CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)

0261 - Afraid to Live, Afraid to Die (4/23/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Jada Rowland; Ann Pitoniak; Joan Shay; Ian Martin. A young woman travels to Malvern Grange to help out her aunt. As she settles into the isolated estate, she encounters a web of tension and unease, heightened by an old woman’s cryptic behavior and haunting presence.

0260 - Sting of Death (4/21/1975) Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: William Prince; Tony Roberts; Marian Seldes; Martha Greenhouse. Somebody is playing a deadly game with an unusual clock.

0259 - A Challenge for the Dead (4/18/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Howard DaSilva; Teri Keane; Robert Dryden; Leon Janney; Bryna Raeburn. Police officer Johnny Gordon aims to nail, for murder, a gangster who used to be his friend.

0258 - Through the Looking Glass (4/17/1975) Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Ann Sheppard; Jack Grimes; Evie Juster; Russell Horton; Ken Harvey. * Kathy & Doug Sellars get new neighbors, one of whom is an inventor that offers Doug a solar energy device that will revolutionize the world.

0257 - My Own Murderer (4/15/1975) Written by Henry Slesar. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mandel Kramer; Robert Dryden; Catherine Byers; Suzanne Grossman; Ian Martin; Sam Gray. Joe Vincent seeks a psychiatrist's help to prevent Joe Vinacelli from murdering him. Problem is, Joe Vincent and Joe Vinacelli are the same person.

0256 - The Intermediary (4/14/1975) Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Frances Sternhagen; Ralph Bell; Leon Janney. * At his wife's urging, Frank Ellington accepts inheritance of the home owned by his late stepmother — the same house in which the stepmother treated a young Frank with cruelty.

0255 - The Phantom Stop (4/11/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Norman Rose; Nat Polen; Carol Teitel; Bryna Raeburn; Himan Brown (uncredited). * Alvin Frieburger desires to take the express subway to a stop that doesn't exist, but it's a location he believes will be the start of a better life. CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as Mr. Goldman in act 2 and act 3.

0254 - The Death of Halpin Fraser (4/10/1975) Written by Arnold Moss. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Ambrose Bierce. Cast: Michael Wager; Grace Matthews; Arnold Moss; Patricia Elliott; Court Benson. A trip through Purgatory awaits a young man who's haunted by the voices of his mother, his father-in-law, and the wife he murdered.

0253 - The Altar of Blood (4/9/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Fred Gwynne; Jennifer Harmon; Mason Adams; Ian Martin. After relocating to Mexico, a retired archaeological professor and his daughter discover a buried Aztec pyramid and are transported back in time to the Aztec era.

0252 - The Benjamin Franklin Murder Case (4/7/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Paul Hecht; Marian Seldes; Staats Cotsworth; Russell Horton; Gil Mack. Future Founding Father Ben Franklin helps solve a murder in a Philadelphia mansion in 1750.

0251 - Roses Are for Funerals (4/4/1975) Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Carole Shelley; Tony Roberts; Mildred Clinton; Dan Ocko; Himan Brown (uncredited). The story of a cross-Atlantic romance turns into a case of murder and intrigue, with a fake leopard skin coat as key evidence. Himan Brown is uncredited as an unnamed character, in the museum, in act 2.

0250 - The Garrison of the Dead (4/3/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mandel Kramer; Joan Lovejoy; Court Benson; Leon Janney; Bob Kaliban. After his hanging for murdering a reporter who wrote about him, a hustler is given a second chance at life to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer.

0249 - The Killer Inside (4/1/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Anne Meara; Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin; Earl Hammond. A woman's mundane life is stirred when her transporting of a package to Europe puts her into the middle of international intrigue.

0248 - Killer of the Year (3/31/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Norman Rose; Teri Keane; Joan Shay; Nat Polen; Ken Harvey. A businessman meets and falls for the town's new librarian, a woman he was once previously smitten by when she was on trial for murder.

0247 - Key to Murder (3/28/1975) Written by George Lowther. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mercedes McCambridge; Mary Jane Higby; Robert Maxwell; Robert Dryden. A police detective probes the case of two murders that took place in rooms sealed from the inside with no apparent exits.

0246 - The Velvet Claws (3/27/1975) Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Gordon Gould; Arnold Moss; Evie Juster; Gilbert Mack. A young man tells his therapist how he escaped from a town whose residences have an unhealthy preoccupation with cats.

0245 - Death is a Dream (3/26/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mercedes McCambridge; Michael Wager; Bob Kaliban; Jack Grimes; Bryna Raeburn. A woman has a dream about her brother being murdered, prompting her to pursue the killer even without proof of the crime.

0244 - The Deadly Double (3/24/1975) Written by Vicky Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Marian Seldes; Robert Dryden; Leon Janney. A woman escapes from a mental institution and forcefully swaps places with her sane sister.

0243 - The Man Must Die (3/21/1975) Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: William Prince; Augusta Dabney; Kristoffer Tabori; Ian Martin. Instead of a death penalty, a court judge administers a 20-years-to-life prison sentence to a convicted murderer; the ruling angers the judge's son.

0242 - The Doppelganger (3/20/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Howard DaSilva; Rosemary Rice; Tony Roberts; Russell Horton. A psychologist's daughter spurns her fiancé for a hoodlum boyfriend who forces her to have an abortion.

0241 - It's Murder, Mr. Lincoln (3/18/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Keir Dullea; Jennifer Harmon; Paul Hecht; Joe Silver; Robert Dryden. Against the legal establishment's warnings, young lawyer Abraham Lincoln aggressively presses forward in defending a client against a murder charge.

0240 - Every Blossom Dies (3/17/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Michael Tolan; George Petrie; Catherine Byers; Evie Juster. All the evidence in a young woman's murder points to the police detective investigating the case. CBSRMT Trivia: The moody song "Every Blossom Dies" which is heard throughout this episode is used again to great effect in the climax of episode 

0239 - The Cezar Curse (3/14/1975) Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Cast: Richard Kiley; Roberta Maxwell; Ann Pitoniak; Bob Kaliban; Ian Martin. A wealthy man takes a holiday with an aristocratic Spanish family, becomes smitten with the image of an evil woman on a painting in their house, and falls for that woman's daughter who be...

0238 - Death Pays No Dividend (3/13/1975) Written by Mary Jane Higby. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Ann Sheppard; Guy Sorel; Court Benson; Ken Harvey. * A group of disgraced Wall Street financiers arrange their own deaths by an assassin's hand so that so that their families can collect on their life insurance.

0237 - The Dark Closet (3/12/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Fred Gwynne; Jada Rowland; Kristoffer Tabori; Frances Sternhagen; Earl Hammond. A severely claustrophobic and neurotic young woman is arrested as a robbery suspect, leading her father to disinherit her and a police psychologist to take an interest in the woman's case.