CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)

0561 - Enough Rope (12/7/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Russell Horton; Robert Dryden; Evie Juster. A swindler is saved from a hangman's noose by a woman claiming to be his guardian angel.

0560 - Child of the Sea (12/6/1976) Written by Bob Juhren. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Tony Roberts; Evie Juster; Bryna Raeburn; Earl Hammond. A man on an ocean swim has his life saved by a beautiful woman.

0559 - Child of Misfortune (12/3/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Norman Rose; Jada Rowland; Joan Copeland; Court Benson. The life of a pathologist, and his wife, is upended when a teenage girl moves in after tragic circumstances.

0558 - How to Kill Rudy (12/2/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Paul Hecht; Patricia Elliott; Ian Martin; Ralph Bell. Rudy Slaymaker discovers that his favorite detective novelist writes tales that predict true crimes. But Rudy must take preemptive action when he discovers the author's first book is about his own future.

0557 - Now You See Them, Now You Don't (11/30/1976) Written by Alfred Bester. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Robert Dryden; Leon Janney; Ian Martin; Martha Greenhouse; Earl Hammond. During World War V (2175 A.D.), a doctor is tasked to find out why combat shock patients in a military hospital are suddenly disappearing.

0556 - The Man Who Couldn't Get Arrested (11/29/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Fred Gwynne; Joan Shay; Bill Griffis; Court Benson. Parallel realities collide when a Wall Street broker can't determine whether his wife is alive or has been murdered.

0555 - Blood Will Tell (11/26/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mason Adams; Bryna Raeburn; Evie Juster; Ken Harvey. * For life insurance purposes, Norman Claymore must disclose to his employer's personnel department how his father died.

0554 - M-U-R-D-E-R (11/25/1976) Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Larry Haines; Ralph Bell; Teri Keane; Marian Seldes; Marian Haley. After his business partner walks off with their company's funds and commits suicide, Max Picket plays on a Ouija board with his wife and their friends. What the planchette spells out agitates Max.

0553 - The Awakening (11/23/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Kim Hunter; Leon Janney; Bryna Raeburn; Earl Hammond. A police detective investigates a psychiatrist's murder, with the only clue being an audio tape of the murderer's conversation with the victim.

0552 - Meeting by Chance (11/22/1976) Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Marian Seldes; Mandel Kramer; Bobby Readick. * Two strangers caught in a rainstorm seek shelter in a well-kept house whose only occupant is a blind cat.

0551 - A Question of Identity (11/12/1976) Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Joan Lovejoy; Robert Dryden; Joe Silver; Ian Martin. Hillary Cummings is kidnapped, not for the typical reasons. It all comes down to a matter of identity. CBSRMT Trivia: "A Question of Identity" is the same title of two Mystery Theater episodes (Episode 551: 11/12/76) and (Episode 731: 10/28/77)....

0550 - Strikeforce (11/11/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Michael Wager; Patricia Elliott; Mary Jane Higby; Court Benson; Gilbert Mack. A doctor begins to question everything he's believed about his late birth father (who went missing during the war) when he spots a corpse in the morgue, on which was tattooed the emblem of his father's military regiment.

0549 - The Colony (11/9/1976) Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Tony Roberts; Morgan Fairchild; Frances Sternhagen; Jackson Beck; Guy Sorel. After spotting a UFO, a vacationing couple reports their sighting to the sheriff in a sleepy New Hampshire town after which they find themselves in jail.

0548 - The Graveyard (11/8/1976) Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Guy de Maupassant. Cast: Norman Rose; Jada Rowland; Ralph Bell; Evie Juster; Guy Sorel. A man mourning for the woman he dedicated his life to learns the truth about her death in a hard way.

0547 - The Secret Chamber (11/5/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Ian Martin; Marian Seldes; Joan Shay; Leon Janney. A realtor tells of how a woman who, after losing her lover in war, disappeared and returned as a ghost to a house that dates back to Revolutionary times.

0546 - City of the Dead (11/4/1976) Written by Arnold Moss. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by H. G. Wells. Cast: Kristoffer Tabori; Earl Hammond; Court Benson; Catherine Byers. * Two late-19th century marine biologists explore a five-mile-deep Caribbean Ocean trough, where they encounter a strange civilization of hostile, man-like creatures.

0545 - The Queen of Cats (10/31/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Tammy Grimes; Joe Silver; Jack Grimes; Betsy Beard. A woman (and possible witch) is suspected of using her 63 cats to stalk and murder children in a small town. CBSRMT Trivia: This is the only episode with Tammy Grimes and Jack Grimes; however, they are not related.

0544 - Witches' Sabbath (10/30/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Larry Haines; Leon Janney; Marian Haley; Evie Juster; Robert Dryden; Himan Brown (uncredited). Two beautiful women invite Perry Harnishfeger for a night of fun. But the women are actually witches who introduce Perry to the Prince of Darkness. CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as Joe in act 3.

0543 - The Unborn (10/29/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mercedes McCambridge; Robert Dryden; Bob Kaliban. Newly widowed Duchess Margo Baranya longs to a return to her youth. The devilish financier she's been having a dalliance with is gradually granting that wish.

0542 - Absolute Zero (10/28/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Jada Rowland; Russell Horton; Ian Martin; Bryna Raeburn; Court Benson. Linda Russell feels guilt for not being at her mother's bedside when she died.

0541 - The Deathly White Man (10/27/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Betsy Palmer; Russell Horton; Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin. A woman takes a caretaker job in a remote castle, where the lord and lady of the house are haunted by a seemingly ghostly image and a dark family secret.

0540 - Somebody Stop Me! Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Howard DaSilva; Larry Haines; Bryna Raeburn; Evie Juster. Unattractive cop Bert turns mass murderer when he kills the women who turn down his sincere offers for dates.

0539 - To Hang by the Neck (10/21/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Marian Seldes; Bob Kaliban; Ann Pitoniak; Martha Greenhouse; Bill Griffis. With the Civil War concluded, Becky Pryor returns to a Texas ranch and, with a Northerner ranch hand's help, tries to determine if, one year earlier, friend Carrie Conway's death by hanging (on the eve of her wedding) was suicide o...

0538 - The Mission of Atropos (10/19/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mason Adams; Joan Lovejoy; Jackson Beck; Joan Shay; Robert Maxwell. A reporter investigates the death of a chemical plant's physician, who had uncovered two mysterious fatalities at her factory, which the doctor suspected were related to an illegal substance produced at the factory.

0537 - Killer's Appointment (10/18/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Marian Seldes; Michael Wager; Bryna Raeburn; Bill Griffis. Lydia Prentiss loves her boyfriend so much that she takes the rap for his crimes of assault and theft against his employer. But then he abandons her while she is in prison.