CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)

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0190 - Give the Devil His Due (12/23/1974) Jun 09, 2025

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0190 - Give the Devil His Due (12/23/1974)
Written by Nancy Moore. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Mercedes McCambridge; Joe Silver; Ian Martin; Bryna Raeburn; Peter Donald.
* An over-the-hill dancer sells her soul to the devil to regain her youth and talent, but consequences arise when she reneges on the deal.

0189 - The House of the Voodoo Queen (12/19/1974) Jun 08, 2025

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0189 - The House of the Voodoo Queen (12/19/1974)
Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Joan Loring; Jordan Charney; Renee Roy; Dan Ocko; Gilbert Mack.
The story of a New Orleans house haunted by a malicious spirit; the couple who just inherited it; and another woman who seduces the husband in order to gain possession of it.

0188 - Charity is Never Dead (12/18/1974) Jun 07, 2025

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0188 - Charity is Never Dead (12/18/1974)
Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Virginia Payne; Rosemary Rice; William Prince; Patricia Wheel; George Petrie.
* Two patients are brought into a hospital ER: An elderly woman, badly injured in a department store explosion, who cannot find the granddaughter she was just reunited with; and a younger woman with a head injury and amnesia.

0187 - Stephanie's Room (12/16/1974) Jun 06, 2025

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0187 - Stephanie's Room (12/16/1974)
Written by Bob Juhren. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Mercedes McCambridge; William Redfield; Mary Jane Higby; Robert Dryden.
After a housewife moves with her husband back to her hometown of New York City, she visits the house in which she grew up, soon developing a symbiotic relationship with the aged, childless woman who now resides there.

0186 - Is the Lady Dead? (12/12/1974) Jun 05, 2025

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0186 - Is the Lady Dead? (12/12/1974)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Larry Haines; Joan Loring; Ann Pitoniak; Leon Janney.
While on a trip to England, American businessman Barney Kreuger marries a woman on a whim. But two weeks after the nuptials, his wife dies, causing Barney to become obsessed with bringing her back to life.

0185 - The Damned Thing (12/10/1974) Jun 04, 2025

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0185 - The Damned Thing (12/10/1974)
Written by Arnold Moss. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Ambrose Bierce.
Cast: Arnold Moss; Robert Dryden; Joan Tompkins; Evie Juster; Robert Kaliban.
A coroner conducts an inquest into a wealthy man's death; witnesses offer different recollections of the incident.

0184 - The Fatal Connection (12/9/1974) Jun 03, 2025

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0184 - The Fatal Connection (12/9/1974)
Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Jennifer Harmon; Nick Pryor; Robert Maxwell; Joan Shay.
Expectant couple Hal & Norma Glenford inherit a New York City brownstone once owned by Hal's great-grandfather; the home contains 1890s decor, including an antique phone that sends the Glenfords back in time to relieve their ancestors' sordid, unscrupulous lives.

0183 - The Body Snatchers (12/5/1974) Jun 02, 2025

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0183 - The Body Snatchers (12/5/1974)
Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Cast: Howard DaSilva; Patricia Elliott; Ralph Bell; Court Benson; Ken Harvey.
The sight of a medical school classmate prompts a drunkard to ruefully recall how he got caught up in a sordid trade — robbing graves to sell cadavers to the school "in the name of medicine and research."

0182 - A Bride for Death (12/4/1974) Jun 01, 2025

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0182 - A Bride for Death (12/4/1974)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Tony Roberts; Bryna Raeburn; Marian Seldes; Earl Hammond.
An unlucky poet finds love and affection from a neighbor, a melancholic woman awaiting her fiancé's return from the war.

0181 - The Dice of Doom (12/2/1974) May 31, 2025

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0181 - The Dice of Doom (12/2/1974)
Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Michael Wager; Carol Teitel; Ian Martin; Gordon Gould; Robert Dryden.
Through the use of two special dice, a 19th century gambler tries to outwit The Devil and alter the fate he was bound to by an ancestor's mistake.

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