CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Restoration)

0386 - The Dead, Dead Ringer (11/27/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Don Scardino; Evie Juster; Leon Janney; Jackson Beck. Mob boss Mario Procacci asks policeman Bruce Hart to deliver a warning message to the lothario husband of Procacci's daughter, Penny.

0385 - The Lap of the Gods (11/25/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Larry Haines; Martha Greenhouse; Hetty Galen; William Redfield; James McCallion. Drowning his sorrow in alcohol since his wife's death puts Walter Davis into a coma and into a hospital where his spirit transfers from the present day into the body of a sea captain in the 1820s.

0384 - The Serpent's Tooth (11/24/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Norman Rose; Paul Hecht; Ann Sheppard; Robert Dryden. In pre-World War I Vienna, art dealer Jacob Kohn and wife Rachel give temporary shelter to a young, homeless artist who is sickly, behaving oddly and is driven by disturbing visions.

0383 - The Hanging Judgment (11/21/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mandel Kramer; Leon Janney; Ken Harvey; Evie Juster; Joan Shay; Earl Hammond. Dr. Sam Grant and his girlfriend, Sherril Stafford, are both charged with the murder of Grant's wife. Though they admit to a possible motive the pair swear to their attorney that they did not commit the crime.

0382 - The Lamps of the Devil (11/20/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Kristoffer Tabori; Russell Horton; Ian Martin; Joan Shay. Noah Artwright returns home from fighting in the Civil War to find his fiancée has married someone else and that his job as a whaler has been made obsolete by the discovery of crude oil.

0381 - Fear (11/19/1975) Written by Elspeth Eric. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Jack Grimes; Marian Seldes; Jane White; Earl Hammond. Diminutive bank teller Edgar Ellerbe is accused of robbing another branch of his own bank.

0380 - The Moonlighter (11/17/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Howard DaSilva; Joan Lovejoy; Bob Kaliban; Robert Dryden. * Needing extra cash to help satiate his wife's extravagant tastes, Stanley Morrison learns from his buddy of a way they can double their incomes. Defects: Background noise.

0379 - The Money Makers (11/14/1975) Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Ralph Bell; Bryna Raeburn; William Redfield; Jack Grimes. Two counterfeiters set up their secret operation in an abandoned house, unaware that it's inhabited by a ghost.

0378 - Home is Where the Ghost Is (11/13/1975) Written by Murray Burnett. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Gordon Gould; Patricia Elliott; William Redfield; Gilbert Mack. Dr. Ramsey Joslin is haunted by the ghost of his late wife, Emily, who advises him to be careful in dealing with a defecting Russian scientist.

0377 - Party Girl (11/11/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mason Adams; Russell Horton; Evie Juster; Earl Hammond; Dan Ocko. A Congressman and gubernatorial candidate tries to cover up the suicide of a prostitute he had a tryst with.

0376 - The Public Avenger (11/10/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Arnold Stang; Marian Haley; Robert Dryden; Leon Janney; Himan Brown (uncredited). A business executive's assistant is alarmed when it's theorized that a mild-mannered colleague may be the vigilante who's been murdering several well-known criminals. CBSRMT Trivia: Himan Brown is uncredited as an unnamed dry c...

0375 - Killing Valley (11/7/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Kim Hunter; Joan Shay; Ian Martin; William Redfield. * Polly Preston returns to the small town she grew up in to write a tell-all exposé about the powerful people who ostracized her parents years earlier. Defects: Muffled audio on and off.

0374 - The Edge of the Scalpel (11/5/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Teri Keane; Gordon Gould; Don Scardino; Robert Kaliban; Joan Shay. Dr. Kirk Malcolm faces a dilemma: Perform a complicated yet life-saving surgical procedure on the husband of the nurse he loves.

0373 - The Mortgage (11/3/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Larry Haines; Marian Seldes; Robert Dryden; Russell Horton; Robert Maxwell. A college professor becomes deeply worried when his picture appears in the newspaper for his doing a good deed: It may lead to his being activated as a Russian double agent, disrupting his happily placid life.

0372 - It's Hell to Pay the Piper (10/31/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Sir Walter Scott. Cast: Ian Martin; Arnold Moss; Bryna Raeburn; Court Benson; Guy Sorel. A poor Scottish farmer pays his rent but fails to get a receipt from his feudal landlord, who later dies. Then the landlord's son demands that the farmer clear his debt.

0371 - Triptych for a Witch (10/30/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Margaret Hamilton; Kristoffer Tabori; Evie Juster; Gilbert Mack; Himan Brown (uncredited). A witch masquerades as the kindly, recently widowed great aunt of a newlywed couple, and moves in to their home along with a pair of peculiarly behaving pets. CBSRMT Trivia: Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of t...

0370 - Ghost Powder (10/29/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Michael Wager; Marian Seldes; Court Benson; Bryna Raeburn; Guy Sorel. As his political rivalry with Thomas Jefferson grows, John Adams has another matter on his plate: The French chateau he and wife Abigail have moved into is haunted.

0369 - The Storm Breeder (10/28/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by William Austin. Cast: Michael Tolan; Fred Gwynne; Ann Pitoniak; Arnold Moss; Ian Martin. A young judge aims to give rest to a lost soul who, with his young daughter, has been cursed to forever wander New England in search of a home while a dark storm cloud follows.

0368 - A Living Corpse (10/27/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Robert Dryden; Kirk Peterson; Patricia Elliott. Professor Amadeus Valdemar, an expert on hypnosis who's dying of consumption, talks Dr. Craig Nugent into hypnotizing him to forestall the Grim Reaper.

0367 - The Summer People (10/24/1975) Written by Bob Juhren. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Tony Roberts; Jennifer Harmon; Grace Matthews; Leon Janney; William Redfield. * Seeking a place to pursue their artistic crafts during the summer, Jane and Mike Slater discover Granville, a town the couple learn is difficult to leave.

0366 - The Sealed Room Murder (10/23/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by M. D. Post. Cast: Howard DaSilva; Fred Gwynne; Bryna Raeburn; Ian Martin; Earl Hammond. A sheriff and a judge take on the onerous task of solving the murder of the county's most repulsive resident.

0365 - Million Dollar Murder (10/21/1975) Written by Sam Dann. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Mandel Kramer; Patricia Elliott; Catherine Byers; Robert Dryden; Nat Polen. Facing a liquidation of his furniture company's assets, Dick Nelson is offered $1 million by a wealthy woman, provided he kill a close friend.

0364 - Never in This World (10/20/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Alexander Scourby; Lori March; Ian Martin; Marian Seldes. When David Campbell discovers the ruins of an old church, he's drawn into challenging an ancient Gaelic curse.

0363 - Stay Out of Dutchman's Woods (10/16/1975) Written by Fielden Farrington. Directed by Himan Brown. Cast: Paul Hecht; Jada Rowland; Santos Ortega; Joan Loring; Mary Jane Higby. After a newlywed couple honeymooning in Maine become lost and separated in the Dutchman's woods, the husband comes under the enticement of a spirit.

0362 - The Kiss of Death (10/15/1975) Written by Ian Martin. Directed by Himan Brown. Adaptation of a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Cast: Kirk Peterson; Patsy Bruder; Arnold Moss; Bryna Raeburn; Gilbert Mack. Despite the warnings of his mentors, an aspiring doctor in Padua, Italy falls in love with the daughter of the town's crackpot physician.