CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)

0586 - Jimmy Valentine's Gamble (1/16/1977) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by O. Henry. Cast: Robert Dryden; Paul Hecht; Catherine Byers; Court Benson; Ken Harvey. Ready to crack safes again (after serving prison time for doing so), Jimmy Valentine has a change of heart when a banker's daughter steals his heart. But Jimmy must reuse his old skills when a crisis...

0585 - Cherchez La Femme (1/15/1977) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by O. Henry. Cast: Robert Dryden; Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin; Bill Griffis; Himan Brown (uncredited). A French Quarter restaurateur hires O. Henry to track down the $25,000 she entrusted to a long-time customer who unexpectedly died. CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as the jeweler in act...

0584 - A Departmental Case (1/14/1977) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by O. Henry. Cast: Robert Dryden; Joe Silver; Teri Keane; Carol Teitel; Earl Hammond. * In Austin, Texas, O. Henry learns why an insurance commissioner tracked down and killed a wife-beating, bank-robbing desperado and how the killer and the victim weren't all that different.

0583 - Don't Die Without Me (1/13/1977) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by O. Henry. Cast: Robert Dryden; Marian Seldes; Joan Shay; Russell Horton. O. Henry curiously observes a police investigation of two people who appeared to have committed suicide in the same room of a seedy boarding house. E.G. Marshall makes a mistake in his narration at the end of act 2.

0582 - Tobin's Palm (1/12/1977) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by O. Henry. Cast: Robert Dryden; Fred Gwynne; Jack Grimes; Marian Seldes; Gilbert Mack. An adaptation of the O. Henry story finds the titular character having his palm read in order to help find his missing fiancée. Instead, the fortune teller sends him on an amusing series of misadventures.

0581 - The Passing of Black Eagle (1/11/1977) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by O. Henry. Cast: Robert Dryden; Larry Haines; Evie Juster; Paul Tripp; Earl Hammond. A panhandler has two personalities: When drunk, he's a meek, easygoing beggar; when sober, he's a fearsome, grandiose, train-robber.

0580 - Two Renegades (1/10/1977) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by O. Henry. Cast: Robert Dryden; Ralph Bell; Bryna Raeburn; Leon Janney; Ian Martin. A case of mistaken identity turns a con artist into a Panamanian army general; his incompetence attracts the interest of Panama's enemies. CBSRMT Trivia: To celebrate the start of their fourth year, Mystery Theate...

0579 - Conquest of Fear (1/7/1977) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Tammy Grimes; Rosemary Rice; Ian Martin; Sam Gray. In Spain, a desperado abducts a famous actress who convinces him to leave behind his life of crime and return to a previous career that made him famous — bullfighting.

0578 - The Man from Ultra (1/6/1977) Written by Alfred Bester. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Court Benson; Robert Burr; Mandel Kramer; Roberta Maxwell. An interstellar traveler who can't comprehend love inadvertently ruins the mind of a talented but mentally fragile artist.

0577 - This Breed is Doomed (1/4/1977) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Howard DaSilva; Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin; Gilbert Mack. A con man tricks a small town's residents and takes away a piece of baggage known as irony.

0576 - Whose Little Girl Are You? (1/3/1977) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Marian Seldes; Russell Horton; Bill Griffis. A tennis star recounts how she lost her stellar backhand shot and other events that put her into a pill-induced, suicidal, manic-depressive state.

0575 - Tomorrow's Murder (12/31/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Robert Dryden; Evie Juster; Court Benson; Earl Hammond. Stressed sales manager Harold K. Starbright becomes even more anxious when he is shown a cemetery tombstone that displays his future death date.

0574 - Your Move, Mr. Ellers (12/30/1976) Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Jack Grimes; Bobby Readick; Roger DeKoven; Jackson Beck. Fondness for the game of chess figures into an insurance investigator's look into who may have stolen priceless gems from a jeweler's shop.

0573 - The Artist (12/28/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant. Cast: Michael Wager; Patricia Elliott; Court Benson; Ann Pitoniak. Nebbish businessman Marc Harrison becomes enthralled by a knife-throwing performer and his assistant.

0572 - The Mark of Cain (12/27/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Ralph Bell; Marian Seldes; Ian Martin; Bob Kaliban. A cattle baron hires a gunslinger with a unique mark in his hair and a dark past in his soul; his arrival arouses love in the rancher's daughter, but also anger in her betrothed. Defects: Poor audio quality.

0571 - The Magus (12/25/1976) Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Fred Gwynne; Jada Rowland; Carol Teitel; Russell Horton. A practitioner of the black arts charms a young servant girl.

0570 - Double Zero (12/23/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Robert Dryden; Bill Griffis; Earl Hammond; Bryna Raeburn; Joan Shay. Police work a case of a murdered private eye whose wallet contained five $20 bills, each bearing two zeroes written in red ink.

0569 - The Lone Survivor (12/21/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Russell Horton; Ian Martin; Bryna Raeburn; Ken Harvey. A plane crash at sea has one survivor, who cannot remember who he is. A police detective, an airline executive, and a doctor work to find out the man's identity.

0568 - Date of Death (12/20/1976) Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Larry Haines; Norman Rose; Joan Copeland; Evie Juster. * A hypochondriac begins to worry when his doctor tells him he has an aortic aneurism. But fear is later fused with anger when the doctor later denies ever giving him the diagnosis.

0567 - A Quiet Evening at Home (12/17/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Tammy Grimes; Robert Dryden; Leon Janney; Earl Hammond. After witnessing a murder at a train station, an unhappily married woman is hesitant to testify lest her reason for being there be revealed.

0566 - The Doctor's Evidence (12/16/1976) Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Frances Sternhagen; Tony Roberts; Ralph Bell; Guy Sorel; Catherine Butterfield. Telepathy plays into a story of an unfaithful husband whose wife dies in an accidental fall but her son suspects murder.

0565 - The Smoking Pistol (12/14/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Howard DaSilva; Ann Pitoniak; Rosemary Rice; Bob Kaliban. A cop's son (an undercover detective) is murdered and a suspect is found with the weapon; the cop thinks it's an open-and-shut case, but doubts enter his mind when the suspect's mother (who claims her son didn't pull the trigger) begs him to investiga...

0564 - Hit Me Again (12/13/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Paul Hecht; Patricia Elliott; Jackson Beck; Ian Martin. Much to his wife's distress, a financial planner ditches his job for a new career as a professional gambler, where he applies his experience in actuarial science to counting cards in blackjack.

0563 - Identity Crisis (12/10/1976) Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Gordon Gould; Ann Williams; Bryna Raeburn; Robert Dryden; Joe Silver. A brain transplant weighs heavily on the doctor performing it, the wives of the donor and the recipient and the corrupt contractors who want to make sure the surviving brain (that of a state senator) stays quiet.

0562 - Nobody Dies (12/9/1976) Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Teri Keane; Ann Sheppard; Jack Grimes; Morgan Fairchild. * A young mother becomes housekeeper for a well-to-do pregnant widow. As their children grow they develop a relationship.