CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)

0461 - Vanity Dies Hard (4/2/1976) Written by Sidney Sloan. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Robert Dryden; Marian Seldes; Earl Hammond; Ian Martin; Mary Jane Higby. An arrogant, vengeful mystery writer thinks he's pulled off the perfect crime: He's murdered his cheating wife's lover, he's pinned her for the crime and he's helping police with the investigation.

0460 - The White Ghost (4/1/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Ralph Bell; Ann Williams; Joan Shay; Earl Hammond. Donald Taylor ends his secret affair with Trudy Nelson and returns to his invalid wife. It leads to Trudy threatening to kill Donald.

0459 - The Spit and Image (3/31/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Michael Tolan; Patricia Elliott; Ralph Bell; Earl Hammond. A retired football player is hired to serve as the stand-in for a reclusive, eccentric billionaire.

0458 - The Intruders (3/30/1976) Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Lois Nettleton; Carmen Matthews; Fred Gwynne; Russell Horton. A woman is troubled by a trio of strangers in her home; they do not acknowledge her presence, leading her to believe they are ghosts.

0457 - The Saxon Curse (3/29/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Oscar Wilde. Cast: Paul Hecht; Catherine Byers; Court Benson; Guy Sorel; Himan Brown (uncredited). An arrogant aristocrat learns from a fortune teller that he will carry out the perfect murder and not get caught. CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as the "celebrated doctor" in act 3. Def...

0456 - Extortion (3/26/1976) Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Evie Juster; Mandel Kramer; William Redfield; Joan Shay; Russell Horton. A state senator learns his wife is being blackmailed for a fatal hit-and-run accident she committed during her college days.

0455 - The Transformation of Joebee (3/25/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Hans Conried; Ian Martin; Bryna Raeburn; Joe Silver. After years of pulling practical jokes, Joseph B. Jefferson mends his ways and advises two friends (and former joke targets) on a plan that could possibly be yet another prank.

0454 - Brain Drain (3/24/1976) Written by Ralph Goodman. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Paul Hecht; Robert Dryden; Staats Cotsworth; Carol Teitel. A government agent explores the disturbing deaths of noted scientists, which appear to be connected to a beautiful woman and a deranged scientist's heinous experiments.

0453 - The Covered Bridge (3/23/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Jada Rowland; Bob Kaliban; Ian Martin; Bryna Raeburn. A bridge transports Peg, on her honeymoon with Ted, from the 1970s to the 1770s and into an arranged marriage with someone else.

0452 - Stampede (3/22/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Kris Tabori; Fred Gwynne; Catherine Byers; Gilbert Mack; Earl Hammond. After Commanche warriors murder her husband and their beet crop and farm are destroyed by a stampede, Ellie Tate Gottenschalk joins an all-male cattle drive.

0451 - A Matter of Love and Death (3/19/1976) Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Lois Nettleton; William Redfield; Marian Haley; Lloyd Battista. Helen Collins walks into a police station and confesses to an unbelieving sergeant that she has killed her celebrity husband.

0450 - The Other Side of the Coin (3/18/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Ralph Bell; Bryna Raeburn; Bob Kaliban; Ian Martin. A supernatural accident causes an ex-police sergeant and a mob-tied con artist to swap bodies.

0449 - Crime Casts a Shadow (3/16/1976) Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Evie Juster; William Redfield; Jay Gregory; Ian Martin. * In need of cash, Gay Armstrong tries to sell her late mother's pearl necklace; but then she learns the pearls are fake, just as her stepfather offers her $15,000 for the necklace.

0448 - The Aliens (3/15/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Paul Hecht; Mandel Kramer; Robert Dryden; Marie Cheatham. A classified US/USSR experiment draws together two secret agents (one American, one Russian), who realize that the project their governments are working on could potentially destroy mankind.

0447 - The Man Who Preyed on Widows (3/12/1976) Written by Roy Winsor. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mason Adams; Joan Shay; Russell Horton; Jackson Beck. Despite being swindled out of her money, a widow refuses to take action against the grifter who conned her.

0446 - Pandora (3/11/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Patricia Elliott; Norman Rose; Joan Lovejoy; Don Scardino. Hundreds of thousands of years in the future, a woman named Mara is condemned to death for inflicting sorrow on a hate-free, fear-free society.

0445 - I Thought I Saw A Shadow (3/10/1976) Written by Bob Juhren. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Nat Polen; Joan Shay; Gordon Gould; Lloyd Battista. * Scientist Dr. John Gilbert is his own test subject for an invisibility serum which only separates him from his shadow.

0444 - The Queen of Spades (3/8/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Alexander Pushkin. Cast: Michael Tolan; Ann Sheppard; Ian Martin; Bryna Raeburn; Robert Dryden. A Russian soldier pursues a wealthy countess to seek a secret at winning in faro.

0443 - The Infernal Triangle (3/5/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Morgan Fairchild; Joe Silver; Catherine Byers; William Redfield. Ann Fairchild has found happiness with her husband-to-be, Hugh Denning. But the return of Ann's older sister, Eve, threatens Ann and Hugh's romantic bliss and rekindles a sibling rivalry. CBSRMT Trivia: Morgan Fairchild plays a character nam...

0442 - The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (3/4/1976) Written by Arnold and Stella Moss. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Ambrose Bierce. Cast: Kristoffer Tabori; Arnold Moss; Evie Juster; Russell Horton. Two monks are sent to a monastery in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, where one of them meets and falls for the daughter of the town's hangman.

0441 - Afterward (3/2/1976) Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Edith Wharton. Cast: Celeste Holm; Larry Haines; Joan Shay; Guy Sorel; Ian Martin. * A ghostly tale, adapted from Edith Wharton's short story, involving a nouveau riche woman, her husband, his business dealings, and a vengeful spirit.

0440 - The Death Trail (3/1/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Bob Kaliban; Robert Dryden; Russell Horton; Marian Seldes; Ralph Bell. In late 1860s Texas, bank president Wayne Prescott is given $200,000 by his former Army commanding officer to invest in cattle. CBSRMT Trivia: "The Death Trail" (Episode 440: 3/1/76) is similarly named as "Death Trail" (Episode 1184: 4/13/81...

0439 - Half A Life (2/27/1976) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Tammy Grimes; Tony Roberts; Marian Haley; Earl Hammond. On a lark, mousy government engineer Dr. Winifred Prentiss visits a singles bar and meets a handsome man who immediately proposes marriage.

0438 - The Providential Ghost (2/26/1976) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Beatrice Straight; Hetty Galen; Bryna Raeburn; Court Benson; Gilbert Mack. In quick succession, 8-year-old Lisha de Pew Miller loses her parents and then her beloved grandfather, forcing her to live with her two aunts who want her inheritance.

0437 - General Laughter (2/25/1976) Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mercedes McCambridge; Mandel Kramer; Sam Gray. * In lieu of a written suicide note to her husband and children, a distressed yet consummate actress chooses to record on tape her motives and last breaths. Elspeth Eric pens a tale about suicide. Mercedes McCambridge's tour-de-force performance brings it to li...