Scott's Old Time Radio

Original Airdate: April 01, 1974 Episode 0066 "The Black Cat" Original Story by Edgar Allen Poe, Adapted by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall A man finds out that when he married his wife, he also married her cat with whom she has a close relationship. The cat convinces him that he will murder his wife. I don't know if you've ever stopped to think about it, but of all the creat...

Original Airdate: March 28, 1974 Episode 0065 "The Unearthly Gift" Original Story by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall The cook of a lumberjack camp has the ability to foresee events. When she has a horrible vision of the new man in camp, she decides to act to prevent another death. All peoples have their separate legends, their superstitions, and their fears. Julius Caesar...

Original Airdate: March 27, 1974 Episode 0064 "Its Simply Murder" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A hen-pecked wimp fantasizes about running away from his despotic wife. Unwittingly, one weekend he gets wound up in a plot to murder her, participate in a bank robbery and get away with a woman he falls for. This is the story of a natural born loser. Within th...

Original Airdate: March 26, 1974 Episode 0063 "Death By Whose Hands" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Set in the early 1900's; a surgeon attaches the hands of a dead piano player to the arms of his rival. The consequences are deadly. What would you say is the one single feature that distinguishes man from all his fellow creatures? His brain? Speech? His abil...

Original Airdate: March 25, 1974 Episode 0062 "Diary of a Madman" Original Story by Guy de Maupassant Adapted by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall This namesake of the famous Nikolai Gogol story deals with the confession of a magistrate to multiple arbitrary homicides. The law says thou shalt not kill And that's the law most of us openly acknowledge Yet there are other laws, law...

Don't Forget Scott's Old Time Radio podcast can also be heard on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, I-Heart Podcasts, Pandora and Others. Original Airdate: March 21, 1974 Episode 0061 "Ordeal by Fire" Original Story by Murray Burnett Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A woman asks her boyfriend to try to help her father who is turning his home into a fortress. He soon finds out his soon-to...

*This is not the typical Mad Scientist story, it puts a whole new twist on the Frankenstein Legend Episode 0059 "Frankenstein Revisited" Original Airdate: March 19, 1974 Original Story by Milt Wisoff, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall A film crew goes to Germany to cover the 400th anniversary of the death of the evil Baron Von Frankenstein who was killed on his castle grounds 400 years...

Original Airdate: March 20, 1974 Episode 0060 "The Ghost at the Gate" Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall I would like to offer a few observations on the vagaries of the animal called man. Take the popular saying, seeing is believing. What idiot first said that? How many idiots have repeated it since? Do you believe in love? Tell me the color of it. Do you be...

Original Airdate: March 18, 1974 Episode 0058 "Sea of Troubles" Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall The subject of the story you're about to hear is murder. But the subject is also time. We've all heard of killing time. But have you heard about using time to kill? You will in the next few minutes when Mr. Owen Layton himself tells you his most ingenious schem...

Original Airdate: March 14, 1974 Episode 0057 "The Fall of the House of Usher" Original Story by Edgar Allen Poe Adapted by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall The classic horror tale by Edgar Allan Poe tells the story of a heir driven insane by the ancient house of Usher, which he believes to be sentient. The ultimate macabre phantasmagoria winds with him burying his catal...

Don't Forget Scott's Old Time Radio podcast can also be heard on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, I-Heart Podcasts and Others. https://rss.com/podcasts/scott-s-old-time-ra Original Airdate: March 12, 1974 Episode 0055 "A Sacrifice in Blood" Original Story by Milt Wisoff, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall A pair of archeologists find a baby boy in an Aztec temple of evil. They decide to...

Original Airdate: March 11, 1974 Episode 0054 "The Thing in the Cave" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall You know, man is a curious creature. Most of us settle for routine and habit. Eight hours on the job, another seven or eight in bed, and the other eight on some hobby that is neither too physically demanding nor asks for too many mental gymnastics. Few of u...

Original Airdate: March 07, 1974 Episode 0053 "The Creature From the Swamp" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Just mention the word swamp and cold settles in the bones. The dampness runs through the veins like slime. The thoughts of the brooding, cloying, miasma lingers in the nostrils. Headed, decaying, conjuring in the mind visions of things that slide and...

Original Airdate: March 06, 1974 Episode 0052 "The Sending" Original Story by Robert Newman Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Sit down and try to make yourself comfortable. Yes, it is quite warm in here, but don't worry about it. Because in just a moment, we'll bring you a tale that will chill your blood. A tale of black magic that may have begun centuries ago, but which takes place toda...

Original Airdate: March 05, 1974 Episode 0051 "A Long Time to Die" Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall It happens now and then that a man will vanish without warning, disappear completely, without leaving a trace, or a man will suddenly lose his memory. His body remains, but his mind has gone. What is essential in him leaves us and we are left perplexed, mystif...

Original Airdate: March 04, 1974 Episode 0050 "This Will Kill You" Original Story by Murray Burnett, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall Welcome to a chilling insight into the powers of witchcraft and an ancient curse. Witchcraft today is an in thing with the young, which may appear somewhat incongruous, since witches, demons, and warlocks are older than the beginning of recorded time. An...

Original Airdate: March 03, 1974 Episode 0049 "Prognosis Negative" Original Story by Sidney Sloan Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall My story explores the dark uncharted area of the human brain. Despite medical research, scientists admit that there is much that is still unknown about the flesh and blood computer which guides our conscious and unconscious lives. Let us listen as Colonel Ed...

Original Airdate: March 02, 1974 Episode 0048 "Out of Sight" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A space mission with the first woman in space is tormented by aliens they cannot see. This time a contemporary tale concerning the ill-fated flight of the first American woman astronaut. The flight of the Diana One. A tale of three astronauts who reached Skylab only...

Original Airdate: February 28, 1974 Episode 0047 "A Choice of Witnesses" Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A "professional" blackmailer is targeted by his victims who hatch an elaborate plan to get him. In this story, you're going to meet what some people call a shutter bug. You know what a shutter bug is. The kind of person who never goes anywhere without...

Original Airdate: February 26, 1974 Episode 0046 "The Edge of Death" Original Story by Sol Panitz Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A farmer can't do anything but watch helplessly as his wife is slowly consumes by an undefined illness. One day he finds a strange case and an even stranger person without a mouth seeking it desperately. He becomes convinced that the case contains a miracle...

Original Airdate: February 24, 1974 djwkn6fp Episode 0045 "The Horse That Wasn't For Sale" Original Story by Henry Slesar Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A woman is forced to sell most of her father's horses after he dies. She holds on to the best horse -- much to the consternation of her father's competitors. The story you're about to hear concerns one of the most unusual killers in t...

Original Airdate: February 22, 1974 Episode 0044 "The Horla" Original Story by Guy de Maupassant, Adapted by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall A man becomes obsessed with a ship in the harbor he is convinced harbors a terrible evil that is the doom of mankind. At one time, the great cold-blooded reptiles ruled supreme on the face of this earth,but they sickened and died. And do...

Original Airdate: February 21, 1974 Episode 0043 "The Walls of Jericho" Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall An elderly private club attendant finds that he is able to conjure ghostly figures from his imagination. We are about to bring you a tale of magic. What a word, magic. What do we mean by magic? What are we thinking when we say something is magical? By o...

Original Airdate: February 19, 1974 Episode 0042 "Sea Fever" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A fearsome captain of the seas inflicts the ultimate punishment for people who even dare to look at his wife. But some people can't contain their passions for her. Even before Phoenicians first sailed out of the Mediterranean and opened up the seven seas to mankind,...

Original Airdate: February 18, 1974 Episode 0041 "Blizzard of Terror" Original Story by George Lowther Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A couple with marital difficulties are forced to seek refuge from a blizzard in a remote cabin. They find it inhabited by a man who might be a serial killer. Have you ever known terror? Have you ever come up against something that so threatened you, so...