Scott's Old Time Radio

Original Airdate: February 16, 1974 Episode 0039 "A Lady Never Loses Her Head" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall After a whirlwind romance, and American woman marries an aristocratic Brit. When she moves into her husband's Manor House, she is haunted by a headless specter on horseback who bears a striking resemblance to her. Our suspense -filled tale is about...

Original Airdate: February 17, 1974 Episode 0040 "The Walking Corpse" Original Story by Ian Martin Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A Banana Republic dictator uses an army of zombies to take over a small island country. An American couple on their honeymoon stumble into his plot. Tonight I hope you have strong stomachs. For we're bound on a Caribbean cruise. Oh, we don't expect rough sa...

Original Airdate: February 14, 1974 Episode 0038 "Under Grave Suspicions" Original Story by S.J. Wilson Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall A couple's marriage is under strain and the college professor's wife is having an affair. The husband kills them both and is then is stranded by a hurricane before he can dispose of the bodies. Our play poses a dilemma you have never faced or are likel...

Original Airdate: February 12, 1974 Episode 0036 "A Dream of Death" Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall A college professor becomes convinced that he is reincarnated. He is worried that he will be punished for breaking a 200 year old engagement. They say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. And perhaps it's true. But the question is, how long? How long can...

Original Airdate: February 10, 1974 Episode 0035 "Dead Man's Mountain" Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall Firmly determined to turn a mountain in the Adirondacks into a resort, a New York developer sets out to prove that the peak is not as cursed — and life-altering — as the locals insist it is. Dead Man's Mountain is what it's called. Going is really no probl...

Original Airdate: February 09, 1974 Episode 0034 "The Deadly Hour" Original Story by Elspeth Eric,Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Relax and listen to the strange tale of a strange man. You're no more strange than anyone who has suffered what you might call a mutilation of the soul. And who of us is not at one time or another suffered such a mutilation? What means did we use to restore...

Original Airdate: February 08, 1974 Episode 0033 "Conspiracy To Defraud" Original Story by Sidney Sloan, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall I have an unusual story about foreign intrigue, murder, and love. Interesting combination. You know, that great mystery writer Edgar Allan Poe once wrote that the best way to hide something was to leave it in full sight and that's what this story's a...

Original Airdate: February 08, 1974 Episode 0032 "After The Verdict" Original Story by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall After The Verdict is a tale about justice, about the lady that stands over the criminal courthouses of America with a blindfold over her eyes. Of course the blindfold represents impartiality not faulty vision but yet there are occasions when justice seem...

Original Airdate February 05, 1974 Episode 0031 "The Lady Was a Tiger" Original Story by Murray Burnett Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall The art of the double cross, unfortunately, has become part of the fabric of our lives. In espionage, however, it is almost a lifestyle. In the world of spies, for the left hand ever to know what the right is doing is unthinkable. For the next hour, im...

Original Airdate: February 03, 1974 Episode 0029 "The Sign of the Beast" Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall What is the difference between man and beast? There are those who ask is there a difference? It wasn’t very long ago tat man himself was a beast, a carnivorous hunter with an insatiable appetite for raw meat. True quite a bit has happened since, we’re le...

Original Airdate February 24, 1974 Episode 0030 "Here Goes the Bride" Original Story by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall The supernatural doesn’t always have to presuppose something totally beyond the earth. There are those among us who hover somewhere between earth and sky, the stars who light up our theater marquees or movie screens, all the human beings who have become b...

Original Airdate: February 02, 1974 Episode 0028 "A Ghostly Game of Death" Original Story by Murray Burnett, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall Welcome to the world of your own terrifying imagination. Since the beginning of time, people have argued about the existence of ghosts. They've been called variously wraiths, specters, phantoms, apparitions, shadows or shades. But everyone agrees...

Original Airdate: February 01, 1974 Episode 0027 "Dead Ringer" Original Story by Murray Burnett, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall It is raining hard as Gloria Winters is driving home knowing that she is going to be late for dinner and Gloria Winters has a husband who doesn’t appreciate lateness. The night seems to be getting blacker and the rain shows no sign of easing. Suddenly the he...

Original Airdate: January 31, 1974 Episode 0026 "The Man Who Asked For Yesterday" Original Story by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall If only I had to do it all over again is a constant cry from the human heart. And the implication is, of course, that if some magical power could grant the plea, how much better things would be handled. Or, at the very least, how differently....

Original Airdate: January 30, 1974 Episode 0025 "Mother Love" Original Story by Bob Juhren Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall Paula Richards and her husband have been told that she will never be able to bear a child so Paula Richards aged 24 put her future in the hands of an old fortuneteller and dealer in the macabre who told her one thing she must add about their arrangement. The fortun...

Original Airdate: January 29, 1974 Episode 0024 "The Man Who Heard Voices" Original Story by Sam Dann, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall I have a ghost story to tell you. but here we have a most unusual ghost story since it violates all the established rules. You know the rules for a ghost story. It must be set on some desolate windswept moor or perhaps in a ruined isolated mansion or a...

Original Airdate: January 28, 1974 Episode 0023 "Three Women" Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall I have a story for you about a writer, a writer of books. We all know what it is to read a book. We all read. Sometimes to learn, sometimes to pass the time, sometimes to experience a life unrelated to our own, and sometimes to surrender ourselves to the fantasie...

Original Airdate: January 27, 1974 Episode 0022 "Time and Again" Written by Ian Martin, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall It was the ill -fated Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, who lamented, The time is out of joint, O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right. Many people before and since have echoed the same cry of despair, but none with more compelling justice and reason than Etha...

Original Airdate: January 26, 1974 Episode 0021 "The Ring of Truth" Written by Henry Slesar, Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall In the next 52 minutes, you'll hear a story about truth. Everyone is in favor of truth, of course. It's a word which produces immediate reverence and respect. But sometimes the truth can be a terrible thing. Even a shattering thing. The place, a charming college...

Episode Date June 01, 1948 People You'll Meet Sooner Or Later

Original Airdate: Sept 24, 1948 Clem Kadiddlehopper and Daisy May. Junior Goes To A Dept. Store

Original Airdate: March 13, 1946 Guest Jack Benny Eddie sings "The Simple Life". Eddie Fills our His Income Taxes. Thelma Carpenter Sings "It Seems Like Old Times". Staring: Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Leonard Souza Orchestra, Harry Von Zell, Bert Gordon,Thelma Carpenter

Episode Date: December 17, 1941 Eddie appears as Santa Claus at Macy's. Guest Boris Karloff appears as Frankenstein's monster. Boris' yo-yo is described as, "a Jap on the end of a string." Boris wants a Didey-Doll! Cookie Fairchild makes a rare appearance and tells jokes. Eddie sings a patriotic tune, "Boy, Oh Boy, Oh, Boy!"

Episode Date: December 12, 1937 The show opens with singing from Nelson Eddy and also from Dorothy Lamour. This is the episode in which Bergen and guest star Mae West performed the Adam and Eve skit written by Arch Oboler, which caused great controversy. Later in the show with the romantic meeting of Siren Mae West and Casanova Charles McCarthy remarks were made that in 1938 were considered inappr...

Episode Date March 24, 1946 Guest Star W.C. Fields