduces a profound spiritual dilemma. A tender, lightly fantastical story of love, grief, and attachment beyond the grave.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Dreamers and Killers,” originally broadcast on May 5, 1982. This is episode 1324 of the CBS Radio Network suspense series, written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, with Marian Seldes, Diane Dirkwood, and Gordon Gould.

A woman haunted by recurring nightmares about her former fiancé becomes increasingly alarmed when his real-life near-fatal mishaps begin to resemble the dangers she has dreamed. A psychological tale of dread, coincidence, and the unsettling power of the mind.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Murder by Proxy,” episode 335, originally broadcast on August 29, 1975. Written by Roy Winsor and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS suspense drama features Mandel Kramer, Grace Matthews, Lesley Woods, Earl Hammond, Leon Janney, and William Redfield.

After his release from prison, Tim Cohain seeks revenge against Ed Hunter, the jury foreman whose verdict helped send him away. A past murder trial becomes the source of a mounting threat in this tense crime thriller.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghost Plane,” episode 343, originally broadcast September 12, 1975. Written by Ian Martin and produced and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS Radio Network mystery features Richard Crenna, Janet Waldo, Casey Kasem, Virginia Gregg, and Sam Edwards.

Two strangers awaken aboard an unfamiliar passenger plane with no memory of who they are, how they arrived, or where the flight is headed. As the aircraft makes stops and other equally disoriented passengers join them, the travelers struggle to understand the unsettling purpose of their journey.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghost Grey Bat” (also listed as “The Ghost-Grey Bat”), originally broadcast March 25, 1981, as episode 1176. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this original drama was written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown.

While on sabbatical, philosophy professor Alec Grant and his new wife, Moira, trade their New York apartment for an isolated Austrian chalet near Wintersbad. But their hosts are nowhere to be found, the caretaker is unsettling, and reports of a large gray winged presence turn their delayed honeymoon into a chilling Alpine mystery. The cast includes Don Scardino, Jennifer Harmon, Robert D...

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Home Is Where the Ghost Is,” episode 378, originally broadcast November 13, 1975. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this original radio drama was written by Murray Burnett and directed by Himan Brown.

At Calhoun University, a skeptical proctor is drawn into the troubles surrounding grieving scientist Professor Ramsey Joslin during an international scientific conference. As a Russian colleague’s possible defection raises the stakes, urgent warnings from Joslin’s late wife blur the line between private loss, academic intrigue, and supernatural suspense. The cast includes Gordon Gould, Patricia Elliott, William Redfield, and Gilbert Mack.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Episode of Terror,” originally broadcast September 7, 1981, as episode 1240. Adapted from Honoré de Balzac’s “An Episode Under the Terror,” the drama was written by G. Frederick Lewis and directed by Himan Brown.

In Paris during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, two Carmelite sisters shelter a priest in hiding. When an uneasy errand and the arrival of a shadowy visitor raise fears of discovery, faith, secrecy, and trust are tested in a city gripped by political violence. The cast includes Marian Seldes, Arnold Moss, Earl Hammond, and Sam Gray.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Matched Pair for Murder,” episode 1207, originally broadcast on June 5, 1981. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, the drama features Arnold Moss, Kristoffer Tabori, Evie Juster, and Bernard Grant.

A young woman pleads with a judge to spare her lover from a murder conviction. When the judge allows compassion to shape his decision, the consequences of that choice begin to weigh heavily on him.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Wine Women and Murder,” episode 651, originally broadcast May 20, 1977. This CBS Radio mystery was written by Sam Dann and stars Robert Dryden, with Carol Teitel.

Mild-mannered American bookseller Elias Breckinridge arrives in Cologne, Germany, for an International Coleridge Society gathering. When he agrees to deliver a document to a local professor, he is pulled into a murder investigation—and soon finds himself the leading suspect in an unfamiliar city.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Forgetful Ghost,” episode 769, originally broadcast on January 23, 1978. Written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown, this gentle supernatural mystery stars Mandel Kramer, Martha Greenhouse, Ian Martin, and Jackson Beck.

When a seriously ill woman and her husband encounter Peter Pruitt, a mild-mannered ghost with no memory of why he has returned, an unusual attempt to help his living daughter begins. Set largely in the Gordons’ darkened home, the story blends wistful humor, uneasy mystery, and a card-playing scheme.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghost of Andersonville,” originally broadcast April 28, 1982, as episode 1321. Written by James Agate, Jr. and directed by Himan Brown, this Civil War-era drama stars Tony Roberts and Robert Kaliban.

After his release from the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Major Cal Russell returns North carrying a deep grievance from the war. An uneasy meeting with Union General Lysander Cutler draws him into a dangerous official inquiry and back toward the shadows of his captivity.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Murder Museum,” episode 71, originally broadcast on April 9, 1974. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this CBS production was written by Henry Slesar and directed by Himan Brown, with Michael Wager, Marian Seldes, Robert Dryden, and Leon Janney.

At Professor Rafael Gallinari’s wax museum of notorious crimes, Lisa Brandon asks to see a forthcoming murder reenactment before it opens to the public. As a guided tour moves through the museum’s unsettling displays, Lisa recounts the troubled history of painter Vincent Raymond—and the private past about to become part of the exhibition.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Terror on the Heath,” originally broadcast November 6, 1974. This is episode 170 of the CBS Radio Network suspense series, hosted by E. G. Marshall.

When David Matson finds unsettling links between himself and Charles Mason, a 19th-century murderer hanged for killings on London’s Hampstead Heath, his fascination becomes a terrifying obsession. Written by Murray Burnett and directed by Himan Brown, the drama stars Shepperd Strudwick, Marian Seldes, and William Redfield.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “A Very Dear Ghost Indeed,” episode 521, originally broadcast September 20, 1976. Written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS Radio mystery features Russell Horton, Patricia Elliott, Ian Martin, and Earl Hammond.

In late-19th-century Ireland, an American father and daughter are stranded when a rural bridge washes out. Seeking shelter at an old castle, they encounter a mysterious resident and a haunting tale of greed, family, and a perilous bargain.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghost of San Juan Hill,” episode 481, originally broadcast on May 10, 1976. This historical-tinged mystery was written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown.

As a bride prepares to remarry, the unexpected return of the husband she believed lost in the Spanish-American War throws the wedding into turmoil. Against the lingering memory of the fighting at San Juan Hill, the drama features Jack Grimes, Marian Haley, William Redfield, Bryna Raeburn, and Ian Martin.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Trouble with Murder,” episode 147, originally broadcast on September 12, 1974. Written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown, this contemporary Brooklyn crime thriller stars Robert Morse and Bryna Raeburn.

As police investigate a troubling series of killings, a wealthy woman commissions an artist to paint her nude portrait. But the painter’s increasingly unsettling behavior turns a private artistic arrangement into a mounting danger.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Ghost in the Well,” episode 806, originally broadcast March 28, 1978. Written by Murray Burnett and directed by Himan Brown, this CBS Radio Network drama stars Tony Roberts and Patricia Elliott.

An artist becomes compelled to paint the portrait of a mysterious woman’s spirit, opening a supernatural doorway into New York’s historic Manhattan Well murder case. Inspired by the 1800 trial of Levi Weeks—defended by Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and Henry Brockholst Livingston—the drama blends an eerie studio séance with a haunting chapter of early American history.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Tomorrow’s Murder,” originally broadcast December 31, 1976. This is episode 575 of the CBS Radio Network suspense anthology, written by Sam Dann and produced and directed by Himan Brown.

Stressed sales manager Harold K. Starbright takes a walk through Morrison City Memorial Park and encounters a stranger studying cemetery sculpture. Then Harold finds an elaborate gravestone bearing his own name, birth date, and a death date still a year in the future. Robert Dryden, Evie Juster, Court Benson, and Earl Hammond star in this unsettling mystery.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Scenes from a Murder,” originally broadcast September 7, 1982, as episode 1367. This CBS Radio Network drama was written by G. Frederick Lewis and directed by Himan Brown.

Adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, the story follows a financially desperate music teacher whose attempt to solve his money troubles draws him into a harrowing moral and psychological struggle. Russell Horton leads a cast that includes Carol Teitel, Joan Shay, and Earl Hammond.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Forty-Five Minutes to Murder,” episode 495, originally broadcast on June 28, 1976. Written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, this contemporary mystery features Larry Haines, Leon Janney, and Joan Shay.

A bitter business feud seems to be settling when Jim Raglan sends Carroway Chemicals vice president Emmet Martindale an extravagant bottle of cognac. But when the gift brings tragedy to the Martindale home, a poison investigation exposes unsettling contradictions—and a crucial forty-five-minute gap.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Marry for Murder,” episode 395, originally broadcast on December 12, 1975. This original CBS Radio drama was written by Sam Dann and directed by Himan Brown, starring Mandel Kramer.

Private detective James Kellogg is hired to investigate Walter Jones, the younger fiancé of a wealthy widow whose family suspects he may be after her fortune. When another client seeks the same elusive man, Kellogg finds himself navigating conflicting loyalties, suspicious histories, and professional duty. The cast also includes Patsy Bruder, Evie Juster, Arthur Anderson, and Dan Ocko.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “Mirror for Murder,” episode 97, originally broadcast on May 27, 1974. Hosted by E. G. Marshall, this original mystery was written and directed by Himan Brown’s frequent collaborator Sam Dann, with Celeste Holm, Wesley Addy, William Redfield, and Robert Dryden.

Helen Stewart, neglected and increasingly restless in her domestic life, becomes deeply unsettled when her reflection in a mirror seems to fade away. As she struggles to reclaim her sense of self, the mirror becomes the focus of an intimate and unnerving crisis.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents “The Terrorist,” episode 1027, originally broadcast on November 5, 1979. This CBS Radio Network suspense drama was written by Ian Martin and directed by Himan Brown.

On Turkey’s Aegean coast, an elderly American romance writer and her niece find their secluded home invaded by two extremist fugitives seeking refuge. When a publishing executive’s nephew arrives to check on the troubled author, he is drawn into a dangerous hostage crisis where courage and quick thinking may be their only protection. The cast includes Jada Rowland, Russell Horton, Ian Martin, and Grace Matthews.

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