CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)

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0490 - Free the Beast (6/10/1976) Apr 05, 2026

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0490 - Free the Beast (6/10/1976)
Written by Ralph Goodman. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Paul Hecht; Marian Seldes; Joan Lovejoy; Ian Martin.
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.

0489 - The Corpse That Would Not Die (6/7/1976) Apr 04, 2026

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0489 - The Corpse That Would Not Die (6/7/1976)
Written by Arnold Moss. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Emile Zola.
Cast: Patricia Elliott; William Redfield; Mary Jane Higby; Roger DeKoven; Arnold Moss.
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.

0488 - Blue Justice (6/3/1976) Apr 03, 2026

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0488 - Blue Justice (6/3/1976)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Leon Janney; Jackson Beck; Evie Juster; Robert Dryden.
A corrupt assistant prosecutor in a totalitarian state convicts, for capital murder, a man he knew was innocent.

0487 - Ghost Town (5/31/1976) Apr 02, 2026

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0487 - Ghost Town (5/31/1976)
Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Lois Nettleton; Ralph Bell; Ian Martin; Nat Polen; Russell Horton.
A man who has escaped from a mental institution carjacks a schoolteacher and orders her to drive to a deserted Death Valley town to find an old relative.

0486 - Demon Lover (5/27/1976) Apr 01, 2026

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0486 - Demon Lover (5/27/1976)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Mandel Kramer; Marian Seldes; Bryna Raeburn; Earl Hammond.
A college professor finds himself the unwilling object of a colleague's obsessive, and violent, romantic advances.

0485 - A Mexican Standoff (5/24/1976) Mar 31, 2026

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0485 - A Mexican Standoff (5/24/1976)
Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Joe Silver; Catherine Byers; Robert Dryden; Sam Gray.
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.

0484 - The Walking Dead (5/20/1976) Mar 30, 2026

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0484 - The Walking Dead (5/20/1976)
Written by Alfred Bester. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Paul Hecht; Rosemary Rice; Jack Grimes; Joan Shay; Gilbert Mack.
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.

0483 - Blind Witness (5/17/1976) Mar 29, 2026

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0483 - Blind Witness (5/17/1976)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Patricia Elliott; Carmen Matthews; Leon Janney; Bryna Raeburn; Earl Hammond.
Police, and the assailant, are on the hunt to find a blind woman who unknowingly witnessed the murder of a pharmacist.

0482 - The Secret Sharer (5/13/1976) Mar 28, 2026

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0482 - The Secret Sharer (5/13/1976)
Written by Elizabeth Pennell. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Joseph Conrad.
Cast: Norman Rose; Mandel Kramer; William Redfield; Court Benson.
An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's short story about a fugitive, his alter ego, and the ship captain who accommodates them both.

0481 - The Ghost of San Juan Hill (5/10/1976) Mar 27, 2026

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0481 - The Ghost of San Juan Hill (5/10/1976)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Jack Grimes; Marian Haley; William Redfield; Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin.
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.

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