CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)

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0130 - You Only Die Once (8/8/1974) Apr 10, 2025

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0130 - You Only Die Once (8/8/1974)
Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Joan Loring; Joseph Julian; Tom Keena; Dan Ocko; Hetty Galen.
Marge Miller's blissfulness is shattered when her presumed-dead first husband returns to demand his share of the insurance money she received after his death.

0129 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (8/7/1974) Apr 09, 2025

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0129 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (8/7/1974)
Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Oscar Wilde.
Cast: Nick Pryor; Norman Rose; Marian Seldes, Roger DeKoven.
A handsome, narcissistic young man makes a devilish bargain in exchange for eternal youth; but as evil consumes him, his portrait changes to mirror the abomination he has become.

0128 - The Headstrong Corpse (8/6/1974) Apr 08, 2025

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0128 - The Headstrong Corpse (8/6/1974)
Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Suzanne Grossman; Gordon Gould; Ann Pitoniak; Ian Martin; Court Benson; George Lowther.
Set in 1874, this story of murder and mayhem finds the late Lord Burleigh of Moreland laid out in an open crypt per his wishes; he feared being buried alive.

0127 - I Thought You Were Dead (8/5/1974) Apr 07, 2025

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0127 - I Thought You Were Dead (8/5/1974)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Arlene Francis; Mary Jane Higby; Robert Dryden; Guy Sorel.
One year after murdering her husband, and writing partner, an author begins to receive phone calls from her deceased spouse.

0126 - The Hit Man (8/1/1974) Apr 06, 2025

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0126 - The Hit Man (8/1/1974)
Written by Henry Slesar. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Mike Kellin; Alan Manson; Earl Hammond; Marian Seldes; Lon Clark.
* A chance encounter with the wife of his next victim, and hearing the heartbreaking story that the couple shares, changes a hired assassin's mindset.

0125 - The Only Blood (7/31/1974) Apr 05, 2025

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0125 - The Only Blood (7/31/1974)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Howard DaSilva; Ken Harvey; Robert Dryden; Bryna Raeburn; Jack Grimes.
An immigrant shoemaker vows murderous revenge after he and his family are attacked by the local mafia for his refusal to pay "protection" money.

0124 - Ghost at High Noon (7/29/1974) Apr 04, 2025

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0124 - Ghost at High Noon (7/29/1974)
Written by Elizabeth Pennell. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Celeste Holm; Frances Sternhagen; Nat Polen; Gilbert Mack.
Stuck in the middle of the desert with a broken-down car, two women are rescued by an old man in a covered wagon, who takes them to the nearest town where he and the townsfolk insists that the women stay.

0123 - My Sister -- Death (7/25/1974) Apr 03, 2025

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0123 - My Sister -- Death (7/25/1974)
Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Beatrice Straight; Paul Hecht; Marian Seldes; George Petrie.
A twisted tale of Sybil Carter's attempts to gain her late brother's estate from her sister.

0122 - Adam's Astral Self (7/23/1974) Apr 02, 2025

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0122 - Adam's Astral Self (7/23/1974)
Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Michael Wager; Jennifer Harmon; Jacqueline Brooks; William Redfield.
Adam Farr is able to project his spiritual self to other places; it annoys his wife enough that she leaves him, but Adam has a plan to woo her back.

0121 - The Deadly Process (7/22/1974) Apr 01, 2025

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0121 - The Deadly Process (7/22/1974)
Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown.
Cast: Norman Rose; Ralph Bell; Marian Seldes; Bob Maxwell; Jackson Beck.
In order to save his job, an unskilled engineer pilfers from an old friend the secret to a revolutionary industrial process.
CBSRMT Trivia: Sometimes the teaser at the beginning of Mystery Theater doesn't match what happens in the episode. This is one such episode.

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